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  • {{terms|"The Supreme Personality of Godhead has numerous transcendental names pertaining to different grades of revelation to various grades of devotees [[Category:God Is The Supreme Personality of Godhead]] ...
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  • [[Category:Conception of God]] ...d and You are revealed to them, the transcendental bliss they enjoy is the transcendental form of Your Lordship. No one but such persons can realize You. Therefore w ...
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  • [[Category: Devotional Service to God Gives Freedom from Anxiety]] [[Category:Because of Devotional Service to God]] ...
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  • ...tice remembering the Lord always, twenty-four hours a day, by chanting His names and molding our life's activities in such a way that we can remember Him al ...lowing example. If a married woman is attached to another man, or if a man has an attachment for a woman other than his wife, then the attachment is to be ...
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  • ...ill follow the process of the congregational chanting of the holy names of God and in this way worship Lord Gauranga who is Krsna Himself with a golden co [[Category:holy Names of God|Intelligent]] ...
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  • ...el and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is the chanting of the holy names of the Lord. ...el and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is the chanting of the holy names of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no othe ...
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  • ...s|"remember the holy names"|"remember the holy name"|"remembering the holy names"|"remembering the holy name"|"remembered the holy name"}} [[Category:Remembering the Holy Names of God|1]] ...
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  • ...he holy names of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa even in the midst of greatest dangers. The transcendental name of Kṛṣṇa, even though uttered unconsciously or by force of circu ...da dāsa, he can be saved from the greatest danger. Therefore the change of names at the time of initiation is essential. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movem ...
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  • [[Category:God Is Situated Within Our Heart|1]] ...y of Godhead is one without a second, and therefore He is all-powerful. He has inconceivable energies, of which three are principal. The devotee is consid ...
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  • ...lay: inline;">Anyone who compares the holy name of the Supreme Lord to the names of the demigods is called pāṣaṇḍī, or an offender.</p> ...
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  • ...unlimited valor, eighteen were mahā-rathas of great renown. Now hear their names from me.</p> ...ways remember that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that He has unlimited potencies. He claims all living entities as His sons, so the fact ...
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  • ...em engaged in sense gratification can deviate the devotee from the path of transcendental advancement. As mentioned in the life of Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, all of the ...splay: inline;">The same spirit of cooperation is needed to broadcast this transcendental message of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam throughout the polluted atmosphere of t ...
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  • ...moons radiating light beams. He is worshipable as the principle of ego. He has invested Anantadeva with all the potencies of sustenance. For the dissoluti ...in the sky. He is the origin of the creation of the material world, and He has invested His creative principle in Cupid. It is by His direction only that ...
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  • ...18 years, his life was one of settled love and piety. He was surrounded by numerous followers, all of whom were of the highest order of Vaiṣṇavas and who w ...rāṇas. The fifth offense is to consider the glories attributed to the holy names to be exaggerations. The sixth offense is to concoct perverted theories abo ...
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  • ...e of such sacrifices improperly done under inexpert management, surely one has to become responsible for animal sacrifice. In this age of quarrel and hypo <div class="heading">This system of association has been recommended since time immemorial, but in this age of quarrel and hypo ...
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  • ...n fact, foolish fanatics have proclaimed so many so-called incarnations of God in this age without referring to authentic scriptures. But Sārvabhauma Bha ...tual realization. After that everyone at Vārāṇasī was overwhelmed with the transcendental saṅkīrtana movement.</p> ...
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  • ...d all other activities. Such a practice will inspire one to hear and chant transcendental topics related to Lord Kṛṣṇa, and this hearing and chanting are the f ...li it is impossible to perform opulent sacrifices and worship. Of late, it has become a popular practise to publicly worship demigods with great pomp. Suc ...
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  • ...e; cleanliness; and freedom from envy and from the passion for honor—these transcendental qualities, O son of Bharata, belong to godly men endowed with divine nature ...a nonviolent, peaceful living being, and he has all the good qualities of God, but when the nondevotee blasphemes the Lord or His devotee, the Vaiṣṇa ...
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  • ...Kūrma-kṣetra is situated on the line of the Southern Railway in India. One has to go to the railway station known as Srikakulam Road. From this station on ...
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  • ...essays on transcendental subject matter for material name, fame or profit. Transcendental literature must be written under the direction of a superior authority beca ...cess of bhakti-yoga, as described herein. It is a great science, and India has produced many scientific literatures by which the perfection of life may be ...
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  • ...l these six opulences in fullness together. That is the full definition of God.</p> ...od than this "all-attractive." Unless God is all-attractive, how He can be God? This is the perfect nomenclature.</p> ...
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  • ...scendental stage, he attains the most coveted position—the stage of loving God. Lord Caitanya taught that this is the highest stage of perfection for huma ...Consequently if one thinks that the Lord's names are nondifferent from the names of demigods, he offends. The Supreme Lord and the demigods should never be ...
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  • {{terms|"transcendental name"|"transcendental names"}} [[Category:Transcendental Name|1]] ...
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  • ...e is defamed; that is the nature of human society. But a devotee is always transcendental to artificial fame and infamy, distress or happiness. He is very patient. H ...nto the Supreme Personality of Godhead. At the end of the Ninth Chapter He has said, man-manāḥ: "Just always think of Me." The same instruction is repe ...
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  • <p>1) God is one and everything is in Him and He is in everything.</p> ...like to water the root of the tree is to water the different branches and numerous leaves of the tree or to supply food to the stomach is to vitalize all the ...
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  • ..." class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Generally a human being has no idea of what the constitutional position is in the higher material plane ...-clad guards with turbans, fine uniforms and jeweled earrings. The glow of numerous jewel-studded lamps dispelled all darkness in the palace. My dear King, on ...
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  • ...the Lord, and his desires in executing the mission of the Lord. All these transcendental activities are quite befitting a pure devotee."</p> ...
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  • ...ukārāma, who became from that time a religious preacher himself. This fact has been admitted in his ābhāṅgas, which have been collected in a volume by ...heir continual contact with Hussain Shah, the then Emperor of Gauḍa. Their names had been changed by the Emperor into Dabira Khāsa and Sākara Mallika, and ...
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  • ...ass="heading">In the Padma Purāṇa it is said "the mystics derive unlimited transcendental pleasures from the Absolute Truth". ...is not interested in anything which is temporary. Knowing well the joys of transcendental pleasures, how can a liberated soul agree to enjoy false pleasure? In the P ...
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  • ...ty, knowledge and renunciation. In short, we should know that He is Kṛṣṇa, God, and that nothing is equal to or greater than Him. There is nothing superio ...d to this single verse, which describes Lord Caitanya in His six different transcendental expansions.</p> ...
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  • ...to this original and genuine commentation on the Vedānta-sūtra, there are numerous pretentious faiths that pass as religion but neglect the real essence of re ...s no transcendental realization. False devotees, lacking the conclusion of transcendental knowledge, think that artificially shedding tears will deliver them. Simila ...
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  • ...ered the land of Vṛndāvana. He then began to recite a verse describing the transcendental quality of Vṛndāvana.</p> ...en years, His life was one of settled love and piety. He was surrounded by numerous followers, all of whom were of the highest order of Vaiṣṇavas and who w ...
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  • ...d and You are revealed to them, the transcendental bliss they enjoy is the transcendental form of Your Lordship. No one but such persons can realize You. Therefore w ...rt text"><p>The Supreme Personality of Godhead has numerous transcendental names pertaining to different grades of revelation to various grades of devotees ...
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  • ...n the senses from material attachment. But a person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness has no opportunity to engage his senses in anything which is not for the purpos ...body from any of the 8,400,000 species of life, but in spiritual nature he has only one body. In material nature he is manifested sometimes as a man, demi ...
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  • ...fight vigorously, either with the Lord Hari directly or with Him under His names of Baladeva, Arjuna, Bhīma, etc. And the demons, thus being killed, would ...ons of Ānakadundubhi (Vasudeva), are living in Nanda's cowherd village. It has been predicted that these two boys will be the cause of my death. When They ...
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  • <div class="heading">If one is engaged in loving transcendental service to the Lord from the beginning, then one can see the Lord by revela ...preme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, by the material senses. But if one is engaged in loving transcendental service to the Lord from the beginning, then one can see the Lord by revela ...
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  • ...arnations of Śeṣa, Cakra and Śaṅkha. Therefore Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa has concluded, tad idaṁ kalpa-bhedenaiva sambhāvyam. In other words, these o ...ll of the Lord. This short period is regarded as Lord Brahmā's night. This has been elaborately discussed by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī in his Laghu-bhāgava ...
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  • ...arnations of Śeṣa, Cakra and Śaṅkha. Therefore Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa has concluded, tad idaṁ kalpa-bhedenaiva sambhāvyam. In other words, these o ...Vālmīki who were actually in knowledge of the Absolute Truth described His transcendental pastimes. Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī describes these pastimes in brief.</p ...
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  • ...h is infallible, is uncontaminated by the three qualities of nature and is transcendental."</p> ...e is some controversy amongst the students on the path of liberation. Such transcendental students are known as impersonalists and devotees of the Lord. ...
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  • ...nd thus He can act as He likes by perfect planning, although personally He has nothing to do. No one is greater than or equal to Him. That is the verdict ...he śrutis it is said that the birthless appears to take birth. The Supreme has nothing to do, but because He is omnipotent, everything is performed by Him ...
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  • ...nship with the Lord. As soon as one becomes a devotee of the Lord, he also has a direct relationship with the Lord.</p> ...riend Arjuna from the ocean of material grief. And the path of realization has been recommended: buddhi-yoga, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Sometimes Kṛ ...
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  • ...appointed ministers in the Muslim government. They had even changed their names to Dabira Khāsa and Sākara Mallika. Thus they had supposedly been expelle ...ṣṇa through the disciplic succession, and his entrance into the kingdom of God is thereby certainly opened. When one understands Kṛṣṇa, there is no ...
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  • ...display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Where it has been stated that the Lord's enemies and devotees attain the same destinatio ...el and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is the chanting of the holy names of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no othe ...
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  • ...ass="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Real religion means to know God, our relation with Him and our duties in relation with Him and to know ulti ...austerities. He is worshiped by Lord Brahmā and Śiva and all those who are transcendental to all pretensions. Being so revered with awe and veneration, may that Supr ...
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  • ...lay: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">For one who has such a problem, it is advised that he sacrifice the accumulated result of h ...splay: inline;">Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the great apostle of love of God and the father of the congregational chanting of the holy name of the Lord, ...
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  • ...heading">In this age of quarrel and disagreement, the chanting of the holy names is the only way to liberation from the material clutches. ...he Lord. In this age of quarrel and disagreement, the chanting of the holy names is the only way to liberation from the material clutches.</p> ...
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  • ...age has nothing, no significance. But this word "Kṛṣṇa," we consider it is transcendental vibration because all great saints and ācāryas, they chanted, especially ...age has nothing, no significance. But this word "Kṛṣṇa," we consider it is transcendental vibration because all great saints and ācāryas, they chanted, especially ...
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  • ...hat are considered sat-śāstra, or scriptures which lead one to the path of God realization. Asat-śāstras are just the opposite.</p> ...consciousness." Jñānaṁ sāttvikaṁ kaivalyam. When one is situated in pure, transcendental knowledge, one is situated in kaivalya. Therefore vasudeva also means kaiva ...
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  • {{terms|"transcendental pleasure"|"transcendental pleasures"}} [[Category:Transcendental Pleasure|1]] ...
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  • ...the creator of all auspicious things for the world. O daughter of the sun-god, kindly purify us by your pious activities."</p> ...s="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Kṛṣṇa is not incapable, for He has all potencies. Why would He induce you to suffer the sinful reactions of ot ...
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  • ...o make proper use of his conserved energy in the transcendental service of God and unsophisticated men in the old days would follow such instruction unhes ...th cool head and solid program. I think by the Grace of Krishna my working has produced some sincere souls like yourself, Brahmananda, Hamsaduta, and othe ...
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  • ...tral controlling factor of all the senses is the mind; therefore one first has to practice controlling the mind by engaging it in Kṛṣṇa consciousnes ...g cows and carrying out a trade or business is called a vaiśya. (4) He who has no special knowledge but is satisfied by serving the other three classes is ...
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  • ...Angeles center. I do not know their address. Your acknowledgement "Krishna has been very merciful to me" is remarkable. You are realizing the fruit of cha ...ll along your life, and surely Krishna will accept you into the Kingdom of God, Back to Godhead.</p> ...
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  • ...some of them not moving. No place is vacant. This is a special feature of God's creation.</p> ...the boys opened their baskets of food and began eating with Kṛṣṇa in great transcendental pleasure.</p> ...
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  • ...trans text"><p style="display: inline;">A faithful man who is dedicated to transcendental knowledge and who subdues his senses is eligible to achieve such knowledge, ...n his previous birth and is suffering the consequence. Even the most pious has to suffer the condition of material nature. But a pious man is faithful to ...
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  • ...e we fall under the control of māyā when we come into this material world, God must also fall under māyā’s control. This is the fallacy of their philo ...from all material attachment. Thus if one chants the holy names and still has material attachments, he is committing an offense.</p> ...
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  • ...use such energies are created energies of Lord Viṣṇu. Although each energy has no direct relationship with the unlimited, they are subordinate to the Lord ...ī Caitanya Mahāprabhu started by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra still has its potency. Therefore people should understand it seriously and scientific ...
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  • ...e friend or relative, one should not deviate from his prescribed duty. One has to follow the prescribed rules and regulations of religious principles in o <p>The two different names of address given to Arjuna are also significant. To address him as Kaunteya ...
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  • ...ll residents of the planets in the spiritual sky are eternal associates of God in different spiritual planets called Hari-dhāma and Maheśa-dhāma. The a ...pastimes, attributes, associates and energies are identical with Him. His transcendental energy acts according to His omnipotency. The same energy acts as His exter ...
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  • ...ong My friends, I condemn the duration of My life. I think that Providence has cheated Me in many ways.</p> ...class="heading">Bhakti-yoga is therefore the great panacea for all, and it has been made easy to practice, especially in this iron age, by Lord Kṛṣṇ ...
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  • ...transcendental science, advised Vidura to approach Maitreya Ṛṣi to receive transcendental knowledge. Vidura wanted to accept Uddhava as his spiritual master, but Udd ...class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Śiva has two popular names, Rudra and Āśutoṣa. He is very prone to anger as well as quickly pacifi ...
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  • ...Lord seldom awards pure transcendental love, but without such pure love of God, freed from fruitive activities and empiric speculation, one cannot attain ...mons. Devotees who aspire to associate with the Supreme Lord to render Him transcendental loving service are far superior.</p> ...
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  • ...ree principal manifestations are described: the consorts in the kingdom of God (Vaikuṇṭha), the queens of Dvārakā-dhāma and, highest of all, the da ...le="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The transcendental personal forms of the Lord are a mystery, and the symptoms of these forms, ...
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  • ...rani is the expansion|Radharani is expansion|Radha is also expansion|Radha has also expansion|Radha's another expansion}} ...āṇī, being the central petal of the rāsa-līlā flower, is also known by the names found in the following verses.</div> ...
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  • ...ree stages of development: the offensive stage, the clearing stage and the transcendental stage. In the offensive stage of chanting one may desire all kinds of mater ...th Mukunda (Śrī Kṛṣṇa). Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, in his Bhakti-sandarbha (213), has clearly explained that a pure devotee's observation of the spiritual master ...
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  • ...they criticize us. They say, "You should not have to do anything if you're transcendental. Why do you have to work so hard?" And then they'll show that they have som ...et for them if they keep and see sometimes. Any line he reads, he will get transcendental knowledge.</p> ...
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  • ...ree principal manifestations are described: the consorts in the kingdom of God (Vaikuṇṭha), the queens of Dvārakā-dhāma and, highest of all, the da ...ight; yet darkness, being but an illusory and temporary covering of light, has no existence independent of light.</p> ...
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  • ...ght, just as a person who does not feel hunger is not inclined to cook. He has now decided to go into the forest and live a secluded life in frustration. ...by performing activities without fruitive results, one is elevated to the transcendental position.</p> ...
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  • ...ne;">And in the offenseless stage, one actually enters into the kingdom of God, although physically he may apparently be within the material world. To att ...of the holy name of the Lord as Rāma, Kṛṣṇa (or systematically the sixteen names Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Har ...
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  • ...s an individual, but He is different in that He is the supreme individual. God is also infallible, and thus in the Bhagavad-gītā He is addressed as Acyu ...one planet to another. In this way their encagement in material existence has continued since time immemorial. In actuality, these living entities are at ...
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  • ...ull with the water of His body. And from the navel of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu has sprung the stem of the lotus flower, the birthplace of Brahmā, who is the ...display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One who has taken shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord, which are accepted as the most ...
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  • ...he intelligent persons will worship the incarnation of Sri Krishna, by the transcendental sankirtana method. This incarnation of Sri Krishna will be non-blackish in <p>(23) He shall chant the holy name of God systematically &amp; regularly according to the rules of the Goswamis.</p> ...
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  • ...nder His control. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, therefore, is always transcendental to the influence of the modes of nature, māyā, the Lord's external energy ...but the Lord is not subject to the actions and reactions of time, for time has been created by Him. To be more clear, Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭ ...
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  • ...he holy names of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa even in the midst of greatest dangers. The transcendental name of Kṛṣṇa, even though uttered unconsciously or by force of circu ...melted the plane. This enraged Lord Śiva. Lord Śiva then attacked the sun-god, who fled away and at last fell down at Kāśī (Vārāṇasī), and the pl ...
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  • <div class="purport text"><p>Since time immemorial each living entity has accumulated the various reactions of his good and bad work. As such, he is ...al loving service of the Lord, which alone can raise one to the kingdom of God.</p> ...
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  • ...ficient for me because whenever I chant I immediately merge in an ocean of transcendental bliss. I only lament to see others bereft of Your love. They are rotting in ...e;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As he read the thousand names of the Lord, in due course the holy name of Lord Nṛsiṁha appeared. When ...
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  • ...never become God. The asuras, or demons, who think that anyone can become God, are condemned.</p> ...: inline;">(1) In commenting on Vedānta-sūtra 2.2.42, Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya has claimed that Saṅkarṣaṇa is a jīva, an ordinary living entity, but th ...
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  • ...or elsewhere and attend a so-called yoga class and thus become a yogī. One has to practice controlling the mind and avoiding all kinds of sense gratificat ...ir of all truth, knowledge and bliss. He is the combination of these three transcendental features, and He is the object of worship for the followers of the Upaniṣ ...
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  • ...dly given me about these most confidential spiritual subjects, my illusion has now been dispelled.</p> ...ctionate to Your devotees. Please help us remember You and utter Your holy names, attributes and activities, which can dispel all the reactions of our sinfu ...
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  • ...but the Lord is not subject to the actions and reactions of time, for time has been created by Him. To be more clear, Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭ ...ma-nivedanam. The word Ātma-nivedanam refers to the stage at which one who has no motive other than to serve the Lord surrenders everything to the Lord an ...
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  • ...ee of the body within the same heart of the living being, and only one who has become free from all material desires as well as lamentations can, by the g ...me. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person has no doubt about the supremacy of Kṛṣṇa. He has no doubt because he is completely freed from all sins. This is the state of ...
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  • ...d. He has an eternal, blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin, and He is the prime cause of all causes." (Bs. 5.1). In th ...al kingdom, or the kingdom of God. The spiritual planets are called Vaikuṇṭhas because there is no lamentation or fear there; everything is eternal.</p> ...
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  • ...and His devotees; therefore this verse considers dāsya the first stage of transcendental devotional service.</p> ...planation that because a sannyāsī in the Śaṅkara-sampradāya thinks that he has become the Supreme, Lord Caitanya, wanting to avoid such a misconception, k ...
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  • ...alists sacrifice their time in philosophical speculation to understand the transcendental nature of the Supreme. In other words, the fruitive workers sacrifice their ...
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  • ...f material nature. The twigs are the objects of the senses. This tree also has roots going down, and these are bound to the fruitive actions of human soci ...tyle="display: inline;">Actually, it is not a cloud; it is a big hill. One has to learn from authority that the sight of a cloud is not actually a cloud b ...
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  • ...el and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is the chanting of the holy names of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no othe ...most abominable activities of the Māyāvādī philosophers that Lord Caitanya has introduced the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.</p> ...
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  • ...ve all the rules and regulations of the Vedas which a person who is in the transcendental position does not need to observe. Dakṣa found fault with Lord Śiva for ...he disease become a source of all kinds of pain. Those who are advanced in transcendental consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, are never envious, neither of ...
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  • ...ukārāma, who became from that time a religious preacher himself. This fact has been admitted in his ābhāṅgas, which have been collected in a volume by ...
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  • [[Category:God's Plenary Portions|1]] ...s by establishing a connection with the puruṣa known as Paramātmā. One who has thoroughly studied the intricacies of creation can know very easily that th ...
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  • ...activities, but we have a tendency to fall down into material nature. God has no such tendency. Being all-powerful, He never comes under the control of m ...wledge simply has to be accepted. According to the Vedic method, śabda, or transcendental sound, is regarded as evidence. Sound is very important in Vedic understand ...
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  • ...eight of his material acquisition. Advancement of material science without God consciousness is a heavy load on the head of human society, and so one must ...-clad guards with turbans, fine uniforms and jeweled earrings. The glow of numerous jewel-studded lamps dispelled all darkness in the palace. My dear King, on ...
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  • ...nce, which may be compared to the sunshine. The Upaniṣads confirm that one has to penetrate the dazzling effulgence of Brahman before one can see the real ...sonalist philosophers (Māyāvādīs) maintain that both the living entity and God Himself are under the control of māyā when they come into this material w ...
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