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  • ...by a person who has qualities similar to Arjuna's. That is to say he must be a devotee in a direct relationship with the Lord. As soon as one becomes a ...but in spite of all these credits, if Arjuna abandoned the battle he would be committing an infamous act.</p> ...
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  • ...s that, the chariot on which both the friends were seated had been donated by Agni (the fire-god) to Arjuna, and this indicated that this chariot was cap ...phe was due to King Dhṛtarāṣṭra, because he encouraged the policy followed by his sons.</p> ...
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  • ...hat he can show the universal form of what he has seen. A devotee of Kṛṣṇa cannot accept false incarnations or followers of false incarnations.</p> ...rsonality of Godhead will explain all about the four questions put forward by Brahmā, and others also which are parts and parcels of the same questions. ...
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  • ...Hiraṇyakaśipu wanted to be immortal and underwent a severe type of penance by which the whole universe trembled, and Brahmā himself approached him to di ...their cousin-brothers, the prelude of the Battle of Kurukṣetra was created by the Lord.</p> ...
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  • ...ānta presented by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the transcendental form of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the Māyāvādīs are very proud of their study.</ ...s, or the spiritual masters of the entire world, although, of course, they cannot see the entire world.</p> ...
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  • ..."understand; simply"|"understand? Simply"|"understood simply"|"understood. Simply"}} [[Category:Simply Understand|2]] ...
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  • ...ed in different ways which the asuras cannot overcome by any method except by full surrender unto the almighty God.</p> ...vana, Khasadaya or any other lower caste, all of them can be trained up to be devotees of the Lord under proper guidance of a pure and bona fide devotee. ...
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  • ...lead him to devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, must be considered dead, although he is breathing. ...lead him to devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, must be considered dead, although he is breathing.</p> ...
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  • ...so kind that after showing it He converts Himself again into His original form. ...for his benefit. So Arjuna acknowledges that all this is happening to him by Kṛṣṇa's grace. He is now convinced that Kṛṣṇa is the cause of a ...
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  • ...usiness is spiritual advancement of life." Everything will be clear if you simply execute devotional service of Kṛṣṇa. Vāsudeve bhagavati. Dharmaḥ s ...unto Me, and I immediately excuse you for all your sinful life." So it can be done in one second. It doesn't take much time. One second. He says "immedia ...
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  • ...indirect hint given by Kṛṣṇa to Arjuna in this verse, and the matter will be more clearly explained in the following verses.</p> ...e places, so that one who wants to conquer the enemy may know where he can be found. Mind is the center of all the activities of the senses, and thus whe ...
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  • ...respect and attention, one should receive the message and lessons imparted by the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.</p> ...rīmad-Bhāgavatam is exactly received from the right source. It was brought by Nārada Muni from the spiritual world and given to his disciple Śrī Vyās ...
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  • ...re, all culture of knowledge, austerities, sacrifice and activities should be aimed at changing the quality of the influence that is acting upon us.</p> ...of soil experts that the desert developed in recent years is not supported by the statements of Bhāgavatam. We may leave the matter for expert geologist ...
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  • ...eme. When the mind is fully absorbed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, it is said to be in samādhi, or trance. Anything done in such transcendental consciousness ...for his benefit. So Arjuna acknowledges that all this is happening to him by Kṛṣṇa's grace. He is now convinced that Kṛṣṇa is the cause of a ...
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  • ...ṛṣṇa is absolute, and there is no difference between Kṛṣṇa's name, Kṛṣṇa's form, Kṛṣṇa's qualities, Kṛṣṇa's pastimes, etc. This absolute positi ...times. Thus a devotee of Kṛṣṇa can conquer both sleep and ignorance simply by thinking of Kṛṣṇa constantly.</p> ...
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  • ...Śiva challenged his claim to the wealth, but when Lord Śiva was satisfied by Nābhāga's behavior, Lord Śiva offered him all the riches.</p> ...ed this decision, for according to brahminical opinion, drinking water may be accepted as eating and also as not eating.</p> ...
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  • ...e very nicely dressed. That is the temple worship. At the same time should be careful also. Chant. (end)</p> ...is Bhṛgu, I mean to say, sole, sole, a mark of the feet of Bhṛgu Muni. So by some special marks one can recognize He is Viṣṇu. Otherwise, from bodil ...
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  • ...t a dream. All whom the Lord endowed with divine vision saw that universal form on the battlefield.</p> ...dy of Viṣṇu. His body is not material; therefore He should not be taken to be an ordinary boar.</p> ...
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  • ...vant of somebody, and thus to profess a particular type of faith is not to be considered as sanātana-dharma, but the constant companion of the living be ...is there. Every word, every line is so, I mean to say, instructive. It is simply... That is the basic principle of spiritual knowledge. Now we have presente ...
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  • ...alized through transcendental senses—is accepted. And this is corroborated by Patañjali Muni, the famous exponent of the yoga system. ...alized through transcendental senses—is accepted. And this is corroborated by Patañjali Muni, the famous exponent of the yoga system. The great sage dec ...
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  • {{terms|"Krishna be pleased"|"Krishna will always be pleased"|"Krishna will be pleased"|"Krsna enjoys pleasure"|"Krsna is pleased"|"Krsna took pleasure"|" ...enjoy our pleasure potency by means of the body in the material condition. By bodily contact we are attempting to derive pleasure from material sense obj ...
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  • ...n-god to others, and it was His wish that His teaching be distributed anew by Arjuna. He wanted Arjuna to become the authority in understanding the Bhaga ...called false ego. One who is absorbed in the thought of bodily conceptions cannot understand his situation. Bhagavad-gītā was spoken to liberate one from t ...
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  • ...ṛṣṇa is absolute, and there is no difference between Kṛṣṇa's name, Kṛṣṇa's form, Kṛṣṇa's qualities, Kṛṣṇa's pastimes, etc. This absolute positi ...ul except by studying the Vedas. In other words, the soul is inconceivable by human experimental knowledge. The soul is consciousness and conscious—tha ...
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  • ...n><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes. They cannot serve. All these welfare activities of the world, what they are serving? Th .../span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Everything God's, and we are claiming "Mine." Ahaṁ mameti, janasya moho 'yam ([[Vanisource ...
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  • ...to satisfy Him. This cooperation will actually help us, just as food taken by the stomach will help all other parts of the body.</p> ...humanity, etc. If Kṛṣṇa is satisfied by one's actions, then everyone will be satisfied.</p> ...
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  • ...r and disappear in accordance with my previous deeds. My only desire is to be fixed in devotional service to the lotus feet of the Lord, even though I ma ...
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  • ...to its divine connection and movement by the divine will. Being conducted by divine will, material nature, although inferior, acts so wonderfully in the ...s called daivī prakṛti, divine nature. So when one is promoted in that way—by surrendering to the Supreme Personality of Godhead—one attains to the sta ...
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  • {{terms|"universal"|"universalist"|"universality"|"universally"}} ...y: universal or universally or universalist or universality not "universal form*"}} ...
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  • ...arent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2> ...bhauma, who was astonished at His personal beauty and feared that it would be difficult for the young man to maintain sannyāsa-dharma during the long ru ...
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  • ...who preside over the Vaikuṇṭha planets are four-armed, and they are known by a variety of names—Puruṣottama, Trivikrama, Keśava, Mādhava, Aniruddh ...s="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Viṣṇu-tattvas are represented by various names and forms, such as Nārāyaṇa, Dāmodara, Vāmana, Govinda ...
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  • ...derstanding"|"not have understood"|"not understand"|"not understands"|"not understood"}} ...r "not understood" or "not understands" or "no understanding" or "not have understood" or "never understand" or "never understands" not "do not understand" not ...
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  • ...ereas the nondevotee rejects it as material. The impersonalist, therefore, cannot enjoy life, due to his artificial renunciation; and for this reason, a slig ...by spending millions, but the poor laborer is not sumptuously fed or given charity, clothing, etc. The laborers are thus dissatisfied, and so they make agitat ...
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  • {{terms|"God is the center of all creation, of the whole universal body; He is the enjoyer, and we are His servitors. As this conception becom [[Category:God's Creation]] ...
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  • ...d. The so-called yogīs who meditate on something other than the Viṣṇu form simply waste their time in a vain search after some phantasmagoria.</p> ...ut a pure devotee can live anywhere and create the atmosphere of Vṛndāvana by his devotional service. It was Śrī Advaita who told Lord Caitanya, "Where ...
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  • {{terms|"As soon as one understands his relationship to God, he realizes universal brotherhood, for he understands that all men and animals - indeed, all life [[Category:Universal Brotherhood]] ...
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  • ..." class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In addition, the creeper has to be protected from the desires of sense enjoyment, monistic liberation and perf ...ne is thus converted to transcendental purity, one can then serve the Lord by purified senses.</p> ...
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  • ...n nor an American or any country. He is Chinese. Chinese are considered to be Communist country, but he has very impartially said that if you have to lea ...is controlling such a huge affairs of universal administration, He cannot be, He is superconscious. That is superconsciousness.</p> ...
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  • ...universal. Who is such a fool that he does not want to be Kṛṣṇa conscious by this simple method and thus attain the highest perfectional life of eternit ...urt judge, so also one does not become a brāhmaṇa simply by birthright but by acquiring the necessary qualifications of a brāhmaṇa. ...
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  • ...ive. The word rasātmakaḥ is very significant. Everything becomes palatable by the agency of the Supreme Lord through the influence of the moon.</p> ...ful obeisances by touching their heads to the ground. They lived perfectly by protecting the cows and the brāhmaṇas.</p> ...
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  • ...is no better than animal life. Therefore, in human societies there is some form of religion which aims at self-realization and which makes reference to man ...n other words, there is a continuous rivalry to satisfy the senses. Driven by such consciousness, man turns to religion. He thus performs pious activitie ...
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  • ...arent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2> ...ext"><p style="display: inline;">Persons who have been thoroughly cleansed by devotional service and are always joyful, being situated in elevated consci ...
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  • ...is factually understood, one sees the conceptions of monism and dualism to be imperfect. Development of this transcendental consciousness grounded in the ...ceptions of the Supreme as gross and subtle, but both of them are rejected by the learned pure devotees of the Lord because they are aware of the factual ...
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  • ...ta philosophy, the Lord replied that His spiritual master had found Him to be a great fool and thus asked Him to chant the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa. ...result of yoga practice without separate endeavor, but a yoga practitioner cannot achieve success without becoming Kṛṣṇa conscious.</p> ...
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  • ...ty of Godhead, and because of his awkward position in having been attacked by the crocodile, he expressed his inability to recite prayers nicely. Nonethe ...śāya, which indicates that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is worshiped by exalted demigods. Pareśāya means parameśvara. Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiv ...
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  • {{terms|"universal"|"universalist"|"universality"|"universally"}} ...y: universal or universally or universalist or universality not "universal form*"}} ...
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  • ...s but a side word in the Vedic literatures, and therefore this word cannot be the primeval hymn of the Vedas. Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya has given more ...ry. And thus the rasas of the material world are exhibited in the material form of raudra (anger) and so on.</p> ...
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  • ...toward this end: that a living being, as Kṛṣṇa's eternal servitor, cannot be separated from Kṛṣṇa, and his sense of being an identity apart from K ...ation on the Supersoul. The yogī in Kṛṣṇa consciousness—even though he may be engaged in various activities while in material existence—remains always ...
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  • ...of māyā. One who is thus fallen cannot even be liberated, for he is bound by false impressions"}} [[Category:Should Be Understood]] ...
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  • ...ot only in America but also in India, none of them can be strictly said to be authoritative because in almost every one of them the commentator has expre ...d explained it to Manu, and Manu explained it to Ikṣvāku, and in that way, by disciplic succession, one speaker after another, this yoga system has been ...
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  • ...the atmosphere of nonexistence. Actually we are not meant to be threatened by nonexistence. Our existence is eternal. But somehow or other we are put int ...n, and for him this Bhagavad-gītā is spoken. Actually we are all swallowed by the tigress of nescience, but the Lord is very merciful upon living entitie ...
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  • ...purified. And Kṛṣṇa does not become immoral. This science has to be known by the rascals before calling Kṛṣṇa immoral.</p> ...
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  • ...her words, the Lord can speak through His breathing, and He can impregnate by His eyes. In fact, it is said that He glanced over material nature and thus ...and Atharva-the praṇava, or oṁkāra, is very prominent, it is understood to be Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...pting Kṛṣṇa consciousness - one immediately rises to the highest position. By just taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one develops all transcendental q [[Category:Simply By]] ...
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  • ...rans text"><p style="display: inline;">O Lord of the universe, O universal form, I see in Your body many, many arms, bellies, mouths and eyes, expanded eve ...gratification. There is no cessation of this. All these symptoms should be understood as characteristic of the mode of passion.</p> ...
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  • ...ay: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It should be understood that if one's heart is in the mode of goodness his faith is also in the mod <div class="heading">Sexual service is also considered to be in the mode of darkness. ...
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  • {{terms|"Śukadeva Gosvāmī says that one can put an end to material life by one stroke (kevalayā)"}} <h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2> ...
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  • ...p style="display: inline;">O Kṛṣṇa, maintainer of the people, I have heard by disciplic succession that those whose family traditions are destroyed dwell ...al work and reaction of work. That Supreme Personality of Godhead is also, by His plenary portions, alive in the heart of every living entity. Only saint ...
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  • ...extraordinary power is called a vibhūtimat sattva, or controller empowered by the Lord. There are many vibhūtimat sattvas, controllers or gods with vari ...herefore all the missionary activities of the Lord are to be understood to be on the spiritual plane, and as such the cult of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, ...
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  • ...to the actions and reactions of time, for time has been created by Him. To be more clear, Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says that creation, ...tree that produces nice fruit for the maintenance of the people should not be cut at all. This is a śāstric injunction.</p> ...
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  • ...r the good of all living beings, that by such instruction their hearts may be fully satisfied.</p> ...elements. It is spiritual in constitution, and thus it is never satisfied by any amount of material planning. All scriptures and spiritual instructions ...
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  • ...r society can save him from the verge of death. Such family attachment can be found even in the lower animals, who take care of children also.</p> ...he five great elements in the gross body. The living symptoms, represented by consciousness, and convictions are the manifestation of the subtle body—m ...
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  • ...anet to another, but it is not that we can go to any planet we like merely by a mechanical arrangement. If we desire to go to other planets, there is a p ...l world, from which there is no longer any possibility of coming down, one simply revolves in the cycle of birth and death on higher and lower planetary syst ...
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  • [[Category:Universal Brotherhood]] [[Category:All Good Qualities Automatically Develop in the Character of God's Devotees]] ...
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  • ...the people. In modern days the people in general occupy the administration by the strength of manipulated votes, but they are never trained in the primar ...that in the future no one would dare commit such nuisances in an organized form. Such thieves and dacoits were never meant for administration as they are n ...
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  • ...t through His different energies. One should know that this is being asked by Arjuna on behalf of the common people.</p> ...therefore, describe the Almighty Lord's activities which you have learned by your vast knowledge of the Vedas, for that will satisfy the hankerings of g ...
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  • ...g is as stated as pure. Rather, impure place or impure things are purified by touch of the cow dung. Now if one argues how it is that in one place it is ...;">And by that acceptance we are not committing mistake. It has been found by modern chemists, modern science, one Dr. Lal Mohan Gosal, he has very minut ...
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  • ...ghtful man can understand how much a person is favored by the Supreme Lord by seeing his actions.</p> ...e of happiness and distress; there are no other causes, and one should not be aggrieved upon seeing the superficial actions of karma."</p> ...
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  • ...ee of the Lord, being unaccustomed to looking into such a mundane gigantic form of the Lord, requires special vision for the purpose. The Lord, therefore, ...his purpose. Foolish, unintelligent persons make their own interpretations by imagination and thus mislead their followers, causing them to remain in the ...
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  • ...d be trained in such a way that the full utilization of the human body can be achieved. The human body is meant for spiritual realization, so any movemen ...ciousness, he is in his pure life. But if his consciousness is adulterated by some type of material mentality, in the next life he gets a corresponding b ...
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  • ...as like a thunderbolt with those in the renounced order who tried to cheat by the method known as "drinking water under water while bathing on a fast day ...nt. Through Lord Caitanya we can become friends with Kṛṣṇa, and there will be no limit to this friendship.</p> ...
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  • ...Therefore Lord says, "One should give up all mental speculation and should be satisfied in the understanding that 'I am consciousness, and there is Supre ...priori idea means "I know man is mortal; therefore here is a man, he must be mortal." A priori means before. And what is the other?</p> ...
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  • ...at because Kṛṣṇa was the friend of Arjuna, Arjuna was telling Him all this by way of flattery, but Arjuna, just to drive out this kind of doubt from the ...even by the great demigods. This means that the Lord cannot even be known by personalities greater than human beings. So how can a human being understan ...
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  • ...ng in the fighting. By this he wanted to point out also that he should not be similarly lenient in battle against the Pāṇḍavas, who were also Droṇ ...lled sthira-buddhi, or self-intelligence. He is therefore never bewildered by mistaking the gross body for the soul, nor does he accept the body as perma ...
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  • ...s free from the contamination of passion and ignorance. Material qualities cannot touch You under any circumstances."</p> ...ency, it is perceived as knowledge in transcendence. And when predominated by the hlādinī potency, it is perceived as the most confidential love of God ...
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  • ...re bhakti-yoga, without any mixture of jñāna, karma or haṭha. As indicated by the word ananya-cetāḥ, in pure bhakti-yoga the devotee desires nothing b ...heir grievances whenever there is some difficulty in the administration of universal affairs. Although they are incarnations of the Lord, Lord Brahmā and Lord ...
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  • ...lāmbara Cakravartī, the maternal grandfather of Lord Caitanya, happened to be a class fellow of the father of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya. In that sen ...aging animal slaughter the whole atmosphere becomes polluted more and more by war, pestilence, famine and many other unwanted calamities.</p> ...
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  • ...and the Vedas direct sacrifices to satisfy these demigods so that they may be pleased to supply air, light and water sufficiently to produce food grains. ...g entities (nityānām) with different grades of material power. They cannot be equal to the Supreme God—Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu, or Kṛṣṇa.</div> ...
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  • ...knowledge and method is distributed by the sannyāsīs; hence charity is to be given to the renouncer of life, to the brāhmaṇas, and similar good cause ...This is the duty of a sannyāsī. If he is actually advanced and so ordered by his spiritual master, he should preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness with logic ...
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  • ...ngly accepting the powerful object as God. But in this verse it is advised by Brahmājī that none of them is the Supreme Lord; they are only borrowed pl ...of pious work, and similarly one becomes controlled by the higher demigods by lower grades of fruitive activities. So every individual living entity is s ...
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  • ...terial nature"|"variegatedness in the material world"|"variegatedness must be material"|"variegatedness of material existence"|"variegatedness of the mat ...develops the spiritual qualities is not affected either by the creation or by the destruction of the material world.</p> ...
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  • ...foe should not be attacked. Arjuna, however, decided that even if attacked by the enemy in such an awkward position, he would not fight. He did not consi ...of spiritual advancement in life, Kṛṣṇa consciousness. One may argue that by Kṛṣṇa consciousness one may attain the highest perfection if it is co ...
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  • ...ns that only the remains of sacrifice are purified and fit for consumption by those who are seeking advancement in life and release from the clutches of ...(2) intelligence and (3) ego (thirteen senses in all), are supplied to us by various arrangements of gross or subtle forms of natural energy.</p> ...
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  • ...ll his relatives and friends will be killed on the battlefield and he will be unable to share his opulence after victory. This is a typical calculation o ...herefore any attachment for regulated sense enjoyment must also be avoided by all means. But attachment to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or acting always in ...
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  • ...e mercy of the Lord because they knew that every living being is dependent by constitutional position.</p> <div class="heading">The principles of religion are laid down by the Lord Himself, and the executor of such laws is Dharmarāja, or Yamarāj ...
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  • ...h godless philosophical speculations. Real Sāṅkhya philosophy is described by Lord Kapila in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, but even that Sāṅkhya has nothi ...lined to understand it by empirical, philosophical speculation, and others by devotional service.</p> ...
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  • ...brāhmaṇa said: O best of the asuras, Prahlāda Mahārāja, who are recognized by advanced and civilized men, you are aware of the different stages of life b ...s the Deity must therefore be extremely respectful to preachers; otherwise simply worshiping the Deity will keep one in the lower stage of devotion.</p> ...
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  • ...ies of the Lord to the highest percentage. Such is the gradual development by association of pure devotees.</p> ...ation with the Supersoul. Seeing in the darkness is not seeing. But seeing by the light of the sun means to see the sun and everything else which was uns ...
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  • ...stly aspect, but those who are devoted to Him will see Him in His personal form. In any case, everyone will ultimately see God"}} [[Category:God's Aspects]] ...
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  • {{terms|"We are simply under the false impression that we are this or that, and this leads us to t [[Category:Simply]] ...
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  • ...philosophical truth of simultaneous oneness and difference was propounded by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and it is known as acintya-bhedābheda-tat ...nally recommends that one hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam regularly, nityam, always by one's own effort and with serious devotion also. That will help one to see ...
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  • ...of the Lord. Whatever you may eat, you may offer the same to the Lord and be assured that He will return the food after eating it Himself"}} [[Category:God's Assurance]] ...
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  • ...m as death personified, but the devotee, Prahlāda, saw Him in His personal form as his beloved Lord"}} [[Category:Krsna's Personal Form]] ...
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  • ...sat, cit and ānanda (eternity, knowledge, and bliss) in complete vigraha (form).</p> ...animals. But beyond Brahmā there is the Transcendence, who has no material form and is free from all material contaminations. Anyone who can know Him also ...
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  • ...r the good of all living beings, that by such instruction their hearts may be fully satisfied.</p> ...orn, it is therefore concluded that the highest perfection one can achieve by discharging the duties prescribed for one's own occupation according to cas ...
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  • {{terms|"By knowing ourselves as minute particles, part and parcel of God, we can under <h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2> ...
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  • ...l the planetary systems feared the terrific manifestation of the universal form and its glaring effulgence and so prayed for protection. ...f great sages and perfected beings, crying "All peace!" are praying to You by singing the Vedic hymns."'</p> ...
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  • ...gnorance. Whatever one sees or otherwise experiences one should know to be simply an exhibition of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's energy. Everything is ...a great man performs, common people follow. And whatever standards he sets by exemplary acts, all the world pursues."</p> ...
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  • ...he same, for the Lord, because of His blissful position, is never affected by enmity or friendship.</p> ...otional service. I shall now explain how one receives Kṛṣṇa's mercy simply by concentrating one's mind upon Him.</p> ...
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  • ...e to act because everything is prompted by Kṛṣṇa from within and confirmed by the spiritual master.</p> ...down, but also dethroned the previous king. It is the duty of the king to be pious and thus look after the all-around welfare of the citizens. Whenever ...
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  • <h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2> ...our duty is to serve God. God is the center of all creation, of the whole universal body; He is the enjoyer, and we are His servitors. As this conception becom ...
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