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  • ...ists will neglect such transcendental thought and take to the nonpermanent names only, seeing the mass of people fallen in the river of suffering as the con ...river of Your transcendental pastimes, and they desire never to leave such transcendental bliss, which is as good as the pleasure of merging in the Absolute.</p> ...
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  • .... Both those who are present during such activities and those who hear the transcendental narrations of such activities are benefited.</p> ...y understood. They are all auspicious, and one should not distinguish such names of the Lord as material commodities.</p> ...
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  • ...s taste can be changed by the mixture of chemicals. So everything original has some smell, some fragrance, and some taste.</p> ...ure, there is undoubtedly activity on the part of the Supreme Lord, but He has nothing to do with the manifestation of the material world directly. This e ...
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  • ...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 ...nding Krishna between ourselves and Arjuna. Another example is that a tree has many branches, and you will find one leaf here and another leaf there. But ...
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  • ...iety of animals or ghosts. There are no contradictions in this conclusion. Numerous living entities are distributed all over the universe in different planets ...āyatrī mantra just after rising early in the morning, one worships the sun-god.</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 ...ate to the mysterious region of transcendence where the Supreme Truth is a transcendental person, free from all tinges of the material elements. Discovering the myst ...
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  • ...by great learning or by the greatest brain. He is knowable only by one who has His mercy. Others may go on thinking about Him for years together, yet He i ...s He has all good wishes, and for those who are actually engaged in loving transcendental service of the Lord, He gives particular attention. He gives direction to s ...
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  • <p>Transcendental devotional service has five stages of reciprocation:</p> <p>2. After that, when there is development of transcendental knowledge of the Lord's internal opulences, the devotee engages himself in ...
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  • ...e about something to which we have no access? The method for understanding transcendental subject matter is given by Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself in the Bhagavad-gītā, ...nquished by his execution of devotional service. Strong attachment for the transcendental service of the Lord develops as he continues listening to the messages of G ...
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  • ...kṣatriya and is the father of all kṣatriyas who are descendants of the sun-god, or the sūrya-vaṁśa kṣatriyas.</p> ...the twenty-eighth millennium of the seventh Manu in one day of Brahmā, He has no obligation to adhere to such rules and regulations, because He is comple ...
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  • ...h all the rules of grammar were explained with examples that used the holy names of the Lord. This grammar is still current. It is known as Hari-nāmāmṛt ...the four principles of religion. These are the attractive features of the transcendental attributes of the Lord. And adding to this the words api and ca, one can in ...
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  • ...the sacrifice, gave Hariścandra a golden chariot, and Viśvāmitra gave him transcendental knowledge. Thus Śukadeva Gosvāmī describes how Hariścandra achieved per ...play: inline;">There are principles that govern even fighting. If an enemy has no chariot, is unmindful of the fighting art because of fear, or is unwilli ...
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  • ...le="display: inline;">One who aspires to reach the culmination of yoga and has realized his self by rendering service unto Me should never associate with ...odern age, however, there are so many rascals who recommend that while one has genitals he should enjoy women as much as he likes, and at the same time he ...
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  • ...ple in general is much reduced, and so is the memory. The action of matter has also not so much incentive. The land does not produce food grains in the sa ...ioned by Mahārāja Parīkṣit. The politician was so ignorant of the codes of God that he writes: "I do not believe in any such ceremonies, and to submit to ...
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  • ...en the greatest boon: in this age one simply has to chant the holy name of God to attain perfection in spiritual life.</p> ...h has three naves, rotates around the axis of the imperishable Brahman. It has thirteen spokes, 360 joints, six rims and numberless leaves carved upon it. ...
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  • ...ealization of the Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is realization of all the transcendental features: sat, cit and ānanda (eternity, knowledge, and bliss) in complete ...and realization of the Personality of Godhead is realization of all of the transcendental features in His complete form. The complete whole is not formless. If He is ...
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  • ...ine;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The sounding of the transcendental conchshells indicated that there was no hope of victory for the other side ...blame, honor and dishonor; who treats alike both friend and enemy; and who has renounced all material activities—such a person is said to have transcend ...
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  • ...both auspicious and inauspicious, that are detrimental to the discharge of transcendental loving service to Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa are actions of the darkness of ign ...ced devotee. An actual Vaiṣṇava cannot tolerate any philosophy that claims God and the living being to be one and the same.</p> ...
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  • ...blood and so on, because it is said, asaṅgo'yaṁ puruṣaḥ—the living entity has nothing to do with the material covering. Hiraṇyakaśipu performed a seve ...alse ego. Although He is one, He is present everywhere, and He is also the transcendental Supersoul, the cause of all causes, who is present as the observer in the c ...
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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 ...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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  • <div class="heading">It has been proved by modern science that cow dung contains all antiseptic propert ...d indeed by accepting this, one will not commit a mistake; subsequently it has been proved by modern science that cow dung contains all antiseptic propert ...
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  • ...mundaner (1) is sure to commit mistakes, (2) is invariably illusioned, (3) has the tendency to cheat others and (4) is limited by imperfect senses. With t ...e Gītā is a most misleading presentation of the whole truth. Lord Caitanya has forbidden us to read commentations made by the Māyāvādīs and warns that ...
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  • ...material creation, that Absolute Personality of Godhead (Vāsudeva), in His transcendental position, created the energies of cause and effect by His own internal ener ...ernalia all existed before the material creation.* He is all-spiritual and has nothing to do with the qualities of the material world, which are qualitati ...
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  • ...hat he has conquered all directions. In conclusion, one who thinks that he has many enemies is an ignorant man, whereas one who is in Kṛṣṇa consciou ...and his ability to conquer others. Now the Supreme Personality of Godhead has killed him just as if the demon were an animal. Unto that supreme pastime f ...
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  • ...lay: inline;">The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: The indestructible, transcendental living entity is called Brahman, and his eternal nature is called adhyātma ...isplay: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Since it has been stated hereinbefore that in the Bhāgavatam the Absolute Truth is to b ...
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  • [[Category:Other Devotees of God|1]] ...d is everywhere, why should one restrict himself to temple worship? But if God is everywhere, is He not in the temple or in the Deity? Although the person ...
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  • ...ion, although the desires are present. Because he remains satisfied in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, he can remain steady, like the ocean, and there ...hardly be considered full in all opulences. In the Seventh Chapter, Kṛṣṇa has explained that He impregnates the living entities into material nature.</p> ...
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  • ...p in the government by worshiping a political leader, he considers that he has achieved a great boon. All of them are therefore kowtowing to the so-called ...style="display: inline;">According to the Bhagavad-gītā any controller who has some specific extraordinary power is called a vibhūtimat sattva, or contro ...
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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 ...iscussed the sequence of sinful activities of the conditioned soul, and he has established, in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, that those who engage in devotio ...
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  • {{terms|"The Lord has innumerable forms"|"krsnah svayam samabhavat paramah puman yo"|"ramadi-murt {{notes|VedaBase query: "Bs 5.39" or "The Lord has innumerable forms" or "krsnah svayam samabhavat paramah puman yo" or "ramad ...
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  • ...nscendental form of absolute bliss, is the fountainhead of all pleasurable transcendental qualities and inconceivable potencies.</p> ...
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  • ...ar. If not at least for one month in a year, you can accept the burden for God's sake and distribute the same with YOUR GOOD NAME PRINTED ON THE ISSUES AS ...her things will automatically follow. And above all this is to satisfy the transcendental desire of Srila Prabhupada who desired very enthusiastically to start centr ...
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  • ...h so that in his next life he will not have to suffer for the great sin he has committed. Therefore, the king's punishment of hanging a murderer is actual ...ṛṇye na: He is not situated in the dualities of this material world. He is transcendental to these dualities. Nor is He attached to the creation and annihilation of ...
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  • ...āmī about the truth of Kṛṣṇa, the principles of devotional service and the transcendental relationships with Kṛṣṇa. All of this was described in full detail so ...feet of Lord Caitanyadeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, because He has inspired me with the desire in my heart to write something about devotional ...
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  • ...he highest perfection of life. The Lord wants this, and He demands it. One has to understand this central point of Bhagavad-gītā.</p> ...ed man has his symptoms, so a man in transcendental consciousness of Kṛṣṇa has specific symptoms in various dealings. One can know his specific symptoms f ...
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  • ...ns text"><p style="display: inline;">O wise Sūta, please narrate to us the transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Godhead's multi-incarnations. Such auspicious adven .... Both those who are present during such activities and those who hear the transcendental narrations of such activities are benefited.</p> ...
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  • ...he body, there is consciousness all over the body, and as soon as the soul has passed from the body there is no more consciousness. This can be easily und ...t within himself. But that is not possible for those whose internal vision has been covered by external activities. The pure soul, which is symptomized by ...
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  • [[Category:Full Devotional Service to God|1]] ...ness in full devotional service; therefore they are always situated in the transcendental position. ...
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  • ...dinary human being; we should always remember that Lord Caitanya is Kṛṣṇa (God) Himself teaching us how to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and we must study ...taught that we can enter into a relationship with God and actually become God's friend, parent or lover.</p> ...
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  • ...ple in general is much reduced, and so is the memory. The action of matter has also not so much incentive. The land does not produce food grains in the sa <p>The great sage Vyāsadeva could see this by his transcendental vision. As an astrologer can see the future fate of a man, or an astronomer ...
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  • ...āra. Such incarnations are situated in the spiritual world, the kingdom of God. When they descend to the material creation, they assume the name avatāra. ...p of Kṛṣṇa by the saṅkīrtana movement (congregational chanting of the holy names) and spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness throughout India. He predicted that t ...
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  • ...he features of the incarnation and the particular type of mission which He has to execute are mentioned in the revealed scriptures.</p> ...and Sanat-kumāra also became attracted by the features of the Lord and the transcendental aroma of the dust of His lotus feet, as already described in verse 43.</p> ...
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  • ...ferent climates and situations in different parts of the world, and if one has to discharge his duties to preach the message of the Lord, he must be exper <div class="heading">Rūpa and Sanātana's names had been changed by the Emperor into Dabira Khāsa and Sākara Mallika, and ...
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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 ...us to become more and more materialistic and forget our relationship with God, is also absent there.</p> ...
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  • ...āra. Such incarnations are situated in the spiritual world, the kingdom of God. When they descend to the material creation, they assume the name avatāra. ...p of Kṛṣṇa by the saṅkīrtana movement (congregational chanting of the holy names) and spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness throughout India. He predicted that t ...
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  • ...h has three naves, rotates around the axis of the imperishable Brahman. It has thirteen spokes, 360 joints, six rims and numberless leaves carved upon it. ...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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  • ...l the good qualities of the gods. But one who is not a devotee of Godhead, has not any value for his good qualities because he utilizes his so called good ...I wish to see this paper just to the standard of "Illustrated Weekly" with numerous pictures in order to make it a very popular literature and for this I wish ...
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  • ...rstand it. Kṛṣṇa does not take any pleasure in this material world, but He has a pleasure potency. Because we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, the plea ...with yat syāt sarvatra sarvadā (56). In the first of these verses (53) the transcendental nature of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is explaine ...
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  • ...derived from the personal presence of the Lord. It carries with it all the transcendental blessings of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa that we can expect from His personal co ...always surrounded by His immediate associates, all engaged in their loving transcendental service to Him.</p> ...
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  • ...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 ...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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  • ...recently. Due to my incessant hard work for the last two years, my health has been shattered. On the 25th May I had a heavy stroke between the heart and ...ters to be appreciated. You will be pleased to know that our London center has managed to have one local newspaper devote a two-page spread to a comic boo ...
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  • ...ir particular circumstances. But the mission is the same—to lead people to God consciousness and obedience to the principles of religion. Sometimes He des ...ations for the different incarnations. According to specific pastimes, the names are spiritually empowered. There are also descriptions of the difference be ...
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  • ...from all material activities and engage oneself completely in hearing the transcendental pastimes of the Lord.</p> ...he first living being, Brahmā, was born on a lotus flower grown out of the transcendental abdomen of Viṣṇu. Viṣṇu is therefore known as Padmanābha. Brahmā ...
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  • {{terms|"God as He is"|"Godhead as He is"|"Visnu as He is"|"krishna as He is"|"krsna as ...hilosopher. Only the pure devotees can know something of the inconceivable transcendental qualities in Kṛṣṇa—His being the cause of all causes, His omnipoten ...
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  • ...early pastimes (ādi-līlā) and the later pastimes (śeṣa-līlā). He has four names in each of these two līlās.</p> ...ll the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṇa in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Ṭhākura Vṛndāvana dāsa has depicted the pastimes of Lord Caitanya.</p> ...
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  • ...Godhead. When one develops pure love for the Lord, he derives an ocean of transcendental happiness from the association of the Personality of Godhead. To qualify on ...
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  • ...e symbolic representations of the Personality of Godhead Viṣṇu (His forms, names, qualities, etc.) are like those printed on the plumes of a peacock, and th ...these activities are repeated, engaging in them is like chewing that which has already been chewed. If one can give up his ambition to engage in hackneyed ...
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  • ...line;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In this chapter the author has described the history of his leaving home for a personal pilgrimage to Vṛ ...e cosmic manifestation in different varieties is the proof that everything has been created under His direction. He entered the universe with all creative ...
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  • ...he living beings is away from the Lord's gigantic body. Each and every one has a particular duty in relation to the supreme body. Disruption in the matter ...ll these trees and birds and beasts were pious living entities born in the transcendental abode of Vṛndāvana just to give pleasure to the Lord and His eternal ass ...
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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 ...tities are many without number. All such living entities are maintained by God Himself, and that is the verdict of the Vedic literatures. When Kṛṣṇa ...
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  • ...endental, Your legs extending from the lower planets, Lord Brahmā achieved transcendental bliss.</p> ...mos is caused by You and cannot exist without You, it is an effect of Your transcendental qualities. Thus the conception that Brahman is true and the world false can ...
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  • ...<p style="display: inline;">Generally one who does not know the science of God (Kṛṣṇa) assumes that this material world is for the enjoyment of the ...planetary systems are situated on the extensive body of the puruṣa, but He has nothing to do with the created material ingredients. His body is eternally ...
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  • <p>Material nature has two different phases. The aspect called pradhāna supplies the material ing ...womb of His wife, Sītādevī. Advaita Ācārya also had three more sons, whose names were Balarāma, Svarūpa and Jagadīśa. Thus there were six sons of Advait ...
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  • ...s very strong, and it is called pavitram uttamam, the purest. Uttama means transcendental. ...t kinds of philosophy. It is the most confidential because confidential or transcendental knowledge involves understanding the difference between the soul and the bo ...
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  • ...ing Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore, to engage both boys and girls in fully transcendental activities is a policy intended to spread the Kṛṣṇa consciousness mov ...es in meeting Caitanya Mahāprabhu was to defeat His personal conception of God. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, however, as a preacher, turned the minds of th ...
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  • ...he also becomes purified by the spiritual attraction of the Lord. Although God is great and the living entity small, they are spiritual individuals, and t ...the renounced order of life, Caitanya Mahāprabhu converted many karma-niṣṭhas who were addicted to fruitive activities, many great logicians like Sārvab ...
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  • ...ndaban has now become a place of the unemployed, and beggars. Kirtanananda has already seen it; and so there is always a tendency of such degradation if t ...ine;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You can say your friend who has invited us that Swamiji is not very expert at speaking about nutritional va ...
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  • ...tināpura (in the Delhi state). Both the Ganges and the Yamunā are amartyā (transcendental) rivers, and Yamunā is still more sanctified for the following reasons.</p ...y: inline;">The Lord sanctified the River Yamunā from the beginning of His transcendental pastimes in the world. While His father Vasudeva was crossing the Yamunā w ...
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  • ...t be forgotten, as we can see from the behavior of Arjuna. Although Arjuna has seen the opulence in the universal form, he cannot forget his friendly rela ...All of this is clearly explained in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and the reader has ample opportunity to study this critically.</p> ...
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  • ...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, ...ferent. Similarly, Śrī Nārāyaṇa in Vaikuṇṭha has four hands, whereas Kṛṣṇa has only two. The expansions of the Lord who manifest such bodily differences a ...
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  • ...tyle="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"If numerous forms, all equal in their features, are displayed simultaneously, such form ...ed in the Age of Kali by His causeless mercy to bestow what no incarnation has ever offered before: the most elevated mellow of devotional service, the me ...
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  • ...ice, describes in this Ninth Chapter matters more confidential than any He has already disclosed.</p> ...
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  • ...d indeed by accepting this, one will not commit a mistake; subsequently it has been proved by modern science that cow dung contains all antiseptic propert ...mundaner (1) is sure to commit mistakes, (2) is invariably illusioned, (3) has the tendency to cheat others and (4) is limited by imperfect senses. With t ...
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  • ...y is transcendental, beyond the material energy, but the Lord exhibits His transcendental potency even within this material world just to satisfy His confidential de ...presence of the audience. The speaker, or master, can speak very nicely on transcendental subject matters before an understanding audience; therefore Lord Caitanya s ...
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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 ...ent, luxury, beauty, education and duration of life, they are always fully God conscious. Such demigods are always ready to render service to the Supreme ...
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  • ...rāṇas. The fifth offense is to consider the glories attributed to the holy names to be exaggerations.</p> ...a living entity forgets the constitutional nature of his relationship with God, he is at once overwhelmed by the external energy.</p> ...
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  • ...who preach animal-killing under the garb of the Vedas. The subject matter has already been discussed in the conversation between Lord Caitanya and Maulan ...priests say that God is unlimited. But when we question why the unlimited God should have only one son and not unlimited sons, they are unable to answer. ...
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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 ...lf is called Madana-mohana, Govinda, Gopījana-vallabha and countless other names as He plays in His different pastimes with His devotees.</p> ...
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  • ...ution of devotional service, he sees face to face the same Śyāmasundara he has thought of during the entire course of his devotional service. Since the Su ...called puṣkara-nābha, which means "the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has a lotus navel," and sammatau means "two confidential or very obedient serva ...
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  • ..."display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Nature has influenced different species of life with different mentalities, and it is ...ced men are called also mānasa because they always keep up the standard of transcendental voluntary service to the Lord on the spiritual plane. This completely forbi ...
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  • ...ness of the transcendental service of the Lord. But when one is engaged in transcendental service through Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one becomes at once liberated fr ...ss. But that is not the actual fact. The bhakti cult is the topmost of all transcendental activities, and therefore it is simultaneously sublime and easy. It is subl ...
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  • ...f the Lord Himself recorded by Vyāsadeva, and the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the transcendental narration of the activities of the same Lord Kṛṣṇa, which alone can s ...ey can continue the topics for many thousands of years. Now Bhāgavata-saptāhas are held for seven days only, and after finishing the show, both the audien ...
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  • ...eternal servitor of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. Your position is that you are transcendental. The superior energy of Kṛṣṇa is spiritual in constitution, and the i ...living entity is constitutionally conversant with the spiritual energy, or has the potency to understand it, he is covered by the material energy and cons ...
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  • ...h natural affection. The Lord becomes a subordinate object of love in such transcendental relationships. Such pure love of Godhead is unadulterated by any tinge of s <p>But in the course of exchanging transcendental love of the highest purity, sometimes the subordinate devotee tries to pred ...
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  • ...become supremely conscious. One has to prove in the physical world that he has such supreme consciousness.</p> ...ahārāja Uttānapāda even very recently, during the Mogul period. Anyone who has seen the Red Fort in Delhi must have marked that the walls are made of marb ...
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  • ...ṇa consciousness movement is genuine, historically authorized, natural and transcendental due to its being based on Bhagavad-gītā As It Is. It is gradually becomin ...id to be authoritative because in almost every one of them the commentator has expressed his own opinions without touching the spirit of Bhagavad-gītā a ...
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  • ...ges about the prowess and marvelous acts of the Personality of Godhead and has not sung or chanted loudly the worthy songs about the Lord should be consid ...these activities are repeated, engaging in them is like chewing that which has already been chewed. If one can give up his ambition to engage in hackneyed ...
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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 ...ice to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it should be understood that he has been successful in achieving the desired goal of his life. At that time eve ...
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  • ...the chest of the Lord. The Lord granted the request, and since then Lakṣmī has always been situated on the chest of Lord Kṛṣṇa as a golden line. The ...in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu." Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī has pointed out that in the shape of Lakṣmī, the pleasure potency of Kṛṣ ...
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  • ...p of Kṛṣṇa by the saṅkīrtana movement (congregational chanting of the holy names) and spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness throughout India. ...p of Kṛṣṇa by the saṅkīrtana movement (congregational chanting of the holy names) and spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness throughout India. He predicted that t ...
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  • ...e a dress; therefore why lament the changing of a dress? The material body has no factual existence in relation to the eternal soul. It is something like ...ple should serve the spiritual master as a menial servant, and whatever he has in his possession should be dedicated to the spiritual master.</p> ...
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  • ...gavatam (12.3.51): kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ. Caitanya Mahāprabhu has also taught us this. While passing on the road, He used to chant:</p> ...fied, and his devotional service causes the arousal of his dormant love of God. If one simply chants the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra and does not commit sinfu ...
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  • ...s. Then, through the execution of loving service one can ultimately attain transcendental affection for Kṛṣṇa, the highest goal. In other words, the devotee in ...uṇṭha, a spiritual abode. Even without being transferred to the kingdom of God, by following the injunctions of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and prosecuting the d ...
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  • ...Vaiṣṇava literatures. It is the unique and highest development of love of God that is given by Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p> ...
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  • ...upy their posts without qualification. There are so many "incarnations" of God without the power of the Supreme Godhead.</p> ...="text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord then embraced him, and out of transcendental ecstasy the Bhaṭṭācārya lost consciousness of the physical state of l ...
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  • ...therefore I have postponed his journey to Montreal. Advice of friends here has been accepted by me that opening of too many branches at the present stage ...o. 00619. It cannot be that he has not received my above letter but why he has not replied my letter please enquire. Please try to convince him that my pr ...
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  • <p>"O my Lord! Persons who chant the holy names of Your Lordship are far, far advanced in spiritual life, even if born in f ...s the most sacred. The River Ganges and Bhagavad-gītā are chief sources of transcendental happiness for mankind, and intelligent persons can take shelter of them to ...
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  • ...ed faith is called dṛḍha-vrata, and it is the beginning of bhakti-yoga, or transcendental loving service. That is the verdict of all scriptures. This Seventh Chapter ...n of material nature and the living entity is made possible by the Supreme God Himself. The mahat-tattva is the total cause of the total cosmic manifestat ...
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  • ...e a dress; therefore why lament the changing of a dress? The material body has no factual existence in relation to the eternal soul. It is something like ...t one has fully realized Kṛṣṇa consciousness; that is, one in full samādhi has realized Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. The highest perfection of self ...
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  • ...also described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In the Satya-yuga, the incarnation of God is white; in the Tretā-yuga He is red; in the Dvāpara-yuga, He is blackis ...i—and in each millennium the Supreme Lord incarnates, and each incarnation has a different color according to the yuga. In the Satya-yuga the color of the ...
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