User contributions for VrajendraKumar
26 July 2022
- 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