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6 May 2024
- 16:5316:53, 6 May 2024 diff hist +11 Who can describe completely the prowess of Visnu? Even the scientist, who might have counted the particles of the atoms of the universe, cannot do so No edit summary current
- 16:5216:52, 6 May 2024 diff hist +30 Whatever a philosopher may describe is ultimately Krsna, or Lord Visnu (sarvam khalv idam brahma, param brahma param dhama pavitram paramam bhavan) - BG 10.12 No edit summary current
- 16:5116:51, 6 May 2024 diff hist +30 The real tattva, Absolute Truth, is Bhagavan, but due to incomplete realization of the Absolute Truth, people sometimes describe the same Visnu as impersonal Brahman or localized Paramatma No edit summary current
- 16:4816:48, 6 May 2024 diff hist +30 The master of the universe is the Garbhodakasayi Visnu, who is worshiped as the Hiranyagarbha Supersoul. The Vedic hymns describe Him as having thousands of heads. Although He is within the material nature, He is not touched by it No edit summary current
- 16:4316:43, 6 May 2024 diff hist +30 The master of the universe, however, is Garbhodakasayi Visnu, who is worshiped as the Hiranyagarbha Supersoul. The Vedic hymns describe Him as having thousands of heads No edit summary current
- 16:4016:40, 6 May 2024 diff hist +57 Sukadeva Gosvami continued: My dear King, 1,300,000 yojanas (10,400,000 miles) above the planets of the seven sages is the place that learned scholars describe as the abode of Lord Visnu No edit summary current
- 16:3816:38, 6 May 2024 diff hist +45 Sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23). One must simply hear about and describe Lord Visnu and His various incarnations. This narration concerning Prahlada Maharaja and Lord Nrsimhadeva, therefore, has properly described spiritual, transcendental subjects No edit summary current
- 16:3516:35, 6 May 2024 diff hist +64 Please also describe the incarnations of the material modes of nature - Brahma, Visnu and Mahesvara - and please describe the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His magnanimous activities No edit summary current
- 16:3316:33, 6 May 2024 diff hist +30 O rsis, who are as powerfully pure as the sun, I (Suta Gosvami) shall try to describe to you the transcendental pastimes of Visnu as far as my knowledge is concerned No edit summary current
- 16:3116:31, 6 May 2024 diff hist +30 Now, if you (Sukadeva Gosvami) will, kindly describe the wonderful, glorious activities of Lord Visnu, or Krsna, who appeared in that Yadu dynasty with Baladeva, His plenary expansion - SB 10.1.2 No edit summary current
- 16:1016:10, 6 May 2024 diff hist +66 I have briefly explained to you the position of the seven Manus. Now I shall describe the future Manus, along with the incarnations of Lord Visnu No edit summary current
- 16:0816:08, 6 May 2024 diff hist +29 In his description of Krsna's beauty, Lord Siva uses the words carvayata-catur-bahu sujata-rucirananam, indicating the beautiful four-armed form of Narayana, or Visnu. Those who worship Lord Krsna describe Him as sujata-rucirananam No edit summary current
- 16:0716:07, 6 May 2024 diff hist +1 In his description of Krsna's beauty, Lord Siva uses the words carvayata-catur-bahu sujata-rucirananam, indicating the beautiful four-armed form of Narayana, or Visnu. Those who worship Lord Krsna describe Him as sujata-rucirananam No edit summary
4 May 2024
- 16:2716:27, 4 May 2024 diff hist +38 Devaki said, “My dear Lord, Your eternal forms, like Narayana, Lord Rama, Hayasirsa, Varaha, Nrsimha, Vamana, Baladeva and millions of similar incarnations emanating from Visnu, are described in the Vedic literature as original" No edit summary current
- 16:2516:25, 4 May 2024 diff hist +56 Devaki said, “My dear Lord, Your eternal forms, like Narayana, Lord Rama, Hayasirsa, Varaha, Nrsimha, Vamana, Baladeva and millions of similar incarnations emanating from Visnu, are described in the Vedic literature as original" No edit summary
- 16:2316:23, 4 May 2024 diff hist +31 Brahma said, "As it is described in Brahma-samhita, the brahmajyoti is nothing but Your personal bodily effulgence. There are many Visnu incarnations & incarnations of Your different qualities, but all those incarnations are not on the same level" No edit summary current
- 16:2216:22, 4 May 2024 diff hist +35 Brahma said, "As it is described in Brahma-samhita, the brahmajyoti is nothing but Your personal bodily effulgence. There are many Visnu incarnations & incarnations of Your different qualities, but all those incarnations are not on the same level" No edit summary
- 16:2016:20, 4 May 2024 diff hist +30 Bali Maharaja and the history of his dealings with Visnu Vamanadeva are described in the Eighth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam (Chapter 10-23) No edit summary current
- 16:1816:18, 4 May 2024 diff hist +44 As described in Srimad-Bhagavatam, there are many manifestations of Visnu and many manifestations of living entities. Visnu manifestations are called svamsa, partial manifestations, and the living entities are called vibhinnamsa No edit summary current
- 16:1616:16, 4 May 2024 diff hist +30 As described by Bali Maharaja, Lord Visnu was actually not the enemy of the family but the best friend of the family. The principle of this friendship has already been stated. Yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam sanaih: SB 10.88.8 No edit summary current
- 16:1316:13, 4 May 2024 diff hist +30 Aradhananam sarvesam visnor aradhanam param. This is a statement made by Lord Siva to Parvati. Worshiping Lord Visnu is the supreme process of worship. & how Lord Visnu is worshiped in this payo-vrata ceremony has now been fully described - in SB 8.16.60 No edit summary current
- 16:1116:11, 4 May 2024 diff hist +97 Although the great activities and transcendental qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's various incarnations are wonderfully described, sometimes we are unable to understand them. Yet everything is possible for Lord Visnu No edit summary current
3 May 2024
- 08:0808:08, 3 May 2024 diff hist +8 He (the lotus-eyed Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead) resembled a bluish rain cloud with flashing lightning, and in two of His four hands He held a conchshell and disc No edit summary current
- 08:0508:05, 3 May 2024 diff hist −11 From the Sixth Canto we have already learned that when the Visnudutas came from Vaikuntha to deliver Ajamila, they looked exactly like Visnu, with four hands and the same features as Visnu No edit summary current
- 08:0408:04, 3 May 2024 diff hist −11 From Lord Brahma down to the ant, all living entities are jivas, whereas the Lord is the supreme four-handed Visnu, or Janardana No edit summary current
- 08:0108:01, 3 May 2024 diff hist +58 Even the most identical four-handed form of Krsna (which is known as Maha-Visnu, who is lying on the cosmic ocean & from whose breathing so many innumerable universes are passing out & entering) is also an expansion of the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 07:5707:57, 3 May 2024 diff hist +32 Brahma said, "First of all I saw You alone; thereafter You (Krsna) expanded Yourself as Your cowherd boyfriends, the calves and all the existence of Vrndavana; then I saw You and all the boys and calves as four-handed Visnus" No edit summary current
- 07:5507:55, 3 May 2024 diff hist +8 All the Visnu forms were of bluish color and dressed in yellow garments; all of Them had four hands decorated with club, disc, lotus flower and conchshell. On Their heads were glittering golden helmets inlaid with jewels No edit summary current
- 07:5007:50, 3 May 2024 diff hist +58 Krsna has actually shown His universal form and His fourhanded Visnu form. So how can He be an ordinary human being? BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 07:4707:47, 3 May 2024 diff hist +42 Lord Visnu's four hands hold four kinds of weapons, and the extra four hands hold an arrow, bow, trident and snake. Sri Viraraghava Acarya describes the eight weapons as sankha, cakra, gada, padma, sarnga, sara, etc No edit summary current
2 May 2024
- 08:2108:21, 2 May 2024 diff hist +58 Regarding your other question, Krishna in His four-handed Visnu Form is within our hearts, but He is not different from two-handed Krishna No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 2 May 2024 diff hist +32 Sometimes he (the yogi who thinks of the four-handed Visnu) cries, and sometimes he feels separation. In this way he merges in transcendental bliss. The result of all this is that he becomes entrapped like a fish No edit summary current
- 08:1208:12, 2 May 2024 diff hist +58 Their (the followers of the Patanjali yoga system) position is even more abominable than that of those who want to merge into the Lord’s effulgence. These yogis meditate on the four-handed Visnu form of the Lord in order to merge into His body No edit summary current
- 08:1008:10, 2 May 2024 diff hist +58 The goal of life is to know Krsna, who is situated within the heart of every living being as Paramatma, the four-handed Visnu form. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 08:0808:08, 2 May 2024 diff hist +69 The Laghu-bhagavatamrta says that Garbhodakasayi Visnu has a four-handed form, and when He Himself enters the hollow of the universe and lies down in the ocean of milk He is known as Ksirodakasayi Visnu, who is the Supersoul of all living entities No edit summary current
- 08:0708:07, 2 May 2024 diff hist +37 The real meditation is dhyayato visnu, the Visnu form, four-handed Visnu form, and always try to see Him. That is wanted No edit summary current
- 08:0408:04, 2 May 2024 diff hist +58 The thirteen meanings of the atmarama verse mentioned here are based on the following meanings for the word atmarama: (8) sagarbha-yogaruruksu, a yogi meditating upon the four-handed Visnu form and desiring yogic perfection No edit summary current
- 08:0308:03, 2 May 2024 diff hist −1 The universal form of Krsna, which is a temporary manifestation, and the form of time which devours everything, and even the form of Visnu, four-handed, have all been exhibited by Krsna. Krsna is the origin of all these manifestations. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 08:0108:01, 2 May 2024 diff hist +59 The universal form of Krsna, which is a temporary manifestation, and the form of time which devours everything, and even the form of Visnu, four-handed, have all been exhibited by Krsna. Krsna is the origin of all these manifestations. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 07:5907:59, 2 May 2024 diff hist +8 The young brahmana replied, "My dear sir, even if You appear there as a four-handed Visnu Deity, still, none of those people will believe in Your words" No edit summary current
- 07:5707:57, 2 May 2024 diff hist +32 We may doubt whether Lord Ramacandra could be in the same category (of visnu-tattva), since He was carried by Hanuman, not by Garuda, and had neither four hands nor the sankha, cakra, gada and padma No edit summary current
30 April 2024
- 16:1716:17, 30 April 2024 diff hist +62 When Lord Krsna took His birth, He appeared outside the womb as four-handed Visnu. Then Devaki and Vasudeva offered their prayers to Him and asked Him to assume His two-handed form No edit summary current
- 16:1516:15, 30 April 2024 diff hist +95 When the great devotee Dhruva Maharaja was engaged in meditation on the four-handed form of Visnu, all of a sudden his meditation broke, and he immediately saw before him the same form upon which he had been meditating No edit summary current
- 16:1216:12, 30 April 2024 diff hist +58 Whether one concentrates his mind on the four-handed form of Visnu or on the form of two-handed Krsna, it is the same No edit summary current
- 16:1116:11, 30 April 2024 diff hist +32 Within the prison of His maternal uncle Kamsa, where His father and mother were confined, Krsna appeared outside His mother's body as the four-handed Visnu-Narayana No edit summary current
- 15:5415:54, 30 April 2024 diff hist +6 Lord Krsna, being the original Visnu form, has only one emblem, namely the wheel, and therefore He is sometimes called the Cakri. The Lord's cakra is the symbol of the power by which the Lord controls the whole manifestation No edit summary current
- 15:5215:52, 30 April 2024 diff hist −13 It is situated as the objective manifestation of the Lord under the influence of the same material energy of Visnu No edit summary current
- 15:4715:47, 30 April 2024 diff hist +6 Garbhodakasayi Visnu reclines in the midst of the watery portion of the universe and generates the first living creature of the universe, Brahma. The imaginary universal form is a partial manifestation of Garbhodakasayi Visnu No edit summary current
- 15:4515:45, 30 April 2024 diff hist +6 Since everything in the cosmic creation is dependent on the asraya-tattva - the creative manifestation or Visnu manifestation - the various demigods and manifestations of energy, the living entities and all material elements are dependent on Krsna No edit summary current
29 April 2024
- 15:2515:25, 29 April 2024 diff hist +32 The manifestation of the Visnu forms of the boys, cows and calves was not like the heat, but rather like the fire - they were all actually Visnu. Factually, the qualification of Visnu is full truth, full knowledge & full bliss No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 29 April 2024 diff hist −13 The manifestations of Visnu and those of the ordinary living entities are certainly all parts and parcels of the Supreme Lord, and no one is equal to Him, but among the parts and parcels there are different categories No edit summary current
- 15:2115:21, 29 April 2024 diff hist +6 The Paramatma manifestation is also a temporary all-pervasive aspect of the Ksirodakasayi Visnu. The Paramatma manifestation is not eternal in the spiritual world. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 15:1615:16, 29 April 2024 diff hist +33 The spiritual abode of Visnu is eternal without a doubt, and it is also the abode of Maha-Visnu, the origin of all manifestations. People are more interested in politics and economic developments, instead of trying to understand the spiritual abode No edit summary current
- 15:1115:11, 29 April 2024 diff hist +6 There are diverse manifestations, but, at the same time, they are one in Visnu. Everything is an expansion of Visnu's energy No edit summary current
- 15:0415:04, 29 April 2024 diff hist +40 These twenty-four forms - the four original Visnu forms, the twelve Vaikuntha forms, and the eight vilasa-murtis mentioned above - are known as vilasa manifestations of the prabhava (four-handed) form No edit summary current
27 April 2024
- 17:4117:41, 27 April 2024 diff hist +6 As confirmed in the Visnu Purana, whatever manifestations we experience are nothing but various energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. These energies cannot create anything independently No edit summary current
- 17:3817:38, 27 April 2024 diff hist +11 By His personal expansion, He is manifested in various forms like Lord Rama, Nrsimhadeva, Visnumurti and all the predominating Deities in the Vaikuntha planets. The separated expansions, the living entities, are eternally servitors. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 17:3617:36, 27 April 2024 diff hist +11 Because all the universes are produced simultaneously by the exhalation of the Maha-Visnu, no one can begin to calculate how many Manus are manifest at one time No edit summary current
- 17:3417:34, 27 April 2024 diff hist +45 Although Sri Advaita Prabhu is an incarnation of Visnu, for the welfare of the conditioned souls He manifested Himself as a servitor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 17:3017:30, 27 April 2024 diff hist +67 After the incarnation of the first purusa (Karanarnavasayi Visnu), the mahat-tattva, or the principles of material creation, take place, and then time is manifested, and in course of time the three qualities appear No edit summary current
- 17:2817:28, 27 April 2024 diff hist −11 After this manifestation of Lord Visnu, Brahma saw that many other Brahmas and Sivas and demigods and even insignificant living entities down to the ants and very small straws - movable & immovable living entities - were dancing, surrounding Lord Visnu No edit summary current
- 17:2617:26, 27 April 2024 diff hist +11 From the sky situated within the transcendental body of the manifesting Maha-visnu, sense energy, mental force and bodily strength are all generated, as well as the sum total of the fountainhead of the total living force No edit summary current
- 17:2317:23, 27 April 2024 diff hist +65 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu, is known as Triyuga, which means that He is manifest in three yugas. However, this means that in the Age of Kali the Lord appears not directly but in disguise No edit summary current
- 17:2117:21, 27 April 2024 diff hist +33 The conclusion is that the purusa-avatara is manifested in three features - third the Ksirodakasayi Visnu who is the Paramatma of every material object, organic or inorganic No edit summary current
26 April 2024
- 17:2817:28, 26 April 2024 diff hist −26 The city of Barhismati, rich in all kinds of wealth, was so called because Lord Visnu's hair dropped there from His body when He manifested Himself as Lord Boar (Varahadeva) No edit summary current
- 17:2717:27, 26 April 2024 diff hist +59 The city of Barhismati, rich in all kinds of wealth, was so called because Lord Visnu's hair dropped there from His body when He manifested Himself as Lord Boar (Varahadeva) No edit summary
- 17:2517:25, 26 April 2024 diff hist +33 One who is foolish about the transcendental science of the Lord will find it difficult to understand how Lord Visnu can equally manifest Himself in every society of living entities No edit summary current
- 17:2217:22, 26 April 2024 diff hist +59 It is in the form of Maha-Visnu that the Lord manifests the material universes. Just as a husband and wife combine to beget offspring, Maha-Visnu combines with His wife maya, or material nature No edit summary current
- 17:1517:15, 26 April 2024 diff hist +80 Although Brahma reaches the Supreme Personality of Godhead as the first purusa incarnation, Maha-Visnu, who is full with transcendental qualities, he cannot stay in the spiritual world No edit summary current
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- 17:0717:07, 26 April 2024 diff hist +45 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, is beyond the three qualities goodness, passion and ignorance. No material qualities exist in Him. May that original person, Narayana, who is situated in a completely transcendental position, be pleased with us No edit summary current
- 17:0317:03, 26 April 2024 diff hist +45 The Brahma-samhita also explains the demigod Ganesa, Garbhodakasayi Visnu, the origin of the Gayatri mantra, the form of Govinda and His transcendental position and abode, the living entities, the highest goal, the goddess Durga, the meaning of austerity No edit summary current
25 April 2024
- 18:1918:19, 25 April 2024 diff hist −37 Srila Rupa Gosvami, commenting upon the Lord’s transcendental position beyond the material qualities, says that Visnu, as the controller and superintendent of material nature, has a connection with the material qualities. That connection is called yoga No edit summary current
- 18:1818:18, 25 April 2024 diff hist +68 Srila Rupa Gosvami, commenting upon the Lord’s transcendental position beyond the material qualities, says that Visnu, as the controller and superintendent of material nature, has a connection with the material qualities. That connection is called yoga No edit summary
- 18:1618:16, 25 April 2024 diff hist +41 Srila Rupa Gosvami, commenting upon the Lord’s transcendental position beyond the material qualities, says that Visnu, as the controller and superintendent of material nature, has a connection with the material qualities. That connection is called yoga No edit summary
- 18:1418:14, 25 April 2024 diff hist +45 Only Narayana, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, or Krsna, is always in the transcendental position, beyond the influence of material creation No edit summary current
- 18:1018:10, 25 April 2024 diff hist +45 Lord Siva is not an ordinary living being. He is the plenary portion of the Lord, but because Lord Siva is in direct touch with material nature, he is not exactly in the same transcendental position as Lord Visnu No edit summary current
- 18:0918:09, 25 April 2024 diff hist +33 Lord Siva is in charge of the material quality of ignorance, and to keep himself in a transcendental position he always meditates on Lord Visnu, or Krsna, and always tries to purify himself with the water of the Ganges No edit summary current
- 18:0618:06, 25 April 2024 diff hist +47 For those great sages situated in the position of transcendental neutrality, the beginning should be to take shelter of Lord Visnu, the four-handed eternal form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
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- 17:4917:49, 25 April 2024 diff hist +139 In this material world, the holy name of Visnu is all-auspicious. Visnu’s name, form, qualities and pastimes are all transcendental, absolute knowledge No edit summary current
- 17:4817:48, 25 April 2024 diff hist +56 In this material world, the holy name of Visnu is all-auspicious. Visnu’s name, form, qualities and pastimes are all transcendental, absolute knowledge No edit summary
- 17:4217:42, 25 April 2024 diff hist +10 In this material world, the holy name of Visnu is all-auspicious. Visnu's name, form, qualities and pastimes are all transcendental, absolute knowledge No edit summary current
- 17:4117:41, 25 April 2024 diff hist +67 In Bhagavad-gita it is clearly said that yajna should be performed for Lord Visnu. Lord Visnu has one thousand popular, transcendental names, out of which one name is Yajna No edit summary current
- 16:4816:48, 25 April 2024 diff hist +1 When one remembers Lord Visnu, he becomes free from material enjoyment. Thus he gradually comes forward toward the transcendental service of the Lord and becomes eligible to chant the holy name of the Lord in the transcendental position No edit summary current
- 16:4616:46, 25 April 2024 diff hist +87 Hearing and chanting about the transcendental holy name, form, qualities, paraphernalia and pastimes of Lord Visnu and remembering them, these processes are accepted as pure devotional service - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current
- 16:4216:42, 25 April 2024 diff hist +46 Pariksit said, "I only request that at the last moment of my life all of you will kindly chant the holy name of Visnu, so that I may realize His transcendental qualities" No edit summary current
- 16:2016:20, 25 April 2024 diff hist +56 When one remembers Lord Visnu, he becomes free from material enjoyment. Thus he gradually comes forward toward the transcendental service of the Lord and becomes eligible to chant the holy name of the Lord in the transcendental position No edit summary
- 16:1116:11, 25 April 2024 diff hist +41 My dear Uddhava, you may know that My transcendental form of Visnu in Svetadvipa is identical with Me in divinity No edit summary current
24 April 2024
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- 19:1519:15, 24 April 2024 diff hist +15 Prahlada Maharaja said: Hearing and chanting about the transcendental holy name, form, qualities, paraphernalia & pastimes of Lord Visnu, remembering them, serving the lotus feet of the Lord - these nine processes are accepted as pure devotional service No edit summary current
- 19:1419:14, 24 April 2024 diff hist +54 Prahlada Maharaja said: Hearing and chanting about the transcendental holy name, form, qualities, paraphernalia & pastimes of Lord Visnu, remembering them, serving the lotus feet of the Lord - these nine processes are accepted as pure devotional service No edit summary
- 19:1119:11, 24 April 2024 diff hist +41 There is no question of meditating on something void or impersonal. One can meditate on the transcendental form of Lord Visnu even without practicing involved sitting postures. Such meditation is called perfect samadhi No edit summary current
- 19:0919:09, 24 April 2024 diff hist +41 There is no question of meditating on something void or impersonal. When one can meditate on the transcendental form of Lord Visnu even without practicing involved sitting postures, such meditation is called perfect samadhi - CC Preface No edit summary current
- 19:0819:08, 24 April 2024 diff hist −14 They (the Visnu forms of worship) are different spiritual centers of meditation on the transcendental limbs of the body of Visnu. The worshipable Deity in the temple of Visnu is identical with Lord Visnu by the inconceivable potency of the Lord No edit summary current
- 19:0319:03, 24 April 2024 diff hist +120 The Lord can assume any form He likes, and in all circumstances He is the cause of all causes. Since His form is transcendental, He is always the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as He is in the Causal Ocean in the form of Maha-visnu No edit summary current
- 19:0019:00, 24 April 2024 diff hist +26 The materialists and the foolish human beings worship Brahma and Siva respectively. But the pure transcendentalists worship the form of goodness, Visnu, in His various forms No edit summary current
- 18:5718:57, 24 April 2024 diff hist +48 Thinking of Visnu or meditating upon the transcendental form of Visnu, specifically upon Lord Krsna, is the last word on the subject of meditation. This meditation may be begun from the lotus feet of the Lord No edit summary current
- 18:5418:54, 24 April 2024 diff hist +30 This ninefold process (sravanam, kirtanam, etc.) is described in this verse (SB 4.21.34) as visuddha-vijnana-ghanah, or satisfying the Supreme Personality of Godhead directly by transcendental knowledge concentrated on the form of the Supreme Lord, Visnu No edit summary current
- 18:5418:54, 24 April 2024 diff hist +7 This ninefold process (sravanam, kirtanam, etc.) is described in this verse (SB 4.21.34) as visuddha-vijnana-ghanah, or satisfying the Supreme Personality of Godhead directly by transcendental knowledge concentrated on the form of the Supreme Lord, Visnu No edit summary