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  • ...ith glittering bangles, are like those of a dead man if not engaged in the service of the Personality of Godhead Hari.</p> ...cquisition. Advancement of material science without God consciousness is a heavy load on the head of human society, and so one must take heed of this great ...
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  • {{terms|"breath"|"breathe"|"breathed"|"breathes"|"breathing"|"breathings"|"breaths"}} [[Category:breathing|1]] ...
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  • {{terms|"Certainly that heart is steel-framed which, in spite of one's chanting the holy name of the Lord with concentration, does [[Category:In Spite Of]] ...
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  • ...is explained in the Vedānta-sūtra, janmādyasya yataḥ. And it is explained in Bhagavad-gītā: Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 10.8 (1972)|B ...rial, but within our bodies is this divine, what I call the "divine flame" in one of my (indistinct).</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"heavier"|"heaviest"|"heavily"|"heaviness"|"heavy"}} ...Base query: heavy or heavier or heaviest or heavily or heaviness not "very heavy"}} ...
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  • ...iples of yoga is recommended for inferior men; superior men, being engaged in the superior activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, naturally retire from ...-caritāmṛta, then, may be translated as "the character of the living force in immortality."</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"heavier"|"heaviest"|"heavily"|"heaviness"|"heavy"}} ...Base query: heavy or heavier or heaviest or heavily or heaviness not "very heavy"}} ...
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  • ...ulasī leaves from the lotus feet of the Lord is also a dead body, although breathing.</p> ...ed another pure devotee." That is the way of pure disciplic succession, or devotional paramparā.</p> ...
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  • ...lightest, or in the ordinary sense, one may achieve material benedictions in the shape of wealth and women.</div> ...h illusory pleasure means degradation of the self and further imprisonment in the material world. By this warning, one should follow one's vigilant intel ...
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  • ...ng minds of the gopīs are like straws and dry leaves. After they fall down in the whirlwind, they never rise again but remain eternally at the lotus feet ...o not possess such sweetness. Indeed, none of the incarnations of Kṛṣṇa up to Nārāyaṇa possess such transcendental beauty.</p> ...
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  • ...agine"|"Just you can imagine"|"just imagine"|"just see, imagine"|"just try to imagine"|"just we can imagine"}} ...n as a family member or as a neighbor. All those who were fortunate enough to associate with the Lord, the husband of the goddess of fortune, certainly o ...
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  • ...were taking away the cows, Arjuna fought with them incognito and was able to regain the cows along with some booty taken by force—the jewels set on th ...ith glittering bangles, are like those of a dead man if not engaged in the service of the Personality of Godhead Hari.</p> ...
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  • ...sness, the Lord again puts him in the unmanifested condition as it existed in the beginning of the creation. The Lord is described here as vīryavān, or ...atam" text="SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)"><h3>SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)</h3> ...
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  • ...essions of love"|"ecstatic feelings of love"|"ecstatic for love"|"ecstatic in love"|"ecstatic love"|"ecstatic manifestation of love"|"ecstatic ocean of l ...village today is known as the village of Pāṭhāna Vaiṣṇavas. After bathing in the Ganges at Soro, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu arrived at Prayāga, at the ...
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  • ...natural laws are being conducted under His superintendence. Because He is in the background, everything is being performed punctually and regularly.</p> ...the Lord of the universe nor of His specific form. Mahā-viṣṇu, from whose breathing millions of universes emanate and into whom they are again withdrawn, may b ...
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  • <div class="heading">All the devotees of the Lord traverse this earth just to recover the conditioned souls from their delusion. ...he Supreme Personality or to be fully engaged in His transcendental loving service with determination.</p> ...
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  • ...ip in which a devotee and the Lord are bound by a tie of spontaneous love. To achieve this love should be the goal of life for every living being.</p> ...ting a colossal hoax in the name of civilization, they create an imbalance in the natural self-sufficiency of material nature.</p> ...
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  • ...mind is fickle, and therefore it is necessary to engage the mind by force to think of Kṛṣṇa. ...engaged in remembering Me, undeviated from the path, he, O Pārtha, is sure to reach Me.</p> ...
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  • [[Category:In This Way]] [[Category:Breathing]] ...
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  • ...st moment of his life. He died very happily by seeing Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira to the throne, otherwise he would have long ago quitted his material body, ins ...ira, was the rightful person to perform this ceremony. It was a great boon to Bhīṣmadeva that an equally great son of the family undertook the last ri ...
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  • ...the wise should not unsettle them, although these duties are inferior due to the performers' lack of knowledge.</p> ...worship, and they consider the formalities of religious rituals to be ends in themselves.</p> ...
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  • ...love of Godhead. They danced, cried, laughed and chanted like madmen, and in this way they distributed love of Godhead.</p> ...text"><p style="display: inline;">While chanting the holy name of the Lord in pure ecstasy, I lose Myself, and thus I laugh, cry, dance and sing just lik ...
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  • ...illusion. Nighttime dreaming and daytime dreaming. The nighttime dream... In this way, we are dreaming life after life.</p> ...will enjoy life." That is actually life, because we are part and parcel of God.</p> ...
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  • ...although complacent, are certainly wasting their time. They are completely in ignorance of the desired goal. ...although complacent, are certainly wasting their time. They are completely in ignorance of the desired goal.</p> ...
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  • ...lling the desires of the Lord... and all these qualifications made him fit to become a mat-para devotee of the Lord."</p> ...h the Lord within himself, he becomes just as free as the Lord, even while in the body." (Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 3.18)</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"breath"|"breathe"|"breathed"|"breathes"|"breathing"|"breathings"|"breaths"}} [[Category:Breathing|1]] ...
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  • ...h universe the Lord again enters as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. Each universe is in that way created. He still further manifests Himself as Kṣīrodakaśāyī ...anda, Sanātana and Sanat-kumāra, then Rudra, and then the seven sages, and in this way all the brāhmaṇas and kṣatriyas are born out of the energy of ...
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  • <div class="heading">Service of the devotee is more valuable than the service of the Lord. ...master. The expert spiritual master knows the art of utilizing everything to glorify the Lord, and therefore under his guidance the whole world can be t ...
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  • ...anda uttering several times the name Caitanya. The brāhmaṇa was astonished to see that the sannyāsī Prakāśānanda could not vibrate the sound Kṛṣ ...fetime you will not be able to see Me anymore. Those who are incomplete in service and who are not completely free from all material taints can hardly see Me. ...
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  • ...dead, oh, there is no further development, however you can keep the child in a very antiseptic way preserved. No. There is no development. ...dead, oh, there is no further development, however you can keep the child in a very antiseptic way preserved. No. There is no development. Therefore it ...
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  • ...s perpetual and ever-increasing religious beatitude, graphically described in the eyewitness accounts of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, His constant compa ...devotional service, which is full of transcendental mystery. The Lord said to Brahmā that since He was pleased with him, by His grace the mystery was be ...
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  • ...otional service"|"nine transcendental processes"|"nine types of devotional service"}} [[Category:Nine Processes of Devotional Service to God|1]] ...
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  • ...discharged"|"duties may be discharged"|"duties"|"duty discharged"|"duty is to discharge"|"duty"}} ...siness. Thus the entire society becomes a hell unfit for gentlemen to live in. There is an immediate need for a good government—a government by the peo ...
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  • ...rustrations that result in void philosophy. Then one can ultimately attain to the abode of the Supreme Lord.</p> ...a (the present yuga, or age), when people in general are short-lived, slow in spiritual realization and always disturbed by various anxieties, the best m ...
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  • ...s of ignorance. Whatever one sees or otherwise experiences one should know to be simply an exhibition of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's energy. Eve ...f Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa without going through the direction of the Six Gosvāmīs. In another verse Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura has stated that without the causel ...
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  • {{terms|"(8) breathing heavily, (9) forgetting social conventions, (10) salivating, (11) laughing, [[Category:Ecstasy in Devotional Service to God]] ...
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  • ...ment in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In all ways, it is recommended that we have to, we should take shelter...</p> ...this Vṛndāvana. Immediately. So padaṁ padaṁ yad vipadām. Here, especially in this Kali-yuga, the time is very bad. At any moment there can be any turmoi ...
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  • ...luminating agent becomes prominent. Nārada compared the position of Brahmā to the self-sufficiency of the spider, who creates its own field of activities ...does not render the creator impersonal. Here the very prayer suggests that God is sentient and can hear the prayers and fulfill the desires of the devotee ...
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  • ...t"><p style="display: inline;">Certainly that heart is steel-framed which, in spite of one's chanting the holy name of the Lord with concentration, does ...ice, and the mature stage of Viṣṇu worship is suggested herein in relation to the change of heart.</p> ...
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  • ...body is called the soul, and the body is called a material manifestation. In the Vaikuṇṭha world, however, there is no such distinction. Lord Śrī ...e forest, sometimes rebuking a bluish cloud, and sometimes wandering about in the dense darkness of the forest. Thus She has become like a crazy woman."< ...
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  • ...his original, spiritual body, and it is so small that you cannot keep yogi in prison. Anywhere. Because there is some hole, he'll get out. This is yogi. ...rong, artificially it cannot be stopped. Paraṁ dṛṣṭvā... (break)... stated in the Bhagavad-gītā. You give the senses better engagement. Then you can co ...
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  • ...the service of Kṛṣṇa. These are some of the examples of how one can engage in working for Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...The tree remained in Śrīnivāsa's yard, and from then on the devotees used to take as many mangoes from the tree as they wanted.</p> ...
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  • ...he material energy, although it gave him cause for anxiety when it managed to totter the existence of his position.</p> ...fierce feelings of separation, His patience began to totter, and He began to recite various verses.</p> ...
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  • ...are the pleasure abodes of unalloyed devotees. These devotees are compared to swans, ducks and bees. The river's flowing produces a melodious sound that ..."><p style="display: inline;">Thus the lionlike Lord Caitanya has appeared in Navadvīpa. He has the shoulders of a lion, the powers of a lion, and the l ...
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  • ...not move to the holy places (where the Lord is remembered) are considered to be like tree trunks.</p> ...jali sevate ’smān: "Liberation stands before me with folded hands, begging to serve me."</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"called devotional service"}} [[Category:Called Devotional Service to God|1]] ...
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  • ...t Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 (New-2003)" link_text="Introduction to Bhagavad-gita As It Is -- Los Angeles, November 23, 1968 "> ...us so many things, all of our necessities, why not render some service to God?" This consciousness is part of development.</p> ...
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  • ...a drifted deeper and deeper into trances of spiritual ecstasy unparalleled in all of religious and literary history, Eastern or Western. ...s perpetual and ever-increasing religious beatitude, graphically described in the eyewitness accounts of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, His constant compa ...
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  • ...f material nature. The only way to get out of the entanglement is to agree to obey the Supreme.</p> ...atam" text="SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)"><h3>SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)</h3> ...
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  • <p>In the Kaṭha Upaniṣad (1.2.18) we also find a similar passage, which reads ...ng and purport of this verse is the same as in the Bhagavad-gītā, but here in this verse there is one special word, vipaścit, which means learned or wit ...
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