User contributions for Shaalini
17 July 2022
- 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
9 July 2022
- 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
8 July 2022
- 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
7 July 2022
- 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
5 July 2022
- 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
4 July 2022
- 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
13 June 2022
- 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