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  • ...votee without reservation because He is always causelessly merciful toward His devotee"}} [[Category:Devotees of God Praise God's Glories]] ...
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  • ...re fit food for dogs and jackals. The Supreme Lord never bestows His mercy upon such people"}} [[Category:God's Mercy]] ...
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  • ...sterities and penances, they still hover in the material world without the benediction of the lotus feet of the Lord"}} [[Category:Without]] ...
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  • {{terms|"Unless one comes to the transcendental position, he cannot expect the causeless mercy of the Supreme Lord, nor can [[Category:Transcendental Position]] ...
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  • [[Category:Information about God]] [[Category:God's Lotus Feet]] ...
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  • ...rmīs and jñānīs are unfit for receiving the mercy of the Lord and becoming devotees"}} [[Category:God's Mercy]] ...
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  • {{terms|"If one is under the bodily conception, he is unable to realize his true identity and engage in the loving devotional service of the Lord"}} [[Category:Engaging in Loving Service to God]] ...
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  • [[Category:Devotees of God]] ...a devotee. If one is under the bodily conception, he is unable to realize his true identity and engage in the loving devotional service of the Lord. ...
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  • [[Category:Understanding Devotional Service to God]] ...re fit food for dogs and jackals. The Supreme Lord never bestows His mercy upon such people.’” ...
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  • [[Category:Rendering Service to God]] [[Category:God Is The Supreme Soul]] ...
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  • ...e soul, there is no knowledge of Godhead, and unless there is knowledge of God, all advancement of material civilization, however dazzling, should be cons ...re fit food for dogs and jackals. The Supreme Lord never bestows His mercy upon such people.’”</p> ...
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  • ...e soul, there is no knowledge of Godhead, and unless there is knowledge of God, all advancement of material civilization, however dazzling, should be cons ...re fit food for dogs and jackals. The Supreme Lord never bestows His mercy upon such people.’”</p> ...
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  • ..."|"without any, I mean to say, reservation"|"without mental reservations"|"without reservations"}} [[Category:Without Reservation|1]] ...
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  • {{terms|"bestow"|"bestowed"|"bestower"|"bestowers"|"bestowing"|"bestows"}} ...sive, your spiritual masters have endowed you with all the favors bestowed upon a gentle disciple. Therefore you can tell us all that you have scientifical ...
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  • ...less unlimited mercy"|"mercy is causeless"|"mercy may be causeless"|"mercy upon me is causeless"}} ...nt with the radiance of molten gold, He has appeared in the Age of Kali by His causeless mercy to bestow what no incarnation has ever offered before: the ...
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  • {{terms|"bestow"|"bestowed"|"bestower"|"bestowers"|"bestowing"|"bestows"}} ...te enough to be attracted by Lord Caitanya, he is sure to be successful in his life's mission. In other words, those who are interested in attaining spiri ...
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  • ...g, Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura sings, "My dear Lord Caitanya, please have mercy upon me. There is no one who is as merciful as You. My plea is most urgent becau ...ṇa's holy name, which are the pleasure abodes of unalloyed devotees. These devotees are compared to swans, ducks and bees. The river's flowing produces a melod ...
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  • ...of God. While at Rāmakeli-grāma, an unlimited number of people came to see His lotus feet.</p> ...ting love of Godhead unlimitedly, still remained the supreme owner of this transcendental opulence.</p> ...
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  • ...e. The importance of holy places is due to the presence there of such pure devotees.</p> ...of the friends of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, massaged His feet, and others whose sinful reactions had been destroyed fanned Him with ...
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  • ..."purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Every living entity is quitting his body under certain circumstances, he is living under certain circumstances, ...ted with the power of material science to exploit the resources unlawfully without the sanction of the Lord, and that also only for sense gratification, there ...
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  • [[Category:God's Lotus Feet|2]] ...reatures), and ādhidaivika pains (those due to supernatural disturbances). His happiness is nothing but a hard struggle to get free from the miseries of c ...
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  • ...expressions of form, quality and pastimes, His transcendental position and His complete form.</p> ...ality), servitorship, taking shelter, parental love, conjugal love, direct transcendental enjoyment and enjoyment in separation, previous attraction and the glories ...
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  • ...for the Lord's interest, becoming angry at those who are malicious toward devotees, etc. No one can bring the activities of the mind and senses to a stop, but ...Similarly, those who have surrendered to Him and fixed their intelligence upon Him are not influenced by the modes of nature."</p> ...
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  • ...e King, addressed him as the chief amongst the Pūrus and informed him that his son was certainly in the line of descent from the Pūrus.</p> ...the Personality of Godhead is a great fortune. Since the Lord is absolute, His acts of violence and nonviolence are both on the absolute platform. There i ...
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  • ...tion that God is great and that the individual soul is subordinate to Him. His duty is to render service to the Lord—and if he does not, then he will re ..., Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Such transcendental chanting attracts the devotee to the Personality of Godhead.</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"benedict"|"benedicted"|"benedicting"|"benediction"|"benedictions"|"benedictor"|"benedictors"|"benedictory"|"benedicts"}} [[Category:Benediction|1]] ...
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  • ...this release out of His causeless mercy on the surrendered soul and out of His paternal affection for the living entity, who is originally a beloved son o ...en the road to understanding of the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa and glorify Him for His virtuous activities as they are depicted in the pages of Śrīmad-Bhāgavat ...
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  • ...terial existence"|"those who think they are liberated in this life but are without devotional service to You are of impure intelligence"|"those who think they [[Category:God Is Lotus-eyed|2]] ...
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  • ...ntial. Even for one who takes to devotional service, it is most important. Transcendental life begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master. The Supreme Pers ...be famous for their religion, and consequently sometimes it is found that without understanding the principles of religion one enters into some group which i ...
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  • ...glect the real essence of religion. The real religion of a living being is his natural inborn quality, whereas pretentious religion is a form of nescience ...ultimate goal of life. Let us all worship Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for His gracious mercy to the conditioned souls.</p> ...
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  • ...refore, the prime purpose of the Kṛṣṇa avatāra is to satisfy His unalloyed devotees.</p> ...ne;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">He who is regulated in his habits of eating, sleeping, recreation and work can mitigate all material p ...
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  • ...es, devotional activities, names and fame, along with the mellows of Their transcendental loving exchanges—one will learn the essence of the Absolute Truth. ...es, devotional activities, names and fame, along with the mellows of Their transcendental loving exchanges—one will learn the essence of the Absolute Truth. Theref ...
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  • <p>How Arjuna accepted this Bhagavad-gītā should be noted. His manner of acceptance is given in the Tenth Chapter (10.12-14):</p> ...ey are misguided by acceptance of the Supersoul and the atomic soul as one without distinction of magnitude. It is very difficult to find a man who perfectly ...
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  • ...ure devotee"|"when an advanced devotee"|"when bhagavatas (devotees)"|"when devotees"|"when such a devotee"|"when the devotee"}} [[Category:When Devotees of God|1]] ...
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  • ...style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Love of God is dormant in everyone, and it can be awakened from its dormant position by ...Sanātana fell at the feet of the Lord and with great humility asked about his own real identity. "I was born in a lower family," Sanātana said, "my asso ...
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  • ...practice remembering the Lord always, twenty-four hours a day, by chanting His names and molding our life's activities in such a way that we can remember ...ached to another man, or if a man has an attachment for a woman other than his wife, then the attachment is to be considered very strong. One with such an ...
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  • {{terms|"Unalloyed devotee"|"Unalloyed devotees"}} [[Category:Unalloyed Devotees of God|1]] ...
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  • ...ecame apparently angry with Him about this and went alone to Purī, leaving His companions behind ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.98|CC Madhya 1.98]]).</p> ...evotee of the Lord can favor a neophyte more liberally than the Lord. Pure devotees, therefore, never commit an offense at the feet of another pure devotee. An ...
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  • ...urrender, and one should serve the spiritual master like a menial servant, without false prestige. ...urrender, and one should serve the spiritual master like a menial servant, without false prestige. Satisfaction of the self-realized spiritual master is the s ...
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  • ...m family, he was elevated to the post of nāmācārya by Lord Caitanya due to his rigidly attended principle of chanting three hundred thousand holy names of ...ubtle science, did not know how to retract. He applied it, being afraid of his imminent death, and thus the practice was not only improper but also irreli ...
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  • ...herefore, Śrī Vyāsadeva at once worships the para-tattva, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, whose transcendental activities are described in the Tenth Canto.</p> ...ce under the guidance of the Bhāgavatas, the more one becomes fixed in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. The messages of the book Bhāgavata, therefore, ...
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  • ...d He seek pleasure in matter? He is the Supersoul, the supreme spirit, and His pleasure is beyond the material conception.</p> ...d He seek pleasure in matter? He is the Supersoul, the supreme spirit, and His pleasure is beyond the material conception.</p> ...
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  • ...urrender, and one should serve the spiritual master like a menial servant, without false prestige. Satisfaction of the self-realized spiritual master is the s ...he Supreme Lord for a moment, and similarly the Supreme Lord cannot forget His pure devotee for a moment. This is the great blessing of the Kṛṣṇa co ...
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  • {{terms|"Lord's glories"|"Lord's glory"|"glories of god"|"glories of god"|"glories of the lord"|"glories of the supreme lord"|"glories of the suprem [[Category:God's Glories|1]] ...
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  • ...ndāvanam) because at Vṛndāvana the Lord enjoys the transcendental bliss of His internal potency.</p> ...In each and every place of pilgrimage, the Lord is present in His various transcendental forms.</p> ...
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  • ...ans text"><p style="display: inline;">One who, at the time of death, fixes his life air between the eyebrows and, by the strength of yoga, with an undevia ...sciousness, at death he can remember the Supreme Personality of Godhead by His grace. This is explained in verse fourteen.</p> ...
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  • ...ength of his vast learning. Nimāi Paṇḍita at once memorized all the ślokas without an error. He quoted the sixty-fourth śloka and pointed out certain rhetori ...tha Ācārya became very glad and astonished by this marvelous conversion of his brother-in-law by the grace of the Lord.</p> ...
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  • ...s forbidden to disclose this incident, and the baby returned to the lap of His mother.</p> ...It is the life of all transcendental knowledge, it increases the ocean of transcendental bliss, and it enables us to fully taste the nectar for which we are always ...
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  • ...avata is full of information about the Personality of Godhead and His pure devotees, who are also Bhāgavatas. Bhāgavata book and person are identical.</p> ...ilated. Śrī Nārada developed this spiritual consciousness even when he had his material body in the previous kalpa. Consciousness of the material body mea ...
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  • ...nya Mahāprabhu. Therefore I am praying to the Lord for His causeless mercy upon me.</p> ...Mahāprabhu bestowed His mercy upon Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya by showing him His original form as the Lord.</p> ...
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  • ...e spiritual master to get free from the perplexities of life, which happen without our desire ...e world situation is such' that perplexities of life automatically appear, without our wanting such confusion. No one wants fire, and yet it takes place, and ...
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  • ...t misinterpretation, on the authority of Kṛṣṇa. To interpret Bhagavad-gītā without any reference to the will of Kṛṣṇa is the greatest offense. In order .... Kṛṣṇa, however, never brings misfortune to anyone, to say nothing of His devotees.</p> ...
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  • ...the influence of the holy place. Sañjaya therefore informed the king that his son, Duryodhana, after seeing the military force of the Pāṇḍavas, at o ...who were also Droṇācārya's affectionate students. Arjuna, especially, was his most affectionate and brilliant student. Duryodhana also warned that such l ...
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  • <p>"Persons who are falsely under the impression of being liberated, without devotional service to the Lord, may reach the goal of the brahmajyoti, but ...preme Personality of Godhead, the angry person falls down from the peak of his improved position. This is confirmed as follows:</p> ...
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  • ...rd desires, and the Lord is always specifically compassionate towards such devotees.</p> ...at compassion towards His pure devotees, appears in person, accompanied by His plenary portions controlling the mahat-tattva.</p> ...
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  • ...kness, and because a devotee is enlightened by the Personality of Godhead, his knowledge is certainly perfect.</p> ...fore comes Himself and leaves behind necessary instructions and also sends His good sons as representatives to call all the conditioned souls back to Godh ...
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  • ...reme Being. The Supreme Being is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1)—that is, His form is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss. Our present body is not sac-c ...menal world, the spirit behind it, and the source of both of them. This is transcendental knowledge. The Lord wants to explain the above-mentioned system of knowledg ...
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  • ...and his wife, Devahūti, along with nine other women (sisters). He spoke to His mother about self-realization, by which, in that very lifetime, she became ...m, like Kardama, were born in the mode of goodness. Nārada was born in the transcendental state of Brahmā.</p> ...
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  • ...g unto Krsna"|"Surrenders unto Me"|"surrender to God, Krsna"|"surrender to God, Krsna"|"surrendered to Lord Krsna"|"surrendered unto Me"|"surrendered unto .... Khaṭvāṅga Mahārāja attained this state of life just a few minutes before his death, by surrendering unto Kṛṣṇa. Nirvāṇa means ending the proces ...
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  • ...><p style="display: inline;">Jagannātha Miśra had a number of daughters by his wife, Śrīmatī Śacīdevī, but they all expired at an early age. The two ...pīs (cowherd girls) instead of the names of the Lord. At this time some of His students, who were also disciples, came to see Him, and when they saw that ...
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  • ...s when the sunshine is blocked. For example, if one stands facing the sun, his back will be in darkness. Since darkness stands in the absence of the sun, ...Therefore the Supreme Lord has arranged for sunshine and moonshine. But in His abode, as described in the Bhagavad-gītā (15.6), there is no necessity fo ...
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  • ...gers because they were supported by Lord Kṛṣṇa, who had conquered, even in His childhood, demons like Kaṁsa and Jarāsandha and demigods like Brahmā an ...Godhead. God is one without a second, but He expands Himself in many forms without their being separate from one another. They are all plenary expansions. The ...
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  • ...elf only worthy of more trouble due to his past misdeeds; and he sees that his miseries, by the grace of the Lord, are minimized to the lowest.</p> ...enjoy their facilities, he sometimes performs sacrifices (yajña), but when his merit is exhausted he returns to earth again in the form of a man. This pro ...
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  • ...warded such powers. In other words, everyone is dependent for success upon His mercy alone, and all kinds of spiritual processes are but different degrees <p>"Whether one is without desire (the condition of the devotees), or is desirous of all fruitive results, or is after liberation, one shoul ...
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  • ...a kaupīna and a bahirvāsa (outer covering). His head was without hair, and His hands bore a daṇḍa (stick) and a kamaṇḍalu (hermit's waterpot).</p> ...it. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu gives a practical demonstration of how to love God in a conjugal relationship. Taking the part of Rādhārāṇī, Caitanya tr ...
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  • ...ic development or any such sphere of life. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the purely transcendental urge of the soul.</p> ...is imperative, therefore, that one sincerely seek the association of pure devotees and hear them patiently and submissively from any position of life. The pos ...
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  • ...this: "Go, friends, go through the streets of the town, meet every man at his door and ask him to sing the name of Hari with a holy life, and then come a ...His queer religion he would be obliged to enforce Mohammedanism on Him and His followers.</p> ...
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  • ...sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.</p> ...
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  • ...vive the places where Kṛṣṇacandra had at the end of Dvāpara-yuga exhibited His spiritual līlā (pastimes) for the benefit of the religious world. Rūpa G ...ty, knowledge and renunciation. In short, we should know that He is Kṛṣṇa, God, and that nothing is equal to or greater than Him. There is nothing superio ...
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  • ...in all subjects of Vedic knowledge, is unfit to become a spiritual master without being a Vaiṣṇava, or expert in the science of Kṛṣṇa consciousness ...ioned in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Later on another Kapila became famous, but his philosophy was atheistic. Thus there is a gulf of difference between them.< ...
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