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21 March 2023
- 08:4808:48, 21 March 2023 diff hist +18,249 Such divisions (of human society in varnasrama-dharma) are in terms of educational qualifications. They are to keep the society in a state of peace and prosperity. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 08:4708:47, 21 March 2023 diff hist +8,300 Sometimes I become very eager to start a varnasrama college. We have nothing to do with varnasrama. But we want to see that the whole human society is peaceful. That is our mission. Sarve sukhino bhavantu. This is the desire of the SP of Godhead No edit summary current
- 08:4608:46, 21 March 2023 diff hist +10,963 Our duty is to follow the instructions of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and preach the Krsna consciousness movement all over the world very sincerely. This is the best welfare activity for the peace and prosperity of human society No edit summary current
- 08:4508:45, 21 March 2023 diff hist +3,781 Krsna teaches people about this varnasrama-dharma so that all of human society can live peacefully by observing the principles for the four social divisions and four spiritual divisions (varna and asrama) and thus make advancement in spiritual knowledge No edit summary current
- 08:4408:44, 21 March 2023 diff hist +3,692 I am a Sannyasi and my mission of life is to propagate the idea of cultivating spiritual vision of life which alone can bring about peace and prosperity of the human society No edit summary current
- 08:4108:41, 21 March 2023 diff hist +2,536 The only duty of the king will be to curb the dishonest miscreants. That will bring about peace and harmony all over human society No edit summary current
- 08:4108:41, 21 March 2023 diff hist +5,584 The Lord being the father, all living beings should fully and satisfactorily discharge the duty and will of the father, as faithful sons. This very mentality will at once bring peace and prosperity to human society No edit summary current
- 08:3908:39, 21 March 2023 diff hist +3,919 The conclusion is that if we want real peace and order in the human society, we must follow the principles laid down by the Manu-samhita and confirmed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna No edit summary current
- 08:3808:38, 21 March 2023 diff hist +3,234 The brahmanas and the sannyasis are expert in the spiritual advancement of society, whereas the ksatriyas or the administrators are expert in the material peace and prosperity of human society. Both of them are the pillars of all happiness No edit summary current
- 08:3508:35, 21 March 2023 diff hist +4,260 That system of human society was so nice that there were no political, social and economic upheavals. The different castes, or varna classifications, are essential for maintaining a peaceful human society No edit summary current
- 06:4606:46, 21 March 2023 diff hist +6,413 If the members of human society actually want peace of mind, tranquillity and friendly relations between men and nations, they must follow the Krsna conscious system of religion, by which they can develop their dormant love for Krsna, the S P of God No edit summary current
- 06:4206:42, 21 March 2023 diff hist +2,969 How can they (modern human society) expect peace and prosperity in human society while committing such sinful activities (instead of giving protection to the cows and serving them, people are killing them)? It is impossible No edit summary current
- 06:0706:07, 21 March 2023 diff hist +16 You are leader, so if you are enthusiastic then all of the others will remain always enthusiastic, that is your greatest qualification No edit summary current
- 06:0606:06, 21 March 2023 diff hist +4,248 If you simply do as I am doing, not avoiding anything which may have to be done for pushing on Krsna's movement, remaining always stuck up very tightly to the footsteps of Rupa Gosvami, then without any doubt you will remain always fresh and enthusiastic No edit summary
- 06:0306:03, 21 March 2023 diff hist +3,369 If we strictly observe these principles, we shall remain always enthusiastic. These are the sources and the maintainers of our enthusiasm to serve Krsna No edit summary current
- 06:0306:03, 21 March 2023 diff hist +3,134 Always remain enthusiastic and inspire others and your life will be glorious and at the end you are sure to go back to Home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 06:0106:01, 21 March 2023 diff hist +16 The point is to be engaged in doing something for Krishna, never mind what is that job, but being so engaged in doing something very much satisfying to the devotee that he remains always enthusiastic No edit summary current
- 05:5705:57, 21 March 2023 diff hist +2,096 Take good care of these devotees so that they they remain always enthusiastically engaged in chanting, hearing, reading our books and following the regulative principles No edit summary current
- 05:5505:55, 21 March 2023 diff hist +36 Remain sincere and fixed up and enthusiastic by following the rules and regulations and chanting 16 rounds. Then you will remain spiritually strong No edit summary current
- 05:5405:54, 21 March 2023 diff hist +3,716 Push on in your preaching work as I have shown you, remain pure, enthusiastic, and optimistic, and Krishna will favor you with all good results and benedictions No edit summary current
- 05:5205:52, 21 March 2023 diff hist +3,175 Krsna Consciousness means always increasing, so I am glad to see that you are remaining enthusiastic to push on this Krsna Consciousness movement more and more No edit summary current
- 05:5105:51, 21 March 2023 diff hist +3,333 I was always determined that somehow I would do everything possible to fulfill the desire of my Guru Maharaja, and despite all difficulties I always remained enthusiastic No edit summary current
- 05:4705:47, 21 March 2023 diff hist +4,204 If you remain pure and enthusiastic, you will have the spiritual strength to enthuse others with the chanting of Hare Krsna Mahamantra and devotional service to the Lord No edit summary current
- 05:2805:28, 21 March 2023 diff hist +2,772 If you don't use properly our this life for God consciousness or Krsna consciousness and go back to the kingdom of God, then we have to suffer again in the 8,400,000 species of life cycle, one after another. That is our choice No edit summary
20 March 2023
- 08:1908:19, 20 March 2023 diff hist +2,096 The word koti means ten million, and a yojana is eight miles. The diameter of the universe is fifty koti yojanas - four billion miles No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 20 March 2023 diff hist +22,581 The word koti means ten million, and a yojana is eight miles. The diameter of the universe is fifty koti yojanas (four billion miles) No edit summary current
- 08:1608:16, 20 March 2023 diff hist +56 One yojana is calculated to be eight miles, and he has to pass along a road (to reach Yamaraja) which is as much as 792,000 miles. Such a long distance is passed over within a few moments only No edit summary current
- 07:5207:52, 20 March 2023 diff hist +3,093 According to Viraraghava Acarya, the breadth of the first island (Jambudvipa, situated on the Bhu-mandala planetary system) is 100,000 yojanas. One yojana equals eight miles, and therefore the breadth of the first island is calculated to be 800,000 miles No edit summary current
- 07:4307:43, 20 March 2023 diff hist +3,194 Without devotional service, all other methods for spiritual self-realization are weak and insignificant. Unless one comes to the devotional service of Lord Krsna, jnana and yoga cannot give the desired results No edit summary current
- 07:4207:42, 20 March 2023 diff hist +39 Without bhakti, neither jnana-yoga nor astanga-yoga can be successful, and unless one approaches Krsna, the principles of self-realization have no ultimate destination No edit summary current
- 07:4107:41, 20 March 2023 diff hist +4,920 When he became completely free from the conception of bodily life, Maharaja Prthu realized Lord Krsna sitting in everyone's heart as the Paramatma. Being thus able to get all instructions from Him, he gave up all other practices of yoga and jnana No edit summary current
- 07:4107:41, 20 March 2023 diff hist +39 Whatever way of spiritual realization we accept (karma, jnana, mystic yoga), the ultimate goal is Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The living entities are eternally connected with Him via devotional service No edit summary current
- 07:4007:40, 20 March 2023 diff hist +3,064 Those who are not unalloyed devotees & who depend instead on such methods of spiritual realization as karma, jnana & hatha-yogas must leave the body at a suitable time & thereby be assured whether or not they will return to the world of birth & death No edit summary current
- 07:3907:39, 20 March 2023 diff hist +6,252 Those who are addicted to the pursuit of empiric philosophy are also advised to act in such a way that they will realize bhakti. Karma-yoga is therefore different from ordinary karma, and jnana-yoga is different from ordinary jnana No edit summary
- 07:3707:37, 20 March 2023 diff hist +39 Those who aren't unalloyed devotees & depend instead on such methods of spiritual realization as karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, hatha-yoga, etc., must leave the body at a suitable time & thereby be assured whether or not they'll return to the world. BG 1972 p No edit summary current
- 07:3707:37, 20 March 2023 diff hist +8,749 The real purpose of all processes of transcendental realization - jnana-yoga, dhyana-yoga or bhakti-yoga - is to arrive at the point of devotional service No edit summary current
- 07:3507:35, 20 March 2023 diff hist +5,871 The first six chapters of the Gita are meant for those who are interested in transcendental knowledge, in understanding the self, the Superself & the process of realization by jnana-yoga, dhyana-yoga, & discrimination of the self from matter. BG 1972 pur No edit summary current
- 07:3407:34, 20 March 2023 diff hist +5,431 There are various processes for self-realization, such as karma, jnana and yoga, but none of them is equal to the process of devotional service No edit summary current
- 07:3307:33, 20 March 2023 diff hist +4,740 Prthu Maharaja was not even interested in the perfection of the yoga and jnana systems, for he thoroughly realized that devotional service to Krsna is the ultimate goal of life No edit summary current
- 07:3307:33, 20 March 2023 diff hist +6,348 On the other hand, those who are not devotees but are engaged in uncertain processes of self-realization, such as jnana, yoga and karma, are understood to be still contaminated No edit summary current
- 07:3207:32, 20 March 2023 diff hist +3,816 One should be intelligent enough to know how to utilize material assets for the purpose of spiritual realization. That is called karma-yoga or jnana-yoga. Whatever we have we should use as service to the Supreme Person No edit summary current
- 07:3107:31, 20 March 2023 diff hist +3,785 No one can excel God in any capacity, and therefore no one can be equal to or greater than Him, nor can anyone attain the stage of equality with God by any kind of endeavor. Jnana, yoga and bhakti are three recognized processes of spiritual realization No edit summary current
- 07:3007:30, 20 March 2023 diff hist +39 Karma, jnana, yoga and bhakti. There are four primary principles for spiritual realization. So out of the four, karma, jnana and yoga, they are all material, but bhakti is not material. That is spiritual No edit summary current
- 07:2907:29, 20 March 2023 diff hist +39 In reality, "What I am," that can be understood through devotional service, not by karma, jnana, yoga. Give this example, I mean to say, authoritative statement of Krsna, that bhaktya mam abhijanati - BG 18.55 No edit summary current
- 07:2407:24, 20 March 2023 diff hist +3,463 Other knowledge, being devoid of bhakti-yoga or satisfaction of the Lord, cannot lead one back to the kingdom of God, which means that it cannot even offer salvation No edit summary current
- 07:2307:23, 20 March 2023 diff hist +2,520 One has to return back to the kingdom of God. That is the mission of human life. So one who does not know this mission of human life, so according to Bhagavad-gita, he is living uselessly. His purpose of life, he has no No edit summary current
- 07:2207:22, 20 March 2023 diff hist +4,531 It is a foolish imagination that we can go to other planets in the present body. If we want to go to Devaloka, the planets of the demigods, we must achieve the required qualifications, and the same is true if we want to go back to the kingdom of God No edit summary
- 07:2007:20, 20 March 2023 diff hist +4,091 Being thus qualified spiritually (by being on the bhakti platform), one is allowed to enter the spiritual kingdom of God and return home, back to Godhead - visate tad-anantaram No edit summary current
- 07:1707:17, 20 March 2023 diff hist +3,748 The Supreme Lord wants all living beings to be obedient to Him and thereby become happy. Therefore the king's interest is to guide all subjects back to the kingdom of God No edit summary current
- 07:1507:15, 20 March 2023 diff hist +4,400 Factually the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original source of all self-realization. Consequently, the goal of all auspicious activities - karma, jnana, yoga and bhakti - is the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 07:1407:14, 20 March 2023 diff hist +39 Everyone is searching after self-realization in different ways - by karma-yoga, by jnana-yoga, by dhyana-yoga, by raja-yoga, by bhakti-yoga, etc. To engage in self-realization is the responsibility of every living entity developed in consciousness No edit summary current
- 07:1207:12, 20 March 2023 diff hist +39 By nature's law, this human form of life is specifically meant for self-realization, in either of the three ways - namely karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, or bhakti-yoga. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 07:1107:11, 20 March 2023 diff hist +5,719 By karma-misra-bhakti one is elevated to the celestial kingdom, by jnana-misra-bhakti one is able to merge in the Brahman effulgence, and by yoga-misra-bhakti one is able to realize the omnipotency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 07:0807:08, 20 March 2023 diff hist +4,637 A strong devotee makes propaganda against all other spiritual conceptions - namely jnana, karma and yoga. With his devotional flag unfurled, he always stands fast to conquer other conceptions of transcendental realization No edit summary current
- 06:5406:54, 20 March 2023 diff hist +3,580 Nowadays the nonsense are becoming God by meditation No edit summary current
- 06:5106:51, 20 March 2023 diff hist +4,757 The Lord is more anxious to take us back into His kingdom than we can desire. Most of us do not desire at all to go back to Godhead. Only a very few men want to go back to Godhead. But anyone who desires to go back to Godhead, Krsna helps in all respects No edit summary current
- 06:4406:44, 20 March 2023 diff hist +3,026 Persons whose austerity is meager can hardly obtain the service of the pure devotees who are progressing on the path back to the kingdom of Godhead, the Vaikunthas No edit summary current
- 06:3606:36, 20 March 2023 diff hist +4,248 A pure devotee is never very anxious to go back to the kingdom of God. He entirely depends on the good will of the Lord. He is equally satisfied even if the Lord desires him to go to hell No edit summary current
- 06:3206:32, 20 March 2023 diff hist +7,808 Anyone who understands Krsna's appearance, disappearance and activities, all these transcendental things, he goes back to the kingdom of Godhead after leaving this body. Now this fact should be clearly understood No edit summary current
- 06:2206:22, 20 March 2023 diff hist +10,457 If somebody says, "Yes, it is all right. You go on with this (sex and intoxication). Simply meditate for fifteen minutes and you'll actually realize that you are God..." This is asuric No edit summary
- 06:1906:19, 20 March 2023 diff hist +49 Very cheap thing: "You can do whatever you like. You simply meditate and become God. That's all." So much cheating is going on everywhere No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 20 March 2023 diff hist +25,264 This is all nonsense (to claim that God meditates, and by His meditation He becomes God). God is God, & He was always God and will always be God. Even as an infant on the lap of His mother Krsna is God. No meditation was required, no austerity or penance No edit summary current
- 06:1406:14, 20 March 2023 diff hist +6,988 The modern fashion is that they want to become God by meditation, by advancement of mystic power. But that kind of God is not Krsna. Krsna does not become God; He's God always. Others, they try to become God by mystic power No edit summary current
- 06:1106:11, 20 March 2023 diff hist +9,467 The materialistic theory that God-worship is anthropomorphic is not correct. No living being can become God by undergoing meditation or austerities. God is always God. Krsna as a baby is as complete as He is as a full-fledged youth No edit summary current
- 06:1006:10, 20 March 2023 diff hist +7,869 The concoction of the impersonalists, that one can become God by meditation or by some artificial material activities, is herewith declared false. God is always God in any condition or status No edit summary current
- 06:0906:09, 20 March 2023 diff hist +4,257 They have got money, they want to pay somebody some fees, and if he says that, "I'll give you some mantra and you will, fifteen minutes' meditation, within six months you'll become God," these things they want No edit summary current
- 06:0806:08, 20 March 2023 diff hist +49 There are so many things to know but these things are not discussed nowadays. Very cheap thing: "You can do whatever you like. You simply meditate and become God, that's all." No edit summary current
- 06:0706:07, 20 March 2023 diff hist +4,259 That is the perfection of yoga. One cannot become a perfect yogi simply by showing some sitting postures, nor by such sitting postures or so-called meditation can one become God, as is being advertised No edit summary current
- 06:0606:06, 20 March 2023 diff hist +49 So this is God; in the lap of His mother He is God. He does not have to become God by meditation, penance, austerity or by following rules or regulations. He is substantially and eternally God, and He has nothing to do No edit summary current
- 06:0106:01, 20 March 2023 diff hist +49 Nowadays it is becoming fashionable for people to claim that they are becoming God by meditation. This means that by meditation it is possible to transform oneself into God; in other words, God meditates, and by His meditation He becomes God No edit summary current
- 05:5905:59, 20 March 2023 diff hist +7,883 Krsna is God from the childhood. When He was three months old He demonstrated His godly powers. He immediately killed Sakatasura. He immediately killed Putana. So He did not become God by meditation, manufactured in some mystic factory No edit summary current
- 05:5705:57, 20 March 2023 diff hist +49 Krsna consciousness means to understand these things (that if we contaminate sinful activities it may not be manifest immediately). It is not a bogus propaganda that, "You meditate fifteen minutes & you become God," nonsense. This is not such a movement No edit summary current
- 05:5505:55, 20 March 2023 diff hist +49 Instead of trying to become God by some meditational process or other, we had better hear about God submissively and try to understand Him and our relationship to Him No edit summary current
- 05:5205:52, 20 March 2023 diff hist +5,081 God is God from the very beginning. The idea that someone can become God by meditation is ridiculous. By hard endeavor one may realize his godly nature, but he will never become God No edit summary current
- 05:4705:47, 20 March 2023 diff hist +8,871 God is never manufactured. God is God. Not by mystic power one becomes God or by so-called meditation or magical arts. No. God is God. Nobody can become God. Asamaurdhva No edit summary current
- 05:4305:43, 20 March 2023 diff hist +4,144 Foolish persons are misled into believing that simply by some caricature of meditation and sitting postures one can become God within six months No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 20 March 2023 diff hist +5 An incarnation of God is such from the very beginning of His life. It is not that by performing meditation one can become an incarnation of God all of a sudden. Such false incarnations are meant for fools and rascals, not sane men No edit summary current
19 March 2023
- 10:0310:03, 19 March 2023 diff hist +7,060 We should not waste our valuable time in any other occupation or business. Simply inquire and be ready how to serve Krsna No edit summary current
- 10:0110:01, 19 March 2023 diff hist +5,912 We shall be sorry for Kirtanananda's plight under Maya and may not waste our valuable time talking about him. The best thing that you have done is that he should no longer speak in our temples. We shall all pray to Krishna for his recovery No edit summary current
- 09:4909:49, 19 March 2023 diff hist +2,822 The great politician-pandita named Canakya said that even one moment of time cannot be returned even if one is prepared to pay millions of dollars. One cannot calculate the amount of loss there is in wasting valuable time No edit summary current
- 09:4409:44, 19 March 2023 diff hist +4,619 Sri Sukadeva Gosvami has described how the foolish materially attached men are wasting their valuable time in the improvement of the material conditions of life 1) by sleeping, indulging in sex life No edit summary
- 09:4309:43, 19 March 2023 diff hist +4,594 Sri Sukadeva Gosvami has described how the foolish materially attached men are wasting their valuable time 2) by developing economic conditions and maintaining a band of relatives who are to be vanquished in the air of oblivion No edit summary
- 09:4109:41, 19 March 2023 diff hist +35 Srila Rupa Gosvami states in his Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, avyartha-kalatvam: (CC Madhya 23.18-19) A Vaisnava must be very alert not to waste even a second of his valuable lifetime. This is a symptom of a Vaisnava No edit summary
- 09:4009:40, 19 March 2023 diff hist +4,366 If one gets another chance in a human body and wastes his valuable time in the association of persons who are concerned with sexual life and palatable dishes, then naturally he again glides down to the same Andha-tamisra and Tamisra hells No edit summary current
- 09:3709:37, 19 March 2023 diff hist −18 Sanatana Gosvami considered himself fallen, for in the association of such men (meat-eaters, drunkards and materialists), he also fell victim to material enjoyment. Having passed his life in that way, he considered that he had wasted his valuable time No edit summary current
- 09:3509:35, 19 March 2023 diff hist +15,677 One should be very practical in every field of activities and should not waste his valuable time in practicing useless gymnastic feats in the name of yoga. Real yoga is to search out the four-handed Supersoul within one's heart No edit summary
- 09:3309:33, 19 March 2023 diff hist +4,728 One may go on speculating and waste the valuable time of his human life, but that will not help anyone to enter into the precincts of the Lord No edit summary current
- 09:3309:33, 19 March 2023 diff hist +8 Nobody understands this philosophy, but this is real philosophy: not to waste your valuable time for improving your economic condition. That is not possible. You have to utilize every moment to see how we are improving Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 09:2809:28, 19 March 2023 diff hist +3,490 Men who are ignorant cannot appreciate activities in Krsna consciousness, and therefore Lord Krsna advises us not to disturb them and simply waste valuable time. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 09:2709:27, 19 March 2023 diff hist +4,701 Men are wasting their valuable time in the improvement of the material conditions of life by sleeping, indulging in sex life, developing economic conditions and maintaining a band of relatives who are to be vanquished No edit summary current
- 09:2509:25, 19 March 2023 diff hist +4,387 Men are naturally apt to hear histories and narrations of various personalities performing mundane activities, without knowing that by such association one simply wastes valuable time and also becomes addicted to the three qualities of mundane nature No edit summary current
- 09:2309:23, 19 March 2023 diff hist +6,372 In other words, if one practices yoga mysticism and does not accept a bona fide spiritual master, he will surely fail. He will simply waste his valuable time No edit summary current
- 09:2109:21, 19 March 2023 diff hist +13,413 Ignorant of their real master, the foolish workers waste their valuable time serving mammon. Unfortunately, they never surrender to the supreme master of all masters, nor do they take time to hear of Him from the proper sources. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 09:1909:19, 19 March 2023 diff hist +5,789 If you don't accept spiritual master, how you'll get transcen... You'll be taught here and there, here and there, and waste time. Waste time for the teacher and waste your valuable time. Therefore you have to be guided by an expert spiritual master No edit summary current
- 09:1509:15, 19 March 2023 diff hist +3,548 If we increase our love for Krishna we shall be able to get out of this maya. People who are not exerting to improve Krishna Consciousness are simply wasting their valuable time and human life No edit summary current
- 09:1009:10, 19 March 2023 diff hist +4,412 If one gives up the auspicious path of devotional service and simply tries to know things by speculation, one wastes his valuable time. The result of such a labor of love is simply labor; there is no other result No edit summary current
- 09:0409:04, 19 March 2023 diff hist +5,120 Human society needs only sufficient grain and cows to solve its economic problems. All other things but these two are artificial necessities created by man to kill his valuable life at the human level and waste his time in things which are not needed Undo revision 1372326 by Yadu Kumar (talk) current Tag: Undo
- 08:5208:52, 19 March 2023 diff hist +18,526 He also wants to see that not a moment is wasted without engagement in Krsna consciousness. He is always careful not to spoil life's valuable time. That is the first qualification of a madhyama-adhikari No edit summary current
- 07:5807:58, 19 March 2023 diff hist +3,972 Empiric philosophical speculation cannot give one relief from the threefold miseries of material existence. Simply to endeavor for knowledge without devoting oneself to the Lord is a waste of valuable time No edit summary
- 07:4207:42, 19 March 2023 diff hist +4,513 A sadhu is suhrdah sarva-dehinam (SB 3.25.21), the friend of everyone. Why then should the rich, instead of associating with sadhus, waste their valuable time in association with other rich men who are averse to spiritual life No edit summary current