User contributions for VrajendraKumar

29 July 2022

• 10:5210:52, 29 July 2022 diff hist +19,629‎ Krsna says: aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami: (BG 18.66) "I shall give you protection." That change takes place for my protection ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5210:52, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,937‎ Just like a big lawyer takes the protection of the lawbook and he makes the law unlawful. Similarly, the demons are so intelligent that they take advantage of scriptural injunction and do all nonsense ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 29 July 2022 diff hist +31‎ In sambhrama-dasya, the devotee renders respectful service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but in the more advanced gaurava-dasya, his service takes the form of giving protection to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 29 July 2022 diff hist +13‎ A Vaisnava is transcendental. He hasn't got to train under this discipline. Because he takes shelter of Krsna directly, he's given immediately all protection ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,982‎ Krsna concluded, "I shall act in such a way as to relieve him of this false prestige. I shall give protection to My pure devotees in Vrndavana, who are at present completely dependent on My mercy and whom I have taken completely under My protection" ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 29 July 2022 diff hist −11‎ Whenever we have to take protection, we should know that our protection must be a living force. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,316‎ To take protection from this shield (the shield of the Visnu mantra or Narayana-kavaca shield), one must first touch kusa grass and wash one's mouth with acamana-mantras ‎No edit summary
• 10:5110:51, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,191‎ The time element is Your representation. My Lord, O Supreme, no one can conquer You. As for me, however, I am being crushed by the wheel of time, and therefore I surrender fully unto You. Now kindly take me under the protection of Your lotus feet ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,066‎ That is a good proposal, that parents should not accompany their children. Actually that is the gurukula system. The children should take complete protection of the Spiritual Master ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,264‎ Our point should be that we shall take all necessary steps for self-protection, depending the result on Krishna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5010:50, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,746‎ One cannot challenge the authority of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in any circumstance. It is better to surrender unto Him and take His protection at all times ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5010:50, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,003‎ Modern elected presidents cannot even give protection from theft cases, and one has to take protection from an insurance company ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5010:50, 29 July 2022 diff hist +6,167‎ Kunti continued, "You (Krsna) make no such distinction. No one is Your favorite and no one is Your enemy. As the Supreme Personality of Godhead, You are equal to everyone, and everyone can take advantage of Your special protection" ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5010:50, 29 July 2022 diff hist +6,941‎ If we want actual protection, we should take protection of the Supreme, Krsna, or His devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,166‎ You are well versed in all the scriptures famous for religious life, and in the Puranas and the histories as well, for you have gone through them under proper guidance and have also explained them ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,335‎ Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says, saksad dharitvena samasta-sastraih: in all the scriptures the spiritual master, who is the best of the brahmanas, the best of the Vaisnavas, is considered to be as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,295‎ This (in all the scriptures the spiritual master is considered to be as good as God) does not mean, however, that the Vaisnava thinks himself God, for this is blasphemous ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 29 July 2022 diff hist +38,984‎ In the Upanisads and allied scriptures, it is ordained that one must approach with awe and reverence the feet of a spiritual master who is well versed in all the scriptures and who has attained perfection in transcendental knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,265‎ For his doing so (Arjuna changing his decision to serve Krsna) so, he became a famous devotee of the Lord, for it is declared in all the scriptures that Arjuna attained spiritual perfection by devotional service to the Lord in friendship ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 29 July 2022 diff hist +1,459‎ For a maintainer to punish the person he maintains is not good. You are expert in all the scriptures. Indeed, you are like a living saint ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,011‎ She offered her obeisances unto the Lord, the author of the basic principles of the Sankhya system of philosophy, which is the background of liberation, and she satisfied Him with the following verses of prayer ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,239‎ Regulated human life according to the Vedic principles, which are based on the system of knowledge called Sankhya philosophy, is the real way of enjoyment of the necessities of life ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3309:33, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,869‎ O great sage, I shall manifest My own plenary portion through your wife, Devahuti, along with your nine daughters, and I shall instruct her in the system of philosophy that deals with the ultimate principles or categories ‎No edit summary
• 09:3209:32, 29 July 2022 diff hist +34‎ One has to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead analytically, as explained in the Sankhya system of philosophy by Lord Kapiladeva ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 29 July 2022 diff hist +34‎ No one can ascertain the Absolute Truth by following the philosophy of Sankhya or the yoga system of Patanjali, for neither the followers of Sankhya nor the yogis who follow Patanjali accept Lord Visnu as the Supreme Personality of Godhead - SB 7.5.31 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 29 July 2022 diff hist +13,264‎ Lord Caitanya's teachings are identical to those given by Lord Kapila, the original propounder of sankhya-yoga, the sankhya system of philosophy. This authorized system of yoga teaches meditation on the transcendental form of the Lord - CC Preface ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 29 July 2022 diff hist +12,869‎ Lord Caitanya's teachings are identical to those given by Lord Kapila, the original propounder of sankhya-yoga, the sankhya system of philosophy. This authorized system of yoga recommends meditation on the transcendental form of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3109:31, 29 July 2022 diff hist +14‎ Lord Caitanya's philosophy is that of "inconceivably one and different." This system of philosophy constitutes perfect knowledge of the Absolute Truth. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3109:31, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,852‎ Kapila the son of Kardama Muni, in His system of Sankhya philosophy, very explicitly explained not only the material world but also the spiritual world ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3109:31, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,533‎ Kapila said that the system of Sankhya philosophy was not exactly being introduced by Him; it was already current, but in course of time it was mysteriously lost & therefore He appeared to reintroduce it. That is the purpose of the incarnation of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3109:31, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,689‎ I am very glad to hear that you are training the devotees nicely in our philosophy and I also fully approve of your system for management ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3109:31, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,438‎ It is not true that Sankhya philosophy is a new system of philosophy introduced by Kapila as material philosophers introduce new kinds of mental speculative thought to supersede that of another philosopher ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3109:31, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,378‎ It is called Kapilasrama because of Lord Kapila's living there to perform His austerities and penances. Lord Kapila propounded the Sankhya system of philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3009:30, 29 July 2022 diff hist +1,799‎ He described the Sankhya system of philosophy, which is a combination of devotional service and mystic realization, as received by disciplic succession ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3009:30, 29 July 2022 diff hist +1,732‎ Even now Kapila Muni is staying there in trance for the deliverance of the conditioned souls in the three worlds, and all the acaryas, or great teachers, of the system of Sankhya philosophy are worshiping Him ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3009:30, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,062‎ Devahuti said, "You (God) are the background of the material manifestation and all created energy; therefore Your delivering me from the clutches of maya by explaining the system of Sankhya philosophy is not so astonishing ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3009:30, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,394‎ Devahuti inquired: My dear Lord, You have already very scientifically described the symptoms of the total material nature and the characteristics of the spirit according to the Sankhya system of philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3009:30, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,625‎ By this system of philosophy (the Sankhya philosophy enunciated by Lord Kapila), one can immediately become free, even though one is situated in this material world. That stage is called jivan-mukti ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,121‎ Brahma assures Devahuti that her son will enlighten her, and after enlightening her He will travel all over the world, distributing the system of Sankhya philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 29 July 2022 diff hist +9,260‎ Unfortunately, this Sankhya system has been misrepresented by an imposter who is also named Kapila, but that other system of philosophy does not tally with anything described in the Sankhya of Kapila in the Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,752‎ This Sankhya system has been misrepresented by an imposter who is also named Kapila, but that other system of philosophy does not tally with anything described in the Sankhya of Kapila in the Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 29 July 2022 diff hist +14‎ The system of philosophy enunciated by Lord Kapila before His mother is the background for situation on the spiritual platform. The specific significance of this system of philosophy is stated as siddhi-bhumim - it is the background of salvation ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,238‎ The sum total of the creative elements is twenty-four in all. Each and every one of them is explicitly explained in the system of Sankhya philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 29 July 2022 diff hist +14‎ The Sankhya system of philosophy identifies three kinds of procedures - namely, parinamat (transformation), samanvayat (adjustment) and saktitah (performance of energies) - as the causes of the cosmic manifestation ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,589‎ The Personality of Godhead enjoyed life in the city of Dvaraka, strictly in conformity with the Vedic customs of society. He was situated in detachment and knowledge, as enunciated by the Sankhya system of philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 29 July 2022 diff hist −10‎ The Personality of Godhead, who is worshiped by all the Vedas and Upanisads, as well as by the sankhya system of philosophy and all authorized scriptures, was considered to be born in her (Yasoda's) womb ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 29 July 2022 diff hist +34‎ The ambition of such people (followers of the philosophy of Sankhya or the yoga system of Patanjali) is never fulfilled; therefore they are attracted by the external energy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,645‎ These are some of the aspects of the analytical study of intelligence as described in both the Patanjali yoga system and the Sankhya philosophy system of Kapiladeva in Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +8,373‎ Therefore, there cannot be any religion or system of genuine philosophy for the advancement of the living entities without the principle of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +8,286‎ Technically Lord Buddha's philosophy is called atheistic because there is no acceptance of the Supreme Lord and because that system of philosophy denied the authority of the Vedas. But that is an act of camouflage by the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 29 July 2022 diff hist +1,555‎ According to Vedic astronomical calculations, the rotation of the sun consists of sixty dandas, and it is divided into thirty-six hundred palas ‎No edit summary
• 08:3008:30, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,840‎ According to Vedic astronomical calculations, there are thirteen months. The thirteenth month is called adhi-masa or mala-masa and is added every third year ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,661‎ According to Vedic astronomical calculations, day and night are each divided into thirty ghatikas (twenty-four minutes), instead of twelve hours ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 29 July 2022 diff hist −9‎ According to solar astronomical calculations, each year extends six days beyond the calendar year, and according to lunar calculations, each year is six days shorter. Therefore, there is a difference of twelve days between the solar and lunar years ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,589‎ According to astronomical calculations, the time in which he (Nanda Maharaj) took a bath was considered demoniac ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,278‎ Even if modern scientists do not accept the other factual presentations of Srimad-Bhagavatam, how can they deny the perfect astronomical calculations that existed long before they could imagine such things ‎No edit summary
• 08:2608:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,800‎ We have to accept the calculations of the Vedic literature. These Vedic calculations are steady; the astronomical calculations made long ago and recorded in the Vedic literature are correct even now ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,769‎ The time factor is divided into many fractions of moments, hours, months, years, periods, seasons, etc. All the divisions in this verse (SB 3.21.18) are determined according to the astronomical calculations of Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,620‎ The technical terms used in the astronomical calculations given by the Jyotir Veda are difficult to translate into English ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,352‎ The present reign is that of Vaivasvata Manu. According to astronomical calculations, we are now in the twenty-eighth yuga of Vaivasvata Manu. Each Manu lives for seventy-one yugas, and fourteen such Manus rule in one day of Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +1,281‎ According to astronomical calculations, a lava is one eleventh of a second ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2408:24, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,033‎ There is always a difference of opinion between a smarta-brahmana and a Vaisnava gosvami. There are even smarta opinions and Vaisnava gosvami opinions available in astrological and astronomical calculations ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5307:53, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,959‎ Astronomical calculations of stellar influences upon a living being are not suppositions, but are factual, as confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current

28 July 2022

• 08:5708:57, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,192‎ Yamunacarya says, Since I have become attracted by the beauty of Radha and Krsna, when there is attraction for a woman or a memory of sex life with a woman, I at once spit on it, and my face turns in disgust ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,435‎ When we are attracted by Madana-mohana and the beauty of Krsna and His consorts, then the shackles of conditioned life, namely the beauty of a material woman, cannot attract us ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,400‎ When one is attracted by the transcendental beauty of Radha and Krsna, he is no longer attracted by material feminine beauty. That is the special significance of Radha-Krsna worship ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,679‎ The unmarried girls of Vrndavana were already attracted by the beauty of Krsna. They were, however, engaged in the worship of goddess Durga in the beginning of the Hemanta season (just prior to the winter season) ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 28 July 2022 diff hist +25,502‎ The mind of Sukadeva Gosvami was attracted by the transcendental pastimes of Lord Krsna, and the minds of the damsels of Vrndavana were attracted by His personal beauty ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,735‎ The minds of the Narayanas are attracted by the beauty of Krsna's body. In addition, the goddesses of fortune, who are the wives of the Narayanas & are the women described in the Vedas as most chaste, are also attracted by the wonderful Krsna's beauty ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 28 July 2022 diff hist +46,165‎ The Bhuma-purusa was also attracted by the beauty of Krsna, and He concocted this pastime just as a pretext to see Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,698‎ The damsels of Vraja, the gopis, being attracted by the beauty of Krsna, simply wanted to embrace Him and His arms, which are like serpents. Thus the gopis ultimately tasted the nectar of the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary
• 08:5408:54, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,851‎ The beauty of Krsna is fully manifested in Vrndavana. As sixteen-years boy and playing flute, the beauty was so attractive that even Vasudeva Himself became attracted by the beauty ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5408:54, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,081‎ They (Gopis) were perplexed because on one hand they were attracted by the beauty of Krsna, and on the other they needed Krsna to drive away the demon of such attraction ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5408:54, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,529‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami remarks in this connection that one who is actually attracted by the beauty of the lotus feet of Sri Krsna or His service, and whose heart, by such attraction, is always full with transcendental bliss ‎No edit summary
• 08:5408:54, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,338‎ One who is actually attracted by the beauty of the lotus feet of Sri Krsna or His service, and whose heart will naturally never aspire after the liberation which is so valuable to the impersonalists ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5308:53, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,194‎ Instead of being attracted by material beauty, if one is accustomed to be attracted by the beauty of Radharani and Krsna, then the statement of Bhagavad-gita, param drstva nivartate (BG 2.59), holds true ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5208:52, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,723‎ Emperor Bharata was so attracted by the beauty of the lotus feet of Krsna that even in his youthful life he gave up all kinds of attachments to family, children, friends, kingdom, etc., as though they were untouchable stools ‎No edit summary
• 08:5208:52, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,961‎ Another gopi said, "We are also attracted by Your (Krsna's) speaking and by the beauty of Your face and eyes. Please, therefore, satisfy us by Your nectarean kisses" ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5108:51, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,210‎ All the gopis were by nature very much attracted to Krsna's beauty, and when they heard the vibration of His flute, they became apparently lustful to satisfy the senses of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,603‎ To save a surrendered soul from repeated birth and death, the Lord purifies him of contamination by offering him a little distress. This cannot be understood by a nondevotee, but a devotee can see this because he is vipascit, or learned ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,833‎ One of His disciples who accepted sannyasa was one day forcibly dragged by his wife. My Guru Maharaja lamented with tears in His eyes saying that He could not save the soul ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,795‎ The devotees, concerned only with rescuing the fallen souls from this material world, apparently take birth in different places in the material world just to save the conditioned souls ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,696‎ Because a Vaisnava fully takes shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he personally has no problems, but because he is compassionate toward the fallen, conditioned souls, he is always thinking of plans to save them from their hellish life ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 28 July 2022 diff hist +7,805‎ Sometimes the conditioned soul tries to save himself from inexorable time and thus takes shelter of some bogus savior ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,503‎ Try to save the soul who is put into this body and embarrassed. That is real service. This is Krsna consciousness movement ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2107:21, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,169‎ This creation of friends and enemies is a result of one's bodily conception of life ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2107:21, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,520‎ The talks of Bhagavad-gita are not for any particular person, society, or community, but they are for all, and friends or enemies are equally entitled to hear them. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2007:20, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,657‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is equal to everyone. He has no enemies and no friends. Everyone is enjoying the fruitive reactions of his own work, and the Lord, within everyone's heart, is observing and giving everyone the desired result ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,163‎ The conditioned soul has friends and enemies. He is affected by the good qualities and the faults of his position. The Supreme Lord, however, is always transcendental. Because He is the isvara, the supreme controller, He is not affected by duality ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,468‎ Stated in the Bhagavad-gita, the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, is equal to everyone. He has no friends and no enemies. But He is inclined to a devotee who renders Him service with devotional love ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,769‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was the Supreme Personality of Godhead playing the part of a very great, advanced devotee. On the maha-bhagavata platform, the devotee makes no distinction between friends and enemies ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,256‎ Sometimes conditioned souls exchange money, but in due course of time, enmity arises because of cheating. Although there may be a tiny profit, the conditioned souls cease to be friends and become enemies ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,055‎ Prahlada Maharaja continued: My dear father, please give up your demoniac mentality. Do not discriminate in your heart between enemies and friends; make your mind equipoised toward everyone ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,266‎ Politics involves accepting one group of men as enemies and another group as friends. Everything in politics is based on this philosophy, and the entire world, especially at the present, is engrossed in it ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,731‎ Our creation of friends and enemies within this material world is something like dreaming at night ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,684‎ One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equiposed in honor & dishonor, heat & cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from contamination, always silent and satisfied with anything, is very dear to Me. BG 12.18-19 - 1972 ‎No edit summary
• 07:1807:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,732‎ One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from contaminating association ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,145‎ One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from attachment to material things such a person is very dear to Me ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,406‎ Krsna said, "My dear friends, you know that Lord Balarama and I left Vrndavana just to please Our relatives and family members. Thus We were long engaged in fighting with Our enemies and were obliged to forget you, who were so much attached to Me" ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,128‎ In this material world, which advances like a river that carries away the living entity, all people become friends, relatives and enemies in due course of time ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,477‎ In this material world, neither the living entity himself nor others (friends and enemies) are the cause of material happiness and distress. But because of gross ignorance, the living entity thinks that he and others are the cause ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 28 July 2022 diff hist +33‎ In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that the Lord, being equally disposed toward every living being, has no enemies and no friends but that He has special affection for a devotee who always thinks of Him in love ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1507:15, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,028‎ He is one without a second; in other words, he is not affected by friends and enemies, well-wishers or mischief-mongers. He is only an observer, a witness, of the different qualities of men ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1507:15, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,040‎ From the spiritual point of view we are all spiritual sparks, parts and parcels of the Supreme Spirit, God. Either materially or spiritually we are basically one, but we make friends and enemies as dictated by the illusory energy ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,374‎ Do not discriminate in your heart between enemies and friends ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,691‎ Dear Lord, You have no enemies or friends. Therefore You are equal to everyone. You cannot be contaminated by sinful activities, and Your transcendental form is always beyond the material creation ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 28 July 2022 diff hist +7,426‎ Both the demons and the gopis were spiritually liberated, but because the demons were enemies and the gopis were friends, the demons were killed and the gopis protected ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1307:13, 28 July 2022 diff hist −6‎ A person is said to be still further advanced when he regards all - the honest well-wisher, friends and enemies, the envious, the pious, the sinner and those who are indifferent and impartial-with an equal mind. BG 6.9 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1307:13, 28 July 2022 diff hist −6‎ A learned person does not make distinctions between enemies and friends. Devotees, especially, do not create friends and enemies. A devotee sees that every living being is part and parcel of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1307:13, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,357‎ As one performs this service (spreading Krsna consciousness) for humanity, without discrimination between friends and enemies, the Lord becomes satisfied, and the mission of one's life is fulfilled ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1207:12, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,275‎ Although Prahlada Maharaja was obliged to hear the instructions of Sanda and Amarka, he did not like the philosophy of friends and enemies, which forms the basis of politics. He was not interested in this philosophy ‎No edit summary
• 07:1207:12, 28 July 2022 diff hist −6‎ Although apparently we are awake in material life, because we have no information of the soul and the Supersoul, we create many friends and enemies simply out of imagination ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1207:12, 28 July 2022 diff hist +7,716‎ This mistaken idea has now been corrected and unlike ordinary human beings, I (Prahlada Maharaja) no longer think that I am God and that others are my friends and enemies ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5306:53, 28 July 2022 diff hist +81,325‎ The real remedy for this disease (atheism) lies in partaking of the remnants of offerings made to Godhead; this is the ideal diet for the spiritual patient. And the medicines include hearing and chanting and remembering the glories of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5306:53, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,812‎ Pariksit Maharaja felt obliged to think of Krsna in the last days of his life. This is the ideal result of Krsna consciousness: ante narayana-smrtih - SB 2.1.6 ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5306:53, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,007‎ His (Krsna conscious person's) ideal in this respect is Srila Rupa Gosvami, who was always engaged in the service of Krsna and who could not sleep more than two hours a day, and sometimes not even that ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 28 July 2022 diff hist +31‎ A Krsna conscious person cannot bear to pass a minute of his life without being engaged in the service of the Lord. Therefore, his sleeping is kept to a minimum. His ideal in this respect is Srila Rupa Gosvami. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 28 July 2022 diff hist +10,193‎ At least a section of man must be first-class so that others can see that what is the ideal character of man. So this Gurukula means from the childhood age we are training them so that in future it will be easier. That is the purpose of Gurukula ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,950‎ This reciprocation of service and love between husband and wife is the ideal of a householder's life ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3606:36, 28 July 2022 diff hist +8,586‎ Since one cannot sufficiently see Krsna with only two eyes, one feels incapable and thus becomes bereaved. Such bereavement is slightly reduced when one criticizes the creative power of the creator ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3506:35, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,837‎ We should not expect milk from the fleshy bags on the neck of a goat, although they look like breastly nipples. Similarly, we should not expect any creative power from the material ingredients; we must believe in the power of the purusa ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3506:35, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,007‎ We are creating this flying machine, sputniks. That is also flying in the sky, and the Paramatma has created the millions of planets floating in the sky. So you have got the creative power, but you cannot create like that, Paramatma ‎No edit summary
• 06:3506:35, 28 July 2022 diff hist +1,713‎ The Lord infuses the material ingredients with His own creative potency. Then, by the power of the Lord, creation takes place ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3406:34, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,369‎ My dear sons, the Lord is the controller of the three modes of nature and is responsible for the creation, preservation and dissolution of the universe. His wonderful creative power, yogamaya, cannot be easily understood even by the masters of yoga ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3306:33, 28 July 2022 diff hist +14,164‎ What else is there for two eyes to see beyond the face of Krsna? Since one cannot adequately see Krsna with only two eyes, one feels incapable & becomes bereaved. Such bereavement is slightly reduced when one criticizes the creative power of the creator ‎No edit summary current

27 July 2022

• 09:2209:22, 27 July 2022 diff hist +7,253‎ Srimati Radharani continued, "Surpanakha proposed an intimate relationship with Him, and as a ksatriya He (Ramacandra) should have satisfied her. But He was so henpecked that He could not forget Sita-devi and converted Surpanakha into an ugly woman" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2209:22, 27 July 2022 diff hist +7,443‎ Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami says that one should always think of the spiritual master in terms of his intimate relationship with Mukunda - Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2209:22, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,395‎ People who have no knowledge of this material world, God and their actual intimate relationship with Him are actually going to the darkest region of material existence in the name of progress in the material advancement of civilization ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2109:21, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,701‎ I offer you praise not because I think of you as being outside an intimate relationship with Me but because you are actually so qualified that one is forced to praise your qualities ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2009:20, 27 July 2022 diff hist +44‎ Intimate relationships with Krsna develop when friendly relationship further develops, it becomes paternal, and when this develops to the highest point of love and affection, it is known as conjugal love with the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2009:20, 27 July 2022 diff hist +22‎ If we revive our original intimate relationship with Krsna, our distressed condition in the material world will be mitigated ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2009:20, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,474‎ For this transcendental happiness, the living entity has wandered throughout the universe in different forms of life and different planetary systems, but because he has forgotten his intimate relationship with Visnu he has merely suffered life after life ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2009:20, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,735‎ Everyone is trying to adjust to the distressed conditions of material existence, but the basic problems cannot be solved unless one is in an intimate relationship with Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2009:20, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,761‎ Even though we now seem neglected by the Lord, He is actually always alert to our activities. Under all circumstances, therefore, we should simply depend on the supremacy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead & revive our intimate relationship with Him ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1909:19, 27 July 2022 diff hist +44‎ Being attracted by external opulence, the nondevotee always forgets his intimate relationship with Krsna. Such a person does not like the idea of becoming Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1909:19, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,577‎ Because he (a wise man) realizes that he is spirit and that Krsna is the supreme spirit, he knows that his intimate relationship should be with Krsna, not with this body ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1909:19, 27 July 2022 diff hist +44‎ A devotee's position is always transcendental because of his intimate relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,085‎ Among the Bhojas, Vrsnis, Andhakas, Pandavas and many other kings intimately related with Krsna, the intimate relationship between Krsna and the inhabitants of Vrndavana is especially to be noted ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 27 July 2022 diff hist +44‎ Actually I love my self better than the body. But that self has an intimate relationship with Krsna because the self is part and parcel of Krsna. Therefore I love Krsna more than anything. And because Krsna is all-pervading, I love everything ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,299‎ According to the service the living entity renders, he automatically receives benedictions from Krsna, who does not make distinctions, thinking, "Here is a person in an intimate relationship with Me, and here is a person I dislike" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 27 July 2022 diff hist −45‎ There are different stages of a pure devotee's promotion to conjugal love in the service of Radha and Krsna in an intimate relationship with Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,666‎ When one attains the transcendental bliss of an intimate relationship with Krsna, he renders service to Him and tastes the mellows of Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1509:15, 27 July 2022 diff hist +17,866‎ The names King Kulasekhara uses to glorify the Lord in this (MM 2) verse indicate his intimate transcendental relationship with the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,433‎ The educational system in the human form of life should be so perfect that one will understand his intimate relationship with God, or Visnu. Every living entity has an intimate relationship with God ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3607:36, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,563‎ While His father Vasudeva was crossing the Yamuna with the baby Lord Krsna for a safe place at Gokula on the other bank of the river from Mathura, the Lord fell down in the river, and by the dust of His lotus feet the river at once became sanctified ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3607:36, 27 July 2022 diff hist +7,257‎ Those who are situated on the platform of santa-rasa get their impetus for advancement in devotional service by smelling the tulasi offered at the lotus feet of the Lord, by hearing the sound of His conchshell, seeing a sanctified place in some mountain ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3607:36, 27 July 2022 diff hist +18,163‎ The sastras state that a family in which a pure devotee is born is sanctified for one hundred generations of ancestors & descendants. And the sastras also state that every place within a radius of 100 miles from where a devotee is born becomes sanctified ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3607:36, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,005‎ The places are sanctified due to the presence of pure devotees; any place automatically becomes a place of pilgrimage if either the Lord or His pure devotee remains or resides there ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3607:36, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,623‎ The method is that one should have a duly sanctified sitting place made of straw, deerskin and carpet, and thus sitting on it one should chant the holy name of the Lord without offense, as prescribed above ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3507:35, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,272‎ They (Indians) would not organize a fair or ceremony not connected with the Lord. Nor would they visit a place that was not holy and sanctified by the pastimes of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3507:35, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,716‎ Srutadeva thought, "How has it become possible that Lord Krsna, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and His associates, the great sages, whose very presence makes a place as sanctified as a pilgrimage site, have agreed to come to my place" ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3507:35, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,622‎ Sri Naradadeva was just foretelling the way of his spiritual progress in a place which was sanctified by the flow of the celestial Ganges ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,452‎ Salagrama-sila refers to pebbles that appear like stones with circle; marked up and down. These are available in the river known as Gandaki-nadi. Wherever the waters of this river flow, the place becomes immediately sanctified ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,695‎ Maharaja Dhrtarastra was to attain success in those preliminary actions because he was seated in a sanctified place and was concentrating upon one objective, namely the Supreme Personality of Godhead (Hari) ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 27 July 2022 diff hist +31,073‎ I thought, "Let me go back to Vrndavana, because Vrndavana is a sanctified place where Krsna consciousness is very strong." I thought that I might go there and die in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary
• 07:2507:25, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,874‎ He (Maharaja Pariksit) felt himself sanctified by the presence of the great saint whose presence turns any place into a place of pilgrimage ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2507:25, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,928‎ Here (in SB 3.21.30) the words tirthi-krtasesa-kriyarthah are significant. Tirtha means a sanctified place where charity is given ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2507:25, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,450‎ Every place within a radius of one hundred miles from where a devotee is born becomes sanctified ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2507:25, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,979‎ Another significant point is that Lord Govinda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is described here (in SB 4.6.25) as Tirthapada. Tirtha means "sanctified place," and pada means "the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary
• 07:2507:25, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,266‎ After controlling one's mind and sitting postures, one should spread a seat in a secluded and sanctified place, sit there in an easy posture, keeping the body erect, and practice breath control ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3706:37, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,065‎ Without understanding Bhagavad-gita, even a so-called learned scholar also talking of Krsna as immoral. He has encouraged killing. Just see. Such envious persons. And he is teaching Bhagavad-gita. This is going on ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3606:36, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,155‎ Unless one is very, very fortunate, he does not take to devotional service. Even the so-called learned Vedic scholars are bewildered by devotional service. They are generally attracted to the rituals for sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3506:35, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,824‎ The so-called learned scholars and philanthropists are actually karmis and jnanis, and some are actually misers engaged in sinful activity. All are condemned because they are not devotees of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3506:35, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,931‎ The education cultivated by so-called learned scholars who do not believe these statements of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta is like the tumultuous croaking of frogs ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3506:35, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,001‎ Supreme transcendental knowledge is not possible to achieve by the process of imperfect speculation as performed by the so-called learned mundane wranglers ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3406:34, 27 July 2022 diff hist +38,886‎ Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, rebuked Marshal Arjuna and refused to accept him as a pandita or scholar, with a view to teach the so-called learned scholars and leaders of the materialistic fools ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3406:34, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,797‎ So-called learned scientists, for example, invented atomic weapons that are dangerous for all humanity. It is said, manina bhusitah sarpah kim asau na bhayankarah. A serpent with a jewel on its hood is as dangerous as a serpent without such a jewel ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3306:33, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,656‎ Presently in India, intoxication & meat-eating are encouraged, & the so-called learned brahmanas presiding over this state of affairs have certainly become degraded according to the standard given herein (CC Madhya 1.197) by Srila Rupa & Sanatana Gosvami ‎No edit summary
• 06:3206:32, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,330‎ Generally the so-called Bhagavatam reciters are either professional readers or so-called learned impersonalists who cannot enter into the transcendental personal activities of the Supreme Person ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 27 July 2022 diff hist +9,676‎ Big big so-called professors, learned scholars, they talk foolishly: "Swamiji, after this body is finished, everything is finished." That is their conclusion. And the body comes by accident ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 27 July 2022 diff hist +7,107‎ According to Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the so-called Vedanta societies, the so-called, I mean to say, learned scholars on Vedanta, they are not actually Vedanta scholars. They are all fools and rascals. Because Vedanta-sutra is very difficult to understand ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,784‎ Although you have no knowledge, you have become a so-called learned person, and therefore you dare be so impudent as to disobey my order. Because of disobeying me, you shall very soon be bereft of all your opulence ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2404:24, 27 July 2022 diff hist +7,235‎ Western countries and the lame man of India should combine together in this Krsna consciousness movement. Then the lame man of India can walk with the help of the Westerner, and the blind Westerner can see with the help of the lame man ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2404:24, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,144‎ The blind man of the Western countries and the lame man of India should combine together in this Krsna consciousness movement ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2304:23, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,929‎ The blind man may take the lame man over his shoulder, and as he walks the lame man may give him directions. Thus combined they may work, but individually neither the blind man nor the lame man can walk successfully ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2304:23, 27 July 2022 diff hist +25,706‎ Sanatana Gosvami said to Caitanya: if You want me, who am nothing but a lame man, to dance, then please give me Your benediction by placing Your feet on my head ‎No edit summary
• 04:2304:23, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,596‎ I offer my respectful obeisances to Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, by whose mercy even a lame man can cross over a mountain and a dumb man recite Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2304:23, 27 July 2022 diff hist +1,520‎ If You want to make a lame man like me dance, kindly bestow Your transcendental blessings by placing Your lotus feet on my head ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2304:23, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,733‎ Convince them to...the Americans should take this KC movement, and because they are blind, we shall give them direction. So blind and lame man together will perform a great task. Blindly, simply accumulating money, but they do not know how to utilize ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2304:23, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,158‎ By the mercy of the guru, even a dumb man can become the greatest orator, and even a lame man can cross mountains. As advised by Lord Brahma, one should remember this sastric injunction if one desires success in his life ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2304:23, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,512‎ By the Grace of Krishna and the Spiritual Master, the dumb man can speak like a great orator, and a lame man can cross over a great mountain. So we must have the necessary unflinching faith in Krishna and Spiritual Master ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2204:22, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,310‎ By remembering the lotus feet of the Panca-tattva, a dumb man can become a poet, a lame man can cross mountains, and a blind man can see the stars in the sky ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2204:22, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4‎ A blind man can walk but not see, and a lame man cannot walk but can see. Andha-pangu-nyaya ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2204:22, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4‎ At the present moment, India may be compared to the lame man and the Western countries to the blind man. For the past two thousand years India has been subjugated by the rule of foreigners, and the legs of progress have been broken ‎No edit summary current
• 04:0304:03, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,575‎ If we want perfect education then we must follow the principle of Bhagavad gita. Such education will help the whole human society. In all different fields of activity, social, political, religious, cultural, economic and so on ‎No edit summary current
• 04:0204:02, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,519‎ If people strictly followed the principles of Bhagavad-gita, they would elect a person who is the Lord's devotee. Then automatically there would be good government. Rsabhadeva therefore recommended Bharata Maharaja as the emperor of this planet ‎No edit summary
• 04:0104:01, 27 July 2022 diff hist +5,220‎ If one properly follows the instructions of Bhagavad-gita, one can be freed from all miseries and anxieties in this life, and one's next life will be spiritual ‎No edit summary current
• 04:0004:00, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,311‎ If one directly follows the instructions of the Supreme Lord, as inculcated in the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, then one gradually becomes nirguna, or above the interactions of the material qualities ‎No edit summary
• 03:5903:59, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,334‎ Guided by the brahmanas, society should follow the principles of Bhagavad-gita. Then people will become very happy ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5903:59, 27 July 2022 diff hist +57‎ Follow the instructions of Bhagavad-gita As It Is, and your life will be successful. That is the summary of the Krsna consciousness movement ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5703:57, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,889‎ Caksusmatandha iva niyamanah: one should follow the Lord the way a blind man follows a person who has eyes. If we follow the Supreme Personality of Godhead by following the directions He gives in the Vedas and Bhagavad-gita, our lives will be successful ‎No edit summary
• 03:5703:57, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,967‎ At least in India there must be an institution that is strictly following the principles of Bhagavad-gita. This is my institution. We don't want anything more, other help. We simply request them that "Give some of our men permanent residentship" ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5603:56, 27 July 2022 diff hist +8,963‎ Aryans do not deviate from the instructions of Krsna, nor do they have doubts about Krsna, but non-Aryans and other demoniac people fail to follow the instructions of Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
• 03:5503:55, 27 July 2022 diff hist +6,355‎ All teachings - political, economic, social, religious, cultural and philosophical - are to be found in Bhagavad-gita. One only has to follow them strictly ‎No edit summary
• 03:5503:55, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,226‎ Even though one may be situated within this material world, he can become fully satisfied and devoid of hankering and lamentation simply by following the instructions of the Lord as set forth in Bhagavad-gita or Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
• 03:1303:13, 27 July 2022 diff hist +3,530‎ They (foolish men) take sadhus and saints as parasites of society, and almost all of them refuse to hear the words of such sadhus and saints, although they welcome show-bottle sadhus and so-called saints who can satisfy their senses ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1203:12, 27 July 2022 diff hist +11‎ The sadhu or teacher shows no mercy in using sharp words to sever the student's mind from material attractions. By speaking the truth uncompromisingly, he is able to sever the bondage ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1203:12, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,364‎ When a person speaks very nicely at a meeting, he is congratulated by the audience, who express their good will with the words sadhu, sadhu. This is called sadhu-vada ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1203:12, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,838‎ One should approach a sadhu or great sage not to see but to hear him. If one is not prepared to hear the words of a sadhu, there is no profit ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1203:12, 27 July 2022 diff hist +30‎ Narottama dasa Thakura says, sadhu-sastra-guru-vakya, cittete kariya aikya: “One should accept as one’s guide the words of the sadhus, the sastra and the guru” ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1203:12, 27 July 2022 diff hist +4,704‎ A sadhu is he who talks in terms of scripture. Similarly, guru is he who talks in terms of scripture. Guru cannot manufacture words which is not in the scriptures. And that is not scripture which does not tally with the words of guru and sadhu ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1103:11, 27 July 2022 diff hist +2,621‎ All the saintly persons, Pitas (denizens of Pitrloka) and demigods who were present at the meeting and heard Prthu Maharaja expressed their good will with the words sadhu, sadhu. They all accepted the good mission of Prthu, and they were fully satisfied ‎No edit summary current

26 July 2022

• 06:4506:45, 26 July 2022 diff hist +20,733‎ The philosophy of Sankaracarya is mainly based on the principle that we should not think that we are products of this material nature. It is by some unfortunate accident that we are in contact with material nature ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4506:45, 26 July 2022 diff hist +13‎ The most prominent Mayavadi scholar, Sadananda Yogindra, has written a book called Vedanta-sara, in which he expounds the philosophy of Sankaracarya, and all the followers of Sankara’s philosophy attribute great importance to his statements ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4506:45, 26 July 2022 diff hist +7,459‎ The Lord then quoted some verses from the Puranas by which He established that Sankaracarya was ordered to teach Mayavada philosophy by the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4506:45, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,954‎ There was no need for his (Sripada Sankaracarya) preaching Mayavada philosophy - other than to overcome the effects of Buddhist philosophy and spread Vedanta philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4506:45, 26 July 2022 diff hist +12,076‎ There was even an attempt to prove that the disciplic succession of Madhvacarya was not in line with Vedic principles. A person named Pundarika Puri, a follower of the Mayavada philosophy of Sankaracarya, came before Madhvacarya to discuss the sastras ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4506:45, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,917‎ Sripada Sankaracarya preached the Mayavada philosophy for a particular purpose. Such a philosophy was necessary to defeat the Buddhist philosophy of the nonexistence of the spirit soul, but it was never meant for perpetual acceptance ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4506:45, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,881‎ Sripada Sankaracarya has given special stress to the study of Vedanta philosophy: "A sannyasi, accepting the renounced order very strictly and wearing nothing more than a loincloth, should always enjoy the philosophical statements in the Vedanta-sutra" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4406:44, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,311‎ Sripada Sankaracarya, who preached Mayavada philosophy and stressed the impersonal feature of the Absolute, also at last recommended that one must take shelter at the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krsna, for there is no hope of gain from debating ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4406:44, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,220‎ Some follow the Mayavada philosophy of Sankaracarya, and others follow Kapila's Sankhya philosophy or the mystic yoga system of Patanjali ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4406:44, 26 July 2022 diff hist +37‎ Sankaracarya wanted to support his impersonalism through the aphorisms of the Vedanta philosophy. Actually, however, he failed to do so because he could not put forward strong arguments ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4406:44, 26 July 2022 diff hist +21,097‎ Sankaracarya preached Mayavadi philosophy in order to bewilder a certain type of atheist. He never considered the Supreme Lord to be impersonal or to have no body or form. It is best for intelligent persons to avoid lectures on Mayavadi philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4406:44, 26 July 2022 diff hist +6,019‎ Sankaracarya preached Mayavada philosophy to bewilder a certain type of atheist. Actually he never considered the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, to be impersonal, without body or form ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4306:43, 26 July 2022 diff hist +1,839‎ Prakasananda Sarasvati said - Sankaracarya was very eager to establish the philosophy of monism. Therefore he explained the Vedanta-sutra, or Vedanta philosophy, in a different way to support monistic philosophy ‎No edit summary
• 06:4206:42, 26 July 2022 diff hist +6,930‎ Prakasananda admitted that Sripada Sankaracarya, being very eager to establish his philosophy of monism, took shelter of the Vedanta philosophy and tried to explain it in his own way ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 26 July 2022 diff hist +8,217‎ My dear Devi (Parvati), sometimes I (Siva as Sankaracarya) teach Mayavada philosophy for those who are engrossed in the mode of ignorance ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 26 July 2022 diff hist +10,332‎ In explaining Vedanta I (Siva as Sankaracarya) describe the same Mayavada philosophy in order to mislead the entire population toward atheism by denying the personal form of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 26 July 2022 diff hist +8,017‎ He (Sankaracarya) propagated the Mayavada philosophy under the order of the Supreme Lord. We have already discussed this point in text 114 of this chapter: tanra dosa nahi, tenho ajna-kari dasa ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 26 July 2022 diff hist +7,461‎ Even though Lord Siva appeared to preach Mayavada philosophy, at the end of his pastime in the form of Sankaracarya, he preached the Vaisnava philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 26 July 2022 diff hist +61,089‎ Even though Lord Siva appeared to preach Mayavada philosophy, at the end of his pastime in the form of Sankaracarya, he preached the Vaisnava philosophy: bhaja govindam bhaja govindam bhaja govindam mudha-mate ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 26 July 2022 diff hist +8,714‎ As a brahmana boy, I (Siva as Sankaracarya) manufacture this philosophy in the Age of Kali to mislead the atheists. Actually, the Supreme Personality of Godhead has His transcendental body, but I describe the Supreme as impersonal ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 26 July 2022 diff hist +8,369‎ Anyone in the mode of goodness who happens to hear this Mayavada philosophy falls down, for when I (Siva as Sankaracarya) teach Mayavada philosophy I say that the living entity and the Supreme Lord are one and the same ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 26 July 2022 diff hist +12,165‎ Although Sankaracarya preached the false philosophy of Mayavada, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu nevertheless said that since he did it on the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there was no fault on his part ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 26 July 2022 diff hist +8,180‎ Although Lord Siva, in the form of a brahmana (Sankaracarya), preached the false philosophy of Mayavada, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu nevertheless said that since he did it on the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there was no fault on his part ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 26 July 2022 diff hist +21,208‎ According to Mayavadis, Vedanta refers to the Sariraka commentary of Sankaracarya. When impersonal philosophers refer to Vedanta & the Upanisads, they are actually referring to the commentaries of Sankaracarya, the greatest teacher of Mayavadi philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4006:40, 26 July 2022 diff hist +37‎ According to Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Sripada Sankaracarya preached the Mayavada philosophy for a particular purpose ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 26 July 2022 diff hist +25,392‎ Without devotional service to Krsna, one may have some motive in exhibiting such symptoms (of highly developed devotional service), but it should be known that the symptoms are not actual ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,497‎ Those who are surcharged with the mode of ignorance are degraded to the lower planetary systems or to the animal kingdom. The demigods are highly developed in the mode of goodness, and thus they are situated in the heavenly planets ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,548‎ Those who are highly developed in the mode of goodness are promoted to the higher, heavenly planetary system, and those who are overpowered by the mode of passion are situated in the middle planetary systems - the earth and similar planets ‎No edit summary
• 06:3106:31, 26 July 2022 diff hist +10‎ Those who are highly developed in Krsna consciousness try their best to give this knowledge to the people in general, for their conditional life is very much troublesome. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 26 July 2022 diff hist +25,537‎ The symptoms of highly developed devotional service, which are exhibited by the pure devotees, are sometimes imitated by those who are not actually pure devotees. This is described in Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 26 July 2022 diff hist +11,906‎ The power of thought should be developed in association with persons who are authorities in the scriptures, saintly persons and spiritual masters and those whose thinking is highly developed. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,307‎ The living entity takes on different bodies according to his pious and vicious activities. The human body is highly developed and has full consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,259‎ The highly developed soul always remains satisfied in himself by realizing himself as the eternal servitor of the Supreme Lord. Such a transcendentally situated person has no sense desires resulting from petty materialism ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,781‎ The highly developed soul always remains satisfied in himself by realizing himself as the eternal servitor of the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 26 July 2022 diff hist +6,024‎ Sometimes neophyte devotees think that they can continue the sravana-kirtana process without worshiping the Deity, but the execution of such sravana-kirtana is meant for highly developed devotees like Haridasa Thakura ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 26 July 2022 diff hist +8,994‎ One can enter the kingdom of the Supreme Lord only when one is highly developed in desirable qualities. All good qualities develop in the person of a devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,159‎ Indra, King of heaven, receiving benedictions from the Supreme Personality of Godhead and thus enjoying highly developed opulences, maintains the living entities all over the three worlds by pouring sufficient rain on all the planets ‎No edit summary
• 06:3006:30, 26 July 2022 diff hist +77,803‎ Human beings even in the lower statuses of life (a merchant, a woman or a laborer) can attain the Supreme. One does not need highly developed intelligence. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,285‎ Highly developed consciousness means ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 26 July 2022 diff hist +22,753‎ He (a pure devotee) becomes highly developed in Krsna consciousness. At this stage he does not distinguish between the devotee and the nondevotee, for he sees everyone in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 26 July 2022 diff hist −11‎ By the grace of Krsna we are given a highly developed body and intelligence, but if we do not utilize them, why should He give them to us again ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,325‎ Bhakti, devotional service, is the engagement of those who have performed highly developed pious activities ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,259‎ After this spontaneous attraction becomes highly developed, the devotee is placed in either of the above-mentioned categories ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 26 July 2022 diff hist +7,143‎ After spontaneous attraction becomes highly developed, the devotee is placed in either of the above-mentioned categories (one is indirect conjugal love, the other direct) ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4305:43, 26 July 2022 diff hist +9‎ The vanaprasthas and sannyasis nowadays are those who were unsuccessful in family life. Thus the so-called sannyasis try to construct another home in the name of the sannyasa-asrama and glide down into all sorts of luxury at the expense of others ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4305:43, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,749‎ The so-called vanaprasthas and sannyasis who come out of such grhastha-asramas are easily deviated from the rigid path ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4305:43, 26 July 2022 diff hist +32‎ The so-called sannyasis try to construct another home in the name of the sannyasa-asrama and glide down into all sorts of luxury at the expense of others. So all these varnas and asramas have now become so many transcendental frauds ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,251‎ The so-called sannyasis sometimes drink with the excuse that without alcohol, fish and meat, it is impossible to remain in the cold countries near the Arctic zone ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,442‎ The sinful activities forbidden by the sastras are illicit sex, intoxication, meat-eating and gambling. These so-called sannyasis indulge in all these activities. They eat meat and flesh, fish, eggs and just about everything ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 26 July 2022 diff hist +15,204‎ The Lord indicated that in the Mayavadi sampradaya there are many so-called sannyasis who, even though illiterate & unintelligent, hear Vedanta-sutra from their spiritual master just as a matter of formality. Although they listen, they do not understand ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,993‎ These so-called sannyasis are very much appreciated by sinful men because they are all godless atheists and very expert in putting forward arguments and reasons to support their case ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4005:40, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,491‎ There are many instances of so-called sannyasis who gave up the world as untruth, but again came to the material world because they were not seeking their real repose at the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3905:39, 26 July 2022 diff hist +11,073‎ So-called sannyasis, they rise to the brahma-pada, aham brahmasmi, but because they cannot stay there, they come down again to this material world and they are busy for opening hospitals, schools, and philanthropism ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3905:39, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,731‎ So-called brahmacari, so-called grhastha, or so-called sannyasi, then you will fall down ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3905:39, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,878‎ Since they (so-called sannyasis) are not freed from these four principles (sinful life, namely illicit sex life, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling), they are cheating the public by posing as svamis ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3805:38, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,111‎ Our students, they have very quickly given up the four principles of sinful activity. And that is actually surprising to all these so-called sannyasis also. They are surprised ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3805:38, 26 July 2022 diff hist +8,944‎ It is the greatest misfortune that in India many so-called missionary workers are spreading irreligion in the name of religion. They claim an ordinary human being to be God and recommend meat-eating for everyone, including so-called sannyasis ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3705:37, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,653‎ It is nonsensical to say that animal-killing has nothing to do with spiritual realization. By this dangerous theory many so-called sannyasis have sprung up by the grace of Kali-yuga who preach animal-killing under the garb of the Vedas ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3705:37, 26 July 2022 diff hist +6,349‎ In this age are all sudras and cannot follow the rules and regulations of sannyasa life. It is very commonly found that so-called sannyasis are addicted to nonsense - even to having private relationships with women. This is the abominable situation ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 26 July 2022 diff hist +9‎ He (Caitanya) was not a farcical Narayana like the daridra-narayanas invented by so-called sannyasis ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,656‎ Even among so-called religionists, sadhus, mendicants, sannyasis and brahmacaris, there are many enemies of the Krsna consciousness movement who always try to find faults in it ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,773‎ At the present moment, many so-called sannyasis or mendicants have no understanding of God consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3305:33, 26 July 2022 diff hist +6,048‎ Although they (so-called sannyasis) dress themselves as sannyasis, they still cannot free themselves from the four principles of sinful life, namely illicit sex life, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3305:33, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,653‎ Actually, Srila Sankaracarya's principles for the acceptance of sannyasa were very strict, but later the so-called Mayavadi sannyasis became degraded because of their false philosophy, which propounds that by accepting sannyasa one becomes Narayana ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3305:33, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,310‎ The change of dress is only a formality. Lord Caitanya did not accept the name of a sannyasi, and in this age of Kali the so-called sannyasis should not change their former names, following in the footsteps of Lord Caitanya ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3305:33, 26 July 2022 diff hist +7,159‎ One day Lord Balarama invited this particular sannyasi (Arjuna) to lunch at His home. Balaramaji very respectfully offered him all kinds of palatable dishes, and the so-called sannyasi was eating sumptuously ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1805:18, 26 July 2022 diff hist +16,539‎ The material conception of life makes us very eager to receive honor from others, but from the point of view of a man in perfect knowledge-who knows that he is not this body-anything, honor or dishonor, pertaining to this body is useless. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1805:18, 26 July 2022 diff hist +20,097‎ The fact is that man's knowledge should be developed to explore that difference between a living man and a dead man, a living body and a dead body. That spiritual knowledge was imparted by Krsna to Arjuna in the beginning of Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1805:18, 26 July 2022 diff hist +7,884‎ These senses are compared to rogues and thieves within the forest. They take away a man's knowledge and place him in a network of nescience. Thus the senses are like rogues and thieves that plunder his spiritual knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1705:17, 26 July 2022 diff hist +9,433‎ However you may pose yourself, cheat others, that you are the best man in knowledge, philosopher, scientist, you are a fool. That is not possible. Sac-cid-ananda vigrahah is Krsna only ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1705:17, 26 July 2022 diff hist +8,545‎ Everyone is subjected to his past deeds, and one who is conversant with the philosophy of karma and its reactions is a man in knowledge. Such a person will not be aggrieved at any incident, happy or miserable ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1605:16, 26 July 2022 diff hist +15‎ A faithful man who is absorbed in transcendental knowledge and who subdues his senses quickly attains the supreme spiritual peace. BG 4.39 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1505:15, 26 July 2022 diff hist −16‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is realized according to the proportion of one's surrender. Full surrender, however, occurs when a man is perfectly in knowledge. Bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate - BG 7.19 ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,275‎ Yogamaya very faithfully received the Lord's order as a Vedic injunction. It is a fact that whatever is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead is a Vedic injunction that no one should neglect ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 26 July 2022 diff hist +1,497‎ Whatever I speak is personally spoken by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Like a stringed instrument, I vibrate whatever He causes me to speak ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 26 July 2022 diff hist +7,761‎ Whatever is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead is a mantra and is suitable for delivering the conditioned souls from mental speculation ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,347‎ Whatever is spoken by the Supreme Lord is accepted as Veda. As stated in Bhagavad-gita, vedanta-krd veda-vit: the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the compiler of all Vedic knowledge, and He knows the purport of the Vedas ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 26 July 2022 diff hist +26,280‎ We should always remember that we read Bhagavad-gita as scripture, and whatever is spoken in Bhagavad-gita must be accepted, otherwise there is no reason in reading it ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5404:54, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,527‎ The great brahmana Jada Bharata said: My dear King and hero, whatever you have spoken sarcastically is certainly true. Actually these are not simply words of chastisement, for the body is the carrier ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5304:53, 26 July 2022 diff hist +1,885‎ Suniti said: My dear boy, whatever has been spoken by Suruci is so, because the King, your father, does not consider me his wife or even his maidservant. He feels ashamed to accept me ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5304:53, 26 July 2022 diff hist +32‎ Sri-krsna-caitanya-vani - amrtera dhara - Whatever is spoken by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is an incessant flow of nectar - Whoever accepts His words as reality can understand the essence of the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5304:53, 26 July 2022 diff hist +1,634‎ My dear sir, I do not know what is good composition and what is bad. But whatever I have spoken must be understood to have been spoken by mother Sarasvati ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5204:52, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2,279‎ My dear boy, whatever has been spoken by Suruci, your stepmother, although very harsh to hear, is factual ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5204:52, 26 July 2022 diff hist +3,883‎ In Indian villages, whenever there is a quarrel between two parties, they go to a temple to settle the quarrel. Whatever is spoken in front of the Deity is taken to be true, for no one would dare lie before the Deity ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5104:51, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,756‎ Here it is said that whatever is spoken in the Vedas and whatever is practiced in accordance with the injunctions of the Vedas is to be accepted as authoritative in society ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1604:16, 26 July 2022 diff hist +8‎ Tripad-vibhuti, or the seventy-five percent known as the internal potency of the Lord, is to be understood as the kingdom of God far beyond the material sky ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1604:16, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,954‎ The Vedic knowledge is also received in that way (by the authority). The common man cannot argue about what is beyond the sky or beyond the universe; he must accept the versions of the Vedas as they are understood by the authorized disciplic succession ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1604:16, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,141‎ The bhakti-yogi surpasses all the yogis because, by dint of his devotional service, he is promoted to the region beyond the material sky and is placed in one of the planets in the spiritual sky by the supreme will of the Lord the controller of everything ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 26 July 2022 diff hist +8,255‎ They (the followers of the Vedas) have full and reasonable knowledge of God and demigods and of their different residential planets situated within the compass of the material world and beyond the limit of the material sky ‎No edit summary
• 04:1504:15, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,669‎ There is no question of creation and annihilation in the brahmajyoti, or spiritual sky. The Bhagavad-gita also confirms that beyond the material sky there is another, eternal, spiritual sky, where everything is eternally existing ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,747‎ That spiritual sky is far beyond the material sky, and it is confirmed also in the Bhagavad-gita that beyond this material sky there is another, eternal sky ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 26 July 2022 diff hist +8‎ Persons affected with the contaminations of the above four principles (dharma, artha, kama and moksa) cannot at once accept the lotus feet of the Lord in the spiritual sky. The Vaikuntha world is situated far beyond the material sky ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1404:14, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,850‎ Many times in these pages we have discussed the spiritual planets situated beyond the material sky, and the description is corroborated in this verse - SB 2.5.39 ‎No edit summary
• 04:1404:14, 26 July 2022 diff hist +9,527‎ Let us know through the authority of Srimad-Bhagavatam of the nature and constitution of the transcendental world beyond the material sky. In that sky the material qualities, especially the modes of ignorance and passion, are completely absent ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1404:14, 26 July 2022 diff hist +8,672‎ In the Bhagavad-gita the Lord and the living beings are both described as sanatana, or eternal, and the Lord's abode, far beyond the material sky, is also described as sanatana ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1304:13, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,420‎ Don't accept this chanting as something auspicious activity. It is transcendental to auspicious and inauspicious activities. It is a vibration from the spiritual sky which will attract you gradually to the spiritual sky, beyond this material sky ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1304:13, 26 July 2022 diff hist +2‎ Despite Krsna's presence in every living entity as Supersoul and His presence beyond the material sky, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the less intelligent cannot realize Him as the Supreme Person. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1304:13, 26 July 2022 diff hist +5,151‎ Beyond the planetary systems in the material sky, there is another sky, which is known as paravyoma, or the spiritual sky, where there are spiritual planets ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1204:12, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,442‎ The common man cannot argue about what is beyond the sky or beyond the universe; he must accept the versions of the Vedas as they are understood by the authorized disciplic succession ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1104:11, 26 July 2022 diff hist +8‎ Space permits the movement of even the atoms and on up to the greatest planets, the sun and the moon. Although the sky (or wind or air) is great, still it is situated within space. Space is not beyond the sky. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 04:1104:11, 26 July 2022 diff hist −9‎ Beyond the sky there are subtle coverings, resembling the elementary coverings of the universes. The gross coverings are a development of partial ingredients of the subtle causes ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5203:52, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,252‎ If there is possibility to lay down the corner-stone there I can also do that before leaving from India. This will please me very much and give me great relief to know that we have done something solid in Vrindaban before I leave, and the credit is yours ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5203:52, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,288‎ If this standard of devotional practices is maintained at the highest level, everything else you do will become automatically successful. And that will please me very much ‎No edit summary current
• 03:5103:51, 26 July 2022 diff hist +4,368‎ He is a sannyasi and his main business is to travel and preach as I am doing in this old age, and that will please me very much ‎No edit summary current

25 July 2022

• 09:5509:55, 25 July 2022 diff hist +7,855‎ The scientists explain the material functions by so many technological terms of material law, but such blind scientists forget the lawmaker ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 25 July 2022 diff hist +5‎ The material scientist explains that all different planets are floating because of the law of gravity or some other law; but the actual lawmaker is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When we speak of law, we must understand that there must be a lawmaker ‎No edit summary
• 09:5409:54, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,233‎ The material scientists can discover laws of nature, but they are unable to recognize the lawmaker ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 25 July 2022 diff hist +5,299‎ Man-made laws may be evaded by cunning outlaws, but in the codes of the supreme lawmaker there is not the slightest possibility of neglecting the laws ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 25 July 2022 diff hist −14‎ From Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita we can know who the lawmaker is: the lawmaker is the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 09:5409:54, 25 July 2022 diff hist +8,186‎ For mundane creatures the functions of the body and the functions of the cosmic world through physical laws in relationship with the Lord are also therefore included in understanding of the lawmaker, the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 25 July 2022 diff hist +5‎ Although these material modes of nature are emanations from the Supreme Lord, Krsna, He is not subject to them. For instance, under the state laws one may be punished, but the king, the lawmaker, is not subject to that law. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,204‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the creator of everything, and although the living entities are not created but exist with the Lord eternally, their bodies are created, whereas the Supreme Lord's body is never created ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 25 July 2022 diff hist +5,830‎ As stated in Bhagavad-gita (BG 2.20), the living entity is never created (na jayate mriyate va kadacin). There are five gross material elements and three minor material elements (mind, intelligence and ego), and there are eternal living entities ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,140‎ When the Lord descends on the earth along with His eternal ever-liberated associates, He not only displays the divine energy possessed by Himself, but also empowers His associate devotees with the required energy to execute His mission of incarnation ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,913‎ This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,292‎ The impersonalist or the pantheist cannot understand the exceptional opulences of the Supreme Lord nor the manifestations of His divine energy. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,110‎ The force of divine energy is uncheckable; no one has any hand in it, and thus there is no cause of grief ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,230‎ In our daily experience we find so many transformations of matter from one form to another, but we do not lament such changing features. the force of divine energy is uncheckable, and thus there is no cause of grief ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,767‎ For an ordinary living being, the body in which he appears is his punishment. As the Lord says in BG 7.14, daivi hy esa guna-mayi mama maya duratyaya: This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 25 July 2022 diff hist +7‎ As Krsna says in BG 7.14, daivi hy esa guna-mayi mama maya duratyaya: "This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome." The same word duratyaya, meaning "very difficult," is used here - in SB 7.9.43 ‎No edit summary
• 09:2209:22, 25 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ When Srila Gadadhara dasa Prabhu was preaching the cult of hari-kirtana, there was a magistrate who was very much against his sankirtana movement ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2209:22, 25 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ What was achieved in the Satyayuga by this meditational process, would be achieved at the present time, in this Kaliyuga, by simply chanting the names of God, hari-kirtana, Hare Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2009:20, 25 July 2022 diff hist +5,273‎ Through the popularizing of hari-kirtana, or the sankirtana movement, the brahminical culture and ksatriya government will automatically come back, and people will be extremely happy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2009:20, 25 July 2022 diff hist −13‎ This method (Hari kirtana) is recommended in the scriptures, and it was given to us by Caitanya Mahaprabhu 500 years ago. He appeared in a town which is known as Navadvipa. It is about sixty miles north of Calcutta ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,566‎ Someone wrote an article in the newspaper saying that "In America people had the idea that God had either died or gotten lost, but Bhaktivedanta Swami, within three months, has explained to the atheist sampradaya that God is existing within Hari-kirtana" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,678‎ Regarding your question of dancing-show, whatever it may be, it may not deviate from the real Krishna Consciousness program. We are Hari Kirtana men, that's all ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 25 July 2022 diff hist +5,330‎ Real utilization of advanced knowledge is to establish the glories of the Lord, and that is the real import. Scientific knowledge engaged in the service of the Lord and all similar activities are all factually hari-kirtana, or glorification of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1509:15, 25 July 2022 diff hist +15,893‎ Perfection can be attained by the simple method of Hari kirtana. Hari means the Supreme Personality of Godhead; kirtana means to glorify ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1409:14, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,482‎ In this Age of Kali, hari-kirtana is very, very important ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1109:11, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,292‎ If they do not like the noise of our kirtana there, we shall make it more noisy. So go on performing Hari kirtana for the villagers ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1009:10, 25 July 2022 diff hist +8‎ Hari-kirtana is actually meant to glorify the holy name, form, pastimes and qualities of the Lord. Ajamila, however, did not glorify the form, qualities or paraphernalia of the Lord; he simply chanted the holy name ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2408:24, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,232‎ Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you very much for your kind feelings of appreciation of my humble service unto you ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 25 July 2022 diff hist +1,875‎ I have very much enjoyed your appreciation of my humble service to Krishna ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 25 July 2022 diff hist +28,801‎ I beg to thank you very much for your kind feelings of appreciation of my humble service unto you ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,325‎ I am very thankful to you for appreciating my humble service ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,297‎ I am very much obliged to you for expressing your good sentiments on account of my humble service to you all. Your appreciation of my humble service is thankfully accepted ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,292‎ O King, O hero, you were a very grateful husband and the most sincere friend of all of us. How shall we exist without you? O hero, wherever you are going, please direct us there so that we may follow in your footsteps and engage again in your service ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2106:21, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,257‎ I think this policy of Sankirtana, Prasadam and Srimad-Bhagavatam has been successful in all the centers. Please therefore follow this transcendental policy with heart and soul and make your center as spiritually opulent as far as possible ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1906:19, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,046‎ I am very much hopeful of my movement. Please keep steady, follow all my instructions scrupulously, chant Hare Krishna and Krishna will give you all strength ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1606:16, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,386‎ I am pleased to accept the boy you have recommended for initiation. His new name is Giridhari dasa. Please make sure he knows to strictly follow the four regulative principles and chant a minimum of sixteen rounds daily avoiding the ten offenses ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1406:14, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,885‎ In my opinion, your wife and yourself are nicely executing my mission and please try to follow my instructions and you shall never be unhappy ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1206:12, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,548‎ We are neither renouncer nor enjoyer, we are simply servitor of Krishna. Please follow this principle and you will be never disturbed in any frightened condition offered by the maya ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0906:09, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,245‎ Please follow the routine work as you are doing now and everything will be pleasing and smooth. That is sure and certain. Whenever there is doubt or question, just discuss this amongst yourselves, and if there is no satisfactory solution, you refer to me ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0806:08, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,447‎ Please follow the regulative principles strictly, and chant daily sixteen rounds of beads regularly without fail. This is the essential process for dissolving the clouds of illusion or Maya ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,924‎ A devotee should associate with fellow devotees, and in relationship to others the devotee should try to elevate them also onto the spiritual platform. So please follow this principle ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,035‎ Yes, you are right - all qualifications come if you simply surrender to a bona fide Guru. Please follow all of our rules very careful and your life will be perfect ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,481‎ We see everything is the product of Krishna's energy and how everything can be dovetailed for serving the purpose of Krishna. Please try to follow this principle ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,336‎ Thank you for the pecans. I shall be coming to L.A. on the 20th of June for one week & then I shall go to Denver for one week. You can see me in L.A., if you like. Please continue to follow all of the rules & regulations carefully, & chant or read always ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 25 July 2022 diff hist +3,313‎ So now you are in the line of Krishna Consciousness; you know all the regulative principles. Please strictly follow them and chant 16 rounds regularly ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,398‎ So in conclusion, it is my request even you do not agree on some points, Giriraja is in charge so please follow his direction and that will please me ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,252‎ Please try to follow this policy and publish in BTG only pure Krishna Conscious articles ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0206:02, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,134‎ Please continue to follow very strictly the rules and regulations, chant 16 rounds and read my books well. This will keep you always fixed up in Krishna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2205:22, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,832‎ Now we are fallen into the ways of the three modes of material nature according to our different karma. As such, some are on higher levels, and some are in the lower nature. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 05:2005:20, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,290‎ You cannot give up even smoking. You are in higher level of consciousness? So what is the proof that you are on the higher level of the consciousness? You cannot give up even ordinary things ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2005:20, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,650‎ This initiation ceremony is a Vedic principle to lead a conditioned soul to the higher level of transcendental life ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2005:20, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,597‎ The devotee who wants to elevate himself to the higher level of understanding must know that the Lord is present in every living entity, and, as stated in the previous verse (SB 3.29.23), one should be compassionate to other living entities ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2005:20, 25 July 2022 diff hist +2,731‎ The devotees of the Lord may not perform any sacrifice or may not please the demigods as per Vedic injunctions, and still the devotees are on a higher level than the fruitive workers or the worshipers of different demigods ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1905:19, 25 July 2022 diff hist +9,037‎ The demigods in the higher level of material existence many, many times excel the most well-to-do human beings, in duration of life, beauty, wealth, paraphernalia, and in all other respects ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1805:18, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,137‎ There may be a learned brahmana-Vaisnava who can explain clearly and eradicate all doubts, but if he does not follow the Vaisnava principles, then he is not situated on a higher level ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1805:18, 25 July 2022 diff hist +4,659‎ There are two classes of men, namely those too addicted to the gross body and the material world, and others, on the higher level, who are interested more in transcendental knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1705:17, 25 July 2022 diff hist +5,019‎ Sri Suta Gosvami was narrating the topics of the creation and destruction of the material world, but it appears that the rsis headed by Saunaka were more inclined to hear of transcendental subjects, which are on a higher level than the physical ‎No edit summary current
• 04:2004:20, 25 July 2022 diff hist +6,681‎ From practical experience it is found that any woman who follows My (Krsna's) way or becomes attracted to Me is ultimately left to cry for the rest of her life ‎No edit summary current

23 July 2022

• 13:3913:39, 23 July 2022 diff hist +6,876‎ By eating, as soon as he (man) gets little strength, then sex without any discrimination ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 23 July 2022 diff hist +5,465‎ The gopis were blessed with all mercy by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for they enjoyed His company without a tinge of mundane sex life ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 23 July 2022 diff hist +6,332‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami has recommended, anasaktasya visayan (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.2.255). Without being attached by sex, the husband and wife may live together for the advancement of spiritual life ‎No edit summary
• 11:1911:19, 23 July 2022 diff hist +2,394‎ When the living entity becomes exactly like a monkey jumping from one branch to another, he remains in the tree of household life without any profit but sex ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1111:11, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,854‎ Why not try to take the instruction of Bhagavad-gita, the instruction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and try to utilize it for practical life. And it will be successful. There is no doubt about it. I am speaking from my practical experience ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1111:11, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,854‎ When people become godless, there is restriction of supply. Just like practical experience. I am saying from my practical experience that in my childhood I saw that India was exporting millions of tons of rice and wheat ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1111:11, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,282‎ We think that we shall be loser by accepting Krsna. Nobody is loser. I say from my practical experience ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1011:10, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,876‎ That is my practical experience. I got three inquiries, not even order. But the Times, New York Times, they have got millions of customers and millions of readers, but I got three inquiries ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1011:10, 23 July 2022 diff hist +5,274‎ Take this principle, Bhagavad-gita as it is, the instruction of Gita, instruction of Krsna, and try to follow. It will be successful not only in India, all over the world. That is my practical experience ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1011:10, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,593‎ Suppose there are so many rich men in your country and so many foundations also. And I tell you my practical experience. I wrote some letters to some good foundation ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0911:09, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,791‎ I got very, very good chance. But Krsna did not allow it. He wanted me to come to this point. That is my practical experience. And now I'm seeing that it is Krsna's so much favor ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0911:09, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,784‎ I am saying this from my practical experience from my Guru Maharaja, from my spiritual master. He would never say that "I am going," "I am doing," no. "If Krsna desires, then I shall do it." "If Krsna desires, then I shall go." Like that ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0911:09, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,633‎ It is our practical experience in this material world that the same person who is one's friend today becomes one's enemy tomorrow. Our relationships as friends or enemies, family men or outsiders, are actually the results of our different dealings ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0911:09, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,496‎ It is my practical experience. Syamasundara had to waste at least two to three hours to secure rice, fruits. Only milk and butter could we get ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0811:08, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,653‎ First of all I do not want to be relieve also. That is also another disease. You see? You will be surprised. It is my practical experience. This Krsna consciousness movement, before starting, I wrote one letter to Mahatma Gandhi ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0811:08, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,088‎ By serving Krsna, nobody becomes loser. This is my practical experience, nobody ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0811:08, 23 July 2022 diff hist +5,192‎ But spiritual purpose, if you work more than twenty-four hours... Unfortunately, you haven't got more than twenty-four hours at your disposal. Still, you won't feel fatigued. I tell you. This is my practical experience ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,309‎ Just begin Krsna conscious, and you will find, without sex, you will be happy ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 23 July 2022 diff hist +5,636‎ It is essential that one practice self-control by celibacy without the least desire for sex indulgence. For a man desiring to improve the condition of his existence, sex indulgence is considered suicidal, or even worse ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,535‎ In vanaprastha life, one can live with his wife without any sexual connection, and the most important factor in all orders of life - brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, and sannyasa - is to chant the Hare Krishna Mantra ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,752‎ If one can continue without sex life he is praised, naisthika-brahmacari. If one cannot, all right you become a perfect grhastha ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,038‎ A sannyasi is not supposed to take his wife with him. At the vanaprastha stage of retired life, or the stage midway between householder life and renounced life, one may keep his wife as an assistant without sex relations ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 23 July 2022 diff hist −22‎ A person engaged in Krsna consciousness can work with greater vigor without sex pleasure, which he avoids. That is the test in spiritual realization. Spiritual realization and sex pleasure go ill together. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2010:20, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,790‎ There is no question of economic problem, that one has to become learned to get some service in some big school or college and get some big salary. This is not our aim. Our only aim is how to mold the life of the children to become Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2010:20, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,711‎ For one who is actually surrendered to the lotus feet of the Lord, there is no question of any separate endeavor for economic development ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,239‎ The whole economic question can be solved. If you have got excess, then you can trade, you can send to some place where there is scarcity ‎No edit summary
• 10:1810:18, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,858‎ Now one thing is that there you have got our magazines, and simply by selling our magazines you can maintain yourself. There will be no difficulty. In all our centers this magazine has given a new impetus for solving the economic question ‎No edit summary
• 10:1810:18, 23 July 2022 diff hist +7,060‎ Nature has given you sufficient means to live very comfortably everywhere. If you get a piece of land and one cow, your whole economic question is solved. You haven't got to go fifty miles for working. There is no necessity ‎No edit summary
• 09:5609:56, 23 July 2022 diff hist −14‎ Unless one is completely conversant with the fact that one is not the body, it is not possible to become self-realized ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5209:52, 23 July 2022 diff hist +23,762‎ They (followers of Vedic Civilization) are very, very busy. Not only very, very busy, but also kaumara acaret prajno dharman bhagavatan iha: (SB 7.6.1) they are trying to become self-realized from the very beginning of life ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5209:52, 23 July 2022 diff hist +2,069‎ Simply by seeing Him, I am feeling great happiness. Oh, I have wasted so much time trying to become self-realized through impersonal cultivation. This is a cause for lamentation ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,579‎ Out of millions of persons, one may try to become siddha, perfect - or, in other words, self-realized. A self-realized person knows that he is not the body but a spiritual soul ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,482‎ Our Vaisnava philosophy does not allow that you shall become self-realized by your own endeavor ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,658‎ It is stated in Bhagavad-gita that anyone who engages in devotional service to the Lord automatically becomes transcendental to the three destinations of material nature and is situated in the brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20), or self-realized, stage ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4609:46, 23 July 2022 diff hist +10,003‎ It is not "I may do it or not do it." These austerities must be done. For example, in the Mundaka Upanisad it is ordered that if one wants to become self-realized, one must approach a spiritual master: tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet - MU 1.2.12 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4609:46, 23 July 2022 diff hist +6,675‎ In the Mundaka Upanisad (3.2.3) it is said: one cannot become self-realized simply by having an academic education, by presenting lectures in an erudite way (pravacanena labhyah), or by being an intelligent scientist who discovers many wonderful things ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 23 July 2022 diff hist +20,529‎ By chanting the holy names of the Lord, which are innumerable, one can actually associate with the Lord personally, and by such constant personal touch with the all-spiritual Lord, one will become spiritually self-realized ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,872‎ A progressive brahmana must necessarily become a Vaisnava, for a Vaisnava is a self-realized, learned brahmana ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4309:43, 23 July 2022 diff hist +7,221‎ As long as one is absorbed in the thought that he is this material body, he is fearful, and as soon as one is freed from this material conception, he becomes brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20), or self-realized, and immediately becomes fearless ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4309:43, 23 July 2022 diff hist −11‎ When one is fixed in the understanding that he is part and parcel of the Supreme Soul and that his eternal position is to serve in association with the Supreme Lord, he becomes self-realized ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4309:43, 23 July 2022 diff hist +3,761‎ Transcendental activities of the Lord are so arranged in writing by the great sages that simply by hearing of those narrations one becomes perfectly self-realized, and the proper use of the ear and the tongue is also achieved ‎No edit summary
• 09:4209:42, 23 July 2022 diff hist +2,818‎ One must be well conversant with the sources of all the bodily constituents. Then one becomes a self-realized person, or atmavan, one who knows the self ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4209:42, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,075‎ One becomes atma-drk, or self-realized. When the false ego of identifying the body with the self is removed, actual vision of life is perceivable. The senses also become purified ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,758‎ My devotee actually becomes self-realized by My unlimited causeless mercy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 23 July 2022 diff hist +6,743‎ My (the Lord's) devotee becomes self-realized by My unlimited causeless mercy, and thus, when freed from all doubts, he steadily progresses towards his destined abode, which is directly under the protection of My spiritual energy of unadulterated bliss ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1209:12, 23 July 2022 diff hist +4,752‎ As soon as one does this (purify the heart), the flow of one's natural affection begins to glide toward the Lord, and with the progress of this flow one becomes more and more self-realized in various relations with the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1209:12, 23 July 2022 diff hist +46,843‎ After many, many births of worshiping Brahman and Paramatma, when one surrenders unto Vasudeva as the supreme master and accepts himself as the eternal servant of Vasudeva, he becomes a great transcendentally realized soul ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1109:11, 23 July 2022 diff hist +10,120‎ Practically everyone has been brought up eating meat. yet I say, "Don't eat meat." Therefore that is troublesome. But if one is serious about becoming self-realized, one must accept the order. That is tapasya ‎No edit summary current

22 July 2022

• 08:2008:20, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,376‎ These are the wonderful arrangements of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Nothing takes place by accident ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1908:19, 22 July 2022 diff hist +29,043‎ The activities of this (illusory) energy function according to principles and regulations, and they act consciously under the direction of the Supreme Lord. Everything is done by nature in full consciousness; nothing is blind or accidental ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1908:19, 22 July 2022 diff hist −12‎ The creation of the material world is not blind or accidental ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,058‎ According to the Vedic literature, living entities have knowledge, and thus they are called cetana, which means "in knowledge." Their situation in different conditions of life, therefore, is not accidental ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,484‎ You have now got the golden opportunity of this human form of life, and it is not by accident that you have met your spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,804‎ There is no question of accidents. The so-called scientist, they cannot explain. "Accidents." Why accidents? A rose flower seed, rose will come. Why not accident by, lemon? No. There is no such things as accidents. This is all rascaldom ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,963‎ Their (living entities) situation in different conditions of life, therefore, is not accidental. It is by their choice, because they have knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 22 July 2022 diff hist −14‎ Nothing is accidental. Everything is done by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as the Lord Himself confirms in Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.10). Mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sacaracaram ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1708:17, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,974‎ In the material existence we find so many species of life-animals, insects, men, and so on. All are arranged by the superior power. They are not accidental. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1708:17, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,818‎ As a householder, Prthu Maharaja had five sons by his wife, Arci, and all these sons were begotten as he desired them. They were not born whimsically or by accident ‎No edit summary
• 08:0308:03, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,243‎ From the semen of one body, another body is produced, and the life symptoms are visible due to the soul's taking shelter of this body ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1406:14, 22 July 2022 diff hist +33‎ They (prakrta-sahajiyas) are opposed to addressing a pure Vaisnava as Prabhupada ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1406:14, 22 July 2022 diff hist +30,733‎ Srila Prabhupada addressing his female disciples as "Prabhu" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1306:13, 22 July 2022 diff hist +13‎ The pure Vaisnava is addressed as prabhu, and this address is an etiquette observed between Vaisnavas ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1306:13, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,118‎ The mistake is that being addressed as boss or prabhu one thinks himself as exactly Prabhu or the boss. One should not forget himself as humble servant even though one is addressed as prabhu ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1306:13, 22 July 2022 diff hist +33‎ The acarya, the spiritual master, is generally respected by others as Sripada, and the initiated Vaisnavas are addressed as Prabhu ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1306:13, 22 July 2022 diff hist +13‎ Sometimes the spiritual master is addressed as Prabhupada. Prabhu means the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and pada means post ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1206:12, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,309‎ Regarding the art of management, constant changing is not good. Even if there is some fault in management it should be corrected, not changed. Besides that, Vaisnava philosophy is that everyone is addressed as prabhu, or master ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5405:54, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,904‎ Unfortunately, no education is there to understand this science. So in other words, it may be taken that the modern civilization is killing the prerogative of the human being. He has got a chance to understand himself and to stop ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5405:54, 22 July 2022 diff hist +14,323‎ There are so many departments of knowledge all over the world and many huge universities, but there is, unfortunately, no university or educational institution where the science of the spirit soul is instructed. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5405:54, 22 July 2022 diff hist +28,315‎ Although this process of growth (of the body) is always taking place, the educational system in modern universities, though considered advanced, unfortunately does not deal with this. Actually there is no education without spiritual knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5305:53, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,929‎ Children, as you teach them, they learn. They are innocent. Unfortunately, we do not give them training about Krsna consciousness. We give them education for sense gratification, how you can earn money, economic development ‎No edit summary
• 05:3505:35, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,439‎ Whatever you have spoken about me is not false because unless and until one is aware of the Personality of Godhead, who is the ultimate truth beyond me, one is sure to be illusioned by observing my powerful activities ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3505:35, 22 July 2022 diff hist +34‎ In the Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 9.4.57), the Lord says: The devotees are always in My heart, and I am always in the heart of the devotees. The devotee does not know anything beyond Me, and I also cannot forget the devotee. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 05:3405:34, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,561‎ The activities of the Lord (Krsna) are always inconceivable to the tiny brain of the living entities. Nothing is impossible for the Supreme Lord, but all His actions are wonderful for us, and thus He is always beyond the range of our conceivable limits ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3405:34, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,800‎ Sankaracarya says, narayanah paro 'vyaktat. "Narayana is transcendental, beyond this cosmic creation." In this way, nothing within this cosmic manifestation is separate from Krsna, although Krsna's original form is not visible in everything ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3405:34, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,654‎ With great love and affection, the maha-bhagavata observes the Supreme Personality of Godhead, devotional service and the devotee. He observes nothing beyond Krsna, Krsna consciousness and Krsna's devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3305:33, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,682‎ As far as the gopis of Vrndavana were concerned, from the very beginning of their lives they did not know anything beyond Krsna. Krsna and Balarama were their life and soul ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1205:12, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,849‎ To follow the direction of Bhagavad-gita means ‎No edit summary
• 05:1205:12, 22 July 2022 diff hist +10,503‎ You will see Krsna gradually. He will be revealed. He'll be present immediately. It is all revelation. Not that by your eyes you can see. But if you follow the prescription, the direction, you will see Krsna daily, always, twenty-four hours ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1205:12, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,603‎ The spirit of Bhagavad-gita is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita itself. It is just like this. If we want to take a particular medicine, then we have to follow the particular direction mentioned on the label of the medicine ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1105:11, 22 July 2022 diff hist +37‎ One who wishes to advance to the platform of raganuga-bhakti must follow the injunctions of the authoritative scriptures under the direction of the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1105:11, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,267‎ Narayana does not speak personally, but Krsna, or Vasudeva, does, as in Bhagavad-gita for example. Therefore, to follow the direction of Bhagavad-gita means to surrender unto Krsna, and to surrender in this way is the highest perfection of bhakti-yoga ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1105:11, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,640‎ I am teacher, my business is to give them direction. So if they follow the direction, their business is successful ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1105:11, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,305‎ If you are situated in the third stage nicely - that means if you follow the regulative principles under my direction - then the fourth stage automatically comes ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1105:11, 22 July 2022 diff hist −6‎ If we want to take a particular medicine, then we have to follow the directions written on the label. We cannot take the medicine according to our own whim or the direction of a friend. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1105:11, 22 July 2022 diff hist −6‎ A brahmana is supposed to know this fact (one can perfect his duties only serving God) due to his perfection in Vedic wisdom. The other sections are supposed to follow the direction of the brahmana Vaisnava ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1005:10, 22 July 2022 diff hist +8,030‎ As soon as you become Krsna conscious and you follow the rules and regulations under the direction of your bona fide spiritual master, at that time you become yourself bona fide ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1005:10, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,708‎ You should be assured that "Because I'm following strictly the direction of my spiritual master and sastras, certainly I shall meet Krsna" ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1005:10, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,461‎ Sometimes the mind is compared to a maddened elephant. Without following the direction of a spiritual master one cannot control the mind and the senses ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1005:10, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,452‎ Rupa mentions, Obeying the orders of the spiritual master with faith and devotion, 4) following in the footsteps of great acaryas (teachers) under the direction of the spiritual master, 5) inquiring from the spiritual master how to advance in KC ‎No edit summary
• 05:0905:09, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,122‎ Lord Caitanya's order is to become a spiritual master under the direction of Him by following the regulative principles, chanting daily at least sixteen rounds of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, & preaching the cult of Krsna consciousness all over the world ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0905:09, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,675‎ I understand you are now at the Bhaktivedanta Manor assisting Mukunda in strictly following the parampara and encouraging all the devotees in that direction ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0905:09, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,428‎ Ecstatic love of Godhead can be potently invoked simply by following the rules and regulations of devotional service as they are prescribed in scriptures, under the direction of a bona fide spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0805:08, 22 July 2022 diff hist +37‎ Duties on the spiritual platform and duties on the material platform may be different, but the principle of following the authorized direction is always good for the performer. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +8,875‎ The Lord says in the Bhagavad-gita, "The asuras' view of this cosmic manifestation is that the whole creation is false. The asuras think that the mere interaction of matter is the source of the creation and that there is no controller or God" ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,404‎ The demoniac conclude that the world is phantasmagoria. There is no cause, no effect, no controller, no purpose: everything is unreal. They say that this cosmic manifestation arises due to chance material actions and reactions. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,026‎ These (demoniac) speculators are envious of the existence of the Lord. Jagad ahur anisvaram: their conclusion is that the entire cosmic manifestation has no controller, but is just working naturally ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2‎ There is no supreme controller other than Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,557‎ So how we can think that there is no control, there is no government, everything has come out of its own course? There is controller, and He is called Isvara. Isvara means God. There is management of God. It is very commonsense understanding ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 22 July 2022 diff hist −20‎ Sometimes the tables turn, and we find that the dog controls the master. This happens because actually no one is the controller, and everyone is controlled. Unfortunately we are forgetful of this situation, and this forgetfulness is called maya ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,781‎ Our message is that here in this material world, there are many controllers, many governors, many isvaras, but nobody is the supreme isvara. Supreme isvara means He has no controller over Him ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,137‎ One thinks that there is no God or controller and that one is independent and can do anything. This is the material condition, and when one awakens from this ignorance, he is called liberated ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5404:54, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,459‎ Asatyam apratistham te jagad ahur anisvaram (BG 16.8). The Raksasas are unaware that the Supreme Lord is the ruler of the creation. They think that everything has come about by chance or accident and that there is no ruler, king or controller ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4304:43, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,079‎ The personified Vedas continued, "When elevated to the human form of life, they identify with a particular class of men, or a particular nation or race or so-called religion, forgetting their real identity as eternal servants of Your Lordship" ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4304:43, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,436‎ There was a great hard struggle for some time, but it has turned out successfully, and it is now correctly and practically established that devotional service is not restricted to a particular class of men ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,284‎ Teachings of Christ, teaching of Buddha, they are meant for a particular type of men. Generally it is meant for everyone, but specifically for a particular type of men ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,019‎ Such recommendations (association of women by marriage and flesh-eating by sacrifices) in the Vedic literature are meant for a particular class of men, and not for all ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,239‎ On the whole, meat-eating is not completely forbidden; a particular class of men is allowed to eat meat according to various circumstances and injunctions. As far as eating beef is concerned, however, it is strictly prohibited to everyone ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist −20‎ From this (CC Antya 3.50) statement by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu we can clearly understand that the word yavana does not refer only to a particular class of men ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4104:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,889‎ Brahmanism is not a system meant to create a monopoly for a particular class of men. Everyone should be educated so as to become a brahmana. At least there must be an opportunity to allow everyone to attain the destination of life ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4104:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,496‎ Bombay is the best city in India, and people are also very advanced, enlightened. So let us combine together and develop this institution for the whole human society. That is our ambition. It is not for any sect or any creed or any particular class of men ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4104:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +30‎ When it is said that Narayana, the Supreme Being, is situated in everyone's heart, this does not mean that everyone has become Narayana or that a particular poor man has become Narayana. Such a conclusion is rejected herein - SB 7.14.18 ‎No edit summary
• 04:4104:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,293‎ The word yavana means - meat-eater. Anyone from a meat-eating community is called a yavana. One who does not strictly observe the Vedic regulative principles is called a mleccha. These words do not refer to any particular man ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4004:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist −11‎ The tendency of a particular man toward work is determined by the modes of material nature which he has acquired. Such symptoms of life, according to different modes of material nature, are described in the Eighteenth Chapter of this book. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4004:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,206‎ The real fact is that a bona fide spiritual master knows the nature of a particular man and what sort of duties he can perform in Krsna consciousness, and he instructs him in that way. He instructs him through the ear, not privately, but publicly ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4004:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6‎ The by-products of the body, namely children, are also different individual souls; and, owing to the body, they appear as children of a particular man. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4004:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,105‎ The by-products of the body, namely children, are also different individual souls; and, owing to the body, they appear as children of a particular man ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3904:39, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,354‎ There are different departments of activity in Krsna consciousness, and a spiritual master, knowing the particular ability of a particular man, trains him in such a way that by his tendency to act he becomes perfect ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3904:39, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,356‎ Propaganda by false glorification of an unqualified person cannot bring about any good, either for the particular man or for the society ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3904:39, 22 July 2022 diff hist +8,122‎ Everyone has to take sannyasa. It is not that a particular man, simply Caitanya Mahaprabhu has to take sannyasa. No. That is obligation. You must ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3804:38, 22 July 2022 diff hist +11,126‎ Buddhir buddhimatam asmi tejas tejasvinam aham. One who is very influential, that influence is Krsna. That influence, that particular influence of a particular man, that is also Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,452‎ We recruit devotees with great difficulty. So they must be well-treated. New men may not always behave so nicely but we must be tolerant ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,546‎ I started this movement just in this way. It is not very difficult. The important thing is that you behave nicely, chant all your rounds and follow strictly the regulative principles. Example is better than precept ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,734‎ Krsna continued, "Because I was trained in a village in My childhood, I am not well acquainted with the etiquette of urban life. I do not know the way to please a wife with nice words and behavior" ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,442‎ A very nice example of this obligatory behavior was manifested when Sudama Vipra went to Krsna's palace ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1404:14, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,989‎ All our members, the members of the Krsna consciousness society, should be ideal. At least people may see that "Here is a class of men - ideal character, ideal behavior, spiritual advanced, and very frugal and very nice" ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1602:16, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,756‎ As devotees propagate the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, the general population of the entire world gets the opportunity to understand the glories of the holy name ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1502:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,335‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was always anxious to deliver the fallen souls because their fallen condition gave Him great unhappiness. That is the platform on which one can propagate the mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1502:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,569‎ I have to propagate this mission, Krsna consciousness, so I am not so much attached to the rules and regulations, but I am attached to the preaching work ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1402:14, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,425‎ I am going to America on the mission of propagating my publication Srimad Bhagwatam and I am taking with me 200 sets X 3 volumes of books depending solely on the goodwill of Srila Prabhupada ‎No edit summary
• 01:4201:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +8,920‎ Without any training there is a natural attraction due to the sex impulse. This is a material example, but the devotee is praying that he may develop a similar spontaneous attachment for the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 01:4201:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,628‎ The word ksatra-bandhu refers to the so-called administrators or persons promoted to the post of the administrator without proper training by culture and tradition ‎No edit summary current
• 01:4201:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,035‎ Persons promoted to the post of the administrator without proper training by culture and tradition ‎No edit summary current
• 01:4201:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +20,060‎ No one should be eager to understand the conjugal love of Krsna without undergoing disciplinary training under the six Gosvamis of Vrndavana ‎No edit summary current
• 01:4101:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,741‎ In the so-called people's government there is no trained ksatriya king; as soon as someone strong accumulates votes, he becomes the minister or president, without training from the learned brahmanas expert in the sastras ‎No edit summary current
• 01:4101:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,279‎ Here we are having sense pleasure artificially through this body. Before leaving this body, if we practice to stop sense pleasure as much as possible... There is training, of course. Without training, nothing can be done ‎No edit summary current
• 01:4001:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,785‎ Gradually the democratic government is becoming unfit for the needs of the people, and therefore some parties are trying to elect a dictator. A dictatorship is the same as a monarchy, but without a trained leader ‎No edit summary current