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  • <div class="heading">Philosophy means to seek after the right knowledge of one's own self, or the knowledge of self-realization. ...soners are always fearful as within a prison house. In the prison house no one can violate the jail rules and regulations, and violating the rules means a ...
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  • ...ction is to render immediate service to the Lord. By the spell of illusion one tries to be happy by serving his personal sense gratification in different ...ot satisfying their senses. The same is applicable in all other fields; no one is serious about the problems of life.</p> ...
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  • ...es), but actually they are self-interested because their goal is to become one with the impersonal Brahman. Such a desire is greater than any material des ..., but for his personal self he does not attempt anything. By such behavior one becomes actually transcendentally situated.</p> ...
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  • ...sun disc and the inner affairs of the sun planet cannot be separated from one another, and yet the students of the three different phases are not in the <p>From these verses one concludes that the Supreme Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of God ...
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  • ...ice. Service of the devotee is more valuable than the service of the Lord. One should therefore choose a bona fide servant of the Lord constantly engaged ...ord. Such devotees have no desire for material gain. They are conducted by one single desire: to go back to Godhead. This awaits them in due course on qui ...
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  • <div class="heading">If a reciprocal relationship is not present between the devotee and the Lord, ...are called devotees. The Supreme Lord becomes the devotee of His devotees. If a reciprocal relationship is not present between the devotee and the Lord, ...
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  • <div class="heading">The Lord is perpetually happy, and if the living entities associate with the Lord, cooperate with Him and take pa ...iousness, and they are after happiness. The Lord is perpetually happy, and if the living entities associate with the Lord, cooperate with Him and take pa ...
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  • [[Category:Performing One's Duty|1]] ...wo kinds of sva-dharmas, specific duties. As long as one is not liberated, one has to perform the duties of his particular body in accordance with religio ...
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  • ...ine of being promoted to the higher planets and then again coming down, as if situated on a Ferris wheel which sometimes goes up and sometimes comes down ...ves in the cycle of birth and death on higher and lower planetary systems. One should better take to the spiritual world to enjoy an eternal life full of ...
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  • ...ng">From any stage of life, or from the time of understanding its urgency, one can begin regulating the senses in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, devotional se ...So, from any stage of life, or from the time of understanding its urgency, one can begin regulating the senses in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, devotional se ...
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  • ...revive that svarūpa, and that stage is called svarūpa-siddhi—perfection of one's constitutional position.</p> ...ll of inebrieties. Such relations cannot help us be happy perpetually, but if the same relation is established with the Lord, then we are transferred to ...
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  • ...gītā, “My supreme abode is a transcendental place from which, having gone, one never returns to this material world. Anyone who attains the supreme perfec ...service, it is useless for him to exhibit the symptoms of life. Generally if a person is breathing he is accepted to be alive. But a person without Kṛ ...
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  • ...ally speaking, there is no conflict between personalism and impersonalism. One who knows God knows that the impersonal conception and personal conception ...initiation of Lord Brahmā, and the vision of transcendental love enabling one to see the Lord. The steps of devotional service are also explained. The mi ...
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  • ...supported by the one eternal, and thus both the eternals are qualitatively one. Due to such oneness, both the eternals constitutionally have a complete ra ...arned person, the seminal discharge for begetting a son is successful, but if the son is unqualified and brings no glory to his family, he is no better t ...
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  • ...ding">Unless one is perfectly conversant with the law of the Supreme Lord, one cannot speak such things touching philosophical truths.</div> ...one. Unless one is perfectly conversant with the law of the Supreme Lord, one cannot speak such things touching philosophical truths. The Emperor, being ...
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  • ...them loiter in the darkness of ignorance and illusion, falsely enjoying as if very learned scholars, although they are without knowledge of the Supreme P ..."My dear Vyāsadeva, you are great personality, but do you think as long as one is situated in the bodily plane or in the mental plane, does he derive any ...
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  • ...style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One should not, therefore, misunderstand that the sāṅkhya-yoga mentioned her ...f. The indirect process is philosophical speculation, by which, gradually, one may come to the point of Kṛṣṇa consciousness; and the other process i ...
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  • <div class="heading">By Sāṅkhya philosophical research one comes to the conclusion that a living entity is not a part and parcel of th ...ment. Detachment from matter and attachment to Kṛṣṇa are one and the same. One who can see this sees things as they are.</p> ...
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  • ...ing">Prahlāda Mahārāja has maintained the philosophical point of view that one should give up the dark well of family life and go to the forest to take sh ...erse also, he stresses the same point. In the history of human society, no one, at any time or any place, has been liberated because of too much affection ...
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  • ...layed by the Lord in His rāsa-līlā. But without having the Vedic knowledge one can hardly understand the transcendental nature of the Lord's rāsa dance a ...ion, a fool considers himself the ruler and controller of everything. When one understands, however, that the real controller is the Supreme Personality o ...
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  • ...root cause of all despondencies. This is not always detected, even though one may be the greatest erudite scholar in materialistic knowledge. ...root cause of all despondencies. This is not always detected, even though one may be the greatest erudite scholar in materialistic knowledge. It is good, ...
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  • ...re charitably disposed, Kṛṣṇa says, "Give it to Me. If you are so rich and if you have got this good intention to give in charity, give it to Me." Yat ka ...oing to hell, however moral he may be, however pious he may be, so-called. If he does not know Kṛṣṇa, it has no meaning. Therefore, the first condi ...
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  • ...ot... What is the standard of work? Under what consciousness he's working. If he's working in material consciousness, then he's being bound up. However g ...in the family of a brāhmaṇa, in the family of a rich man. For pious work, one can get his janma. And aiśvarya. Aiśvarya means you can become very rich ...
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  • ...onsciousness we should take some precaution that "This should not be done. If I have done, ask excuse." That's all. Finish. ...onsciousness we should take some precaution that "This should not be done. If I have done, ask excuse." That's all. Finish.</p> ...
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  • ...sness, he need no longer endeavor for good results in his activities. When one is situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all activities are on the absolut ...ly self, family, society, country, humanity, etc. If Kṛṣṇa is satisfied by one's actions, then everyone will be satisfied.</p> ...
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  • ...xt"><p style="display: inline;">A strong faith that by Kṛṣṇa consciousness one will be elevated to the highest perfection of life is called vyavasāyātmi ...sness, he need no longer endeavor for good results in his activities. When one is situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all activities are on the absolut ...
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  • ...gavad-gītā. By my mental speculation, by rascal interpretation, by showing one's scholarship, you cannot understand Bhagavad-gītā. That is not possible. <div class="heading">If you are teacher, if you are a student, then you should go to the teacher submissively, not that ...
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  • ...the Deity? Although the personalist and the impersonalist will fight with one another perpetually, a perfect devotee in Kṛṣṇa consciousness knows t ...the instruction of the Lord can be understood by the devotees only and no one else. ...
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  • ...y Krsna Consciousness mission"|"cooperate with my mission"|"cooperate with one another in our mission"|"cooperate with the mission"|"cooperate with this a ...got some of the above assets of the above four principles if not at least one of them must we have and we can engage them in the service of the Lord. Sri ...
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  • ...ing under the spell of material energy can be delivered from such clutches if they hear the narration of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with devotion and atten ...
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  • <div class="heading">One who enlightens his disciple and saves him from rotting in the darkness of i ...Therefore everyone needs to be enlightened with transcendental knowledge. One who enlightens his disciple and saves him from rotting in the darkness of i ...
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  • ...all material lust. In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is recommended that whether one is a pure devotee and is free from all material desires, or is full of mate <div class="heading">By studying Bhagavad-gītā, one can become a soul completely surrendered to the Supreme Lord</div> ...
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  • ...strengthen the mind by use of intelligence. If by intelligence one engages one's mind in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, by complete surrender unto the Supreme ...king are not one and the same. An orphan is really poor because he has no one to take care of him, but a beloved son of a rich man, although he appears t ...
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  • ...eatures in the ocean of nescience. By the grace of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu one can have real understanding of the essence of knowledge by avoiding these s ...ome of them become still more learned, doctor in philosophy, like that. So if you go to the quality, the number will decrease. You cannot say greatest nu ...
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  • ...vanced he comes to the knowledge of impersonal Brahman and Paramātmā. When one is fully purified, he realizes that his constitutional position is to be th ...n—ārta (one who is distressed), arthārthī (one in need of money), jijñāsu (one who is inquisitive) and jñānī (a person in knowledge)—try to understan ...
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  • ...et liberation. The theory that there is no need of austerity in life, that one can go on speculating and everything will be nice, is recommended neither i ...satisfying Him. The purport is that human life is meant for understanding one's relationship with the Supreme Lord, and by acting in that way any human b ...
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  • ...also not very difficult. Everyone can become representative of Kṛṣṇa. How? If you simply carry the message of Kṛṣṇa without any adulteration. That' ...ātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana ([[Vanisource:BG 2.41 (1972)|BG 2.41]]). If you stick to the order of spiritual master, then, without caring for your o ...
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  • ...entity glide down to the lowest point, just to give him the chance to see if he is happy by misusing his independence. ...
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  • ...them have presented a philosophical path by themselves. Patañjali is also one of them, and all these six great ṛṣis have their own way of thinking, e ...thāḥ [Cc. Madhya 17.186]. Great authorities should be followed; otherwise, if we simply depend on the scriptures, we are sometimes misled by rascals, or ...
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  • ...iv style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draw ...the method of leaving his body in perfect consciousness, transferring from one planet to another is as easy as an ordinary man's walking to the grocery st ...
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  • <div class="heading">One who has perfectly heard from the perfect source becomes convinced about the ...ds of the total society. Hearing is solidified by the process of chanting. One who has perfectly heard from the perfect source becomes convinced about the ...
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  • ...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 of the Vedas.</div> ...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 of the Vedas.</div> ...
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  • ...ng">Perfect knowledge is acquired from the ācāryas, or liberated souls. No one can be perfect in knowledge without being trained by the paramparā system< ...lass="text">'''[[Vanisource:SB 4.20.4|SB 4.20.4, Tanslation and Purport]]: If a personality like you, who are so much advanced because of executing the i ...
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  • ...many births, when one perfect in knowledge surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa, or when one attains Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then everything is revealed to him, as e ...o the submissive aural receiver who is bona fide by service and surrender. One cannot challenge the authority of the Supreme and know Him also at the same ...
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  • ...be performed strongly in perfect knowledge and with transcendental vision. One must be strongly renounced and must engage in austerity and perform mystic ...means the Vedic vibration. The origin of creation is sound vibration, and if the sound vibration is clear and purified, perfect knowledge and perfect ac ...
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  • ...such dictations of different temperaments, he is perpetually unhappy. When one actually feels this and turns his intelligence to inquiring about it from t ...fice of saṅkīrtana. According to the author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, if one compares saṅkīrtana-yajña to other yajñas, he is a pāṣaṇḍī, an ...
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  • ...s the perfect institution for humanity—must be supported by bhakti-yoga if one at all wants security in life.</div> ...: to think of the lotus feet of the Lord. Lord Śiva therefore advises that one who is actually serious about purification must engage himself in this type ...
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  • ...want suffering but rather wants to make a solution to all suffering, then one is not to be considered a perfect human being. ...
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  • ...ness? It is not possible. They are themselves andha. Andha means blind. So if you follow the blind man, how you'll cross? That is not possible. Andhā ya ...e service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then you'll be happy. And if you take to other demigods, those who are material, that will not be your p ...
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  • ...lso traveled in space. Actually, the perfect yogī can do that. But even if one can travel all over the universe and show wonderful feats like Kardama Muni ...ear the dust of the lotus feet of brāhmaṇas and Vaiṣṇavas. In other words, if a liberal king like Pṛthu Mahārāja does not follow the instructions of ...
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