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1 June 2022

• 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

31 May 2022

• 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
• 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
• 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

24 May 2022

• 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

22 May 2022

• 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

21 May 2022

• 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

18 May 2022

• 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

17 May 2022

• 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

16 May 2022

• 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