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  • ...ma-adhikārī, or highest devotee, is one who is very advanced in devotional service"}} [[Category:Madhyama-adhikari - Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...devotional service and whose heart is completely devoid of the propensity to criticize others"}} [[Category:Association of Pure Devotees of God]] ...
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  • {{terms|"According to Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, the association and service of such a mahā-bhāgavata, or perfect Vaiṣṇava, are most desirable"}} [[Category:According to Rupa Gosvami‎]] ...
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  • {{terms|"In this verse he tells us how to deal with three types of devotees—the kaniṣṭha-adhikārī, madhyama-a [[Category:Dealings of a Devotee of God]] ...
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  • ...the devotee who has undergone spiritual initiation (dīkṣā) and is engaged in worshiping the Deity"}} [[Category:Offering Respectful Obeisances to Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...es that we should meet with the Vaiṣṇavas in an appropriate way, according to their particular status"}} [[Category:Advise for Devotees of God]] ...
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  • [[Category:Three Classes of Devotees of God - Umbrella Category]] <div class="heading">In this verse Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī tells us how to deal with three types of devotees—the kaniṣṭha-adhikārī, madhyama-a ...
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  • ...tform of devotional service and is interested only in worshiping the Deity in the temple"}} [[Category:One Should Not Remain a Kanistha-adhikari Devotee of God]] ...
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  • ...t of living entities who wanted to give up the eternal service of the Lord to become the supreme enjoyer themselves"}} [[Category:Created by God‏‎]] ...
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  • ...tual master and has been fully engaged by him in the transcendental loving service of the Lord"}} [[Category:Madhyama-adhikari - Devotees of God]] ...
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  • [[Category:Highest Devotees of God]] ...ses are considered to be most important jewels by the devotees of the Lord in disciplic succession, and by virtue of these famous verses Sārvabhauma Bha ...
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  • {{terms|"A neophyte Vaisnava or a Vaisnava situated on the intermediate platform can also accept disciples, but such disciples [[Category:Neophyte Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...the prescribed number of rounds of hari-nama, he is elevated step by step to the highest platform, uttama-adhikari"}} [[Category:Everyone Begins His Devotional Life from the Neophyte Stage]] ...
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  • ...s|"When a neophyte devotee is actually initiated and engaged in devotional service by the orders of the spiritual master, he should be accepted immediately as [[Category:When Devotees of God‎]] ...
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  • ...received the hari-nama initiation from the spiritual master and is trying to chant the holy name of Krsna"}} [[Category:Kanistha-adhikari - Devotees of God]] ...
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  • {{terms|"An uttama-adhikari is not interested in blaspheming others, his heart is completely clean, and he has attained the [[Category:Uttama-adhikari - Devotees of God]] ...
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  • [[Category:Imitating a Devotee of God]] [[Category:Behavior of a Devotee of God]] ...
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  • ...ly carried away by bad association should be shown favor if they are eager to receive proper instructions from pure devotees"}} [[Category:Receiving Instructions from Pure Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...s of the material world. This is because I am fixed in unbroken devotional service of the Lord.</p> ...tees of the Lord are unhesitatingly qualified to enter into the kingdom of God, Vaikuṇṭha.</p> ...
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  • ...ely goodness, passion and ignorance. But Śrī Nārada Muni is transcendental to all these material modes. ...ely goodness, passion and ignorance. But Śrī Nārada Muni is transcendental to all these material modes, and thus he can travel everywhere unrestricted. H ...
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  • ...ṣṇa" and Kṛṣṇa Himself are identical. Having such faith, one must continue to chant the holy name.</p> ...e Lord is identical with the Lord is a pure devotee, even though he may be in the neophyte stage. By his association, others may also become Vaiṣṇava ...
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  • <div class="heading">In the Viṣṇu Purāṇa it is stated that Viṣṇu and His abodes all have ...ṣi viṣṇur bhuvanāni viṣṇuḥ). The words existent and nonexistent refer only to spirit and matter. That is the version of all seers of truth.</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"loving service"|"reciprocate"|"reciprocated"|"reciprocally"|"reciprocal"|"reciprocates"|"r {{notes|Vedabase query: "loving service" and "reciprocate" or "reciprocated" or "reciprocally", et al}} ...
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  • ...iberated"|"always liberated"|"always remain in a liberated"|"always remain in the liberated"|"liberated always"}} ...Lord. As a result, he has to struggle very hard to maintain his existence in the material world.</p> ...
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  • ...ly, to see the Supreme Lord one must have the spiritual eyes of devotional service.</p> ...to higher planets in the material universe. The perfect yogī is at liberty to do either.</p> ...
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  • ...he sphere of one's activity. This particular position is called liberation in the Supreme.</p> ...itual and material success and perish like a riven cloud, with no position in any sphere?</p> ...
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  • ...ot "Unalloyed Devotees" not "Unalloyed Devotee" not "unalloyed devotional service"}} ...ion of transcendental knowledge and that the highest goal in human life is to develop unalloyed love for Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. ...
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  • {{terms|"Advanced in Devotional Service"}} [[Category:Advanced in Devotional Service to God|1]] ...
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  • ...Personality of Godhead is always mindful of the devotees who fully engage in cultivating knowledge of Him, having taken shelter at His lotus feet. ...Personality of Godhead is always mindful of the devotees who fully engage in cultivating knowledge of Him, having taken shelter at His lotus feet.</p> ...
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  • ...like they have. Actually, the individual souls have spiritual senses, but in conditioned life they are covered with the material elements, and therefore ...d this material covering perishes, but his spiritual body manifests itself in its individual capacity. ...
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  • ...tal service. This devotional service"|"transcendental system of devotional service"}} [[Category:Transcendental Devotional Service to God|1]] ...
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  • <div class="heading">In this verse it is very nicely explained how our original Kṛṣṇa conscio ...ense objects, one's real consciousness almost becomes lost, like the water in a lake that is gradually sucked up by the big grass straws on its bank.</p> ...
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  • ...iness and distress. One considers himself the lord of everything and tries to enjoy the illusory energy, but he is not successful because he is not indep ...is fire reaches even Maharloka, and then the residents of Maharloka travel to Brahmaloka, which exists for twice the duration of parārdha time.</p> ...
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  • ...ading">Activities performed in full knowledge strengthen one's advancement in real knowledge. Without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, mere renunciation of fru ...t Kṛṣṇa consciousness is incomplete, as is confirmed by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī in his Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.2.258):</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"Transcendental Loving Service of the Lord"}} [[Category:Transcendental Loving Service to God|1]] ...
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  • [[Category:Uttama-adhikari - Devotees of God|1]] ...ectful obeisances unto Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī before he begins his answers to the questions of the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya.</p> ...
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  • [[Category:Perfect Devotees of God‎|2]] [[Category:Vaisnava - Devotees of God|2]] ...
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  • ...er, there is no happiness, but the real water of actual happiness is there in the spiritual world.</p> ...udāna-vāyu goes upwards—and when one is enlightened, one engages all these in searching for self-realization.</p> ...
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  • ...the different departments of supply are pleased, and there is no scarcity in the supply of natural products.</p> ...is to become Brahman, or freed from all material contamination. It is said in the Vedic literature, brahmaiva san brahmāpy eti. One can attain the Supre ...
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  • ...to do with this material world, but He creates by His glance and ordains. In summary, material nature, without the superintendence of the Supreme Person ...was confirmed in the Eleventh Chapter when the Lord said that He had come to devour all the warriors assembled at Kurukṣetra.</p> ...
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  • ...s the characteristics of the Supreme Personality of Godhead with reference to the Vedic context cannot be bewildered by the pāṣaṇḍas.</p> ...God. It is the main business of an ācārya to defy such imposters posing as God before the innocent public.</p> ...
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  • ...erated souls and the Personality of Godhead there, will never be attracted to the limited surroundings of the material world.</p> ...mind, which he used as a means to attract the Lord, as one attracts a fish to a hook, withdraws from material activity.</p> ...
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  • ...ña inaugurated by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. But one should not indulge in animal killing and counteract it by performing the hari-nāma yajña. ...ña inaugurated by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. But one should not indulge in animal killing and counteract it by performing the hari-nāma yajña. Those ...
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  • ...ing all this and becoming fixed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, devotional service to the Lord, that one can actually achieve the perfection of life.</p> ...for liberation and can even abandon the intense desire to achieve success in yoga mystic power. The attraction of Kṛṣṇa is so intense that one can ...
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  • ...er, there is no happiness, but the real water of actual happiness is there in the spiritual world.</p> ...n remain in the inferior energy of this material world, or we can transfer to the energy of the spiritual world. So the Bhagavad-gītā (8.6) says:</p> ...
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  • ...Deity of Vṛndāvana, he began compiling Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, which, due to its literary excellence and philosophical thoroughness, is today universall ...text at a very advanced age and in failing health, as he vividly describes in the text itself: "I have now become too old and disturbed by invalidity. Wh ...
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  • ...y members and ministers who could make changes and elect the proper person to the throne, although the throne could be occupied only by the royal family. .... Thus his younger brother, named Vatsara, the son of Bhrami, was elevated to the royal throne, and he became king of the world.</p> ...
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  • ...="heading">For the gross materialist it is sufficient to know that one has to end this materialistic way of life, but for persons who are spiritually adv ...d in Kṛṣṇa consciousness has certainly already entered into the kingdom of God.</p> ...
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  • ...ahāprabhu and that of Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu are described with reference to the above theistic facts.</p> ...an as God on the basis of their whimsical sentiments and without reference to the revealed scriptures, but the author of Caitanya-caritāmṛta proves al ...
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  • ...dhead, his followers do not accept Kṛṣṇa as such, for it is very difficult to know Kṛṣṇa, even though one has transcendental realization of imperso ...by the Lord from the kingdom of God, and it remains with the living being to accept this or not.</p> ...
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  • ...tees of the Lord are unhesitatingly qualified to enter into the kingdom of God, Vaikuṇṭha.</p> ...e He can display hundreds of arms, as He exhibited in His viśva-rūpa shown to Arjuna. Therefore, one who can display hundreds and thousands of arms can a ...
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  • {{terms|"that is to say"|"this is to say"}} [[Category:That Is To Say|1]] ...
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  • <div class="heading">Faith means unflinching trust in something sublime. ..., all activities are on the absolute plane, for they are no longer subject to dualities like good and bad. The highest perfection of Kṛṣṇa consciou ...
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  • ...text"><p style="display: inline;">Such a person, being unsatisfied, begins to blaspheme Lord Brahmā, saying that he does not know the art of creating we ...hemers, nondevotees and lowest among the student community are very expert in avoiding the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, and therefore the inundati ...
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  • ...ll students who are engaged in the study of the Absolute Truth are engaged in the same subject matter.</p> ...al condition of the living entity and rises up to perfect self-realization in pure spiritual life.</p> ...
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  • ...terial existence by transmigrating from one material body to another. Only in Kṛṣṇa consciousness can one achieve the highest perfection of life.</ ...goodness is the platform of understanding, for the Supreme Lord is always in spiritual existence.</p> ...
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  • ...f the sannyasis"|"duty as a sannyasi"|"duty as sannyasa"|"duty of a person in the renounced order"|"duty of a sannyasi"|"duty of every sannyasi"|"duty of ...ly for the purpose of begging, but to see the householders and awaken them to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. This is the duty of a sannyāsī ...
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  • ...est goal, and Lord Caitanya affirmed that there is no method of worshiping God higher than that followed by the gopīs.</p> ...is title as a hereditary designation or a professional degree. That is not in accord with the śāstric injunctions.</p> ...
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  • ...shed by Vedic principles. They should also arrange for charity to be given to the brāhmaṇas, sannyāsīs and temples. This is the godly arrangement of ...a brahmacārī, then a gṛhastha, a vānaprastha and finally a sannyāsī. Going to the forest means accepting vānaprastha life, which is between gṛhastha l ...
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  • ...they harmed Lord Nityānanda Prabhu, He immediately became angry and wanted to kill them, and it was only by the mercy of Lord Nityānanda Prabhu that the ...e all respect to others. One must have these qualifications to be eligible to understand Vedic knowledge.</p> ...
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  • <div class="heading">One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries or elated when there is happiness, ...;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries or elated when there is happiness, ...
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  • ..., then our whole life will become purified, and ultimately we will be able to reach the destination which is beyond this material sky. ([[Vanisource:BG 1 ...to the sun, moon, stars and so on, but in this verse the Lord states that in the eternal sky there is no need for the sun nor for the moon nor electrici ...
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  • ...merely hints at their beauty. Generally the inhabitants of Vaikuṇṭha dress in yellow clothing. Their bodies are delicate and attractively built, and thei ...brilliant diamondlike metal surrounded by costly jewels never to be found in the material world. The residents of Vaikuṇṭha are always powerful and ...
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  • {{terms|"from the midst of"|"in the midst of"|"into the midst of"|"midst"}} [[Category:In The Midst Of...|1]] ...
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  • ...">All Vedic literatures advise us to approach a bona fide spiritual master to get free from the perplexities of life, which happen without our desire. Th ...n: "As a blazing fire burns everything within a room, Lord Viṣṇu, situated in the heart of the yogī, burns up all kinds of impurities.</p> ...
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  • ...ld to come to Vṛndāvana and stay there in retired life, making advancement in spiritual consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> ...g for the children, just as women acting as teachers care for the children in a nursery school.</p> ...
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  • ...inline;">Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: "It is better to live in this world by begging than to live at the cost of the lives of great souls who are my teachers. Even thou ...is a respectful offering. Yes. Sometimes it may be. The example is given. In the Bhagavad-gītā you'll find, api cet sudarācāro bhajate mām ananya-b ...
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  • ...evidence of His great mission: He allowed even the wild animals to partake in His great movement.</p> ...eding all kinds of material afflictions to society, country and the people in general).</p> ...
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  • ...m such conceptions, and thus He cannot be affected by anything in relation to the material body of the jīva.</p> ...brahminical culture is now lost and is extremely difficult to reestablish in a proper way. Therefore Lord Caitanya has recommended the chanting of the h ...
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  • ...hall become happy in future,"... As the so-called scientists are dreaming: In future, we shall become without death." So many, they are dreaming. But tho ...yātmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika. Adhyātmika means distresses pertaining to this body and the mind. And adhidaivika means distresses offered by materia ...
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  • ...e results by such activities and attain conclusive knowledge. One has only to carry out the orders of Kṛṣṇa or His representative, the spiritual ma ...e Personality of Godhead. Anyone who is able to understand this, according to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, knows the purpose of ...
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  • ...ean are tossing him, and he has no control over them. His best solution is to get out of the water by transcendental Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That alon ...mall sparrow, and he promised to help. Thus Garuḍa at once asked the ocean to return her eggs lest he himself take up the work of the sparrow. The ocean ...
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  • ...ies are worshiped at Vṛndāvana. Śrīla Gopīnātha is the ultimate attraction in spiritual realization.</p> ...es of the individual living being. A man may not remember what he has done in his childhood, but his father, who has seen him grow through different stag ...
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  • ...e varṇāśrama institution there are many principles of religious traditions to help members of the family grow properly and attain spiritual values</div> ...sponsible for such purifying processes in the family, beginning from birth to death. But on the death of the elder members, such family traditions of pur ...
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  • ...a, which means "He who never falls down." This name is appropriate because in the Bhagavad-gītā Arjuna falls into illusion but Kṛṣṇa does not. ...a Himself reveals His infallibility when he says to Arjuna, "When I appear in this world, I do so by My own internal potency." ([[Vanisource:BG 4.6 (1972 ...
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  • ...killer of enemies, O killer of Madhu, how can I counterattack with arrows in battle men like Bhīṣma and Droṇa, who are worthy of my worship?</p> ...āryas like Śrī Rāmānuja and others. It is clearly mentioned in many places in the Gītā that this spiritual individuality is understood by those who are ...
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  • ...elf by his work just to remain fit for action in the transcendental loving service of the Lord.</p> ...is undoubtedly washed clean of all misgivings and is in perfect knowledge in everything concerning transcendence.</p> ...
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  • ...<p style="display: inline;">There are innumerable authoritative statements in the Vedas regarding the personal feature of the Absolute Truth. Some of the ...d, He pervades everything by the rays of His energy. He appears impersonal to imperfect eyes."</p> ...
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  • ...ty is the highest perfectional stage of Vedic knowledge. This is confirmed in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.33.7) as follows:</p> :aho bata śva-paco 'to garīyān ...
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  • ...ediately without undergoing the gradual evolutionary process from one form to another, and the kṣatriyas killed on the battlefield also attain the heav ...ties, desires some satisfaction for his personal self. But a person acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness works for the satisfaction of the whole, without ...
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  • ...Lord Kṛṣṇa; and the highest Vedāntist is the great soul who takes pleasure in chanting the holy name of the Lord. That is the ultimate purpose of all Ved ...of prescribed duties. Therefore, just for the sake of educating the people in general, you should perform your work.</p> ...
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  • ...nline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I must admit my frailties in presenting Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, but still I am hopeful of its good recepti ...upreme Lord is a transcendental creation meant to bring about a revolution in the impious life of a misdirected civilization. Such transcendental literat ...
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  • ...) Himself teaching us how to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and we must study Him in that light.</p> ...to love God. Other scriptures do not give information on how one can love God, nor do they actually define or describe what or who the Godhead actually i ...
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  • ...y the grace of Kṛṣṇa and the devotees one reaches perfection in devotional service, he can appreciate Kṛṣṇa as Gopījana-vallabha, the pleasure Deity of ...old that are the most important of the five thousand temples now existing in Vṛndāvana.</p> ...
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  • ...yasa"|"taking of sannyasa"|"taking sannyasa"|"taking the sannyasa"|"taking to Sannyas"|"took Sannyasam"|"took formal sannyasa"|"took sannyasa"|"took the ...to look after them. Yet for a higher cause He took sannyāsa and was steady in the discharge of higher duties. That is the way of achieving liberation fro ...
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  • {{terms|"comparable to"|"compare to"|"compared to"|"compares to"|"comparing to"}} [[Category:Compared To...|1]] ...
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  • ...Advaita Prabhu, the incarnation of a devotee, is viṣṇu-tattva and belongs to the same category. There are also different types of bhaktas, or devotees, ...e seriously inquisitive student can realize the Absolute Truth. Devotional service is not, therefore, meant for the less intelligent class of transcendentalis ...
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  • ...ctivities can be changed when the living being is in the mode of goodness, in sanity, and understands what sort of activities he should adopt.</p> ...and check the force of desire and anger, he is well situated and is happy in this world.</p> ...
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  • ...When the Lord was at Vārāṇasī, the people in general became more attracted to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu on account of His mass saṅkīrtana movement. Wh ...
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  • ...realize the complete, and all sorts of incompleteness are experienced due to incomplete knowledge of the complete. So Bhagavad-gītā contains the compl ...es cow dung is considered to be a purifying agent. One might consider this to be contradictory, but it is accepted because it is Vedic injunction, and in ...
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  • ...iplic succession of Rāmānujācārya, has written two very appropriate verses in this connection. He says. ...iplic succession of Rāmānujācārya, has written two very appropriate verses in this connection. He says,</p> ...
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  • ...nline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Transcendental devotional service has five stages of reciprocation:</p> ...al knowledge of the Lord's internal opulences, the devotee engages himself in the dāsya stage.</p> ...
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  • ...Lord. He is the Supreme Personality of Servitor Godhead. It is worthwhile to take shelter of such a steady devotee, who is called āśraya-vigraha, or t ...rī Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, the Personalities of Godhead, who formerly appeared in Vṛndāvana and were millions of times more effulgent than the sun and moo ...
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  • ...se eatables include grains, fruits, vegetables, milk and sugar for persons in the mode of goodness, and also eatables for the nonvegetarians, such as mea ...ilked. This substantiates the description of the śāstra that a foolish man in the bodily concept of life is like a cow.</p> ...
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  • ...ases they enter into the spiritual sky, but only the devotee, or he who is in personal touch with the Supreme Lord, enters into the Vaikuṇṭha planets ...avad-gītā (8.6) also explains the general principle that makes it possible to enter the spiritual kingdom simply by thinking of the Supreme at the time o ...
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  • ...uit, however, it is necessary for the devotee, or transcendental gardener, to water the plant daily by chanting and hearing. Unless one waters the plant ...and taking care not to offend pure devotees. Then the plant of devotional service will be properly protected.</p> ...
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  • ...ractices are called yoga-yajña, sacrifice for a certain type of perfection in the material world.</p> ...a (the present yuga, or age), when people in general are short-lived, slow in spiritual realization and always disturbed by various anxieties, the best m ...
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  • ...ñjaya was able to envision the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra even while he was in the room of Dhṛtarāṣṭra. And so, Dhṛtarāṣṭra asked him about ...auseless mercy He was engaged in the service of His friend. He never fails in His affection for His devotees, and thus He is addressed herein as infallib ...
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