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  • ...n charity, you are 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 ...72|Lecture on BG 2.22 -- Hyderabad, November 26, 1972]]:''' In India there are many atheists, followers of Cārvāka. According to Cārvāka Muni, his the ...
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  • ...ond, and so this combination is very nice. Living entities in a pure state are called devotees. The Supreme Lord becomes the devotee of His devotees. If a ...Because you are grown up you cannot act as a child. Similarly, because you are human being, if you act as an animal you'll be responsible for your acts. A ...
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  • ...). The living entities, like the Lord, are full of consciousness, and they are after happiness. The Lord is perpetually happy, and if the living entities ...reaches the highest planet, he cannot attain that perpetual happiness for which he is searching life after life.</div> ...
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  • <div class="heading">There are two kinds of sva-dharmas, specific duties. As long as one is not liberated, ...cific duties for the brahmanas and ksatriyas respectively, and such duties are unavoidable. Sva-dharma is ordained by the Lord, and this will be clarified ...
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  • ...ing is to render service to the Lord. The Lord is great, and living beings are subordinate to Him. Therefore, the duty of the living being is just to serv ...
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  • ...ing of the heart, laughing, crying, shivering, and dancing. These symptoms are not material. However, exhibiting such ecstatic symptoms just to get credit ...
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  • <div class="heading">We are suffering or enjoying the results of our activities from time immemorial, b ...r activity, and this change depends on the perfection of our knowledge. We are engaged in various activities. Undoubtedly we do not know what sort of acti ...
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  • ...ading">The Supreme Lord and His transcendental abode are both sanātana, as are the living entities, and the combined association of the Supreme Lord and t ...life. The Supreme Lord and His transcendental abode are both sanātana, as are the living entities, and the combined association of the Supreme Lord and t ...
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  • ...ce. A devotee like Nārada can act wonderfully by his spiritual perfection, which every individual is trying to attain. Śrīla Nārada is a cent-percent per ...ld, but are eternally related with Him as transcendental wives, a position which they attained by perfection of devotional service. ...
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  • ...ould be concluded that whatever material facilities we are trying to enjoy are available only due to the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. ...rms in the Bhagavad-gītā, “My supreme abode is a transcendental place from which, having gone, one never returns to this material world. Anyone who attains ...
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  • ...in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all activities are on the absolute plane, for they are no longer subject to dualities like good and bad. The highest perfection of ...ent for success upon His mercy alone, and all kinds of spiritual processes are but different degrees of success on the same path. Unless, therefore, one c ...
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  • ...gods, headed by Lord Brahmā, are bewildered by Your illusory potency. They are conditioned souls who accept their own material bodies and bodily expansion ...st 16, 1973|Lecture on BG 2.10 -- London, August 16, 1973]]:''' " So... We are all fools like that. Arjuna is not fool. Arjuna has been been described as ...
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  • ...he living entities are the marginal energy of the Lord, and therefore they are meant for being properly utilized in the transcendental loving service of t ...aim of life, going back to Godhead, they are never envious of anyone, nor are they proud of being eligible to go back to Godhead. Their only business is ...
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  • ..., although all students who are engaged in the study of the Absolute Truth are engaged in the same subject matter. ...rated from one another, and yet the students of the three different phases are not in the same category.</p> ...
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  • ...are... From material estimation, these things are very good work. But you are being bound up.</div> ...iśvarya-śruta, and śrī. You can become very beautiful by pious work. These are the results of pious work. ...
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  • ...g is done unwillingly, that is excused by Kṛṣṇa. That is another thing. We are offending in every moment, but when it is within our consciousness we shoul ...g is done unwillingly, that is excused by Kṛṣṇa. That is another thing. We are offending in every moment, but when it is within our consciousness we shoul ...
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  • {{terms|"persons who are authorities in the scriptures"}} [[Category:Who Are]] ...
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  • ...in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, all activities are on the absolute plane, for they are no longer subject to dualities like good and bad. The highest perfection of ...ass="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Vedic rites and rituals are imperative for neophytes: comprehending all kinds of prayer three times a d ...
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  • ...ue because these sentiments are all on the absolute plane. Such sentiments are definitely not absent in the Absolute, as the impersonalists think, making ...performed by any other living being. The symptoms of the Lord's activities are all mentioned in the śāstras, and after one understands them one can acce ...
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  • ...attachment, gradually rising in exceptional cases to the mahā-bhāva stage, which is generally not possible for the living entities. All these were manifeste ...attachment, gradually rising in exceptional cases to the mahā-bhāva stage, which is generally not possible for the living entities. All these were manifeste ...
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  • <div class="heading">You are an old experienced devotee and I have personally trained you in so many thi ...hould continue in this way. Do practical solid work. This is required. You are an old experienced devotee and I have personally trained you in so many thi ...
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  • ...who knows God knows that the impersonal conception and personal conception are simultaneously present in everything and that there is no contradiction. Th ...th their bodily senses. Therefore it is clearly stated here that those who are gṛha-vrata, whose only aim is to live comfortably with the body in the ma ...
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  • ...to be happy by serving his personal sense gratification in different forms which will never make him happy. Instead of satisfying his own personal material ...derived from conquering them and happiness derived by seeing kinsmen alive are both on the basis of personal sense gratification, even at a sacrifice of w ...
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  • ...hey cease to perform agnihotra yajñas (fire sacrifices), but actually they are self-interested because their goal is to become one with the impersonal Bra ...oes not mind whether a man honors or dishonors him. He accepts things that are favorable for his duty in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, otherwise he has no ne ...
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  • ...mpersonalist does not believe in the personal management of things as they are.</div> ...roots. The tree of creation described here is only a shadow of the reality which is Parabrahman, Viṣṇu. In the internal potential manifestation of the V ...
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  • ...gs to hear because the scriptures like Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam are made for that purpose. Living beings other than human beings have no abilit ...itute has no reputation for good womanly qualities. Similarly, the tongue, which is given to the human being for chanting the Vedic hymns, will be considere ...
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  • ...ings. He is called Hari, and from Him all incarnations within the universe are expanded. ...ers misunderstand Him, unaware of His eternal form of knowledge and bliss, which is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā and Upaniṣads. His different potencie ...
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  • ...e anything. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta the pure devotee is called niṣkāma, which means he has no desire for self-interest. Perfect peace belongs to him alon ...="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are also many impersonalists who deride temple worship. They say that since God ...
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  • ...e interested in the matter of sense gratification than in self-realization which is the ultimate goal of life. We have therefore taken up the difficult job ...ain go to Agra from Delhi to secure some members of the League of Devotees which is a registered society possessing certificate of exemption of income tax t ...
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  • ...a true guru and the symptoms of a true devotee. The symptoms of a devotee are described in the Padma Purāṇa: A person who is a qualified brāhmaṇa a ...mis and gurus and religious people throughout the world. How does one know which is the true guru? ...
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  • ...mulate money for sense gratification. However, because in Kali-yuga people are more or less prone to sense gratification, immature sannyāsa is not recomm ...ependently or whimsically; (5) associating with worldly-minded persons who are not interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness; and (6) being greedy for munda ...
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  • [[Category:Devotees of God Are Peaceful]] [[Category:All the Characteristics of Devotees of God Are Sublime]] ...
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  • ...s cannot account for the senses of the living entities, and therefore they are always anxious to describe all living entities as senseless, or impersonal. <div class="heading">Those who are freed from all material contaminations surrender unto the Supreme Lord and ...
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  • ...then, automatically, the mind becomes stronger, and even though the senses are very strong, like serpents, they will be no more effective than serpents wi ...allen down due to uncongenial association, just like fruitive workers, who are always prone to degradation. But even though he falls down, a devotee is ne ...
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  • ...t child can swim across the ocean of conclusions about the ultimate truth, which is full of the crocodiles of various theories.''' ...autama, and the systems of philosophers like Kaṇāda, Kapila and Dattātreya are dangerous creatures in the ocean of nescience. By the grace of Śrī Caitan ...
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  • ...passed away from this world like an ordinary man. Such asuric conceptions are rejected by persons in knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. ...passed away from this world like an ordinary man. Such asuric conceptions are rejected by persons in knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Ajo ...
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  • ...gigantic manifestation of the universal form. The biggest and the minutest are beyond their conception, so they cannot imagine that a form like that of a ...ust like a human being, can control the infinite and the finite, those who are pure devotees accept this, for they know that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Pe ...
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  • ...rld are misusing their independence, and therefore five kinds of nescience are imposed upon them. As an obedient servitor of the Lord, Brahmā creates all ...
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  • ...not the only authority of perfect knowledge in transcendence because there are many other sages and their followers.</div> ...cording to their own thinking, but Śukadeva Gosvāmī presents the knowledge which comes down directly from Brahmājī, who is known as ātma-bhūḥ, or born ...
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  • ...aged in the animal propensities of the eat-drink-and-be-merry type of life are simply wasting their lives by the unseen passing away of valuable years. We ...erial body is just a covering of the spiritual soul. Mind and intelligence are the undercoverings, and the gross body of earth, water, air and so on is th ...
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  • ...re three stages of transcendental development in devotional service, which are technically called sthāyi-bhāva, anubhāva and mahābhāva. Continual per ...
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  • ...4.20.4|SB 4.20.4, Tanslation and Purport]]: If a personality like you, who are so much advanced because of executing the instructions of the previous acar ...
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  • ...r for all living entities, and giving up such shelter, the living entities are deluded by the material energy, imagining themselves to have a separate ide ...certainly accepted as liberated, but due to their imperfect knowledge they are described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as vimukta-māninaḥ. Since their knowle ...
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  • ...kinds of different occupational engagements, including those of religion, are meant for material gain.</div> ...ce:SB 3.5.51|SB 3.5.51, Translation]]: O Supreme Self, please give us, who are created in the beginning from the mahat-tattva, the total cosmic energy, Yo ...
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  • ...'[[Vanisource:SB 2.2.16|SB 2.2.16, Purport]]:''' The functions of the mind are thinking, feeling and willing. When the mind is materialistic, or absorbed ...ery, very glorious. Such a person has perfect intelligence, whereas others are in the ignorance of material existence.</div> ...
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  • ...es the occupational duties of the brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra and which is the perfect institution for humanity—must be supported by bhakti-yoga ...s engage in meditation upon Your lotus feet, as described above. Those who are serious about executing their occupational duties and who want freedom from ...
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  • ...are suffering or where they came from and where they shall go after death are proper students for understanding Bhagavad-gītā. The sincere student shou ...ne;">Men with a poor fund of knowledge claim to be equal to the Lord. They are never equal to the Lord. This is never to be. The human being, after attain ...
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  • ...isplay: inline;">Some of the names of the descendants of Gaurīdāsa Paṇḍita are as follows: (1) Śrī Nṛsiṁha-caitanya, (2) Kṛṣṇadāsa, (3) Viṣ ...
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  • ...ry day these loving devotees could see Mukunda's ever-cheerful lotus face, which was decorated with beautiful, merciful smiling glances.</p> ...hat only on this planet there are living entities, and other planets there are no living entities. No, that is not a fact. Anyway, here the proposal is ho ...
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  • ...authorities are followed by people in general. Leaders of ideal character are therefore needed in society. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhea ...d Caitanya declared that no one can worship the Supreme Lord by any method which is better than the method of the gopīs.</p> ...
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