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6 April 2023
- 07:3107:31, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,846 Perfection is achieved by performance of yajna (sacrifice), as described above (BG 4.31). Now, if a person is not inclined to perform yajna according to the Vedas, how can he expect a happy life? BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 07:3107:31, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,870 O most fortunate Pracetasa, because of your great faith in Me, you have attained the supreme devotional ecstasy. Indeed, because of your austerities, combined with exalted devotion, your life is now successful. You have achieved complete perfection No edit summary current
- 07:3107:31, 6 April 2023 diff hist +34 O learned brahmana (Sukadeva Gosvami), mother Yasoda's breast milk was sucked by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. What past auspicious activities did she and Nanda Maharaja perform to achieve such perfection in ecstatic love - SB 10.8.46 No edit summary current
- 07:3007:30, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,090 O King, if a yogi maintains a desire for improved material enjoyments, like transference to the topmost planet, Brahmaloka, or the achievement of the eightfold perfections, then he has to take away with him the materially molded mind and senses No edit summary
- 07:2907:29, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,465 O best among the twice-born, it is therefore concluded that the highest perfection one can achieve by discharging the duties prescribed for one’s own occupation according to caste divisions and orders of life is to please the PG - SB 1.2.13 No edit summary current
- 07:2807:28, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,985 O best among the twice-born, it is therefore concluded that the highest perfection one can achieve by discharging the duties prescribed for one's own occupation according to caste divisions and orders of life is to please the Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 07:2807:28, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,236 O best among the twice-born, it is therefore concluded that the highest perfection one can achieve, by discharging his prescribed duties (dharma) according to caste divisions and orders of life, is to please the Lord Hari No edit summary current
- 07:2707:27, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,357 O best among the twice-born, it is concluded that the highest perfection one can achieve, by discharging his prescribed duties (dharma) according to caste divisions and orders of life, is to please the Lord Hari No edit summary current
- 07:2707:27, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,567 Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth. BG 7.3 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 07:2707:27, 6 April 2023 diff hist +25,902 One who has achieved perfection in chanting the transcendental Hare Krsna vibration does not have to separately learn the philosophy of Vedanta-sutra No edit summary current
- 07:2707:27, 6 April 2023 diff hist +8,498 One who disregards the injunctions of the sastras and acts whimsically, as he likes, never achieves the perfection of life, not to speak of happiness. Nor does he return home to the spiritual world No edit summary current
- 07:2607:26, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,741 One usually becomes liberated and perfect by executing the regulative principles set down in the sastras. Nonetheless, many persons have achieved perfection simply by the blessings of a spiritual master or superior No edit summary
- 07:2607:26, 6 April 2023 diff hist +13 One should eat very frugally and should always remain secluded so that he can achieve the highest perfection of life No edit summary current
- 07:2607:26, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,955 One should cease performing conventional religious practices and should be attracted to those which lead to salvation. One should eat very frugally and should always remain secluded so that he can achieve the highest perfection of life No edit summary current
- 07:2507:25, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,305 One seriously eager to achieve transcendental perfection, Krsna consciousness, must eat krsna-prasadam. Such food is sattvika, or in the material quality of goodness, but when offered to Krsna it becomes transcendental No edit summary current
- 07:2407:24, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,416 One may sometimes chant with offenses and sometimes without offenses, but if one seriously adopts this process, he will achieve perfection, which cannot be achieved through Vedic ritualistic ceremonies of atonement No edit summary current
- 07:2407:24, 6 April 2023 diff hist +24,291 One can achieve the perfection of life only when he has a definite idea of Vaikuntha and the Supreme Godhead No edit summary current
- 07:2407:24, 6 April 2023 diff hist +13 One can achieve the highest perfection of life simply by meditating upon the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current
- 07:2307:23, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,492 Nobody can achieve perfection on the platform of rajo-guna and tamo-guna, because one who is addicted with rajo-guna and tamo-guna, he is always very greedy and lusty No edit summary current
- 07:2207:22, 6 April 2023 diff hist +13 Material existence is a life of revolt against the SPG. There are many ways in which the living entities can manifest this spirit of revolt, such as engaging in fruitive activities, mental speculation, or mystic yoga to achieve material perfections No edit summary current
- 07:2207:22, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,261 Many demons who were continuously inimical toward You finally achieved the perfection of great mystic yogis No edit summary current
- 07:2207:22, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,995 Manv-antara: the periods controlled by the Manus, who teach regulative principles for living beings who desire to achieve perfection in human life. The rules of Manu, as described in the Manu-samhita, guide the way to such perfection No edit summary current
- 07:2107:21, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,279 Maharaja Khatvanga accepted the shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and because of his full surrender he achieved perfection No edit summary current
- 07:2107:21, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 Krsna states in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.3): Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth No edit summary current
- 07:2107:21, 6 April 2023 diff hist +10,929 Krsna explains in Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.3): Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth No edit summary current
- 07:2007:20, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,842 Kartaviryarjuna became undefeatable by enemies and received unobstructed sensory power, beauty, influence, strength, fame and the mystic power by which to achieve all the perfections of yoga, such as anima and laghima No edit summary current
- 07:2007:20, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,904 Kardama Muni was Devahuti's husband, but because he instructed her on how to achieve spiritual perfection, he naturally became her spiritual master also No edit summary current
- 07:0507:05, 6 April 2023 diff hist +13 I (Prabhupada) am very pleased by your humble attitude, so if you will kindly continue to execute your devotional practices in such state of mind then you are sure to achieve perfection of KC very quickly as it is stated by Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current
- 07:0407:04, 6 April 2023 diff hist +13 It is only by abandoning all material gains and becoming fixed in Krsna consciousness, devotional service to the Lord, that one can actually achieve the perfection of life No edit summary current
- 07:0407:04, 6 April 2023 diff hist +22,275 It is not possible to achieve the stage of perfection without the favor of a pure devotee, or a mahatma, a great soul No edit summary current
- 07:0407:04, 6 April 2023 diff hist +26,162 It is not by any kind of transcendental activity - neither fruitive action, nor the cultivation of knowledge, nor cultivation of mystic yoga - that a person can achieve the highest perfection without adding a tinge of devotional service No edit summary current
- 07:0307:03, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,527 In whatever occupation one may be engaged, if he serves the Supreme Lord, he will achieve the highest perfection. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 07:0307:03, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,428 In this way (in real yoga practice there are eight kinds of perfection) yogic perfection is achieved, and after this one can achieve the perfection of spiritual life No edit summary current
- 07:0307:03, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 In the Treta-yuga one could practice yoga by performing great sacrifices, and in the next age, Dvapara-yuga, one could achieve perfection by temple worship No edit summary current
- 07:0207:02, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 In the Caitanya-caritamrta it is said that one should have complete conviction that simply by serving the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna he can achieve all perfection. That is called real faith. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 07:0207:02, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,952 In the Bhagavad-gita it is stated that a person can achieve the highest perfection of life simply by awarding the results of his occupational duty unto the devotional service of the Lord No edit summary current
- 07:0207:02, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,441 In the beginning, Dhruva Maharaja was interested in the kingdom of his father, but later he became a great devotee, maha-bhagavata, and had no interest in material enjoyment. The perfection of life can be achieved only by devotees No edit summary current
- 07:0107:01, 6 April 2023 diff hist +34 In SB 1.2.13, Suta Gosvami says: O best among the twice-born, it is therefore concluded that the highest perfection one can achieve by discharging his prescribed duties according to caste divisions & orders of life is to please the Personality of Godhead No edit summary
- 07:0007:00, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,199 In every department of material science, there is a perfection to be achieved, and to achieve it one must consult the Vedic literature. The highest perfection is to become a devotee of the Lord No edit summary current
- 07:0007:00, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 Interest in Krsna consciousness is not commonplace. In Bhagavad-gita it is said that out of many millions and billions of persons, only one is interested in achieving perfection No edit summary current
- 07:0007:00, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,074 If you accept this conclusion of Mine, being unattached to material enjoyment, adhering to Me with great faith and thus becoming proficient and fully aware of knowledge and its practical application in life, you will achieve the highest perfection No edit summary current
- 06:5906:59, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,554 If they (all living beings) act accordingly, then simply by discharging their respective occupational duties they can achieve the highest perfection of life, namely eternal life, complete knowledge and inexhaustible blessings No edit summary current
- 06:5906:59, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,302 If one is not attracted by the transcendental nature of Krsna, one is sure to continue material existence by transmigrating from one material body to another. Only in Krsna consciousness can one achieve the highest perfection of life No edit summary current
- 06:5806:58, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,086 If anyone displays the signs of understanding Krsna consciousness, he should be accepted, according to Vaisnava smrti regulations, as a prospective brahmana and should be given all facilities to achieve the highest perfection No edit summary current
- 06:5706:57, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,748 He (Pariksit) took full advantage of the awkward situation, and by the great will of the Lord, Maharaja Pariksit achieved the highest perfection of life through the grace of Srila Sukadeva Gosvami No edit summary current
- 06:5706:57, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,194 He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) said that even by a moments association with a pure devotee, one can achieve all perfection. We are not ashamed to admit that this fact was experienced in our practical life No edit summary current
- 06:5606:56, 6 April 2023 diff hist +25,781 He (a person who is puffed up by so-called education) thinks that he does not require a spiritual master and that he can achieve the highest perfection by his own efforts. Such persons are not eligible for the study of Vedanta-sutra No edit summary current
- 06:5606:56, 6 April 2023 diff hist +13 He (a Krsna counscious person) endures all such incidental occurences because he knows that they come and go and do not affect his duties. In this way he achieves the highest perfection in yoga practice. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 06:5506:55, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,127 Having been instructed by the great and learned brahmana Vasistha, who discoursed about the Absolute Truth, Iksvaku became renounced. By following the principles for a yogi, he certainly achieved the supreme perfection after giving up his material body No edit summary current
- 06:5506:55, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,824 Having achieved perfection in the power of mystic yoga, Maru still lives in a place known as Kalapa-grama. At the end of Kali-yuga, he will revive the lost Surya dynasty by begetting a son No edit summary current
- 06:5406:54, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,203 Haihaya achieved all such perfection in devotional service but, because of his offense at the feet of a devotee, was killed by Lord Parasurama No edit summary current
- 06:5406:54, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,770 Great saintly persons and sages who are engaged in the devotional service of the lotus feet of Lord Krsna and who have thus achieved the greatest perfection of self-realization have transcended the bewilderments of the bodily concept of life No edit summary current
- 06:5306:53, 6 April 2023 diff hist +24,169 For many, many lives these boys underwent austerities and penances to achieve the highest perfection of life, and now they have the opportunity to play with Krsna personally on an equal level No edit summary current
- 06:5306:53, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,141 For achieving perfection in Krsna consciousness, no qualification is required other than to be constantly engaged in the loving service of Krsna, the supreme nectar, the reservoir of all pleasure No edit summary current
- 06:5206:52, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,701 Everyone is anxious to achieve the highest perfection of his particular activity, and it is indicated herein (SB 2.1.1) that such perfection is narayana-smrti, for which everyone must endeavor his best No edit summary
- 06:5206:52, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,771 Even those trying for liberation, or merging into the Brahman effulgence, and the yogis who try to achieve perfection in mystic power cannot have peace of mind No edit summary current
- 06:5006:50, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 Even after achieving so-called perfection, many karmis, jnanis and yogis become attached to material activities again No edit summary current
- 06:5006:50, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,866 Economic development means to get more money and to satisfy senses more and more. This is the modern theory. But Krsna says that to achieve the perfection of life, one should be nirasih. Nirasih means unnecessarily desiring for sense gratification No edit summary current
- 06:5006:50, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,599 Each and every one of these processes is so powerful that if anyone follows even one single one of them, he can achieve the desired perfection without fail No edit summary current
- 06:4906:49, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,916 Diverting even a little of one's attention toward Krsna and activities in Krsna consciousness immediately enables one to achieve the highest perfection of life. This is the purpose of the Krsna consciousness movement No edit summary current
- 06:4906:49, 6 April 2023 diff hist +13 Different classes of worshipers of different demigods may ultimately reach the respective planets of those demigods within the universe, but he who reaches the spiritual planets in the brahmajyoti achieves the highest perfection No edit summary
- 06:4806:48, 6 April 2023 diff hist +15,527 Despite all the allurement of yoga practice, the eight kinds of yogic perfections are hardly achievable by the common man. But here it is described that the Lord, who appeared before the four sages, is Himself full of all eight of those perfections No edit summary current
- 06:4806:48, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,205 Dear Queen, you must have worshiped the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who delivers His devotees from the greatest danger. Persons who constantly meditate upon Him surpass the course of birth and death. This perfection is very difficult to achieve No edit summary current
- 06:4706:47, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,442 Cow protection means feeding the brahminical culture, which leads towards God consciousness, and thus perfection of human civilization is achieved No edit summary current
- 06:4606:46, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,692 Chanting of this holy mantra is the only shelter of the desireless pure devotee of the Lord. Simply by such tapasya, or penance, the devotee of the Lord achieves all perfections like Lord Brahma No edit summary current
- 06:4506:45, 6 April 2023 diff hist +34 By thinking of Me (Krsna) constantly with love and affection, you (Devaki and Vasudeva) will achieve the highest perfection: returning home, back to Godhead - SB 10.3.45 No edit summary current
- 06:4306:43, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,743 By chanting the Hare Krsna mantra constantly, one can fix the mind on the lotus feet of Krsna (sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayoh (SB 9.4.18)) and in this way achieve the perfection of yoga No edit summary current
- 06:4006:40, 6 April 2023 diff hist +1,760 Because Yuvanasva, the father of the baby, was blessed by the brahmanas, he did not fall a victim to death. After this incident, he performed severe austerities and achieved perfection in that very spot No edit summary current
- 06:4006:40, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,792 Because Krsna embraced Putana's body with great pleasure and sucked her breast, although she was a great witch, she attained the position of a mother in the transcendental world and thus achieved the highest perfection - SB 10.6.37-38 No edit summary current
- 06:3906:39, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,608 Bali Maharaja gave a gift of three paces of land to Lord Visnu, & because of this charity he lost all the three worlds. Later, however, when Visnu is pleased because of Bali's giving everything to Him, Bali Maharaja will achieve the perfection of life No edit summary
- 06:3906:39, 6 April 2023 diff hist +13 A serious personality can achieve the highest perfection of meeting the Lord and attain his objective simply by being guided by a pure devotee, who automatically approaches by dint of one's serious determination to meet the Lord by all means No edit summary current
- 06:3906:39, 6 April 2023 diff hist +10,354 A person who is puffed up by education has no humility and therefore does not seek the protection of a bona fide spiritual master. He thinks that he does not require a spiritual master and that he can achieve the perfection by his own efforts No edit summary current
- 06:3906:39, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 A person in meditation achieves the perfection of yoga practice when he can see the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 06:3806:38, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,718 A person's achieving perfection in devotional service simply by the causeless mercy of the Lord is explained in the Srimad-Bhagavatam in connection with the brahmanas and their wives who were engaged in performing yajna, or sacrifice No edit summary current
- 06:3706:37, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 A householder, a gentleman or a person living with family, wife and children, his real aim is how to achieve the relationship, lost relationship, with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. His only aim is how to achieve that perfection No edit summary current
- 06:3706:37, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,612 A devotee of Lord Krsna whose mind is always absorbed in Him, who with great attention and reverence chants this stotra (prayer), will achieve the greatest perfection of life without delay No edit summary current
- 06:3606:36, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,491 At present there is a scarcity of brahmanas, the brain of human society is lost. Because practically everyone is a sudra, no one at the present moment can guide the members of society to the proper path by which to achieve perfection in life No edit summary
- 06:3606:36, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,027 As we learn from Bhagavad Gita, it is said there that a person who does not reach to the final goal of Krishna Consciousness is again given the opportunity to fulfill the mission of achieving perfection No edit summary current
- 06:3506:35, 6 April 2023 diff hist +12,105 As stated in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.3): Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me (Krsna) in truth No edit summary current
- 06:3506:35, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,712 As long as the body exists one can thoroughly study the Vedic instructions, and thus at the end of life one can achieve perfection. This is explained in Bhagavad-gita (BG 8.6): yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajaty ante kalevaram No edit summary current
- 06:3506:35, 6 April 2023 diff hist +34 As long as a devotee is in his material body, his probational activities in devotional service prepare him for being transferred to the Lord's supreme abode. Only those who are one hundred percent engaged in devotional service can achieve this perfection No edit summary current
- 06:3406:34, 6 April 2023 diff hist +13 As Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.3): "Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth" No edit summary current
- 06:3406:34, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,580 Anyone who takes up Krsna consciousness achieves the highest perfection of life, regardless of whatever abominable condition of life he may have fallen into No edit summary current
- 06:3306:33, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,377 Although life in Bharata-varsa, in a lower planetary system, is very short, one who lives there can elevate himself to full Krsna consciousness and achieve the highest perfection, even in this short life No edit summary current
- 06:3306:33, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,166 Akrura thought, "He (Krsna) is the reservoir of all beauty; therefore today my eyes will achieve perfection" No edit summary
- 06:3206:32, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,714 Ajamila remembered the holy name of the Lord, Narayana, by merely calling the name of his son Narayana, and that gave him a complete opportunity to achieve the highest perfection of life No edit summary current
- 06:3206:32, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,923 After achieving perfection by self-realization and seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead face to face, Dhruva Maharaja was completely freed from all contamination of material desire No edit summary current
- 06:3106:31, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,781 Actually there is no difference between mystic perfection and materialistic perfection. A German scholar once said that the so-called yoga perfections have already been achieved by the modern scientists, and so he was not concerned with them No edit summary current
- 06:1606:16, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,108 Without good association, one cannot achieve transcendental knowledge No edit summary current
- 06:1506:15, 6 April 2023 diff hist +7,139 To understand Krsna superficially, that is not sufficient. That is also good, but you must have tattvatah, what is Krsna actually. That knowledge can be achieved - bhaktya, by this krsna-yoga No edit summary current
- 06:1506:15, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,519 This perfect knowledge can be achieved by a person who is already engaged in devotional service with faith, steadiness and full detachment, and who is always absorbed in thought of the Supreme. He is aloof from material association No edit summary current
- 06:1506:15, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,752 The personified Vedas continued, "Dear Lord, it is very difficult to achieve perfect knowledge of the Absolute Truth. Your Lordship is so kind to the fallen souls that You appear in different incarnations and execute different activities" No edit summary current
- 06:1406:14, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,263 The internal potency is easily realized by the devotees of the Lord by dint of devotional service. Yuyudhana achieved this stage of life, just as he achieved expert knowledge in military science from Arjuna No edit summary current
- 06:1406:14, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,852 The highest perfectional knowledge is knowledge of the Supreme Lord. He cannot be understood by any process of religion other than devotional service; therefore, the immediate result of perfect knowledge is achieved by executing devotional service No edit summary current
- 06:1306:13, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,539 The empirical philosophers generally put forward the idea that human life is meant for achieving perfect knowledge. To them, knowledge means the ability to discern reality from illusion No edit summary current
- 06:1306:13, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 There are so many university degrees - M.A., Ph.D., D.A.C., and so on, so on, elite. Still, he does not know? Still, he's mudha? The Bhagavad-gita says, "Yes." Mayayapahrta-jnanah: The knowledge he has achieved, that has been taken away by maya No edit summary current
- 06:1206:12, 6 April 2023 diff hist +7,532 Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami says that the actual effect that will be visible as soon as one achieves transcendental knowledge is that he will immediately become free from the clutches of maya and fully engage in the service of the Lord No edit summary current
- 06:1206:12, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,478 Spiritual knowledge is very difficult to achieve, and so in order to make it more easily attainable, the Supreme Lord Himself comes in His original form as Sri Krsna No edit summary current
- 06:1206:12, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 So that perfection of knowledge was achieved in the age of goodness by meditation, and in the age of Treta by sacrifice, and by Dvapara by worship, and in this age this krsna-kirtana No edit summary current
- 06:1106:11, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,578 Second birth means by reformatory process, when he is eligible, then he is initiated by the spiritual master. That is second birth. Then initiation means he is allowed to study Vedic literature to achieve real knowledge No edit summary current
- 06:1106:11, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,625 Real understanding is described here (in SB 3.26.30) as niscayah, or proved experimental knowledge. This experimental knowledge can be achieved when one has understood the false knowledge No edit summary current
- 06:1106:11, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 Persons who have achieved knowledge by the association of devotees follow the mahajanas (mahat-krtena). Such a person always concentrates his mind upon the lotus feet of the Lord and executes one or more of the nine varieties of devotional service No edit summary current
- 06:1006:10, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 One cannot serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead unless one has achieved full perfectional knowledge in the ways and means of performing devotional service No edit summary current
- 06:1006:10, 6 April 2023 diff hist +1,708 My grandfather, the best of all men, who achieved unlimited knowledge and was worshipable for everyone, was afraid of the common men in this world No edit summary
- 06:1006:10, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,248 Lord Sri Krsna agreed to become the son of Vasudeva and Devaki upon being pleased with their severe austerities. Therefore if any austerities have to be done, they must be done to achieve the end of knowledge, Vasudeva No edit summary current
- 06:0906:09, 6 April 2023 diff hist +12 Knowledge is always highly esteemed. And what is that knowledge? Perfect knowledge is achieved when one surrenders unto Krsna, as is said in the Seventh Chapter, 19th verse (of BG): bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 06:0906:09, 6 April 2023 diff hist +12 In this material world we are trying to achieve so many things - riches, women, fame, beauty, knowledge, etc. - but as soon as we are situated in Krsna consciousness we think - Oh, no achievement is better than this No edit summary current
- 06:0906:09, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,915 In this material world there are different types of achievement, but of all of them the achievement of knowledge is considered to be the highest because one can cross the ocean of nescience only on the boat of knowledge. Otherwise the ocean is impassable No edit summary current
- 06:0806:08, 6 April 2023 diff hist +12 In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said that the transcendental subject matter becomes clear in the association of the devotees. Without good association, one cannot achieve transcendental knowledge. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 06:0806:08, 6 April 2023 diff hist +9,546 If one endeavors simply to achieve knowledge of the Absolute Truth or the Supersoul but has no devotional service, he labors without gaining the real result. This is compared to beating the husks of wheat after the grains have already been removed No edit summary current
- 06:0706:07, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,032 Experimental knowledge can be achieved when one has understood the false knowledge. By experimental or proved knowledge, one can understand that he is not the body but spirit soul No edit summary current
- 06:0606:06, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,793 Evam parampara. So absolute knowledge can be achieved when we hear from the Absolute. No person in the relative world can inform us about the absolute knowledge. That is not possible No edit summary current
- 06:0606:06, 6 April 2023 diff hist +12 Complete knowledge can be achieved only by the devotee of the Lord directly from the Lord in disciplic succession. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 06:0606:06, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,408 By performing austerities & penances, by controlling the senses & mind, & by achieving full knowledge of the Absolute Truth, one is fully cleansed of material contamination. Then one's words and blessings, like those of the demigods, are never a failure No edit summary current
- 06:0506:05, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,137 By his high intelligence (svena tejasa), by the superior power of superior knowledge achieved from the right source - the spiritual master, or acarya - he can give up his conditional life in a material body and return home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 06:0406:04, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,477 As soon as we speak of knowledge, there must be three things: the object of knowledge, the person who is trying to know and the process by which the object of knowledge is achieved No edit summary current
- 06:0406:04, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 Any knowledge achieved by speculation is imperfect No edit summary current
- 06:0406:04, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,195 After performing speculative activities for many, many births, when one actually comes to his real consciousness and surrenders unto the Supreme Lord, Krsna, then the fulfillment of his research in knowledge is actually achieved No edit summary current
- 05:5005:50, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,750 When they have thus enjoyed heavenly sense pleasure, they return to this mortal planet again. Thus, through the Vedic principles, they achieve only flickering happiness. BG 9.21 - 1972 No edit summary
- 05:5005:50, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,713 Unadulterated happiness, real happiness can be achieved in the spiritual world. Not in the material world No edit summary current
- 05:5005:50, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,576 This ultimate gain (of achieving permanent happiness and eternal life) is possible to achieve in the human form of life No edit summary current
- 05:4905:49, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,172 This (SB 7.15.50) is explained in Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.21): When those who follow the pravrtti-marga have enjoyed heavenly sense pleasure, they return to this mortal planet again. Thus, through the Vedic principles, they achieve only flickering happiness No edit summary
- 05:4905:49, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,603 The perfect process for achieving this (freedom from all kinds of fear and the fullest extent of happiness in life), here and now, is recommended in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, which is uttered by such a great authority as Srila Sukadeva Gosvami No edit summary
- 05:4805:48, 6 April 2023 diff hist +1,347 The Lord has already ordered both of you brothers (Rupa and Sanatana) to situate yourselves in Vrndavana. There you will achieve all happiness No edit summary
- 05:4805:48, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,158 The living entity tries to achieve happiness and rid himself of the causes of distress, but because the various bodies of the living entities are under the full control of material nature, all his plans in different bodies, one after another No edit summary current
- 05:4705:47, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,964 The highest kind of happiness that a man can achieve is to be promoted to the spiritual planets by practice of Krsna consciousness. A life of Krsna consciousness is therefore the solution to all the problems of material existence. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 05:4705:47, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,081 The actual form of life for the living entities is one of spiritual happiness, which is real happiness. This happiness can be achieved only when one stops all materialistic activities. Material sense enjoyment is simply imagination No edit summary current
- 05:4605:46, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,765 There are many heavenly planets to which they (those materially attached) aspire just to achieve more and more material happiness by getting a long duration of life and the paraphernalia for sense enjoyment No edit summary current
- 05:4605:46, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,012 Steady in the Self, being freed from all material contamination, the yogi achieves the highest perfectional stage of happiness in touch with the Supreme Consciousness. BG 6.28 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 05:4405:44, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,130 Real happiness is achieved by spiritual existence or by cessation of the repetition of birth and death. One can stop the repetition of birth and death only by going back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 05:4405:44, 6 April 2023 diff hist +7,943 Real happiness can be achieved in the spiritual world. Not in the material world. So certain amount of happiness and certain amount of distress we have to enjoy and suffer. You cannot change it. This is the law of nature in this material world No edit summary
- 05:4405:44, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,949 Persons who are trying to become happy by adjustment of this bahir-artha, external energy, or the material energy, they do not know that happiness cannot be achieved without approaching Visnu, or God No edit summary current
- 05:4305:43, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,941 People are working hard day and night for the illusory happiness of the body. This is not a way to achieve happiness. One has to get out of this material entanglement and return home, back to Godhead. That is real happiness No edit summary current
- 05:4305:43, 6 April 2023 diff hist +9,648 People are trying to become happy by adjusting the external energy, but they do not know that happiness cannot be achieved without approaching God No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,951 People are seeking peace in different ways, but they can achieve real happiness only if they consult the bona fide representative of Krsna, the man in Krsna consciousness. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,806 People are seeking peace in different ways, but they can achieve real happiness only if they consult Krsna, or the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam - which constitute the science of Krsna. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 05:4205:42, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,838 Our duty is to achieve permanent happiness and eternal life, and it is for that purpose only - for the ultimate gain - that we should undertake all sorts of penances and austerities No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,496 One should simply understand that the distress and happiness of this body are predestined; there is no need to try to avoid the distress of this bodily existence or to attempt to achieve happiness by different types of exercises No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,462 My dear Priyavrata, according to our association with different modes of material nature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead gives us our specific bodies and the happiness and distress we achieve No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 Krsna said that happiness can be achieved in pure consciousness, or when your senses are transcendental. He gave hint. Not only hint, He practically suggested also that: You simply surrender unto Me No edit summary
- 05:4105:41, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,449 My dear King Pariksit, the sons of Kartaviryarjuna, who were defeated by the superior strength of Parasurama, never achieved happiness, for they always remembered the killing of their father No edit summary current
- 05:3905:39, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,351 In this material world, every materialist desires to achieve happiness and diminish his distress, and therefore he acts accordingly. Actually, however, one is happy as long as one does not endeavor for happiness No edit summary current
- 05:3905:39, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,409 In the human form of life, the living entity must accept this instruction from the Supreme Person, Krsna: "Do not plan to achieve happiness and drive away distress. You will never be successful. Simply surrender unto Me" - BG 18.66 No edit summary current
- 05:3805:38, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 If your misery comes by nature, your happiness will also come by nature. Don't bother about it. That is the instruction of Prahlada Maharaja. If you receive the miseries of life without effort, you will similarly achieve happiness without effort No edit summary
- 05:3805:38, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,450 He works very hard day and night exactly like a merchant who enters a forest to acquire some articles to sell later for profit. However, he cannot really achieve happiness within this material world No edit summary current
- 05:3805:38, 6 April 2023 diff hist +12 Here the proposal is how to achieve perfect happiness of atma. Atma means the body, atma means the mind and atma means the soul. So unless you get happiness of the soul, simply trying to get happiness of the body and the mind, you'll never get happiness No edit summary
- 05:3705:37, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,645 For the neophytes the routine of devotional service may be very painful, but at least they have the hope that they will ultimately be able to avoid all kinds of distresses and achieve the highest perfectional stage of happiness No edit summary current
- 05:3705:37, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,972 Everyone is trying to be happy, and the process adopted to achieve that happiness is called self-interest. Unfortunately, the conditioned soul hovering within this material world does not know that his ultimate goal of self-interest is Vasudeva No edit summary current
- 05:3605:36, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,161 Everyone is actually seeking to achieve happiness by reviving his relationship with the Supersoul. As the Lord (Krsna) says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15), vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: By all the Vedas, it is I who am to be known No edit summary current
- 05:3605:36, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,262 Even though we may be able to avoid distress and artificially enjoy some material happiness by temporary achievements, this represents no factual gain in life. Our duty is to achieve permanent happiness and eternal life No edit summary current
- 05:3505:35, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,622 An intelligent man will never aspire to become a devotee to achieve material happiness. That is the test of a devotee No edit summary current
- 05:3405:34, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,136 Any person who seriously desires to achieve real happiness must seek out a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation No edit summary current
- 05:3405:34, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,493 Any person who is seriously desirous of achieving real happiness must seek out a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation No edit summary current
- 05:3405:34, 6 April 2023 diff hist +7,862 Any one person who is seriously desirous of achieving real happiness must seek out a bona fide spiritual master and take shelter of him by initiation No edit summary current
- 05:3305:33, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,577 Actually, one should undergo severe austerities and penances only to achieve spiritual happiness. In Srimad-Bhagavatam it is recommended that tapasya, or austerity, should be accepted for realizing the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
5 April 2023
- 08:1408:14, 5 April 2023 diff hist +8 You discriminate actually. You do not kill human beings, but you kill animals. Similarly, you discriminate: instead of killing animal, kill vegetable. Importance No edit summary
- 08:1408:14, 5 April 2023 diff hist +8,065 The actual commandment is "Thou shalt not kill." But these Christian people, they are making some amendment, "Thou shalt not murder." Because murder will apply to the killing of human beings. But Lord Jesus Christ never said like that No edit summary current
- 08:1308:13, 5 April 2023 diff hist +2,958 Krsna says that to kill a cow and to kill a human being is the same sin No edit summary current
- 08:1308:13, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,695 In the act of killing an animal, there is a regular conspiracy by the party of sinners, and all of them are liable to be punished as murderers exactly like a party of conspirators who kill a human being combinedly No edit summary current
- 08:1308:13, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,323 He (Manu) says that in the act of killing an animal, there is a regular conspiracy by the party of sinners, and all of them are liable to be punished as murderers exactly like a party of conspirators who kill a human being combinedly No edit summary current
- 08:0008:00, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,432 This is not my business to make intimate relation with woman and get money. I could do. There was chance. When attempt was failed, the man who introduced that woman to me, he one day said, "I have seen many swamis, but none like you" No edit summary current
- 08:0008:00, 5 April 2023 diff hist +2,164 The Lord replied, "I cannot tolerate seeing the face of a person who has accepted the renounced order of life but who still talks intimately with a woman" No edit summary current
- 07:5907:59, 5 April 2023 diff hist +18,112 There are so many rules and regulations to be followed in the renounced order of life. Most important of all, a sannyasi is strictly forbidden to have any intimate relationship with a woman. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 07:5907:59, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,583 Only the grhasthas, or householders, are given license to have an intimate relationship with a woman, and that relationship is also restricted for begetting nice children No edit summary current
- 07:5907:59, 5 April 2023 diff hist +7,666 An ordinary grhastha, or... Grhastha only, If he talks with woman nobody will blame. He is grhastha. But if a sannyasi talks with woman very intimately, oh, immediately people will take note of it No edit summary current
- 07:5907:59, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,998 There are many persons with little in their possession who accept the renounced order of life like monkeys. They go here and there engaging in sense gratification and speaking intimately with women No edit summary current
- 07:5807:58, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,395 There are eight different kinds of sensual enjoyment with women, including talking about them and thinking about them. Thus for a sannyasi, a person in the renounced order, talking intimately with women is a great offense No edit summary current
- 07:5807:58, 5 April 2023 diff hist +1,511 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "My mind is not under My control. It does not like to see anyone in the renounced order who talks intimately with women" No edit summary current
- 07:5807:58, 5 April 2023 diff hist +5,860 One should not think of women, speak about sex life, dally with women, look lustfully at women, talk intimately with women or decide to engage in sexual intercourse, nor should one endeavor for sex life or engage in sex life No edit summary current
- 07:5607:56, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,109 Just to preserve the regulative principles for the future, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu enforced the hard-and-fast rule that no one in the renounced order should intimately mix with women No edit summary current
- 07:5607:56, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,598 It is very dangerous for such a person to have intimate relationships with mundane people or to become intimately related with women. This formality is to be observed by anyone who is serious about going back home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 07:5507:55, 5 April 2023 diff hist −8 For a person engaged in devotional service in the renounced order, having intimate relationships with women is certainly hypocrisy No edit summary current
- 07:3907:39, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,067 Thus, by the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the maintainer of kinsmen is put into a hellish condition to suffer for his sinful activities, like a man who has lost his wealth No edit summary current
- 07:3807:38, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,087 Those whose minds are overcome by the mode of passion are attracted by the color of gold, just as a man suffering from cold in the forest runs after a phosphorescent light in a marshy land, considering it to be fire No edit summary current
- 07:3707:37, 5 April 2023 diff hist +8,768 The sinful man taken to the Yamaraja, he is put into suffering, the same principle as a prisoner. He has to suffer for a time, six months or one year or sometimes more than that, just to atone for his sinful activities No edit summary current
- 07:3707:37, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,667 The mercy of the Lord (Krsna) is open for him (suffering man), but he is reluctant to receive it. That is the difference between a pure devotee and a mixed devotee No edit summary current
- 07:3707:37, 5 April 2023 diff hist +5,415 The distinction between animal and man is that that animal is not aware of the sufferings he is undergoing. There are sufferings both for the animals and for the man, but man is conscious No edit summary current
- 07:3707:37, 5 April 2023 diff hist +5,687 The brahmana continued: I am actually seeing how a rich man, who is a victim of his senses, is very greedy to accumulate wealth, and therefore suffers from insomnia due to fear from all sides, despite his wealth and opulence No edit summary current
- 07:3607:36, 5 April 2023 diff hist +7,370 There was a prostitute whose charges was one lakh of pieces of diamond. It doesn't matter, a big diamond or small diamond. That was her charges. So one man was suffering from leprosy No edit summary current
- 07:3507:35, 5 April 2023 diff hist −11 There are sufferings both for the animals and for the man, but man is conscious. If a man is not awakened to his suffering, then he is in animal consciousness No edit summary current
- 07:3507:35, 5 April 2023 diff hist +18,304 Suppose a very rich man is suffering from disease. He may have a first-class physician, medicine, and hospital available for him, but still he may die. This means that Krsna desired, - This man must die No edit summary current
- 07:3507:35, 5 April 2023 diff hist +16,445 Suppose a rich man is suffering from some disease and he hires a first-class physician and takes first-class medicine. Does it mean that his life is guaranteed? No No edit summary current
- 07:3407:34, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,571 Not that because he is poor man and we are giving prasada, no. This is not our idea. To our eyes, the so-called poor man and rich man, they are all suffering, not that the simply poor man suffering and the rich man is not suffering No edit summary current
- 07:3407:34, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,600 Money earned by a criminal process may be left by the man when dying, but by superior arrangement he carries with him the effect, and therefore he has to suffer hellish life No edit summary current
- 07:3407:34, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,811 Material nature is so strong that although a man suffers at every step, he will not cease his attempts to enjoy No edit summary current
- 07:3307:33, 5 April 2023 diff hist −11 If a man is suffering from the bodily ailments, if he is given some relief in the hospital, or if the society is not educated, give him education, this is all good work undoubtedly. But the ultimate good work is not known to them No edit summary current
- 07:3207:32, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,716 Everywhere I see people, man and wife with family, and all of them they suffer, but still they go on producing more. Sex means trouble. Therefore one should become dhira and don't be attracted by this sex-life No edit summary current
- 07:3207:32, 5 April 2023 diff hist +6,441 Duhkha means unhappiness. So suppose a millionaire is suffering from typhoid and a poor man is suffering from typhoid. Does that mean the millionaire will have less distress than the poor man? No edit summary current
- 07:3107:31, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,833 A suffering man, if he is pious at all, prays to the Lord (Krsna) for his recovery. But as soon as the recovery is over, in most cases the suffering man no longer cares to keep any connection with the Lord No edit summary current
- 07:3007:30, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,318 A poor man suffers for want of money, but if he wants to become rich, he has to struggle in so many ways. Actually that is not a valid counteracting process but a snare of the illusory energy No edit summary current
- 07:3007:30, 5 April 2023 diff hist −11 A man is suffering from some disease, infected. That does not mean when the physician comes to treat him he is also infected. He knows how to protect himself, disinfectant No edit summary current
- 07:3007:30, 5 April 2023 diff hist +6 As the Christians say - What profiteth a man if he gain the whole world yet suffers the loss of his eternal soul? BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 07:2907:29, 5 April 2023 diff hist +1,790 After saying this, the Lord left to take His bath in the Ganges, and that sinful man did not give up his life but continued to suffer No edit summary current
- 07:2907:29, 5 April 2023 diff hist +2,351 After leaving this body, the man who maintained himself and his family members by sinful activities suffers a hellish life No edit summary current
- 07:2807:28, 5 April 2023 diff hist +27,862 When a Vaisnava comes, when God Himself comes, or when God's sons or His very confidential devotees come, their only mission is to save sinful men who are suffering No edit summary current
- 07:2807:28, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,980 Suffering and needy men, inquisitive persons or philosophers make temporary connections with the Lord (Krsna) to serve a particular purpose. When the purpose is served, there is no more relation with the Lord No edit summary current
- 07:2707:27, 5 April 2023 diff hist −11 Sri Maitreya Muni, out of compassion for the suffering men in the world, proposes to speak on the Srimad-Bhagavatam first and last No edit summary current
- 07:2707:27, 5 April 2023 diff hist +5,796 He (the intelligent person) is happy because he has no anxieties of material existence, but as a compassionate sympathizer he feels unhappiness for the suffering materialistic men No edit summary current
- 07:2607:26, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,520 A Vaisnava comes, God also comes and God's son or very confidential devotee also comes - their only mission is how to save these sinful men who are suffering so much. That is their mission No edit summary current
- 07:2607:26, 5 April 2023 diff hist +25,909 An old man - grandfather - is suffering, so better to kill him. And there - in Africa there is a class of men who make a festival by killing their great-grandfathers. Is it not No edit summary current
- 06:4706:47, 5 April 2023 diff hist +2,222 O beautiful-faced one, who is this creative person standing before us? With the sharp chisels of His loving glances, He is splitting the hard stones of many women's devotion to their husbands No edit summary current
- 06:4606:46, 5 April 2023 diff hist +2,435 Many heavenly women assembled with their husbands, the devarsis, demigods and rajarsis, in that great sacrifice named brhaspati-sava No edit summary current
- 06:4506:45, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,452 Without marriage, the man and woman will be open to so many other men and women. Therefore it is to restrict. One man, one woman. Otherwise, if you associate with so many men and so many women, this is animalism No edit summary current
- 06:4406:44, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,188 When we see that so many men and women are simply committing suicide as described in the Isopanisad ye ke catma-hano janah, let us try to save them through this Krsna Consciousness Movement No edit summary current
- 06:4406:44, 5 April 2023 diff hist +9,933 We have seen in the Western countries, in the name of independence, so many women are unhappy. So that is not recommended in the Vedic civilization and varnasrama-dharma No edit summary current
- 06:4306:43, 5 April 2023 diff hist +5 The law is you cannot marry more than one wife. The rascal lawgiver. So many women, there must be... One husband, at the present moment, must marry at least one dozen wives, otherwise they're going to hell No edit summary current
- 06:4306:43, 5 April 2023 diff hist +6,240 The inner section of a palace is known as the antah-pura (private apartments). Pradyumna and Mayavati could see many women there, and they set down among them No edit summary current
- 06:4206:42, 5 April 2023 diff hist +2,998 The distinction between one's own son and another's son is not unnatural. Many elderly women have motherly affection for the sons of others. They observe distinctions, however, between those other sons and their own No edit summary current
- 06:4206:42, 5 April 2023 diff hist −13 They (the Bhattatharis) allure others to supply women for their camp, and they cheat many women and keep them within their community. In this way they increase their population. In Bengal also there is a similar community No edit summary current
- 06:4106:41, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,729 That means there are many other women loitering, so you may see her like that sometimes by chance, but you may not see separately or privately and you cannot talk with her, neither correspond No edit summary current
- 06:4106:41, 5 April 2023 diff hist +1,574 Surrounded by many beautiful women, Citraratha, the King of Gandharvaloka, was once passing in his airplane over the brahmana's body at the spot where the brahmana had died No edit summary current
- 06:4106:41, 5 April 2023 diff hist +6,354 Sometimes a rascal, following the philosophy of monism, or oneness, very irresponsibly takes advantage of this rasa-lila to imitate the behavior of Krsna with the gopis, entice many innocent women and mislead them in the name of spiritual realization No edit summary current
- 06:3906:39, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,316 One form of hunting is known as woman-hunting. A conditioned soul is never satisfied with one wife. Those whose senses are very much uncontrolled especially try to hunt for many women No edit summary current
- 06:3906:39, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,160 One cannot give up thinking of women, for thinking in this way is natural; even while walking on the street, one will see so many women. However, if one is determined not to live with a woman, even while seeing a woman he will not become lusty No edit summary current
- 06:3706:37, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,825 I am going in a secluded place and thinking, "How many women I have hunted." What is this nonsense? Eh? And showing, "I have become very much advanced. I am leader." And my leading is I'm thinking of woman. That's all. And money No edit summary current
- 06:3706:37, 5 April 2023 diff hist +2,473 It is specifically mentioned in this verse (in SB 4.3.4) that they (many heavenly women) approached with their husbands, for when a woman is decorated nicely, her husband becomes more cheerful No edit summary current
- 06:3606:36, 5 April 2023 diff hist +11,614 In Western countries we have seen many women very unhappy simply for the sake of independence. That independence is not recommended by the Vedic civilization or by the varnasrama-dharma No edit summary current
- 06:3606:36, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,194 In this age (Kali-yuga) illicit connection with women will render many women and children uncared for No edit summary current
- 06:3506:35, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,605 In human society, those who are not Krsna conscious remain in the forest of material life simply for the honey of sex life. Such debauchees are not at all satisfied with one wife. They want many women No edit summary current
- 06:3306:33, 5 April 2023 diff hist +5,383 How can one who is full in Himself (God) take pleasure in the association of many women? How can He take wives and, just like a householder, take pleasure in the association of family members, children, relatives and parents No edit summary current
- 06:3306:33, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,587 Generally a man's tendency is to enjoy many women, and even at the very end of life the sex impulse is so strong that even though one is very old he still wants to enjoy the company of young girls No edit summary current
- 06:3206:32, 5 April 2023 diff hist +5,810 Even the learned sages become disturbed in their intelligence when they see that You take shelter in a fort although You are the controller of invincible time, and that You enjoy householder life surrounded by many women although You enjoy in Your Self No edit summary current
- 06:3206:32, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,383 Although Kardama Muni was enjoying with his wife (Devahuti) and many other women, he was above material, conditional life No edit summary current
- 06:2206:22, 5 April 2023 diff hist +7,229 You are doing duty very nicely. Or a medical man, or a business man, or anyone - everyone has to do something. You cannot sit down idly and you'll get your livelihood. Even if you are a lion you have to work No edit summary current
- 06:2106:21, 5 April 2023 diff hist −13 When we go to a doctor, we do not ask him whether he is a Hindu, Christian or brahmana. He has the qualification of a medical man, and we simply surrender, saying, - Doctor, treat me. I am suffering No edit summary current
- 06:2106:21, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,913 When the scientist philosopher medical man will get the opportunity to study systematically what is God, what are His energies, what is my relationship, how to approach Him, then only there will be paradise No edit summary current
- 06:2106:21, 5 April 2023 diff hist +7,583 When a dead man is there, the medical man or every scientist, everyone is sitting. How that spiritual atom is passed from this body, nobody can see. They can simply say, "Oh, now he is gone." Who is gone? Have you see who is gone? No edit summary current
- 06:2006:20, 5 April 2023 diff hist −13 Unless one is a medical man he cannot criticize a medical man, and unless one is a lawyer he cannot criticize a lawyer No edit summary current
- 06:2006:20, 5 April 2023 diff hist −13 Suppose if you want to be a medical man, the books are available in the market. You can purchase and read and become a doctor. Is it possible? Is it possible that simply by reading books, purchasing from the market, I become a medical man? No No edit summary current
- 06:2006:20, 5 April 2023 diff hist +5,682 So even by failure, they would get some title and allowed to practice as medical man. But that does not mean that we may try to fail also. No. The aim should be to become successful, not to fail, not to fail No edit summary current
- 06:2006:20, 5 April 2023 diff hist −13 Not by birth one becomes engineer or medical man or this or . . . no. Everything by culture, by education. Similarly, the Vedic culture means everyone is given the chance to become first-class brahmin. That is called brahminical culture No edit summary
- 06:1906:19, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,773 Not by birth. Guna-karma. Just like you are ksatriya, but because you have acquired the qualification of medical man and you are working as a medical man, therefore you are medical man. Nobody asked you, "You are a ksatriya or you are a brahmana?" No edit summary current
- 06:1906:19, 5 April 2023 diff hist +10,986 Medical science has given the chance of committing sinful activities. That's all. And the medical man and the man who is committing such sinful activities, they will suffer. This is the advantage of their so-called medical science No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 5 April 2023 diff hist −13 Medical man. Nobody asks him, "Are you a brahmin? Then I make my treatment with you." Nobody asks that. So this is the sastric injunction. Then later on this caste brahmanism, sudra-ism made the whole thing, whole Hindu culture, Vedic culture, spoiled No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 5 April 2023 diff hist −13 Just like a boy born in a medical man's family, so he has got a chance, better chance, to become a medical man. Similarly, a boy born in a brahmin family, he has got better chance to become a brahmin No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4 I have seen also very educated medical man, England-returned, M.R.C.P - I am speaking from my practical experience - so he goes to a hospital, big doctor, but I have seen in his house, he had not even a good utensil at home. He's so poor No edit summary
- 06:1706:17, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,159 I have even seen a dying man begging a medical attendant to increase his life by four years so that he could complete his material plans. Of course, the medical man was unsuccessful in expanding the man's life, who therefore died in great bereavement No edit summary current
- 06:1606:16, 5 April 2023 diff hist +11,530 It is the ksatriya's duty to see that one is passing as a brahmana, whether he's qualified. Why he should pass? Suppose he says, "I'm medical man." He must be qualified. And if he says, "I am medical man," then he's cheating No edit summary current
- 06:1606:16, 5 April 2023 diff hist −13 In your country there is law that you cannot purchase from the drug shop any medicine without being prescribed by the medical man. Is it not? So the prescription should be taken from the experienced physician to cure the disease No edit summary current
- 06:1406:14, 5 April 2023 diff hist +8,799 If you want to give help a suffering in disease man, and bring some nice doctor, medical man to help him and bring some nice medicine, that is good work, but does it mean that it is guaranteed that he will be cured? No No edit summary current
- 06:1306:13, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4 Everyone is becoming engineering, technologist or medical man or so many. But the real problem of life is to understand the self No edit summary current
- 06:1306:13, 5 April 2023 diff hist −13 Dharma does not mean so-called some religious fanaticism. Dharma means occupational duty. Just like you are medical man. You have practiced medical dharma. Medical dharma No edit summary current
- 06:1306:13, 5 April 2023 diff hist +9,341 By practical knowledge of how to perform a surgical operation, how to mix medicine and how to give certain medicines for certain diseases, a person can do a medical man's work and be known as a doctor No edit summary current
- 06:0806:08, 5 April 2023 diff hist −13 A section must be there who knows perfectly well about the science of soul. So as there is need of medical men, engineer or lawyers or other, similarly, there is need of one section of expert who knows the science of soul No edit summary current
- 06:0806:08, 5 April 2023 diff hist +9,525 Although qualified medical men may consider him (a man who becomes a doctor by practical knowledge) a quack, the government will recognize his work No edit summary current
- 06:0706:07, 5 April 2023 diff hist +22,389 Although everyone has to accept a subtle body, the scientists and medical men cannot see it. I have a mind, and you have a mind, but I cannot see your mind, and you cannot see mine No edit summary current
- 06:0206:02, 5 April 2023 diff hist +21 Bhisma was lying on the bed of arrows on one side of the battlefield. There was trees & grass, but no dead men were around. Only there was the Pandavas. Krishna & great sages such as Vyasa - big, big men. Krishna was in the forefront in His royal dress No edit summary current
- 06:0206:02, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,453 All these big, big men, let them have one set of books and study. It is not any expenditure for them, but if at their leisure hour they read some of the line - they are all intelligent men - they'll get ideas, what is this Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 06:0206:02, 5 April 2023 diff hist +1,999 All of the scientists and other big men are simply cheating the mass of men by making false propaganda in order to take some money from them No edit summary current
- 06:0106:01, 5 April 2023 diff hist −13 You should be very much respectful. Even a respectable person, ordinary person, a big man or a rich man or a king comes, we become so much respectful. And what about Krsna when He's present as arca-murti or as the holy name No edit summary current