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29 July 2022
- 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
- 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
- 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