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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
02:3602:36, 5 July 2022 diff hist +3,969‎ This material world is called dvaita, or duality. The Caitanya-caritamrta (CC Antya 4.176) says - In the world of duality - that is to say, in the material world - so-called goodness and badness are both the same ‎No edit summary current
02:3602:36, 5 July 2022 diff hist +7,581‎ This material world is a world of duality - at one moment we are subjected to the heat of the summer season & at the next moment the cold of winter. Or at one moment we're happy & at the next distressed. At one moment honored, at the next dishonored ‎No edit summary current
02:3602:36, 5 July 2022 diff hist +8,946‎ This is the world of duality. One should not think that because he has fallen sick he has fallen from Krsna consciousness. Krsna consciousness can continue without impediment from any material opposition ‎No edit summary current
02:3602:36, 5 July 2022 diff hist +4,016‎ The word kusalena is very important. One should live in the material world very expertly. The material world is known as the world of duality because one sometimes has to act impiously and sometimes has to act piously ‎No edit summary current
02:3102:31, 5 July 2022 diff hist +4,122‎ The Mayavadi philosophers may be very proud of their so-called knowledge, but because they do not understand Vasudeva (vasudevah sarvam iti), they do not understand the world of duality, which is a manifestation of Vasudeva's external energy ‎No edit summary current
02:3102:31, 5 July 2022 diff hist +5,222‎ The material world is a shadow phantasmagoria of the spiritual kingdom of the Lord, 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
02:2902:29, 5 July 2022 diff hist −3‎ There is no duality in his mind (one who is fully in Krsna consciousness) because whatever he does, he does for Krsna. Being thus freed from the platform of dualities, he is liberated-even in this material world. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
02:2902:29, 5 July 2022 diff hist +3,476‎ Since they find duality in the existence of Vaikuntha life, they are contaminated and should be removed from this place to the material world, where the living entities have three kinds of enemies ‎No edit summary current

12:3112:31, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,860‎ One has to understand that in the material world of duality, to think that this is good or that this is bad is simply a mental concoction. One should not imitate this consciousness; one should actually be situated on the spiritual platform of neutrality ‎No edit summary current
12:3112:31, 4 July 2022 diff hist +2,054‎ One has to give up all the nonduality of philosophical life in the material world and come to the actual life of reality in the spiritual world in order to attain perfection ‎No edit summary current
12:3012:30, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,015‎ Krsna is impartial, but because this is the material world of duality, such relative terms as happiness and distress, curses and favors, are created by the will of the Supreme ‎No edit summary current
12:3012:30, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,230‎ In this world of duality, this is good and this is bad has no meaning, it is called manodharma, mental concoction ‎No edit summary current
12:3012:30, 4 July 2022 diff hist +2,771‎ In this world of duality, family life is the cause that spoils one's spiritual life or meditation. Specifically understanding this fact, one should accept the order of sannyasa without hesitation ‎No edit summary current
12:2912:29, 4 July 2022 diff hist +11,868‎ In this dual, the world of duality, here, in this material world, the, "This thing is very good, this thing is very bad," it is simply mental concoction. Everything here is bad. Nothing good. So this is our mental creation only ‎No edit summary current
12:2912:29, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,008‎ In the world of duality everyone is envious of all others, and death is inevitable due to the dual existence of matter and spirit. The Lord is the only shelter of fearlessness for the surrendered soul ‎No edit summary current
12:2812:28, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,157‎ In the world of duality - that is to say, in the material world - so-called goodness and badness are both the same ‎No edit summary current
12:2812:28, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,669‎ In the spiritual world there is no duality, nor is there hate ‎No edit summary current
12:2312:23, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,066‎ In the relative world the knower is the living spirit or superior energy, whereas the known is inert matter or inferior energy. Therefore, there is a duality of inferior and superior energy ‎No edit summary current
12:2312:23, 4 July 2022 diff hist +35‎ In the relative world such qualities (God's qualities) are displayed in a perverted manner, and therefore we experience nonduality as a perverted reflection ‎No edit summary current
12:2112:21, 4 July 2022 diff hist +26,154‎ Ignorance and knowledge are conceptions in this world of duality, but in the Absolute there is no duality. It is simply foolishness to consider that the Absolute is covered by ignorance ‎No edit summary current
12:2112:21, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,324‎ He (anyone) will never feel the distresses of the world of duality. In any condition of life one will be happy if he chants the holy name of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
12:2012:20, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,907‎ Dear Lord, we (the Pracetas) beg to offer our obeisances unto You. When the mind is fixed upon You, the world of duality, although a place for material enjoyment, appears meaningless. Your transcendental form is full of transcendental bliss ‎No edit summary current
12:1512:15, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,220‎ Because it is the world of duality. There must be something dual, black-white, darkness-light, sukha, happiness-distress, father-son. There must be. This is called relative world ‎No edit summary current
12:1512:15, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,469‎ Because in this world, the world of duality, dual world, everything is to be understood by duality. We cannot understand what is honor if there is no dishonor ‎No edit summary current

06:5906:59, 13 June 2022 diff hist +1,831‎ Thus I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) have described the incident of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's falling into the ocean. Anyone who listens to this pastime will certainly attain shelter at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
06:5806:58, 13 June 2022 diff hist +6,544‎ The pure devotee thinks himself fallen into the ocean of birth and death and incessantly prays to the Lord to lift him up. He only aspires to become a speck of transcendental dust at the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
06:5806:58, 13 June 2022 diff hist +22,733‎ The only hope for a man fallen in the middle of the ocean is that someone will come and pick him up. If someone just comes and hauls him but a few feet out of the water, he is immediately relieved ‎No edit summary current
06:5806:58, 13 June 2022 diff hist +3,903‎ The gopis have fallen into the great ocean of separation and are being devoured by the timingila fish of their ambition to serve You. The gopis are to be delivered from the mouths of these timingila fish, for they are pure devotees ‎No edit summary current
06:5706:57, 13 June 2022 diff hist +3,182‎ The earth informed King Prthu that if he destroyed her, he and his subjects would all fall down into the waters of the garbha ocean. King Prthu now replies to that point ‎No edit summary current
06:5406:54, 13 June 2022 diff hist +4,997‎ Sudras who could not improve themselves fall into that ocean (filled with pus, stool, urine, mucus, saliva and similar things) and are forced to eat those disgusting things ‎No edit summary current
06:5306:53, 13 June 2022 diff hist +7,123‎ O son of Nanda Maharaja, I am Your eternal servant, yet somehow or other I have fallen into the ocean of birth and death. Please pick me up from this ocean of death and place me as one of the atoms of Your lotus feet ‎No edit summary current
06:5306:53, 13 June 2022 diff hist +14‎ O son of Nanda, I (Caitanya) am Your (Krsna's) eternal servitor, and although I am so, somehow or other I have fallen in the ocean of birth & death. please, therefore, pick me up from this ocean of death and fix me as one of the atoms at Your lotus feet ‎No edit summary current
06:5306:53, 13 June 2022 diff hist +34‎ O son of Maharaja Nanda, I am Your eternal servitor, & although I am so, somehow or other I have fallen in the ocean of birth & death. Please, therefore, pick me up from this ocean of death & fix me as 1 of the atoms at Your lotus feet - Caitanya prayed ‎No edit summary current
06:5206:52, 13 June 2022 diff hist +5,104‎ Only under certain conditions do the planets float as weightless balls in the air, and as soon as these conditions are disturbed, the planets may fall down in the Garbhodaka Ocean, which covers half the universe ‎No edit summary
06:5206:52, 13 June 2022 diff hist +3,535‎ One of the gopis said, "May Krsna's sweet flute be washed away by the waves of the Yamuna, and let it fall into the ocean! The sweet sound of that flute is so impudent that it makes us lose all composure before our superiors" ‎No edit summary current
06:4706:47, 13 June 2022 diff hist +14‎ My dear Lord, I am Your eternal servant, but somehow or other I have fallen into the ocean of this material world. Kindly pick me up and fix me as a speck of dust at Your lotus feet ‎No edit summary current
06:4706:47, 13 June 2022 diff hist +5,961‎ Like a man fallen in the ocean, the only survival is... If somebody goes and picks him just one inch above the water, he feels immediately relieved. Immediately. So as soon as we are fixed up in Krsna consciousness, the immediate relief ‎No edit summary current
06:4706:47, 13 June 2022 diff hist +5,451‎ Krsna, with the aid of His Sudarsana cakra, immediately separated the demon's five heads from his body. The demon then fell into the water, just as the peak of a mountain falls into the ocean after being struck by the thunderbolt of Indra ‎No edit summary
06:4606:46, 13 June 2022 diff hist +1,801‎ I am infected by the germs of material activity and am suffering from the boils of envy. Therefore, falling in an ocean of humility, I take shelter of the great physician Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
06:4606:46, 13 June 2022 diff hist +3,055‎ In the words of Bhaktivinoda Thakura, anadi karama-phale, padi' bhavarnava jale. The living entity falls into the ocean of karma-bandhana as a result of past material activities ‎No edit summary current
06:4606:46, 13 June 2022 diff hist +11,665‎ He (one who has submitted to Krsna) should say, "Krsna, I am suffering in this way. I have fallen in this tossing ocean of material illusion. Kindly pick me up ‎No edit summary current
06:4606:46, 13 June 2022 diff hist +6,048‎ Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, "Somehow or other we have fallen into the ocean of material sense enjoyment, and of all the senses the tongue is the most voracious and uncontrollable" ‎No edit summary current
06:4506:45, 13 June 2022 diff hist +2,187‎ Appearing as Nrsimhadeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Hari, killed Hiranyakasipu. When the Lord delivered the planet earth, which had fallen in the Garbhodaka Ocean, Hiranyaksa tried to hinder Him, then the Lord, as Varaha, killed Hiranyaksa ‎No edit summary current
06:4506:45, 13 June 2022 diff hist +5,274‎ After death, such persons are thrown into the hell called Puyoda, where they are put into an ocean filled with pus, stool, urine, mucus, saliva and similar things. Sudras who could not improve themselves fall into that ocean and are forced to eat those ‎No edit summary current
06:3606:36, 13 June 2022 diff hist +3,129‎ You simply desire to serve Krishna best and there will be no scarcity of anything. Know it certain from me ‎No edit summary current
06:3606:36, 13 June 2022 diff hist +2,829‎ You please help me to spread this information all over this earth planet, especially by helping to distribute my books and literatures, as many as possible. Then you will get the credit, and know it for certain that very soon you will go back to Home ‎No edit summary
06:3606:36, 13 June 2022 diff hist +3,454‎ When we actually see people come to our center, chant, dance, take prasadam, become jubilant and purchase books, we know that certainly Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is always present in such transcendental activities, and He is very pleased and satisfied ‎No edit summary current
06:3206:32, 13 June 2022 diff hist +2,370‎ Whatever affection we see the gopis show for their own bodies, know it for certain to be only for the sake of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
06:3206:32, 13 June 2022 diff hist −6‎ We should know it with certainty from the descriptions of these few verses that all the transformations and influences of material nature by the three modes are also productions of material nature. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
06:3106:31, 13 June 2022 diff hist +12‎ We must know then for certain that there is a controller; that is the beginning of knowledge. Why should we deny this truth ‎No edit summary current
06:3106:31, 13 June 2022 diff hist +10,152‎ We must know for certain that the qualities of the Lord have nothing to do with mundane qualities. All of them are full of bliss, knowledge and eternity ‎No edit summary current
06:3106:31, 13 June 2022 diff hist +4,229‎ We must know for certain that the particular position in which we are now set up is an arrangement of the supreme will in terms of our own acts in the past ‎No edit summary
06:3106:31, 13 June 2022 diff hist +3,880‎ We must certainly know that on the absolute plane krsna-katha and Krsna are one and the same. The Lord is the Absolute Truth, and therefore His name, form, quality, etc., which are all understood to be krsna-katha, are nondifferent from Him ‎No edit summary current
06:3006:30, 13 June 2022 diff hist +3,151‎ This is scholarly information, flawless science. Kindly assist me in this great work, and know it for certain, that by your sincerely working in this way you shall very soon go back to Home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
06:3006:30, 13 June 2022 diff hist +1,318‎ The six attributes are all spiritual. Know for certain that they are all manifestations of the opulence of Sankarsana ‎No edit summary current
06:2906:29, 13 June 2022 diff hist +6,086‎ The sages said, "Dear Lord, deliverer of all fallen souls, we know for certain that You are the knower of all Vedic principles. You are the master of all mystic powers; therefore the Vedic injunctions cannot ordinarily be applied to You" ‎No edit summary current
06:2906:29, 13 June 2022 diff hist +4,954‎ The gopis continued, "Dear Krsna, certainly You know how much we are saddened when You go out of Vrndavana village to tend the cows in the forest" ‎No edit summary current
06:2406:24, 13 June 2022 diff hist +5,752‎ They (materialistic men) should know for certain that any amount of materialistic adjustment for becoming happy in a place which is meant for distress cannot benefit the misguided man ‎No edit summary current
06:2406:24, 13 June 2022 diff hist +2,248‎ There are two or four demons still living. I (Krsna) want to kill them, and after doing so I shall very soon return to Vrndavana. Please know this for certain ‎No edit summary
06:2406:24, 13 June 2022 diff hist +4,799‎ So a sincere devotee who is always engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord should know for certain that Krsna will never break His promise. He will always protect His devotees in every circumstance ‎No edit summary current
06:2306:23, 13 June 2022 diff hist +4,792‎ Prabuddha tells Maharaj Nimi, "My dear King, please know for certain that in the material world there is no happiness. It is simply a mistake to think that there is happiness here, because this place is full of nothing but miserable conditions" ‎No edit summary current
06:2306:23, 13 June 2022 diff hist +5,168‎ Persons who are desiring to become great souls cannot be without any of the above qualities, so we can know for certain that these qualities are found in Lord Krsna, the supreme soul ‎No edit summary current
06:2306:23, 13 June 2022 diff hist +6,720‎ One should know with certainty that Krsna had no personal interest in whatever He did for the benediction of the gopis. As stated in the Bhagavad-gita, na mam karmani limpanti: (BG 4.14) Krsna never enjoys or suffers the results of His activities ‎No edit summary current
06:2206:22, 13 June 2022 diff hist +7,968‎ One should know with certainty that Krsna had no personal interest in whatever He did for the benediction of the gopis ‎No edit summary current
06:2206:22, 13 June 2022 diff hist +3,822‎ One should know for certain that without chanting the holy name of the Lord offenselessly, one cannot be a proper candidate for advancement in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
06:2206:22, 13 June 2022 diff hist +3,186‎ One should know for certain that nothing can exist in this cosmic manifestation that has no real counterpart in the spiritual field. All material manifestations are emanations of the Transcendence ‎No edit summary current
06:2206:22, 13 June 2022 diff hist +5,804‎ One must certainly know that although Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, because He accepted the ecstasy of a devotee one should not misunderstand His pastimes and place Him in exactly the same position as Krsna ‎No edit summary current
06:1706:17, 13 June 2022 diff hist +32,067‎ Of all that is material and all that is spiritual in this world, know for certain that I am both its origin and dissolution. O conqueror of wealth (Arjuna), there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me (Krsna), as pearls on a thread - 7.6-7 ‎No edit summary
06:1706:17, 13 June 2022 diff hist +2,693‎ Of all that is material and all that is spiritual in this world, know for certain that I am both its origin and dissolution. BG 7.6 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
06:1706:17, 13 June 2022 diff hist +33‎ Nityananda Prabhu told Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, ye karaha, sei kari, nahika niyama - I do not know by what regulative principle I am carrying out this wonderful work, but I know for certain that I will do whatever You desire ‎No edit summary current
06:1706:17, 13 June 2022 diff hist +3,385‎ My dear son, whatever you inquired from me I have thus explained unto you, and you must know for certain that whatever there is (either as cause or as effect, both in the material and spiritual worlds) is dependent on the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current

13:0413:04, 7 June 2022 diff hist +7,764‎ Know it for certain that in this way you shall very soon go back to Home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
13:0413:04, 7 June 2022 diff hist +5,264‎ If the acarya, guru, is satisfied, then we must know certainly that Krsna is satisfied. So this is the principle, and the acaryas give us direction. It is not very difficult. Simply we have to become very serious and sincere. Then everything is all right ‎No edit summary current
13:0413:04, 7 June 2022 diff hist +2,755‎ Gadadhara Pandita Gosani said: "Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is present in everyone's heart, and He will certainly know my mind. Therefore I do not fear Him. His associates, however, are extremely critical" ‎No edit summary current
13:0313:03, 7 June 2022 diff hist +12‎ Every living soul is partially independant, and one should know for certain that this unmanifested realization is against the nature of his spiritual blissful self. One should not take up this process. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
13:0313:03, 7 June 2022 diff hist +7,983‎ Devaki said, " I also know for certain that You have descended to annihilate all kinds of miscreants who have been misled in the course of time" ‎No edit summary current
13:0213:02, 7 June 2022 diff hist +33‎ A materially desireless person certainly knows that everything belongs to Krsna (isavasyam idam sarvam), and therefore he does not falsely claim proprietorship over anything. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
13:0213:02, 7 June 2022 diff hist +5,923‎ Arjuna, the ksatriya, was refusing to fight despite being directly ordered by the Supreme Lord. He was thus chastised by the Lord as belonging to a non-Aryan family. Anyone who is advanced in the devotional service of the Lord certainly knows his duty ‎No edit summary current

04:2204:22, 3 June 2022 diff hist +5,889‎ Unless one is awakened to the stage of Uddhava - everlastingly feeling the separation of the Lord in transcendental love, as exhibited by Lord Caitanya also - one cannot understand the real import of the four essential verses of Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
04:2204:22, 3 June 2022 diff hist +7,324‎ The Vedas (Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.23) enjoin that for one who has unflinching faith in the lotus feet of the Lord, as well as in the spiritual master, the real import of Vedic knowledge can be revealed ‎No edit summary
04:2204:22, 3 June 2022 diff hist −13‎ The real import of the scriptures is revealed to one who has unflinching faith in both the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
04:2204:22, 3 June 2022 diff hist +18,122‎ There are so many commentaries on Bhagavad-gita that misinterpret the original text. The real import of the word should be presented, and that should be learned from a bona fide spiritual master. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
04:2104:21, 3 June 2022 diff hist +1,880‎ My dear Lord, You are the original speaker of the Bhagavatam. You therefore know its real import. But for You, no one can understand the confidential meaning of Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
04:2104:21, 3 June 2022 diff hist +2,870‎ It is ordained in the Vedas that a person who has got implicit faith in Krishna and the Spiritual Master, to such person the real import of the Vedas is revealed ‎No edit summary
04:2104:21, 3 June 2022 diff hist +5,005‎ Dharma is translated in English as "religion," but actually, it does not convey the real import of dharma. As I have many times explained in these meetings, that dharma means some particular characteristic which you cannot change ‎No edit summary current
04:1104:11, 3 June 2022 diff hist −17‎ When a person knows the goal of life but is addicted to the fruits of activities, he is acting in karma-yoga. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
04:1104:11, 3 June 2022 diff hist +6,159‎ Three paths are enunciated in the Bhagavad-gita: karma-yoga, jnana-yoga and bhakti-yoga. Those who are too much addicted to fruitive activities are advised to perform actions which will bring them to bhakti ‎No edit summary current
04:1104:11, 3 June 2022 diff hist +9,440‎ Those who are addicted to fruitive activities and speculative knowledge cannot understand the value of the holy name of Lord Krsna, which is always completely pure, eternally liberated and full of spiritual bliss ‎No edit summary current
04:1004:10, 3 June 2022 diff hist −16‎ The Mayavadis cite false scriptures, which make people bereft of transcendental knowledge and addicted to fruitive activities and mental speculation ‎No edit summary current
04:1004:10, 3 June 2022 diff hist +10,419‎ If anyone wants to execute unalloyed devotional service, he must be freed from all kinds of material contamination. He must be freed from the association of persons who are addicted to fruitive activities and mental speculation. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
04:1004:10, 3 June 2022 diff hist +2,781‎ Factually all of material existence is only a dream. Thus there is no question of past, present or future. Persons who are addicted to karma-kanda-vicara, which means "working for future happiness through fruitive activities," are also dreaming ‎No edit summary current
04:1004:10, 3 June 2022 diff hist +4,436‎ But the brahmanas, although they had come to know the supremacy of the Lord and were repenting, were still afraid of King Kamsa because they were too much addicted to fruitive activities ‎No edit summary current
04:0904:09, 3 June 2022 diff hist −16‎ A person desiring liberation for his forefathers or himself should give charity to a brahmana who adheres to impersonal monism (jnana-nistha). In the absence of such an advanced brahmana, charity may be given to a brahmana addicted to fruitive activities ‎No edit summary current
04:0904:09, 3 June 2022 diff hist +6,759‎ After accepting the renounced order of life, Caitanya Mahaprabhu converted many karma-nisthas who were addicted to fruitive activities, many great logicians like Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya, nindakas (blasphemers) like Prakasananda Sarasvati ‎No edit summary current
04:0104:01, 3 June 2022 diff hist +3,754‎ As they were leaving, those bhakti-vedantas, who are very kind to poor-hearted souls, instructed me (Narada Muni) in that most confidential subject which is instructed by the Personality of Godhead Himself ‎No edit summary
04:0004:00, 3 June 2022 diff hist +4,108‎ A picturesque scene of green paddy fields enlivens the heart of the poor agriculturalist, but it brings gloom to the face of the capitalist who lives by exploiting the poor farmers ‎No edit summary current
04:0004:00, 3 June 2022 diff hist +2,113‎ Having said this (please be merciful to such a poor-hearted person as me, since both of you are saintly persons. Please excuse my atrocities), Kamsa fell at the feet of Vasudeva and Devaki, his eyes full of tears of regret - SB 10.4.23 ‎No edit summary current
04:0004:00, 3 June 2022 diff hist +3,267‎ If it is asked, “Why don’t the householders go to a saintly person or a brahmana for enlightenment?” the answer is that householders are very poor-hearted" ‎No edit summary current
03:5903:59, 3 June 2022 diff hist +2,075‎ Kamsa begged, "My dear sister and brother-in-law (Devaki and Vasudeva), please be merciful to such a poor-hearted person as me, since both of you are saintly persons. Please excuse my atrocities" - SB 10.4.23 ‎No edit summary current
03:5903:59, 3 June 2022 diff hist +4,900‎ O my lord, O great devotee, persons like you (Gargamuni) move from one place to another not for their own interests but for the sake of poor-hearted grhasthas (householders). Otherwise they have no interest in going from one place to another - SB 10.8.4 ‎No edit summary current
03:5903:59, 3 June 2022 diff hist +6,749‎ The same queen said, "But I cannot accept your entreaty to go to Syamasundara. When He does not care for me, why should I be mad after Him? I am very sorry to let you know that you have become the messenger of a poor-hearted soul" ‎No edit summary current
03:5903:59, 3 June 2022 diff hist +7,643‎ Yudhisthira said, "O Krsna, You are unlimited, and although we sometimes think of ourselves as royal kings and rulers of the world and become puffed up over our paltry positions, we are very poor in heart" ‎No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 3 June 2022 diff hist +4,953‎ Yadu had four sons, named Sahasrajit, Krosta, Nala and Ripu. Of these four, the eldest, Sahasrajit, had a son named Satajit, who had three sons, named Mahahaya, Renuhaya and Haihaya ‎No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 3 June 2022 diff hist +3,957‎ Woman should stay under the father, under the husband, and under the elderly sons. Nothing more ‎No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 3 June 2022 diff hist +1,608‎ When Yayati received this benediction from Sukracarya, he requested his eldest son: My dear son Yadu, please give me your youth in exchange for my old age and invalidity ‎No edit summary current
03:4303:43, 3 June 2022 diff hist +1,587‎ When Sacimata and Jagannatha Misra heard of the departure of their elder son, Visvarupa, they were very unhappy, but Lord Caitanya tried to console them ‎No edit summary current
03:4303:43, 3 June 2022 diff hist +2,545‎ When requested by their father to accept Sunahsepha as the eldest son, the elder fifty of the Madhucchandas, the sons of Visvamitra, did not agree ‎No edit summary current
03:4303:43, 3 June 2022 diff hist +3,405‎ When one enters the post of king or head of the government, one cannot understand the meaning of self-realization. Knowing this, Yati, the eldest son of Nahusa, did not accept the power to rule, although it was offered by his father ‎No edit summary current
03:4303:43, 3 June 2022 diff hist +4,849‎ When he is old enough, then the husband leaves the home and gives charge to the elderly son: "My dear boys, take charge of your mother." So she is always in charge of somebody ‎No edit summary current
03:4303:43, 3 June 2022 diff hist +3,825‎ When a child, a woman must be strictly controlled by her father. When she is young, she must be strictly controlled by her husband, and when she is old, she must be controlled by her elderly sons ‎No edit summary current
03:4203:42, 3 June 2022 diff hist +1,684‎ Visvamitra cursed some of his sons and blessed the others, and he also adopted a son. Thus there were varieties in the Kausika dynasty, but among all the sons, Devarata was considered the eldest ‎No edit summary current
03:4203:42, 3 June 2022 diff hist +5‎ This (Lord Catianya felt indigestion and was somewhat sick) became known to Sivananda Sena’s eldest son, Caitanya dasa, who gave the Lord the kinds of food that would help His digestion, and thus Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu was very pleased ‎No edit summary current
03:3603:36, 3 June 2022 diff hist +4,820‎ The word rajan is especially addressed to Dhrtarastra significantly. Dhrtarastra was the eldest son of his father, and therefore according to law he was to be installed on the throne of Hastinapura ‎No edit summary current
03:3503:35, 3 June 2022 diff hist +1,500‎ The sons of Prthulaksa were Brhadratha, Brhatkarma and Brhadbhanu. From the eldest, Brhadratha, came a son named Brhanmana, and from Brhanmana came a son named Jayadratha ‎No edit summary current
03:3503:35, 3 June 2022 diff hist −29‎ The great sage Maitreya began to speak about the sons and grandsons in the genealogical line of the Prthu dynasty. After the death of Maharaja Prthu, his eldest son, Vijitasva, became emperor of the world ‎No edit summary current
03:3503:35, 3 June 2022 diff hist +5‎ The eldest son of Yudhisthira Cattopadhyaya was known as Madhava dasa, the second son was called Haridasa, and the youngest son was called Krsnasampatti Cattopadhyaya. The three brothers’ nicknames were Chakadi, Tinakadi and Dukadi ‎No edit summary current
03:3403:34, 3 June 2022 diff hist +6,255‎ The eldest son of Rukmini, Pradyumna, was married with Mayavati from his very birth, and afterwards he married Rukmavati, the daughter of his maternal uncle, Rukmi. From Rukmavati, Pradyumna had a son named Aniruddha ‎No edit summary current
03:3403:34, 3 June 2022 diff hist +4,029‎ The eldest son of Gauridasa Pandita was known as big Balarama, and the youngest was known as Raghunatha. The sons of Raghunatha were Mahesa Pandita and Govinda. Gauridasa Pandita’s daughter was known as Annapurna ‎No edit summary current
03:3403:34, 3 June 2022 diff hist +3,943‎ The eldest son of Gauridasa Pandita was known as big Balarama, and the youngest was known as Raghunatha. The sons of Raghunatha were Mahesa Pandita and Govinda. Gauridasa Pandita's daughter was known as Annapurna ‎No edit summary current
03:3403:34, 3 June 2022 diff hist +3,589‎ The descendants of Srivallabha live in the villages known as Masiyadara (Mahisadera), Damukadiya and Candipura. There is a genealogical table for the family of Srivallabha beginning from his eldest son, Ganga-narayana ‎No edit summary current
03:3403:34, 3 June 2022 diff hist +7,277‎ The Caitanya-bhagavata, Antya-khanda, Chapter One, states that Acyutananda was the eldest son of Advaita Acarya ‎No edit summary current
03:3403:34, 3 June 2022 diff hist +2,116‎ These two associates of the Lord-Jaya and Vijaya later descended to the material world, taking birth as the two sons of Diti, Hiranyakasipu being the elder and Hiranyaksa the younger. They were very much respected by the Daityas and Danavas ‎No edit summary current
03:3303:33, 3 June 2022 diff hist +1,815‎ Thereafter, Bali Maharaja begot one hundred sons in the womb of Asana. Of these one hundred sons, King Bana was the eldest. The activities of Bali Maharaja, which are very laudable, will be described later (in the Eighth Canto) ‎No edit summary current
03:3303:33, 3 June 2022 diff hist +1,859‎ Then, because of this desire for sons, the Manu known as Sraddhadeva worshiped the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, the Lord of the demigods. Thus he got ten sons exactly like himself. Among them all, Iksvaku was the eldest ‎No edit summary current

04:5204:52, 1 June 2022 diff hist +1,392‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King (Pariksit), your four sons - Janamejaya, Srutasena, Bhimasena and Ugrasena - are very powerful. Janamejaya is the eldest ‎No edit summary current
04:5204:52, 1 June 2022 diff hist +6,352‎ Sukadeva Gosvami answered: Pradyumna, the eldest son of Krsna, born of Rukmini, was Cupid himself. He was so beautiful and attractive that the daughter of Rukmi, namely Rukmavati, could not select any husband other than Pradyumna during her svayamvara ‎No edit summary current
04:5204:52, 1 June 2022 diff hist +5,747‎ Since there were no suitable kings after the Pracetas, Svayambhuva Manu went to the Gandhamadana Hill to bring back his eldest son, Priyavrata, who was meditating there ‎No edit summary current
04:5204:52, 1 June 2022 diff hist +3,622‎ Since Bhismadeva was without issue, the eldest grandson, namely Maharaja Yudhisthira, was the rightful person to perform this ceremony ‎No edit summary current
04:5004:50, 1 June 2022 diff hist +5,156‎ Rsabhadeva suggested that His eldest son was superior, and He advised the others to serve him. All the brothers of Bharata Maharaja were advised by Rsabhadeva to adhere to Bharata's service ‎No edit summary current
04:5004:50, 1 June 2022 diff hist +3,889‎ Ramacandra had four sons, of whom the eldest was Radhamadhava, whose third son was named Yadavendra. Yadavendra’s son was Nandakisora, his son was Nidhikrsna, his son was Caitanyacanda, his son was Krsnamohana, his son was Jaganmohana ‎No edit summary current
04:4904:49, 1 June 2022 diff hist +3,782‎ Prahlada Maharaja had four sons, and the eldest son, Virocana, is the father of Bali Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
04:4904:49, 1 June 2022 diff hist +2,275‎ Prahlada's son was known as Virocana, and his grandson was known as Bali Maharaja. Bali Maharaja had one hundred sons, of whom Bana was the eldest ‎No edit summary current
04:4904:49, 1 June 2022 diff hist +2,333‎ One day people suddenly came to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and informed Him, "Gopinatha Pattanayaka, the son of Bhavananda Raya, has been condemned to death by the bada-jana, the eldest son of the King, and has been raised on the canga" ‎No edit summary current
04:4204:42, 1 June 2022 diff hist +1,748‎ Of the sons of Talajangha, Vitihotra was the eldest. The son of Vitihotra named Madhu had a celebrated son named Vrsni. Madhu had one hundred sons, of whom Vrsni was the eldest ‎No edit summary current
04:4204:42, 1 June 2022 diff hist +2,885‎ Of Rsabhadeva's one hundred sons, the eldest, named Bharata, was a great, exalted devotee qualified with the best attributes. In his honor, this planet has become known as Bharata-varsa ‎No edit summary
04:4204:42, 1 June 2022 diff hist +4,571‎ Of Ciranjiva's two sons, the elder, Ramacandra Kaviraja, was a disciple of Srinivasa Acarya and an intimate associate of Narottama dasa Thakura. The younger son was Govinda dasa Kaviraja, the famous Vaisnava poet ‎No edit summary current
04:4204:42, 1 June 2022 diff hist +1,329‎ Now hear about the invitation Sivananda Sena extended to the Lord. His eldest son was named Caitanya dasa ‎No edit summary current
04:4004:40, 1 June 2022 diff hist +393‎ Category:Yadu, the eldest son of Yayati ‎No edit summary current
04:4004:40, 1 June 2022 diff hist +1,337‎ My dear King, your four sons - Janamejaya, Srutasena, Bhimasena and Ugrasena - are very powerful. Janamejaya is the eldest ‎No edit summary current
04:3904:39, 1 June 2022 diff hist +2,827‎ Maitreya continued: Vijitasva, the eldest son of Maharaja Prthu, who had a reputation like his father's, became emperor and gave his younger brothers different directions of the world to govern, for he was very affectionate toward his brothers ‎No edit summary current
04:3904:39, 1 June 2022 diff hist +3,402‎ Lord Rsabhadeva instructed His one hundred sons, of whom the eldest, Bharata, was a very advanced devotee and a follower of Vaisnavas. In order to rule the whole world, the Lord enthroned His eldest son on the royal seat ‎No edit summary current
04:3804:38, 1 June 2022 diff hist +12,313‎ Kuntidevi never forgot her first child, Karna, and after Karna's death in the Battle of Kuruksetra she lamented and admitted before her other sons that Karna was her eldest son prior to her marriage with Maharaja Pandu ‎No edit summary current
04:3704:37, 1 June 2022 diff hist +2,751‎ King Vijitasva was very affectionate toward his younger brothers, and he wanted them to rule different directions of the world. From time immemorial the eldest son generally becomes king after the death of the previous king ‎No edit summary current
04:3104:31, 1 June 2022 diff hist +6,520‎ King Bhismaka was not enthusiastic about handing his daughter (Rukmini) over to Sisupala, but he was obliged to accept the marriage settlement due to his affectionate attachment for his eldest son (Rukmi), who had negotiated it ‎No edit summary current
04:3004:30, 1 June 2022 diff hist +6,523‎ King Bhismaka was from the very beginning inclined to hand over his beautiful daughter to Krsna. In one way or another his purpose had been served, and so he was pleased to join the marriage ceremony, even though his eldest son was degraded in the fight ‎No edit summary current
04:3004:30, 1 June 2022 diff hist +2,803‎ King Bhismaka wanted to give his daughter, Rukmini, in charity to Krsna, but Rukmi, his eldest son, objected. Therefore he could not carry out his decision ‎No edit summary current
04:3004:30, 1 June 2022 diff hist +3,397‎ King Bhismaka of Vidarbha wanted to offer Krsna his daughter, Rukmini, but Rukmi, the eldest of his five sons, objected. Therefore Bhismaka withdrew his decision and decided to offer Rukmini to the King of Cedi, Sisupala, who was a cousin of Krsna's ‎No edit summary current
04:3004:30, 1 June 2022 diff hist +4,755‎ King Bali had one hundred sons, and the eldest of all of them was Banasura ‎No edit summary current
04:2904:29, 1 June 2022 diff hist +8,868‎ I remember in, long ago, about sometimes in 1936, my eldest son in Bombay - he was in school - he stood first. So his class friends became envious that "Here is a boy, he is coming from Bengal, and he has stood first." They wanted to fight with him ‎No edit summary current
04:2904:29, 1 June 2022 diff hist +3,505‎ In old age, when the husband has taken sannyasa and left home, she remains the property of the sons. A woman is always dependent, either upon the father, husband or elderly sons. That will be exhibited in the life of Devahuti ‎No edit summary current
04:2904:29, 1 June 2022 diff hist +1,731‎ In his wife Simhika, Vipracitti begot one hundred and one sons, of whom the eldest is Rahu and the others are the one hundred Ketus. All of them attained positions in the influential planets ‎No edit summary
04:2804:28, 1 June 2022 diff hist +1,317‎ In his wife Simhika, Vipracitti begot one hundred and one sons, of whom the eldest is Rahu ‎No edit summary current
04:1804:18, 1 June 2022 diff hist +3,498‎ His (Laksmi-narayana's) son was Navakisora, and Navakisora’s second son was Ramamohana, whose eldest son was Jagabandhu and whose third son, Viracandra, accepted the sannyasa order and established a Deity of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu in Katwa ‎No edit summary current
04:1704:17, 1 June 2022 diff hist +4,961‎ Her (Gandhari's) eldest son, Duryodhana, was advised to see the mother naked. She advised, "My dear son, tomorrow morning when you come to offer your obeisances to me, you come naked. I shall see you and you will be solidified just like iron" ‎No edit summary current
04:1704:17, 1 June 2022 diff hist +1,707‎ From Vrsni came the sons named Svaphalka and Citraratha. From Svaphalka by his wife Gandini came Akrura. Akrura was the eldest, but there were twelve other sons, all of whom were most celebrated ‎No edit summary current
04:1704:17, 1 June 2022 diff hist +1,766‎ Following Bharata, there were ninety-nine other sons. Among these were nine elderly sons, named Kusavarta, Ilavarta, Brahmavarta, Malaya, Ketu, Bhadrasena, Indrasprk, Vidarbha and Kikata ‎No edit summary
04:1704:17, 1 June 2022 diff hist +6,014‎ Duryodhana, the eldest son of Dhrtarastra, took the opportunity to come to Balarama and learn from Him the art of fighting with a club ‎No edit summary current
04:1604:16, 1 June 2022 diff hist +5‎ Caitanya dasa, the eldest son of Sivananda Sena, wrote a commentary on Krsna-karnamrta that was later translated by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in his paper Sajjana-tosani ‎No edit summary current

08:0908:09, 31 May 2022 diff hist +5‎ By the order of his mother, Satyavati, who was later married to Maharaja Santanu & by the request of Bhismadeva, the eldest son of Maharaja Santanu by his first wife, the Ganges, he begot three brilliant sons, whose names are Dhrtarastra, Pandu and Vidura ‎No edit summary current
08:0908:09, 31 May 2022 diff hist +5,094‎ Bharata Maharaja, Rsabhadeva's eldest son, was specifically very exalted. For this reason the other sons were advised to serve him for his pleasure. That was to be their duty ‎No edit summary current
08:0908:09, 31 May 2022 diff hist −12‎ Bali Maharaja had one hundred sons, of whom Maharaja Bana was the eldest and most famous ‎No edit summary current
08:0908:09, 31 May 2022 diff hist +5‎ A devotee once told Krsna: "My dear Krsna, O killer of all demons, Maharaj Yudhisthira, the eldest son of Maharaj Pandu, has performed all kinds of sacrifices just to please You" ‎No edit summary current
07:3607:36, 31 May 2022 diff hist +7,164‎ Although Rsabhadeva recommended His eldest son, Bharata, as emperor of the earth, he still had to follow the instructions of the brahmanas in order to govern the world perfectly ‎No edit summary current
07:3607:36, 31 May 2022 diff hist −12‎ After his (Nawab Hussain Shah's) death, his eldest son, Nasaratsa, became King of Bengal (A.D. 1521-1533). This King also was very cruel. He committed many atrocities against the Vaisnavas ‎No edit summary current
07:3607:36, 31 May 2022 diff hist +6,454‎ Acyutananda was the eldest son of Advaita Acarya ‎No edit summary current
07:1907:19, 31 May 2022 diff hist −12‎ We are spirit soul, and as such we are eternal. Why, then, should we subject ourselves to birth and death? One who asks this question is to be considered intelligent ‎No edit summary current
07:1807:18, 31 May 2022 diff hist +3,624‎ Questions were intelligent. So all these frustrated boys and girls in the Western world, they are all good candidate. You have to organize to give them; they are searching after ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 31 May 2022 diff hist +4,721‎ Pariksit Maharaja placed a number of intelligent questions before Sukadeva Gosvami. One of these questions was, "Why do people undergo atonement if they cannot control their senses" ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 31 May 2022 diff hist +35‎ One should note how Maharaja Pariksit intelligently put questions before his spiritual master for scientific understanding of the transcendental body of the Lord ‎No edit summary
07:0907:09, 31 May 2022 diff hist +6,329‎ Maharaja Pariksit's question is very intelligent. The two classes of devotees, namely the devotees of Lord Siva and the devotees of Lord Visnu, are always in disagreement ‎No edit summary current
07:0807:08, 31 May 2022 diff hist +4,774‎ Laws of nature is obstructing my process of enjoyment, and I want to enjoy. Why this position? We inquire these intelligent questions. What they are inquiring? They do not know what to inquire ‎No edit summary current
07:0807:08, 31 May 2022 diff hist +4,680‎ It will be a great event if the Beatles try to understand this science of Krishna Consciousness with intelligent questions and try to understand it seriously ‎No edit summary current
07:0707:07, 31 May 2022 diff hist +6,600‎ Although your spiritual master may be self-realized and experienced in the Absolute Truth, still, you have to question. You have to understand from him all critical points by your intelligent questions. That is allowed ‎No edit summary current
05:5105:51, 31 May 2022 diff hist +9,761‎ He (Arjuna) thought that since Krsna could not give protection to the brahmana, it was better to take shelter of Lord Siva. This is another instance of how a person takes shelter of the demigods ‎No edit summary current
05:5005:50, 31 May 2022 diff hist +2,394‎ Because the Yamadutas had been defeated and their master could not protect them, they were inclined to say that there was no need to serve such a master ‎No edit summary current
05:5005:50, 31 May 2022 diff hist +12,348‎ When Vasudeva passed away, he (Arjuna) performed his funeral ceremony in the absence of Krsna. While Arjuna was taking all the wives of Krsna to Indraprastha, he was attacked on the way, and he could not protect the ladies in his custody ‎No edit summary current
05:4905:49, 31 May 2022 diff hist +9,114‎ The brahmana said, "There are also many other heroes, such as Pradyumna and Aniruddha, carrying bows and arrows, but they could not protect my children" ‎No edit summary current
05:4805:48, 31 May 2022 diff hist +6,589‎ The brahmana said, "He (Arjuna) promised to protect my child when even Pradyumna, Aniruddha, Lord Balarama and Lord Krsna had failed. If such great personalities could not protect my child, then who can do so?" ‎No edit summary current
05:4805:48, 31 May 2022 diff hist +12‎ He (Kasyapa) knew that the child born of such untimely sexual intercourse would certainly not be a good child, but could not protect himself because he was too obligated to his wife ‎No edit summary current
04:2404:24, 31 May 2022 diff hist +35‎ Category:Very Intelligent Question ‎No edit summary current

09:3909:39, 24 May 2022 diff hist +4,570‎ You are welcome to take initiation, but if you are neglectful, if you want to make it a farce, that is your business. I cannot give you any protection ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 24 May 2022 diff hist +2,571‎ When one is attached to material sense gratification, he cannot protect his sannyasa order ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 24 May 2022 diff hist +5,544‎ This material nature is very powerful. You cannot protect from the onslaught of material nature. Therefore Prahlada Maharaja advising us that you try to achieve the permanent. The permanent is the soul. God is permanent ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 24 May 2022 diff hist −7‎ The word bhagavan carries the import of inconceivable potency in knowledge, energy, strength, opulence, power and influence, devoid of all varieties of inferiority. Without such inconceivable potencies, one cannot fully sustain or protect ‎No edit summary current
09:3609:36, 24 May 2022 diff hist +5,682‎ They don't know that such a husband cannot actually give protection to them or their children. Nor can he protect their wealth or duration of life, for he himself is dependent on time, fruitive results & modes of nature, which are all subordinate to You ‎No edit summary current
09:3109:31, 24 May 2022 diff hist +5,869‎ They (women who worship You (Kamadeva) by strictly observing vows because they wish to acquire a husband to satisfy their senses) do not know that such a husband cannot actually give protection to them or their children ‎No edit summary current
09:3109:31, 24 May 2022 diff hist +355‎ Category:No Possession Can Protect One if One Commits an Offense at the Lotus Feet of Devotees of God ‎No edit summary current
09:2909:29, 24 May 2022 diff hist +3,706‎ There is a common saying in Bengal that God has ten hands. This means that He has control everywhere - in the eight directions and up and down. If He wants to take everything away from us with His ten hands, we cannot protect anything with our two hands ‎No edit summary current
09:2909:29, 24 May 2022 diff hist +3,772‎ Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura (CB Madhya-khanda 22.128, 22.055-056) says: "One who blasphemes a Vaisnava cannot be protected by anyone. Even if a person is as strong as Lord Siva, if he blasphemes a Vaisnava, he is sure to be destroyed" ‎No edit summary current
09:2909:29, 24 May 2022 diff hist +3,170‎ Our mundane relationships with father and mother, or wife and children, cannot protect us from the trap of maya ‎No edit summary current
09:2909:29, 24 May 2022 diff hist +3,601‎ One should not become father, one should not become mother, if the parents cannot give protection to the children from the danger of birth, death, old age and disease ‎No edit summary current
09:2809:28, 24 May 2022 diff hist +8,900‎ One cannot protect himself if one commits an offense at the feet of the holy name of the Lord. Such offenses are mentioned in the Padma Purana as being ten in number ‎No edit summary current
09:2109:21, 24 May 2022 diff hist +3,571‎ Material science can discover the nuclear bomb to accelerate the process of death, but it cannot discover anything that can protect man from the cruel hands of old age, disease and death ‎No edit summary current
09:2109:21, 24 May 2022 diff hist −7‎ If one thinks, "I cannot protect myself from the attack of sex desire," then let him be married. That is prescribed. But don't have illicit sex. If you want a girl, if you want a boy, get married and live in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
09:2109:21, 24 May 2022 diff hist +5,788‎ If a person is not in Krsna consciousness and is bereft of spiritual power, he cannot protect his wife from the path of repeated birth and death. Consequently such a person cannot be accepted as a husband ‎No edit summary current
09:2009:20, 24 May 2022 diff hist +5,263‎ If a king cannot give protection to citizens from thieves and rogues both in the government service and in public affairs, he has no right to exact taxes from them ‎No edit summary current
09:2009:20, 24 May 2022 diff hist +3,407‎ Following Krishna's orders means chanting daily 16 rounds, following the four rules and regulations, rising early, associating with devotees, like that. Unless these principles are followed, we cannot expect Krishna's protection ‎No edit summary current
09:1809:18, 24 May 2022 diff hist +4,555‎ A father and mother cannot protect their child, a physician and medicine cannot relieve a suffering patient, and a boat on the ocean cannot protect a drowning man ‎No edit summary current
09:1709:17, 24 May 2022 diff hist +5,821‎ According to Vedic civilization, a qualified ksatriya monarch is given the respect of the Lord because he represents the Lord by giving protection to the prajas. Modern elected presidents cannot even give protection from theft cases ‎No edit summary current
09:0809:08, 24 May 2022 diff hist +230‎ Category:God Cannot Give Protection ‎No edit summary current

12:4412:44, 22 May 2022 diff hist +6,193‎ We should know when to be angry. Not that for our personal interest we shall be. Generally, those who are devotees, they are not angry ‎No edit summary current
12:4412:44, 22 May 2022 diff hist +8,096‎ We should be very much angry. When? When there is anything against God and God's devotee. But generally, for my personal interest, I should not be angry. "All right, if you like to call me by ill names, I don't mind. You go on with your business" ‎No edit summary
12:4312:43, 22 May 2022 diff hist +4,067‎ To have some little disagreements amongst yourselves is not very unnatural because we are all individual beings. But as we are all working on behalf of Krishna we should always forget our personal interests and see to the prime cause ‎No edit summary current
12:4312:43, 22 May 2022 diff hist +2,844‎ The Pandavas were entrusted representatives of the Personality of Godhead, Lord Krsna, who practically brought into being the Battle of Kuruksetra, but not for any personal interest ‎No edit summary current
12:4212:42, 22 May 2022 diff hist +4,177‎ The four asramas and the four varnas act for some benefit in accordance with their personal interests. Therefore such activities are in the mode of goodness; they cannot be counted in the category of pure devotion ‎No edit summary current
12:3512:35, 22 May 2022 diff hist +33‎ There are others who designate Him as impersonal, and so the Lord also does not take any personal interest ‎No edit summary current
12:3512:35, 22 May 2022 diff hist +4,836‎ Theft for personal interest or for the family interest is of the same quality - namely, criminal ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 22 May 2022 diff hist +3,628‎ Sometimes it is seen that great personalities meet with fallen souls, not for any personal interest but for the benefit of those souls. In the creation of the Lord there are different kinds of living creatures ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 22 May 2022 diff hist +17,789‎ Satyam. This word means that one should not distort the truth for some personal interest. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 22 May 2022 diff hist +5,437‎ Regarding personal self-interest, a devotee should always be without diplomacy, and he should avoid the company of persons who are not advancing in spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 22 May 2022 diff hist +3,764‎ Our students, either Brahmacari or Householder, are being trained up for constant engagement in Krsna Consciousness service without any personal interest. This is perfect order of Sannyas ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 22 May 2022 diff hist +6,031‎ One who is pure devotee, he does not pray to God for any personal interest. Even if he is distressed, he says, "O Lord, it is Your kindness. You have put me in distress just to rectify me" ‎No edit summary current
12:2612:26, 22 May 2022 diff hist +7,350‎ Just to save my students, both boys and girls, from sinful activities, I am personally taking interest that they may become good gentleman and lady by marriage ‎No edit summary current
12:2512:25, 22 May 2022 diff hist +3,224‎ In his prayer to the Lord, Prahlada Maharaja said that he was not personally interested in liberation from this material world; rather, he did not wish to be liberated from this material condition until all fallen souls were delivered ‎No edit summary
12:2512:25, 22 May 2022 diff hist +3,642‎ If you yourself take the royalty it will be personal interest in money and trade, and this will deviate your principle of sannyasa ‎No edit summary current
12:2512:25, 22 May 2022 diff hist +5,925‎ Here (in SB 3.15.31) we can mark that even great saintly persons like the Kumaras were also angry, but they were not angry for their personal interests. They were angry because they were forbidden to enter the palace to see the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
12:1712:17, 22 May 2022 diff hist +2,931‎ For the service of the Lord he (a devotee of God) can accept anything, even though it may be disagreeable to his personal interest. In fact, he is completely free from personal interest, and thus anything agreeable to the Lord is agreeable to him ‎No edit summary current
12:1712:17, 22 May 2022 diff hist +4,020‎ Factually no sin whatsoever touched the Pandavas, who were only the order carriers of the Lord. For others, who declare war out of personal interest, the whole responsibility lies on them ‎No edit summary current
12:1612:16, 22 May 2022 diff hist +3,094‎ Devotees sacrifice all personal interests to satisfy the SPG, and similarly the Supreme Lord, although having no personal interests, can do anything for the interests of His devotees. One who is full in himself has no personal interests ‎No edit summary current
12:1612:16, 22 May 2022 diff hist +33‎ Bali Maharaja rightly said that Lord Vamanadeva was not at all prudent in regard to His own personal interests. Lord Vamanadeva had approached Bali not for His personal welfare but for the welfare of His devotees ‎No edit summary current
12:1512:15, 22 May 2022 diff hist +5,181‎ A thief pleading not guilty because of committing theft not for personal interest but for the interest of society or country has never been excused by the established law of any country ‎No edit summary current

14:4114:41, 21 May 2022 diff hist +518‎ Category:Pure Devotees of God Have Nothing to do for Their Personal Interest ‎No edit summary current
14:4014:40, 21 May 2022 diff hist +431‎ Category:Pure Devotees Do Not Pray to God for Any Personal Interest ‎No edit summary current
14:4014:40, 21 May 2022 diff hist +9,089‎ A person who works very hard for others only, forgetting his personal interest available in the human form of life, is compared to the ass ‎No edit summary current
14:4014:40, 21 May 2022 diff hist +3,307‎ At the present moment the so-called executive heads are more or less selected from materially ambitious persons who simply look after their own personal interests; they have no knowledge of the sastras ‎No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 21 May 2022 diff hist +3,204‎ As he passed through cosmic space, he was surrounded by all kinds of demigods. This great incident is a powerful example of how Krsna consciousness can benefit the world ‎ Undo revision 1303228 by Shaalini (talk) current Tag: Undo
06:5306:53, 21 May 2022 diff hist +14,008‎ The Srimad-Bhagavatam offers bhagavata-dharma, or the process leading to scientific knowledge about God. Bhagavata means - the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and dharma means - regulative principles ‎No edit summary current
06:5306:53, 21 May 2022 diff hist +5,380‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu recommended that one learn Srimad-Bhagavatam from the mouth of the self realized person called bhagavatam. Bhagavata means "in relationship with the Personality of Godhead" ‎No edit summary
06:5306:53, 21 May 2022 diff hist +5,519‎ The word padam means "abode," and bhagavat means "the Supreme Personality of Godhead." Thus the destination of the devotees is the abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
06:5306:53, 21 May 2022 diff hist +5,449‎ Sanatana means eternal, always and everywhere. Bhagavata means pertaining to Bhagavan, the Lord. The Lord is the master of all time and all space, and therefore the Lord's holy name must be heard, glorified and remembered everywhere in the world ‎No edit summary current
05:3005:30, 21 May 2022 diff hist +2,573‎ We have taken Bhagavad-gita as the standard of all human activities. If the leaders of the human society take it as standard, then all the problems will be solved. That we can give practical suggestions. Any plan of the atheists will never be successful ‎No edit summary current
05:3005:30, 21 May 2022 diff hist +9,748‎ To a common man, here (SB 2.2.35) is a practical suggestion given by Srila Sukadeva Gosvami as to how one can perceive the Supreme Lord by reason and perception ‎No edit summary
05:3005:30, 21 May 2022 diff hist +2,382‎ Regarding your proposal to spread Krishna Consciousness in Germany village to village by horse and wagon I do not know if this is a practical suggestion, but if the preaching goes on I have no objection ‎No edit summary current
05:2905:29, 21 May 2022 diff hist +3,941‎ Monotheism's practically suggested here. Offering sacrifices to many demigods under different names is mentioned in the Vedic literatures but the suggestion made in the verse (SB 2.1.37) is that those varieties of demigods are included in the form of God ‎No edit summary
05:2405:24, 21 May 2022 diff hist −40‎ The nucleus of the four social orders - brahmacarya, or student life, grhastha, or householder family life, vanaprastha, or retired life for practicing penance, and sannyasa, or renounced life for preaching the truth - is the four legs of religion ‎No edit summary
05:2305:23, 21 May 2022 diff hist +8,332‎ Since Dharma, or the principles of religion, would be lost in the proportion of three out of four, the symbolic bull was standing on one leg only ‎No edit summary current
05:2305:23, 21 May 2022 diff hist +5,634‎ In the age of Satya your four legs were established by the four principles of austerity, cleanliness, mercy & truthfulness. But it appears that three of your legs are broken due to rampant irreligion in the form of pride, lust for women, and intoxication ‎No edit summary
05:1705:17, 21 May 2022 diff hist −13‎ We want to create this position of Back to Godhead as very authorized representation of the science of God ‎No edit summary current
05:1705:17, 21 May 2022 diff hist +4,164‎ The entire Kali-yuga is full of faults. It is like an unlimited ocean of faults. But the Krsna consciousness movement is very authorized ‎No edit summary current
05:1605:16, 21 May 2022 diff hist +5,761‎ Isvarah paramah krsnah, sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah, anadir adir govindah, sarva-karana-karanam. This is the definition of Krsna given by Lord Brahma in his book known as Brahma-samhita, very authorized book ‎No edit summary current
05:0905:09, 21 May 2022 diff hist +3,410‎ Unless one achieves at least the brahminical qualifications, one cannot understand the Vedic hymns. Mahabharata is also a division of the Vedas, but it is meant for women, sudras and dvija-bandhus, the worthless children of the higher section ‎No edit summary current
05:0805:08, 21 May 2022 diff hist +2,692‎ To make them (sacrifices) more easily performable, the Veda was divided into four divisions of sacrifice, just to purify the occupational service of the four orders ‎No edit summary current
05:0805:08, 21 May 2022 diff hist −5‎ The Vedic sacrifices recommended in the karma-kanda division of the Vedas are in total also Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
05:0805:08, 21 May 2022 diff hist +2,991‎ The Veda is one, and the reasons for its divisions in many parts are explained herewith ‎No edit summary current
05:0705:07, 21 May 2022 diff hist +4,349‎ The Vedas are divided into three divisions - karma-kanda, jnana-kanda and upasana-kanda. These are activities dealing with fruitive work, empiric philosophical speculation and worship ‎No edit summary
05:0705:07, 21 May 2022 diff hist +9,479‎ The theme of each and every division (of the Vedanta-sutra) is fully described in terms of five different subject matters ‎No edit summary current
05:0705:07, 21 May 2022 diff hist +11,931‎ The Srimad-Bhagavatam is superior to all of these (the karma-kanda, jnana-kanda and upasana-kanda divisions of the Vedas) because it aims at the Supreme Truth which is the substance or the root of all categories ‎No edit summary current
05:0305:03, 21 May 2022 diff hist +6,540‎ The less intelligent do not accept Mahabharata as part of the Vedas, but great sages and authorities accept it as the fifth division of the Vedas ‎No edit summary current
05:0205:02, 21 May 2022 diff hist +1,810‎ The four divisions of the original sources of knowledge (the Vedas) were made separately. But the historical facts and authentic stories mentioned in the Puranas are called the fifth Veda ‎No edit summary current
05:0105:01, 21 May 2022 diff hist +9,613‎ There are four chapters (adhyayas) in the Vedanta-sutra, and there are four divisions (padas) in each chapter. Therefore the Vedanta-sutra may be referred to as sodasa-pada, or sixteen divisions of aphorisms ‎No edit summary current
05:0105:01, 21 May 2022 diff hist +43,522‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam is given higher status than the jnana-kanda division of the Vedas ‎No edit summary
05:0005:00, 21 May 2022 diff hist +5,783‎ Mahabharata is accepted as the fifth division of the Vedas after its first four divisions, namely Sama, Yajur, Rg and Atharva ‎No edit summary current
04:5504:55, 21 May 2022 diff hist +14‎ In the Vedic literature it is stated that the two wings of the transcendental bird Garuda, who carries the Lord everywhere, are two divisions of the Sama Veda known as brhat and rathantara ‎No edit summary current
04:5504:55, 21 May 2022 diff hist −11‎ In the Vedic literatures it is stated that the Personality of Godhead does not recognize a person who is very learned in all the divisions of the Vedas, but, rather, He likes a person who is a devotee, even though he may be born in a low family ‎No edit summary current
04:5404:54, 21 May 2022 diff hist +6,190‎ In the Vedas there are three kandas, or divisions: karma-kanda, jnana-kanda and upasana-kanda ‎No edit summary current
04:5404:54, 21 May 2022 diff hist +8‎ Formerly there was only the Veda of the name Yajur, and the four divisions of sacrifices were there specifically mentioned ‎No edit summary current
04:5304:53, 21 May 2022 diff hist +8‎ Every theme (of each and every division of the Vedanta-sutra) must necessarily be explained with reference to pratijna, or a solemn declaration of the purpose of the treatise ‎No edit summary current
04:5304:53, 21 May 2022 diff hist +2,116‎ After the Vedas were divided into four divisions, Paila Rsi became the professor of the Rg Veda, Jaimini the professor of the Sama Veda, and Vaisampayana alone became glorified by the Yajur Veda ‎No edit summary current
04:4104:41, 21 May 2022 diff hist +3,119‎ Those who are Krsna conscious actually have full knowledge of the essence of Vedanta philosophy, for they study the real commentary on the Vedanta philosophy, Srimad-Bhagavatam, and follow the actual words of the SPG as found in Bhagavad-gita As It Is ‎No edit summary
04:3904:39, 21 May 2022 diff hist +9,878‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam is the real commentary on the Vedanta-sutra. Unfortunately, if one is attracted to Sri Sankaracarya's commentary, Sariraka-bhasya, his spiritual life is doomed ‎No edit summary
04:3804:38, 21 May 2022 diff hist +4,624‎ Mayavadi sannyasis accept that the commentary by Sri Sankaracarya known as Sariraka-bhasya gives the real meaning of the Vedanta-sutra ‎No edit summary current
04:3804:38, 21 May 2022 diff hist +14,229‎ If we accept Srimad-Bhagavatam as the real commentary on Vedanta-sutra, then we'll find that in the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said, kaler dosa-nidhe rajann asti hy eko mahan gunah - SB 12.3.51 ‎No edit summary
04:2704:27, 21 May 2022 diff hist +2,411‎ The great example among women was Queen Kunti whose family life was perpetual danger, but because she always thought of Krsna she was saved ‎No edit summary current
04:2704:27, 21 May 2022 diff hist +3,756‎ There are example of Krsna Conscious persons whose worship was solitary life, and the greatest example is Haridasa Thakura. Haridasa Thakura used to live only in a cave sometimes and would spend his whole time chanting the Hare Krishna Mantra ‎No edit summary current
04:1704:17, 21 May 2022 diff hist +5,206‎ When the Lord Sri Krsna was present on this earth, the impressions of the special signs of His lotus feet were stamped on the dust, and as a result of this specific grace, the whole earth was made as perfect as possible ‎No edit summary current
04:1604:16, 21 May 2022 diff hist +8,022‎ One who is situated in devotional or transcendental loving service to the Lord, or, in other words, in Krsna consciousness, attains to this stage of buddhi-yoga by the special grace of the Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
04:1604:16, 21 May 2022 diff hist +3,574‎ As soon as we find anything extraordinary, we should understand that such an extraordinary manifestation is the special grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current

13:0413:04, 18 May 2022 diff hist +6,197‎ When he comes to this awareness, that "I have simply suffered and I wanted to maintain myself by jugglery of words," then he comes to the real knowledge ‎No edit summary current
13:0413:04, 18 May 2022 diff hist +17‎ We are spirit soul (aham brahmasmi). This is realization of knowledge, and when we come to this point of knowledge, we become happy ‎No edit summary current
13:0213:02, 18 May 2022 diff hist +10‎ The Lord confirms in the Bhagavad-gita (7.19): After many births of struggling for existence & cultivating knowledge, when one comes to the point of real knowledge he surrenders unto Me. Such an advanced mahatma, or great soul, is very rarely to be seen ‎No edit summary current
13:0113:01, 18 May 2022 diff hist +10‎ Since it is not possible for him to be master, he is much better situated serving the reality instead of the illusion. When one becomes aware of this, he attains the platform of real knowledge ‎No edit summary current
13:0113:01, 18 May 2022 diff hist +9,047‎ Sankirtana-yajna. This yajna will help you. Real thing is the heart, the mind. If this yajna, sankirtana-yajna, cleanses your mind and heart, then you come to the platform of knowledge. Then automatically other things become effective ‎No edit summary
13:0113:01, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,640‎ Real atonement involves coming to real knowledge, and for this there is a standard process. When one follows a regulated hygienic process, he does not fall sick ‎No edit summary current
13:0113:01, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,486‎ Our process of knowledge is very simple. We take it from the authority. We don't speculate. Speculation will not help us to come to the real knowledge ‎No edit summary current
12:5512:55, 18 May 2022 diff hist +10‎ If this is considered thoughtfully (person without God consciousness steal God's property) and if one comes to real knowledge, he will realize that if we do not understand God, whose property we are using, whatever we possess is stolen property ‎No edit summary current
12:5412:54, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,244‎ As stated in Bhagavad-gita, after many, many births of executing severe austerities in search of knowledge, one comes to the point of real knowledge and becomes wise when one surrenders unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
12:1112:11, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,584‎ You have been a little bit perturbed that the demons are eternally condemned, and I thank you very much that you have been compassionate with the demons. That is the sign of Vaisnavism ‎No edit summary current
12:1112:11, 18 May 2022 diff hist +2,962‎ Your mind has been perturbed upon seeing this horrible feature of Mine. Now let it be finished. My devotee, be free from all disturbance. With a peaceful mind you can now see the form you desire. BG 11.49 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
12:1112:11, 18 May 2022 diff hist +3,335‎ When Vrsasura appeared in Vrndavana as a bull, all of the gopis became greatly affected with fear. Being perturbed in that way, they began to embrace the tamala trees ‎No edit summary current
12:1112:11, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,760‎ When the four months of the rainy season passed and Aniruddha had still not returned home, all the members of the Yadu family became much perturbed. They could not understand how the boy was missing ‎No edit summary current
12:1012:10, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,188‎ When Mother Yasoda was thinking that her son was walking in the forest without any umbrella or shoes, she became greatly perturbed to think of how much difficulty Krsna must have been feeling ‎No edit summary current
12:0912:09, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,828‎ When misuse of human energy is prominent, the saner living beings become perturbed by the awkward situation created by the vicious administrators, who are simply burdens of the earth ‎No edit summary current
12:0812:08, 18 May 2022 diff hist +9‎ When Krsna was playing jokes on Rukmini, she feared that Krsna might leave her and became so perturbed that she dropped the fan with which she was fanning Him and fainted, falling unconscious on the floor ‎No edit summary
12:0812:08, 18 May 2022 diff hist +7,059‎ When Krsna entered the lake of Kaliya, His intimate friends became so perturbed that their bodily colors faded, and they all produced horrible gurgling sounds. At that time all of them fell down on the ground as if they were unconscious ‎No edit summary current
12:0712:07, 18 May 2022 diff hist +3,433‎ The transcendental form of the Lord, as it is, satisfies the mind's desire and at once erases all mental incongruities. Upon losing that form, I (Narada Muni) suddenly got up, being perturbed, as is usual when one loses that which is desirable ‎No edit summary current
12:0712:07, 18 May 2022 diff hist +6,402‎ The same gopi said, "Although they are traveling in the air in their airplanes, enjoying the company of their husbands, on hearing the sound of Krsna's flute, they immediately become perturbed" ‎No edit summary current
12:0712:07, 18 May 2022 diff hist +3,136‎ Narada Muni got a glimpse of this, but having not seen it again he became perturbed and stood up all of a sudden to search it out. What we desire life after life was obtained by Narada Muni, & losing sight of Him again was certainly a great shock for him ‎No edit summary current
12:0712:07, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,342‎ Maharaja Pariksit was a pure devotee of the Lord, and there was no reason for him to become extremely fatigued, hungry and thirsty because a devotee of the Lord never becomes perturbed by such bodily demands ‎No edit summary
12:0612:06, 18 May 2022 diff hist −11‎ Madhvacarya’s devotion to the Lord and his erudite scholarship became known throughout India. Consequently the owners of the Srngeri-matha, established by Sankaracarya, became a little perturbed ‎No edit summary current
11:3111:31, 18 May 2022 diff hist +1,720‎ King Indra, being perturbed and angry, wanted to kill Cyavana Muni, and therefore he impetuously took up his thunderbolt. But Cyavana Muni, by his powers, paralyzed Indra's arm that held the thunderbolt ‎No edit summary
11:3111:31, 18 May 2022 diff hist +1,653‎ In separation, the Lord became very much perturbed and walked on unhappily. His servant, Krsnadasa, who was carrying His waterpot, followed behind ‎No edit summary current
11:3011:30, 18 May 2022 diff hist +2,223‎ A pious king as Maharaja Yudhisthira at once became perturbed when there were such inhuman symptoms as greed, anger, irreligiosity and hypocrisy rampant in society ‎No edit summary
11:3011:30, 18 May 2022 diff hist +6,226‎ At that time, the whole world became perturbed, and the predominating deity of this earth, known as Bhumi, went to see Lord Brahma to tell of her calamities due to the demoniac kings ‎No edit summary current
11:3011:30, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,768‎ All the kings & brahmanas assembled at the sacrificial arena of Maharaj Yudhisthira became perturbed and immediately wanted to satisfy Krsna by offering nice prayers. But all these kings and brahmanas could not discover any disturbance in Krsna's person ‎No edit summary current
11:2911:29, 18 May 2022 diff hist +2,106‎ After hearing Srimati Radharani's statements, Lord Krsna's love for the inhabitants of Vrndavana was evoked, and His body and mind became very much perturbed ‎No edit summary current
11:0511:05, 18 May 2022 diff hist +6,718‎ Vasudeva saw that wonderful child born as a baby wearing the jeweled necklace of kaustubha stone, dressed in yellow silk, appearing dazzling like a bright blackish cloud, wearing a helmet bedecked with the vaidurya stone, valuable bracelets ‎No edit summary current
11:0511:05, 18 May 2022 diff hist +3,339‎ The steps of King Indra's residence were made of coral, the floor was bedecked with invaluable emeralds, the walls were of crystal, and the columns of vaidurya stone ‎No edit summary current
10:5910:59, 18 May 2022 diff hist +1,361‎ The Kaustubha-mani is considered the most precious of valuable stones ‎No edit summary current
10:5910:59, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,933‎ The hills and mountains began to produce potent medicinal plants and valuable stones. Because of Krsna's presence, all these things happened very nicely, and the lower animals, who were generally envious of one another, were envious no longer ‎No edit summary current
10:5910:59, 18 May 2022 diff hist +3,401‎ The happiness of the citizens was due to the ample production of natural produce such as grains, fruits, milk, herbs, valuable stones, minerals and everything that the people needed ‎No edit summary current
10:5810:58, 18 May 2022 diff hist +2,530‎ The entire palace was decorated with flags and garlands and bedecked with valuable stones, shining with a celestial effulgence ‎No edit summary current
10:5810:58, 18 May 2022 diff hist +3,153‎ The castle is described: "yielding whatever one desired." It was full of jewels. Even the pillars were made of pearls and valuable stones. These valuable jewels and stones were not subject to deterioration, but were everlastingly and increasingly opulent ‎No edit summary current
10:5810:58, 18 May 2022 diff hist +7,337‎ There is a valuable jewel stone. If you turn, you will find many colorful manifestations, although that stone is one. Similarly, although God is one, He can manifest Himself in many forms. That is the prerogative of God ‎No edit summary current
10:5810:58, 18 May 2022 diff hist +2,549‎ Real opulence is supplied by natural gifts such as gold, silver, pearls, valuable stones, fresh flowers, trees and silken cloth. Thus the Vedic civilization recommends opulence and decoration with these natural gifts of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
10:5810:58, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,509‎ Not only do regulated rains help ample production of grains and fruits, but when they combine with astronomical influences there is ample production of valuable stones and pearls ‎No edit summary current
10:5710:57, 18 May 2022 diff hist +9,054‎ Krsna and Balarama learned the art of cutting valuable stones such as diamonds, and They also learned the art of questioning and answering by immediately composing poetry within the mind ‎No edit summary current
10:5710:57, 18 May 2022 diff hist +7,148‎ He (Sudama) saw that in place of his cottage there were big palaces made of valuable stones and jewels, glittering like the sun, moon and rays of fire ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 18 May 2022 diff hist +6,688‎ He (Krsna) appeared before them (the inhabitants of Vrndavana) nicely decorated, smeared all over with candana pulp, bedecked with valuable jewels and stones, and almost completely covered with gold ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,123‎ Eternal time is also without beginning, but it is the creator of all creatures. The example is given of touchstone, which creates many valuable stones and jewels but does not decrease in power ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,687‎ By utilizing the sun rays, sometimes even the stones become valuable, whereas a blind man cannot see the sun, although there are enough sun rays before him ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 18 May 2022 diff hist +6,171‎ A sannyasi who has dipped into the ocean of the Absolute Truth and collected some valuable stones of knowledge from that ocean, who never falls from the regulative principles of a sannyasi, is called Sagara ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 18 May 2022 diff hist +1,590‎ As the Kaustubha-mani is considered the most precious of valuable stones, this verse is similarly considered the best of poems dealing with the mellows of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
10:3610:36, 18 May 2022 diff hist +6,574‎ As the gopis & Krsna danced together, a very blissful musical sound was produced from the tinkling of their bells, ornaments & bangles. It appeared that Krsna was a greenish sapphire locket in the midst of a golden necklace decorated with valuable stones ‎No edit summary current
10:3610:36, 18 May 2022 diff hist +2,456‎ Artistic jewelry and decorations giving the appearance of eyes are not imaginary. Even in recent times the Mogul emperors constructed their palaces with decorations of jeweled birds with eyes made of valuable stones ‎No edit summary current
10:2510:25, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,781‎ Trying to defy the authority of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, so-called scientists, philosophers and politicians manufacture plans and schemes for the destruction of the world ‎No edit summary current
10:2410:24, 18 May 2022 diff hist +2,665‎ The word devata refers to one who carries the authority of the Vedas, whereas Raksasas are those who defy the Vedic authority. If the authority of the Vedas is lost, the entire universe becomes chaotic ‎No edit summary current
10:2410:24, 18 May 2022 diff hist +2,498‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Lord Brahma, because of material opulence a foolish person becomes dull-witted and mad. Thus he has no respect for anyone within the three worlds and defies even My authority ‎No edit summary current
10:2310:23, 18 May 2022 diff hist +13‎ The devotees of the Supreme Lord are called devas because they also become like God, whereas those who defy the authority of the Supreme are called asuras or demons. These two classes are always found in human society ‎No edit summary current
10:2310:23, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,183‎ These atheist class of men, who defy the authority of Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they'll meet Krsna. When? At the time of death, when Krsna will take everything, his body, his society, his country, his family, his bank balance, his house ‎No edit summary current
10:2210:22, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,582‎ When Krsna defied the authority of Indra, Indra became angry because he thought that he was all in all within this universe and that no one was as powerful as he ‎No edit summary current
10:1310:13, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,626‎ Maya has no powers. Krsna has given her power to chastise these individual souls who are defying the authority of Krsna. They should be punished. It is Maya's thankless task, but Maya is obedient servant of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
10:1310:13, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,566‎ Material world means full of criminals, or against God, or defying the authority of God. And the spiritual world? Everyone is accepting the supremacy of God. That is material world and spiritual world ‎No edit summary current
10:1310:13, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,100‎ Material world means full of criminals, or against God, or defying the authority of God. And the spiritual world? Everyone is accepting the supremacy of God ‎No edit summary current
10:1210:12, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,153‎ Indra cursed the action of the inhabitants of Vrndavana and said, "By defying the authority of the demigods, the inhabitants of Vrndavana will suffer in material existence" ‎No edit summary current
10:1210:12, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,067‎ If they (the scientists) accept God, then we give them all credit. That's all right. Otherwise zero. We don't deprecate their intention of advancement in knowledge. But we simply protest against their defying the authority of God. That is our point ‎No edit summary current
10:1210:12, 18 May 2022 diff hist +43,351‎ If such scientists cannot even manufacture such brains, what to speak of foolish atheists who defy the authority of the Lord? ‎No edit summary
10:0810:08, 18 May 2022 diff hist +5,927‎ Dharmasya glanih means when we defy authority. That is called discrepancy in the discharge of religiosity or occupational duty ‎No edit summary current
10:0810:08, 18 May 2022 diff hist +4,216‎ Atheism means defying the authority of the Vedas and decrying the great acaryas who teach Vedic scriptures for the benefit of the people in general ‎No edit summary current
10:0810:08, 18 May 2022 diff hist +7,393‎ And if he does not follow the instruction of spiritual master, he is a rascal. He is defying the authority. That's all ‎No edit summary current

15:4015:40, 17 May 2022 diff hist +3,021‎ Those who have full knowledge of self-realization, who know very well that the spirit soul is eternal whereas the body is perishable, are not overwhelmed by lamentation. But persons who lack knowledge of self-realization certainly lament ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 17 May 2022 diff hist +5,126‎ This (sanatana) yoga has two divisions of sacrificial actions: one is called sacrifice of one's material possessions, and the other is called knowledge of self, which is pure spiritual activity. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 17 May 2022 diff hist +4,185‎ Since these living entities have very little knowledge of self-realization, they are not getting any relief, although they are very anxious to attain peace of mind and some substantial happiness ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 17 May 2022 diff hist +4,160‎ One should not at any time associate with a coarse fool who is bereft of the knowledge of self-realization and who is no more than a toy animal in the hands of a woman ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 17 May 2022 diff hist +2,437‎ Long penance and transcendental knowledge of self-realization had matured Brahma in practical knowledge, and thus he drank the wind completely, along with the water ‎No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 17 May 2022 diff hist +4,013‎ Jnana refers to knowledge of self as distinguished from non-self, or in other words, knowledge that the spirit soul is not the body. Vijnana refers to specific knowledge of the spirit soul's constitutional position and his relationship to the Supreme Soul ‎No edit summary
15:3815:38, 17 May 2022 diff hist −12‎ Jnanam refers to knowledge of self as distinguished from non-self, or, in other words, knowledge that the spirit soul is not the body. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 17 May 2022 diff hist +2,746‎ He (Arjuna) would soon be free from the false lamentation resulting from family affection and would be enlightened with perfect knowledge of self-realization, or Krsna consciousness, and would then surely fight. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 17 May 2022 diff hist +5,075‎ Due to a lack of knowledge of self, we become victimized by the force of ignorance and thus spoil the valuable energy of human life in a vain search after permanent living conditions, which are impossible in this material world ‎No edit summary current
15:2915:29, 17 May 2022 diff hist −12‎ The Lord advised Arjuna to regulate the senses from the very beginning so that he could curb the greatest sinful enemy, lust, which destroys the urge for self-realization, and specifically, knowledge of the self. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 17 May 2022 diff hist −12‎ The knowledge of the self and the Supreme Self is very confidential and mysterious, being veiled by maya, but such knowledge and specific realization can be understood if it is explained by the Lord Himself. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 17 May 2022 diff hist +4,031‎ The knowledge of the self and Supreme Self is very confidential and mysterious, but such knowledge and specific realization can be understood if explained with their various aspects by the Lord Himself ‎No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 17 May 2022 diff hist +5,325‎ One who follows the path of the Gita as it is can very easily understand two important divisions of spiritual knowledge. For him there is no difficulty in obtaining perfect knowledge of the self as part and parcel of the Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:2715:27, 17 May 2022 diff hist −12‎ BG gives us that knowledge (of the self & the Supreme Self), specifically knowledge of the self. The living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord, and therefore they are simply meant to serve the Lord. This consciousness is called KC. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary
15:1915:19, 17 May 2022 diff hist +2,917‎ Thus he remains at home just like a pet dog & eats whatever is so negligently given to him. Afflicted with many illnesses, such as dyspepsia and loss of appetite, he eats only very small morsels of food, & he becomes an invalid, who cannot work any more ‎No edit summary current
15:1815:18, 17 May 2022 diff hist +4,337‎ I am the pet dog of my Guru Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
15:1815:18, 17 May 2022 diff hist +4,936‎ If you think that you know better than Krsna or Krsna's representative, the guru, there is no necessity of accepting guru. Do not keep a guru as a pet dog ‎No edit summary current
15:1315:13, 17 May 2022 diff hist +2,243‎ My consciousness is impure because I accept all these goods from people who are interested only in pounds, shillings and pence. Therefore by this kind of invitation I get only some material reputation ‎No edit summary current
15:1215:12, 17 May 2022 diff hist +8,441‎ Because of their (those without devotional service) impure consciousness and for want of shelter in the Vaikunthalokas, such so-called liberated persons again fall down into material existence ‎No edit summary current
15:0415:04, 17 May 2022 diff hist +7,128‎ The exact word used in Srimad-Bhagavatam is pasu-ghna, which means killing animals or killing oneself. Persons who are not self-realized and who are not interested in spiritual realization are killing themselves; they are committing suicide ‎No edit summary
15:0415:04, 17 May 2022 diff hist +3,695‎ Take your Bible, take Koran, take Vedas. There are some prescribed duties. Just like in your Bible, there are ten commandments. "Thou shall not kill." So for whom? One who is not self-realized ‎No edit summary current
15:0415:04, 17 May 2022 diff hist +4,429‎ As long as a living entity is not self-realized - as long as he is not independent of the misconception of identifying with his body, which is nothing but a reflection of the original body and senses - he cannot be relieved of the conception of duality ‎No edit summary current
14:4014:40, 17 May 2022 diff hist +2,882‎ One who is not in transcendental consciousness can have neither a controlled mind nor steady intelligence, without which there is no possibility of peace. And how can there be any happiness without peace? BG 2.66 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
14:4014:40, 17 May 2022 diff hist +27,150‎ In the execution of yoga, it is very important that the mind is not agitated. "As a lamp in a windless place does not waver, so the transcendentalist, whose mind is controlled, remains always steady in his meditation on the transcendent Self." - Bg. 6.19 ‎No edit summary current
14:3914:39, 17 May 2022 diff hist +1,911‎ As a lamp in a windless place does not waver, so the transcendentalist, whose mind is controlled, remains always steady in his meditation on the transcendent Self. BG 6.19 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
14:3914:39, 17 May 2022 diff hist +1,868‎ As a lamp in a windless place does not waver, so the transcendentalist, whose mind is controlled, remains always steady in his meditation on the transcendent Self ‎No edit summary current
14:2514:25, 17 May 2022 diff hist +34‎ You just follow in their footsteps, and your desire will be fulfilled. We are training them how to become purified and happy. That is our mission we want to see everyone happy. Sarve sukhino bhavantu ‎No edit summary current
14:2514:25, 17 May 2022 diff hist +9,043‎ 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
14:2514:25, 17 May 2022 diff hist +5,523‎ Krsna consciousness movement is not one-sided. It is all-embracing. Sarve sukhino bhavantu. Krsna consciousness movement wants to see everyone happy ‎No edit summary current

12:5412:54, 16 May 2022 diff hist +3,495‎ Bhismadeva was a great devotee of the Lord, but he chose to fight against the Pandavas by the will of the Lord because the Lord wanted to show that a fighter like Bhisma cannot win on the wrong side ‎No edit summary current
12:5412:54, 16 May 2022 diff hist +4,458‎ Because they have taken the wrong side. Because Bhismadeva, in spite of his becoming so learned, still, he has gone to the side of the Duryodhana, and simply for matter of getting some money, maintenance ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 16 May 2022 diff hist +2,763‎ According to the boy's (Srngi's) opinion, the King (Maharaja Pariksit) was on the wrong side and not his father, and thus he justified his silent father ‎No edit summary current
12:3912:39, 16 May 2022 diff hist −12‎ The twigs of the tree (the banyan tree) are considered to be the sense objects. By development of the different modes of nature, we develop different senses, and, by the senses, we enjoy different varieties of sense objects. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:3912:39, 16 May 2022 diff hist +3,660‎ The subsidiary roots are attachments and aversions, which are byproducts of different varieties of suffering and sense enjoyment ‎No edit summary current
12:3912:39, 16 May 2022 diff hist +7‎ The roots, which are subsidiary, are the by-products of different varieties of suffering and sense enjoyment. Thus we develop attachment and aversion. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:3912:39, 16 May 2022 diff hist +5,172‎ The propaganda by a certain class of impersonalists that spiritual life is void of all varieties is dangerous propaganda to mislead the living beings into becoming more and more attracted by material enjoyments ‎No edit summary
12:3612:36, 16 May 2022 diff hist +3,559‎ When continuous love of Godhead is mixed with the processes of devotional service, it is called vibhava, anubhava, sattvika and vyabhicari. The devotee thus enjoys a variety of transcendental bliss ‎No edit summary current
12:3612:36, 16 May 2022 diff hist +3,809‎ We have experience of different varieties of material enjoyment even on this planet ‎No edit summary
12:3512:35, 16 May 2022 diff hist −53‎ Variety is the mother of enjoyment is a well-known fact. Cities, for instance, are known to be attractive if they contain a variety of things ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 16 May 2022 diff hist +7‎ Varieties of humors are enjoyed by the devotees and Lord Krsna during His manifest pastimes. After all, His pastimes in Mathura, Vrndavana and Dvaraka are eternal and are going on perpetually somewhere in some part of the universe ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 16 May 2022 diff hist +3,049‎ This kind of dissatisfaction is another feature of the illusory energy; every living entity is controlled by his previous actions, and therefore there are different varieties of life for enjoying or suffering ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 16 May 2022 diff hist +2,886‎ The wind is sparsa, or touch. The waterfall is rasa, or taste. The spring air (kusumakara) is smell. All these varieties of enjoyment make life very pleasing, and thus we become captivated by material existence ‎No edit summary current
12:2512:25, 16 May 2022 diff hist −12‎ The Lord is so merciful that He gives the living entity the opportunity to enjoy varieties of desires in suitable bodies, which are nothing but machines (yantrarudhani mayaya) - BG 18.61 ‎No edit summary current
12:2412:24, 16 May 2022 diff hist +6,261‎ The living entity selects a body out of the 8,400,000 forms and tries to satisfy himself by a variety of material enjoyment. The Supersoul, however, does not like him to do this ‎No edit summary current
12:2412:24, 16 May 2022 diff hist +7,786‎ The impersonalists would not dare believe that in the spiritual world there are such varieties of enjoyment, but in order to demonstrate the factual, ever-blissful enjoyment in the spiritual world, Lord Krsna descended to this planet ‎No edit summary
12:2412:24, 16 May 2022 diff hist +13‎ The change of body account for varieties of enjoyment or suffering, according to one's work in life. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:2212:22, 16 May 2022 diff hist +6,091‎ Life is meant for varieties of enjoyment. The living entity is by nature full of an enjoying spirit, as stated in the Vedanta-sutra (1.1.12): ananda-mayo ’bhyasat. In devotional service the activities are variegated and full of enjoyment ‎No edit summary current
12:1212:12, 16 May 2022 diff hist +5,103‎ Krsna is so intelligent - varieties of fruit, varieties of flowers, varieties of grain, varieties of brain. That is enjoyment. So, take instruction from Krsna ‎No edit summary current
12:1112:11, 16 May 2022 diff hist +20,414‎ If there are five people present, our enjoyment is enhanced, and if we can discuss Krsna before many, many people, the enjoyment is all the greater. Enjoyment means variety ‎No edit summary current
12:1012:10, 16 May 2022 diff hist +6,275‎ He selects his position as a human being, a demigod, a cat, a dog, a tree, etc. In this way the living entity selects a body out of the 8,400,000 forms and tries to satisfy himself by a variety of material enjoyment ‎No edit summary current
12:1012:10, 16 May 2022 diff hist +2,701‎ Heart is full with varieties of sense enjoyment. Therefore by daily, regular worshiping Bhagavatam, we become free from the dirty things ‎No edit summary current
12:0912:09, 16 May 2022 diff hist +2,138‎ First we take the word 'bhukti' ('material enjoyment'), which is of unlimited variety. We may also take the word 'siddhi' ('perfection'), which has eighteen varieties. Similarly, the word 'mukti' has five varieties ‎No edit summary current
12:0912:09, 16 May 2022 diff hist +6,653‎ Everything in the mundane world is qualitatively mundane, it is full of inebrieties, whereas in the absolute realm, because everything is of the same absolute nature, there are varieties of enjoyment without inebriety ‎No edit summary current
09:2709:27, 16 May 2022 diff hist +6,851‎ Enjoyment, ananda means enjoyment. Enjoyment cannot be impersonal; there must be varieties. That is enjoyment. You have got experience that when there is a bunch of flower of different colors it is very enjoyable ‎No edit summary current
09:2509:25, 16 May 2022 diff hist +140‎ Category:Variety is the Mother of Enjoyment ‎No edit summary current
09:2309:23, 16 May 2022 diff hist +25,725‎ As far as perfections in mystic power are concerned, there are 18, and as far as types of liberation from material bondage are concerned, there are 5. The state of being where all varieties of enjoyment are conspicuous by their absence is called ahaituki ‎No edit summary current
09:2309:23, 16 May 2022 diff hist +25,280‎ As far as material enjoyment is concerned, there are so many varieties that no one can enumerate them ‎No edit summary current
09:1209:12, 16 May 2022 diff hist +5,974‎ When the Lord (Caitanya) was invoking His Sudarsana cakra and Srila Nityananda Prabhu was imploring Him to forgive the two brothers, both the brothers fell down at the lotus feet of the Lord and begged His pardon for their gross behavior ‎No edit summary
09:1209:12, 16 May 2022 diff hist +5,021‎ When Jagai and Madhai offended Lord Nityananda, Lord Nityananda stood tolerantly, and therefore both brothers fell at His lotus feet and repented. Consequently they later became perfect Vaisnavas ‎No edit summary
09:1209:12, 16 May 2022 diff hist +7,471‎ Uddharana Datta Thakura, the eleventh among the twelve cowherd boys, was an exalted devotee of Lord Nityananda Prabhu. He worshiped the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda in all respects ‎No edit summary
09:1209:12, 16 May 2022 diff hist +1,710‎ Thinking of the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Lord Nityananda Prabhu, he left the general path and proceeded with great haste on the one not generally used ‎No edit summary
09:1109:11, 16 May 2022 diff hist +1,747‎ The thirty-sixth devotee of Lord Nityananda was Hoda Krsnadasa, whose life and soul was Nityananda Prabhu. He was always dedicated to the lotus feet of Nityananda, and he knew no one else but Him ‎No edit summary
09:0509:05, 16 May 2022 diff hist +1,407‎ Then Lord Nityananda Prabhu called Raghunatha dasa near Him, placed His lotus feet upon Raghunatha dasa's head and began to speak ‎No edit summary
09:0509:05, 16 May 2022 diff hist +43‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Sri Advaita Prabhu and Sri Nityananda Prabhu are all visnu-tattva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu. Therefore all living entities are under Their lotus feet ‎No edit summary
09:0409:04, 16 May 2022 diff hist +1,388‎ Raghunatha dasa went there and worshiped Lord Nityananda's lotus feet. Through Raghava Pandita, he submitted his desire ‎No edit summary
09:0409:04, 16 May 2022 diff hist +7,018‎ Nitai Pada Kamala, 1968 part one - Nitai-pada-kamala means the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda. Koti-candra-susitala. It is just a shelter where you will get the soothing moonlight not only of one, but of millions of moons ‎No edit summary
09:0409:04, 16 May 2022 diff hist +5,329‎ Nitai-pada-kamala means the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda. Koti-candra-susitala. It is just a shelter where you will get the soothing moonlight not only of one, but of millions of moons ‎No edit summary
09:0309:03, 16 May 2022 diff hist +19‎ Narottama dasa Thakura says: "My real riches are Nityananda Prabhu and the lotus feet of Sri Radha and Krsna". He further prays, "O Lord, kindly give me this opulence. I do not want anything but Your lotus feet as my property" ‎No edit summary
09:0309:03, 16 May 2022 diff hist −5‎ It is not my mental concoction, but I believe in the words of Narottama Dasa Thakura that the shelter of the Lotus Feet of Lord Nityananda is as cooling effectively as the combined moonshine of millions of moons ‎No edit summary
08:5608:56, 16 May 2022 diff hist +2,822‎ From birth, Purusottama dasa was merged in the service of the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda Prabhu, and he always engaged in childish play with Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary
08:5508:55, 16 May 2022 diff hist +2,778‎ Due to forgetting the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda and being puffed up by material possessions, wealth and opulence, one thinks the false, temporary material world to be an actual fact. This is the material disease ‎No edit summary

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