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     13:27  Sukadeva Gosvami replied (to the question of Pariksit about the deliverence from hellish life) : Yes, I have already described various hellish conditions typical of a severe and painful life. The point is that one has to counteract such a life - SB 6.1.7 diffhist +34 Nabakumar talk contribs
     13:26  Sukadeva Gosvami, in answering Pariksit Maharaja’s question, went on to cite a historical instance regarding Pariksit Maharaja’s grandfather, King Yudhisthira diffhist +34 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:56  Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King (Pariksit), your question is glorious because it is very beneficial to all kinds of people. The answer to this question is the prime subject matter for hearing, and it is approved by all transcendentalists diffhist +34 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:46  Pariksit Maharaja placed a number of intelligent questions before Sukadeva Gosvami. One of these questions was, "Why do people undergo atonement if they cannot control their senses" diffhist −17 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:42  Pariksit Maharaja's question was how to be freed from falling down into hell or into the hands of the Yamadutas. In reply, Sukadeva Gosvami is citing this old historical example (of Ajamila) to convince Pariksit Maharaja of the potency of bhakti-yoga diffhist +34 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:31  Of course, these were not ordinary sages sitting with Him, and the great sage Narada also appeared there. After offering his respects to Narayana Rsi, Narada asked Him exactly the same question King Pariksit asked Sukadeva Gosvami diffhist +34 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:20  In this way Sukadeva Gosvami informed Maharaja Pariksit of the answers to his questions regarding the essence of Vedic knowledge and what is considered to be the ultimate goal in the Vedas diffhist +55 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:11  In Srimad-Bhagavatam this particular mantra is explained in the questions and answers between Maharaja Pariksit & Sukadeva Gosvami at the very beginning of their meeting. Hearing & chanting of the science of God is the basic principle of devotional life diffhist +34 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:09  In answering King Pariksit's question, Sukadeva Gosvami used the word atmane, which indicates the stage of brahminical qualification in which one is allowed to study the Vedic scriptures known as the Upanisads diffhist +34 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:07  In answering King Pariksit's question, Sukadeva Gosvami replied that the S P of Godhead has created the mind, senses and living force of the living entity for the purpose of sense gratification and transmigration from one kind of body to another diffhist +34 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:06  He (Maharaja Pariksit) questioned the sage Sukadeva Gosvami, who was reciting Srimad-Bhagavatam before the King diffhist +34 Nabakumar talk contribs
     12:03  Generally, the followers of Ramanujacarya come out victorious in such meetings. So Pariksit Maharaja wanted to clarify the situation by asking this question of Sukadeva Gosvami diffhist +34 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:40 Deletion log Nabakumar talk contribs deleted page Sukadeva Gosvami was authorized to speak, and he was asked, - What is my duty? I am very fortunate that you have come in this momentous hour. Kindly tell me what is my duty(content was: "#REDIRECT Sukadeva Gosvami was authorized to speak, and he was asked, - What is my duty? I (Pariksit) am very fortunate that you have come in this momentous hour. Kindly tell me what is my duty", and the only contributor was "Nabakumar" (talk))
     11:40 Move log Nabakumar talk contribs moved page Sukadeva Gosvami was authorized to speak, and he was asked, - What is my duty? I am very fortunate that you have come in this momentous hour. Kindly tell me what is my duty to Sukadeva Gosvami was authorized to speak, and he was asked, - What is my duty? I (Pariksit) am very fortunate that you have come in this momentous hour. Kindly tell me what is my duty
     11:39  Sukadeva Gosvami was authorized to speak, and he was asked, - What is my duty? I am very fortunate that you have come in this momentous hour. Kindly tell me what is my duty diffhist +65 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:35  Sukadeva Gosvami was already engaged in describing the activities of the Lord, and when asked by Maharaja Pariksit to describe them further, he continued to narrate Srimad-Bhagavatam with great pleasure diffhist +29 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:30  Sukadeva Gosvami knew that Maharaja Pariksit asked the question not for his own understanding but as a warning to the future innocent people who might think others to be equal to Krsna diffhist +23 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:28  Pariksit Maharaja asked Sukadeva Gosvami why Krsna was so beloved by the residents of Vrndavana, who loved Him even more than their own offspring or life itself diffhist +14 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:05  O Suta Gosvami, your words are pleasing to our minds. Please therefore explain this to us as it was spoken by the great devotee Sukadeva Gosvami, who is very expert in transcendental knowledge, and who spoke to Maharaja Pariksit upon being asked diffhist +29 Nabakumar talk contribs
     11:00  My dear King Pariksit, I (Sukadeva Gosvami) have replied as far as possible to the questions you have asked me, especially in regard to this pure, auspicious narration about the Maruts. Now you may inquire further, and I shall explain more diffhist +29 Nabakumar talk contribs
     10:58  Maharaja Pariksit was a great saintly King, he found out that he was going to die in seven days. So he sought out Sukadeva Gosvami a great saintly person and he asked him about what is the absolute truth. What is Krsna? diffhist +30 Nabakumar talk contribs
     10:54  Maharaja Pariksit asked Sukadeva Gosvami how many years Lord Krsna remained in human society, how many years He reigned over the kingdom of Dvaraka, and how many wives He accepted there diffhist −1 Nabakumar talk contribs
     10:52  Maharaja Pariksit also asked Sukadeva Gosvami why Sri Krsna, just after His appearance as the son of Vasudeva, was immediately carried to the house of Nanda Maharaja in Vrndavana, Gokula diffhist −1 Nabakumar talk contribs
     10:50  Maharaja Pariksit's statement regarding the workings of the creative energy of the Lord discloses that he knew everything of the process of creation. Why then did he ask Sukadeva Gosvami for such information? diffhist +16 Nabakumar talk contribs
     10:47  In the first verse (of the Second Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam), Sukadeva Gosvami replies to the questions of Maharaja Pariksit, who asked him about one's duties at the point of death‎‎ 2 changes history +114 [Nabakumar‎ (2×)]
     
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     10:31  How can they (the grhavratas) possibly become perfect in Krsna consciousness? Maharaja Pariksit asked Sukadeva Gosvami to resolve this great doubt diffhist −1 Nabakumar talk contribs
     10:28  He (Sukadeva Gosvami) also prepared himself to reply to all that King Pariksit had inquired from him. Maharaja Pariksit was the best in the dynasty of the Pandus, and thus he was able to ask the right questions from the right person diffhist +63 Nabakumar talk contribs
     10:25  Even the very question (asked by Maharaja Pariksit to Sukadeva Gosvami) is so nice that it is the best subject matter for hearing. Simply by such questioning and hearing, one can achieve the highest perfectional stage of life diffhist +34 Nabakumar talk contribs
     08:24  The Srimad-Bhagavatam is the essence of all Vedic literatures, and it is considered the ripened fruit of the wish-fulfilling tree of Vedic knowledge. It has been sweetened by emanating from the mouth of Sukadeva Gosvami diffhist −19 Nabakumar talk contribs
     07:42  Pariksit was not interested in the dry speculation of the flickering mind, but he was interested in the topics of the Lord because factually he felt that by hearing such a nectarean message from the mouth of Sukadeva he was not feeling any exhaustion diffhist +46 Nabakumar talk contribs
     07:41  One should try to understand the Vedic scriptures, or the nectar transferred by the Lord to His consorts in the conjugal humor, from the lotuslike mouth of Vyasadeva or Sukadeva diffhist 0 Nabakumar talk contribs
     07:35  It is stated in the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 1.1.3), suka-mukhad amrta-drava-samyutam: the nectar of Srimad-Bhagavatam became more relishable because it emanated from the mouth of Srila Sukadeva Gosvami diffhist +25 Nabakumar talk contribs
     07:34  Because I (King Pariksit) am drinking the nectar of topics about Krsna, which is flowing from the lotus mouth of your Lordship (Sukadeva Gosvami), my hunger and thirst, which are extremely difficult to bear, cannot hinder me - SB 10.1.13 diffhist 0 Nabakumar talk contribs
     07:26  This (CC Madhya 8.75) is a statement made by Sukadeva Gosvami (SB 10.12.11), who appreciated the good fortune of the cowherd boys who played with Krsna and ate with Him on the banks of the Yamuna diffhist +8 Nabakumar talk contribs
     07:25  Maharaja Pariksit said, "I am simply surprised that He would act in such a way, enjoying the company of others' wives in the dead of night." This statement of Maharaja Pariksit's was very much appreciated by Sukadeva Gosvami diffhist −317 Nabakumar talk contribs
     07:23  Maharaja Pariksit, who at the time of death was fortunate to have met Sukadeva Gosvami, inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami about the path of liberation at that crucial time. Sukadeva Gosvami very much appreciated his question and congratulated him diffhist +72 Nabakumar talk contribs
     07:22  Maharaja Pariksit's question was very much appreciated by Sukadeva Gosvami because although it was composed of a small number of words, it contained meaningful inquiries about how the sons of Diti, although born as demons, became demigods diffhist +83 Nabakumar talk contribs
     07:16  Krsna agreed to be bound by mother Yasoda after she had given up trying to bind Krsna with ropes. This is another appreciation made by Sukadeva Gosvami in his narration of the pastimes of Krsna before Maharaja Pariksit diffhist +43 Nabakumar talk contribs
     07:15  King Indra's behavior toward Krsna was not very much appreciated by great sages like Sukadeva Gosvami diffhist −18 Nabakumar talk contribs
     07:14  All these questions (how the sons of Diti, although born as demons, became demigods) were posed in a small number of words, and therefore Sukadeva Gosvami very much appreciated Maharaja Pariksit's inquiry diffhist +105 Nabakumar talk contribs
     06:15  While offering prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nrsimhadeva, Prahlada Maharaja said: balasya neha saranam pitarau nrsimha, nartasya cagadam udanvati majjato nauh diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  When Prahlada Maharaja was offered a benediction by Nrsimhadeva, Prahlada rejected all kinds of material benedictions, but he prayed to become the servant of the servants of the Lord diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  When Prahlada Maharaja offered prayers to Krsna as Nrsimha-deva, he said, - My dear Lord, one should not think that because a child has a father and mother he has full protection diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  When Prahlada Maharaja chants om namo bhagavate narasimhaya, he prays for a benediction from the Lord, but because he is also an exalted Vaisnava, he wants nothing for his personal sense gratification diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  When one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God." Thus Prahlada Maharaja decided to offer his best prayers to the Lord, without consideration of his material position diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  We should take the path of devotional service, following Prahlada Maharaja, and his prayers, his instructions are so valuable that even simply by reciting this Prahlada Maharaja's stotra, This prayer of Prahlada Maharaja is very, very important diffhist −10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  This is confirmed in the prayers of Prahlada Maharaja: in Kali-yuga He does not directly appear, but He appears as a devotee diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:15  This (CC Madhya 22.76) was spoken by Prahlada Maharaja and his followers, who were offering prayers to Nrsimhadeva - Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.18.12 diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:14  The SP of Godhead (Nrsimhadeva) said in effect, "I fulfill the desires of everyone. Since you (Prahlada Maharaja) are My devotee, whatever you want for yourself will naturally be given, but if you pray for anyone else, that prayer also will be fulfilled" diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:14  The great saint Narada said: Thus Lord Nrsimhadeva was pacified by the devotee Prahlada Maharaja with prayers offered from the transcendental platform. The Lord gave up His anger diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:14  The energy in which the Lord's all-pervasiveness is not realized is called material. Otherwise, everything is spiritual. Therefore Prahlada prays, ekas tvam eva jagad etam: "You are everything" diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:14  The devotee, on the positive side, wants to possess something, and this is very nicely described by Prahlada , who says, "If I must take some benediction from You (Nrsimhadeva), I pray that within the core of my heart there may be no material desires" diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:14  Srimad-Bhagavatam and bhagavata-dharma are meant for persons who are completely free of envy (parama-nirmatsaranam). Therefore Prahlada Maharaja prays in this verse (SB 5.18.9), khalah prasidatam: "May all the envious persons be pacified" diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:14  So we should take the path of devotional service, following Prahlada Maharaja, and his prayers, his instructions are so valuable diffhist −10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja was tortured by his father in so many ways, yet after the death of his father he prayed for his father's liberation by the Supreme Personality of Godhead diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja was a pure devotee. Therefore he does not make any business with God that, "I offer You my prayer to take something from You." We shall discuss these prayers of Prahlada Maharaja one after another diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja then worshiped and offered prayers to all the demigods, such as Brahma, Siva and the Prajapatis, who are all parts of the Lord diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja prays to the Personality of Godhead that he may avoid the association of nondevotees attached to the materialistic way of life. If he must be attached to someone, he prays to be attached only to a devotee diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja prays that Lord Nrsimhadeva place him in touch with a pure devotee and servant instead of awarding him material opulence. Every intelligent man within this material world must follow Prahlada Maharaja diffhist −11 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja prays that everyone's mind may become gentle by being fixed at the lotus feet of Krsna - bhajatad adhoksaje diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja prays that all envious persons may undergo a change of heart and think of the welfare of others diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja prays, sivam mitho dhiya. In material activities, everyone is envious of others, but in Krsna consciousness, no one is envious of anyone else; everyone thinks of the welfare of others diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:09  Prahlada Maharaja prayed to the Lord (Nrsimhadeva) that he might continue to engage in the service of his spiritual master, Narada Muni diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  Prahlada Maharaja prayed to the Lord (Nrsimhadeva), "But for Your Lordship, no one can save me." Prahlada Maharaja has also explained that a child's protectors, his parents, cannot save the child from the onslaught of birth and death diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  Prahlada Maharaja prayed: My Lord Nrsimha-deva, O Supreme, because of a bodily conception of life, embodied souls neglected and not cared for by You cannot do anything for their betterment diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  Prahlada Maharaja prayed: How is it possible for me, who have been born in a family of asuras, to offer suitable prayers to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead? diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  Prahlada Maharaja offered this prayer to the Lord for the sake of his father. As a Vaisnava son, despite all the inconveniences imposed upon him by his father, he could not forget his father's affection diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  Prahlada Maharaja is submitting that, "I do not require to be highly elevated to offer my prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead." Nobody requires any material acquisition to approach God. We have been discussing this point for the last few days diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  Prahlada Maharaja is beginning his prayer: My dear Lord, You pacify Yourself. Now my father is killed. That business is finished. Now, these people, they will never create any trouble, so You become pacified diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  Prahlada Maharaja is a typical Vaisnava. He prays not for himself but for all living entities - the gentle, the envious and the mischievous. He always thought of the welfare of mischievous persons like his father, Hiranyakasipu diffhist +9 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:08  Prahlada Maharaja fixed his mind and sight upon Lord Nrsimhadeva with full attention in complete trance. With a fixed mind, he began to offer prayers in love with a faltering voice diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:07  Prahlada Maharaja did not ask for anything for himself; rather, he prayed for the Lord to excuse his demoniac father. This is the attitude of a Vaisnava, who always thinks of the welfare of the entire universe diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:03  Prahlada Maharaja decided to offer his best prayers to the Lord, without consideration of his material position diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:03  Prahlada Maharaja also (like Caitanya Mahaprabhu) prayed to Lord Nrsimhadeva that he might be engaged as the servant of the Lord's servant. This is the prescribed method of devotional service diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:03  Prahlada Maharaja, while praying to Lord Nrsimha, said, O my Lord, I am very much afraid of the materialistic way of life, and I am not the least afraid of Your present ghastly ferocious feature as Nrsimhadeva diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:03  Prahlada Maharaja, in the following prayer (SB 7.9.14), requests the Lord (Nrsimhadeva) to give up His anger diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  Prahlada Maharaja, in his prayers, has described the transcendental qualities of the Lord and has also described how the various abodes of the demigods and demons, regardless of how materially opulent, are destroyed by the mere direction of the Lord diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  Prahlada Maharaja, a pure Vaisnava, prays to the Lord not only for himself but for all other suffering living entities diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  Prahlada Maharaja, although born of a demonic father, he was completely pure. He was completely on the transcendental stage. Therefore he could offer prayers to the Lord; others cannot diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  Prahlada, while instructing his childhood friends at school, stated that hearing of the Lord, chanting, remembering, worshiping, praying, serving, making friends with Krsna, and offering everything to Him constituted the highest spiritual knowledge diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  Materialists always think of sense gratification, but Prahlada Maharaja prays that the Lord's mercy will change their minds and they will stop thinking of sense gratification. If they think of Krsna always, everything will be all right diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  Maharaj Prahlada offers the following prayers to the Lord, "My dear Lord Nrsimha, if I can be elevated to the position of Your servant, then it will be possible for me to hear about Your activities" diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:02  I (Prahlada Maharaja) drift from one point to another birth after birth, and I pray to You (Lord Nrisimha) therefore to give me a shelter at Your lotus feet diffhist +11 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  In the Hari-bhakti-sudhodaya it is stated that Prahlada Maharaj, a great devotee of the Lord, prayed to Nrsimhadeva (the half-lion half-man incarnation) diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  In his prayer to the Lord, Prahlada Maharaja said that he was not personally interested in liberation from this material world; rather, he did not wish to be liberated from this material condition until all fallen souls were delivered diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  He (Prahlada Maharaja) prays to the Lord that all of us fallen souls in this material world may, by the grace of the Lord, engage in the service of His servant and thus be delivered diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  He (Prahlada Maharaja) did not ask any benediction that he might have asked, but he prayed that his atheistic father might be liberated. He never cursed any of the persons who engaged in torturing him at the instigation of his father diffhist +11 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  From the prayers of Prahlada Maharaja, we understand that He (Lord Visnu) appears garbed as a devotee in Kali-yuga. Lord Caitanya is that devotee diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  Because he (Prahlada Maharaja) was engaged in service, he felt transcendentally situated, and naturally his mind and attention became saturated in transcendence. In that condition, he began to offer his prayers diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  Any devotee aspiring to be free of material desires should offer his respectful prayers to Nrsimhadeva as Prahlada Maharaja did in this verse - SB 5.18.8 diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  Any devotee aspiring to be free of material desires should offer his respectful prayers to Nrsimha-deva as Prahlada Maharaja did in this verse diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  Although Prahlada Maharaja was a pure, exalted Vaisnava, he thought himself most unqualified to offer prayers to the Supreme Lord. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah (CC Madhya 17.186). Every pure Vaisnava should think like this diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     06:01  Although he (Prahlada Maharaja) did not ask anything for his personal self, but he asked the Lord, prayed that, "One thing I request." - What is that diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:56  Prahlada prayed to Nrsimhadeva, "You are the supreme friend, the supreme worshipable Deity. Your pastimes are transcendental, and simply by hearing of them one can counteract all his sinful activities" diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:56  Prahlada prayed to Nrsimhadeva, "with it (happiness from devotional service) one can have all the other perfections of religiousness, economic development, sense gratification and even the attainment of liberation from material existence" diffhist −11 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:56  Prahlada prayed to Nrsimhadeva, "My dear Lord of the universe, I am feeling transcendental pleasure in Your presence and have become merged in the ocean of happiness" diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:56  Prahlada prayed to Nrsimhadeva, "My dear Lord, I repeatedly pray unto Your lotus feet that I may simply be stronger in devotional service" diffhist +10 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:56  Prahlada prayed to Nrsimhadeva, "I simply pray that my Krsna consciousness may be more strong and steady, because happiness derived out of Krsna consciousness and devotional service is so powerful" diffhist −11 ManiGopal talk contribs
     05:55  Prahlada prayed to Nrsimhadeva, "I shall not care for all those sinful activities because simply by hearing about Your pastimes I shall get out of all the contamination of material attachment" diffhist +32 ManiGopal talk contribs