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  • ...one hundred percent Kṛṣṇa conscious is the bona fide spiritual master, for he can solve the problems of life. Lord Caitanya said that one who is master i <div class="heading">The real spiritual master is Kṛṣṇa, and He is imparting this spiritual knowledge to Arjuna</div> ...
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  • ...of Advaita Ācārya’s, for which Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu chastised him when He came to know of it. Kamalākānta Viśvāsa was then purified by the reques ...
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  • ...the student who took lessons from Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, accepts everything that He says without contradicting Him.</p> ...>Arjuna bases his argument not on his own personal experience, but on what he has heard from the authorities. That is the way of receiving real knowledge ...
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  • ...does not obey the injunctions of the Vedas, he is called nastika, atheist. He does not believe. Veda na maniya bauddha haila nastika. Caitanya Mahaprabhu ...the... Everyone agreed to accept Him as the chief guest. And the Sisupala, he protested. Then everyone was angry to kill him. So Krsna is accepted the gu ...
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  • ...the spiritual master, and when he sees the genuine desire of the disciple, he automatically blesses the disciple with genuine spiritual understanding. In ...d when a living entity becomes inclined to the service of the Supreme Lord he looks like gold. The Lord is a diamond, and so this combination is very nic ...
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  • ...In this relationship the Lord becomes so much attached to His devotee that He expresses His inability to reciprocate.</p> ...ture. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa wants to make known to all the conditioned souls that He is more attracted by rāga-bhakti than vidhi-bhakti, or devotional service ...
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  • ...eryone is trying to come to Me." Ye yathā māṁ prapadyante [Bg. 4.11]. "But he's realizing Me in My different phases. But everyone is trying." So so far u ...owing the seed, the field also must be fertile or receptive, then the seed will fructify. It is reciprocal.</div> ...
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  • ...ve Kṛṣṇa. But the central point is to love Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa also reciprocates. He has no discrimination that "Here is gopī, beautiful girl. Therefore I shal ...BG 4.11 (1972)|BG 4.11]]). You deal with Kṛṣṇa. As you deal, He'll also... He reciprocates. That is Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...mp; the preaching member's cooperation in this noble act of human behavior will reciprocally benefit both the League and its preaching members.</p> ...cannot reciprocate. Krishna does not take anything from them, neither does He give them anything. The Impersonal, therefore, simply enjoys the troubles o ...
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  • ...worshipful feelings, or he wants to see the two-handed Kṛṣṇa form so that he can reciprocate in loving service with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.< ...worshipful feelings, or he wants to see the two-handed Kṛṣṇa form so that he can reciprocate in loving service with the Supreme Personality of Godhead.< ...
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  • ...t possible to know the Supreme Person by imperfect experimental knowledge. He is described herein as adhokṣaja, or beyond the range of experimental kno ...once. Therefore they can see the gigantic body of the Lord as virāṭ, which will answer their challenge, and since they are accustomed to paying homage to s ...
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  • <div class="heading">Therefore we will accept the footprint of those recognized ācāryas ...panthah: ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 17.186|CC Madhya 17.186]]) "Therefore we will accept the footprint of those recognized acaryas." Acaryopasanam.</p> ...
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  • ...accepted by all the äcäryas. Either Rämänujäcärya, Madhväcärya, or anyone, will they not accept Kåñëa as the supreme teacher? Whole world is understandi ...is meant for this purpose. So if a man loves God more than anything else, he is the perfect man.</div> ...
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  • ...So in the material world the living being is still more conditioned, until he surrenders unto the Lord by reviving his original state of eternal servitor ...So in the material world the living being is still more conditioned, until he surrenders unto the Lord by reviving his original state of eternal servitor ...
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  • <div class="heading">He is a completely perfect mystic because he is fixed in the instructions received from the spiritual master ...spiritual master, and because his senses are controlled he is determined. He is not swayed by false arguments, because no one can lead him from the fixe ...
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  • ...epresentative of the Lord to look after the management of the Lord's will. He must therefore be a recognized person like Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira or Pa ...epresentative of the Lord to look after the management of the Lord's will. He must therefore be a recognized person like Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira or Pa ...
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  • ...means that the misguided man can believe one authority, the scientist, but will reject the authority of the Vedas. The result is that people have degenerat ...one surpasses the stage of acquiring knowledge by the descending process, he is immediately situated on the transcendental platform. Dhruva Mahārāja, ...
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  • ...plicity means that without diplomacy one should be so straightforward that he can disclose the real truth even to an enemy. ...ciple's following the regulative principles. Or, the regulative principles will be easier for one who has served the spiritual master without reservation.< ...
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  • ...tly explained. And Vyāsadeva's father, Parāśara, is also a great sage, and he writes in his books of religiosity, aham tvaṁ ca tathānye. .. "we—you, ...entity decides to enjoy in dovetailing himself with the ānanda-maya, then he becomes perfect. This is the real picture of the Supreme Lord as the suprem ...
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  • ...), the Lord is situated in everyone's heart. It is natural that one should he able to see the Lord at least within himself. But that is not possible for ...ntional offender. He was at once influenced by the presence of Nārada, and he agreed to take the path of devotion, leaving aside his hearth and home. But ...
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  • ...om material bondage are called non-Āryans. Although Arjuna was a kṣatriya, he was deviating from his prescribed duties by declining to fight. This act of ...esires to have the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then he must take to devotional service.</p> ...
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  • ...alize the self by the mystic yoga process; but whatever one may do, unless he comes to the point of surrendering to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, n ...alize the self by the mystic yoga process; but whatever one may do, unless he comes to the point of surrendering to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, n ...
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  • ...Personality of Godhead, appeared for the deliverance of all fallen souls, He advised the deliverance of all living entities as follows. The Supreme Abso ...
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  • ...ṇa conscious person has realized knowledge, by the grace of Kṛṣṇa, because he is satisfied with pure devotional service. ...dictions. It is the realized soul who is actually self-controlled, because he is surrendered to Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • ..., Translation and Purport]]: Then, in the beginning of Kali-yuga, the Lord will appear as Lord Buddha, the son of Añjanā, in the province of Gayā, just ...ieve in God in the form of Lord Buddha. That was the mercy of Lord Buddha: he made the faithless faithful to him. ...
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  • <div class="heading">The qualification of a spiritual master is that he must have realized the conclusion of the scriptures by deliberation and arg ...lter of him by initiation. The qualification of a spiritual master is that he must have realized the conclusion of the scriptures by deliberation and arg ...
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  • ...yi, or "unto Me." And when one acts in such Kṛṣṇa consciousness, certainly he does not claim proprietorship over anything.</div> ...duties may be discharged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, as described above. That will lead one to the path of liberation.</div> ...
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  • ...ttempts to mitigate the miseries of material existence by material methods will never be successful. One must take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness to become r ...s, if you want real goodness, then you try to become Kṛṣṇa conscious. That will make you real happy. ...
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  • ...eager to get us to return home, back to Godhead, than we are eager to go. He is by nature merciful toward us, despite our rebellious attitude.</div> ...eager to get us to return home, back to Godhead, than we are eager to go. He is by nature merciful toward us, despite our rebellious attitude. Even in o ...
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  • ...distinctions according to the mentality of the living being, but otherwise He is equal to everyone. Like a desire tree, the Lord fulfills the desires of ...
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  • ...all recommended by the acaryas, big, big acaryas. Just like Ramanujacarya. He established hundreds of temples all over India, Laksmi-Narayana temple espe ...
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  • ...Such happiness of transcendental quality is called brahma-saukhyam, which will be clearly described in the Fifth Canto.</div> ...mahātmās, who are engaged in chanting and hearing the glories of the Lord, he is sure to make progress on the path back home, back to Godhead.</div> ...
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  • ...becoming hippie. So please take this Kṛṣṇa consciousness and actually you will be happy." That is our mission. That is our mission. Therefore the Bhāgava ...que there must be regular recitation on the talks of God. Otherwise people will lose interest, and the churches and temples have to be closed.</p> ...
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  • ...is the personification of the Vedas, religious scriptures and austerities. He is worshiped by Lord Brahmā and Śiva and all those who are transcendental ...he Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is described as uttamaśloka because He is famous for His glorious activities.</p> ...
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  • ...f somebody comes forward to offer some service, the same reluctant ācāryas will encourage the building of costly temples by such servitors.</div> ...reases the number of disciples simply for some prestige or false honor, he will surely fall down in the matter of executing Kṛṣṇa consciousness. ...
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  • <div class="heading">Who will chant the glories of the Lord unless he is a devotee? Therefore the word nivṛtta-tarṣaiḥ indicates the devote ...Acarya and Vijayadhvaja. To desire anything other than devotional service will diminish one's freedom from material desires, but when one is free from all ...
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  • ...imitates the ordinary living entity by this lifting, and at the same time He exhibits His supernatural power. Thus His name is chanted as the lifter of ...of dog-eaters immediately becomes eligible to perform Vedic sacrifices if he once utters the holy name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead or chants a ...
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  • ...ervice unto Me—the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the inquisitive, and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute."</p> ...if one is favored by even a slight trace of the mercy of Your lotus feet, he can understand the greatness of Your personality. But those who speculate t ...
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  • ...e Supreme Lord is situated in the conditional state of material existence, he is to be considered liberated. ...e Supreme Lord is situated in the conditional state of material existence, he is to be considered liberated. Similarly, we shall find in the Bhagavad-gī ...
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  • ...the Bhagavad-gītā. Everyone should follow Him only or His orders, and that will make all happy, both materially and spiritually. As long as we are in the m ...in his original position of transcendental loving service to the Lord, as will be clearly explained in the following verse. This stage of rendering transc ...
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  • ...before Him, and He decided to kill the entire force of Jarāsandha so that he would go back and reorganize his military strength.</p> ...s bhāgavata-dharma and other so-called dharmas, they are not dharmas. They will not be accepted. Exactly in the same way, law manufactured at your home is ...
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  • ...adually diminishing. Even the fragmental existence of religious principles will be embarrassed by so many obstacles as if in the trembling condition of fal [[Category:will Be]] ...
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  • ...protect his wealth, how to keep pace with friends and relatives, etc. Thus he is always in fear and lamentation, trying to keep up with the status quo. I ...protect his wealth, how to keep pace with friends and relatives, etc. Thus he is always in fear and lamentation, trying to keep up with the status quo. I ...
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  • ...is God, although he is paid all the respect ordinarily paid to God because he has knowledge of God. ...is God, although he is paid all the respect ordinarily paid to God because he has knowledge of God. One has to learn the distinction between God and the ...
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  • ...person born in a family of a lower caste can become a spiritual master if he is a Vaiṣṇava, or Kṛṣṇa conscious." (Padma Purāṇa)</p> ...iving entities, Kapila, the son of Devahūti, is a representative of Kṛṣṇa. He is considered an incarnation of Kṛṣṇa, and His philosophy is mentione ...
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  • ...10, 1973]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotee: He's asking if this religion is a matter of reason or is it a matter of feelin ...also agree. But religion without philosophy, logic, it is sentiment. That will not help us. ...
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  • ...true sense of the term he follows the system of varna and asrama and then he can be called a "Hindu." Our Krsna Consciousness Movement is preaching thes ...
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  • ...revealed, and ultimately, by reading this one book, Kṛṣṇa, love of Godhead will fructify. ...revealed, and ultimately, by reading this one book, Kṛṣṇa, love of Godhead will fructify.</p> ...
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  • .... One who eats more than required will dream very much while sleeping, and he must consequently sleep more than is required. One should not sleep more th ...iṣṭhira. He was afraid of sins committed on the battlefield, and therefore he wanted to satisfy the supreme authority. This indicates that unintentional ...
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  • ...in the revealed scriptures. No one should be accepted as an avatāra unless he is referred to by scriptures. ...he principles of religion. Sometimes He descends personally, and sometimes He sends His bona fide representative in the form of His son, or servant, or H ...
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  • ...s="heading">Because of great opulence, a materialist becomes so proud that he has no regard for anyone and even refuses to accept the authority of the Su ...dangerous. Because of great opulence, a materialist becomes so proud that he has no regard for anyone and even refuses to accept the authority of the Su ...
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  • ...hurt by the enemy. The so-called king of today never visits the warfield. He is very much expert in artificially encouraging the fighting strength in th ...impious, unqualified men will claim a certain status in society, and that will make the social order perish.</div> ...
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  • ...a person is not inclined to perform yajña according to the Vedas, how can he expect a happy life even in this body, and what to speak of another body on ...
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  • ...practice the prescribed rules and regulations of devotional service. This will dissipate all sorts of misgivings and remove all personal deficiencies that ...service, if one simply has unflinching faith in Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Person, he is understood to be a sādhu. ...
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  • ...the scriptures. Knowing such rules and regulations, one should act so that he may gradually be elevated.</p> ...n perpetually; since the living entity is in contact with material nature, he acquires different types of mentality according to his association with the ...
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  • ...of the Vedas altogether. This is simply technical, and had it not been so he would not have been so accepted as the incarnation of Godhead</div> ...e would not have been so accepted as the incarnation of Godhead. Nor would he have been worshiped in the transcendental songs of the poet Jayadeva, who i ...
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  • ...Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is ...
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  • ...>If, however, you do not perform your religious duty of fighting, then you will certainly incur sins for neglecting your duties and thus lose your reputati ...If, however, you do not perform your religious duty of fighting, then you will certainly incur sins for neglecting your duties and thus lose your reputati ...
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  • ...Constitution, now it is in the Constitution, that the government of Japan will not support any religious organization. ...Constitution, now it is in the Constitution, that the government of Japan will not support any religious organization. So the people then, after losing th ...
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  • ...the living entities, must always be heard about from reliable sources, and He must be glorified and remembered by one who wishes to become fearless.'</p> <div class="heading">Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī informed Mahārāja Parīkṣit that he had heard from reliable sources that simply to teach the children of the Ya ...
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  • ...ties who are creators, Brahmā, who has four heads, is the chief. Therefore he is a representative of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...elfishly interested. Selfishness is either self-centered or self-extended. He was neither. His interest was to please the Supreme Truth, Personality of G ...
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  • ...Lord. Sāṅkhya philosophy is the basic principle of acquiring knowledge, as will be explained by the sage Maitreya. The Sāṅkhya philosophy enunciated by ...s to the Supreme Personality of Godhead so that his mind, senses and words will all turn toward devotional activities only.</div> ...
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  • ...annyāsī, indicates freedom from all attractive material garments, and thus he changed his dress accordingly.</div> ...transcendental pastimes. It is not possible. Then how is it possible that He can be seen and understood? When one is trained in devotional service and r ...
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  • ...Krishna Consciousness, bring up children in Krishna Consciousness, so they will not again have to enter into this world of birth and death.</div> ...Krishna Consciousness, bring up children in Krishna Consciousness, so they will not again have to enter into this world of birth and death. ...
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  • ...the acceptance of the four orders and the four statuses of social life, as will be explained later. The whole purpose of the mission of incarnations is to ...bhu wanted that this propaganda should be made all over the world and they will accept. So my Guru Mahārāja said that "You go and try to do this." So I c ...
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  • ...ca Adhya. A person who is compact in mundane thought of material enjoyment will certainly be indulging in playing with poison if anyone, devoid of transcen ...t have therefore an impure heart full with dirty things of mundane affairs will not only try to defend Rasalila by interpretations or decry the dealings bu ...
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  • ...bration "Kṛṣṇa" are nondifferent, so if one loudly vibrates Hare Kṛṣṇa, he will be able to think of Kṛṣṇa immediately. This process of chanting is th ...terial formality. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu did not like such formality, but He wanted the essence of it—service to Mukunda. Such determination in any co ...
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  • ...e tongue, belly and genitals, if anyone wants to advance in spiritual life he must be very careful about associating with such people. To associate with ...if one falls into this well, he will die. He may cry for help, but no one will hear him or come to rescue him.</p> ...
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  • ...ss life, anartham. There is no meaning of this purpose. Because everything will be changed with the change of your body. Therefore they do not... They shud ...poor man; he became rich man. And again his everything, business, failed. He again became a poor man. So this kind of poor man, rich man, sometimes Brah ...
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  • ...ly advanced people. When one is successful in chanting the Gāyatrī mantra, he can enter into the transcendental position of the Lord.</p> ...h the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the central pivot of living beings, and He is the all-attractive living entity or eternal form amongst all other livin ...
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  • ...ed to the Vedic wisdom is certainly situated on the mouth of the Lord, and he is a brāhmaṇa. ...om any part of the world may become inclined to the Vedic wisdom, and that will qualify him as a real brāhmaṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...ing is due to the absence of devotional service to the Lord, and therefore he always tries to find ways to change people’s activities, making them favo ...ctivities of the world, the Acarya felt compassion and began to ponder how He could act for the people's benefit.''' ...
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  • <div class="heading">The special qualification of the pure devotee is that he is always thinking of Kṛṣṇa without deviation and without considering ...and without considering the time or place. There should be no impediments. He should be able to carry out his service anywhere and at any time. Some say ...
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  • ...in the real sense of the term because no one was unhappy in that state, be he man or animal. Mahārāja Parīkṣit was an ideal king for a welfare state ...that he was such a great devotee that in spite of having material opulence he would never be deviated from love of God. This example illustrates that a h ...
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  • ...er is a qualified brāhmaṇa and ācārya. If one is not a qualified brāhmaṇa, he is not expert in studying the Vedic literatures</div> ...r, and a spiritual master is automatically expert in brahminical behavior. He also understands the Vedic śāstras. ...
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  • ...ng to the messages of Godhead, and if he steadfastly proceeds in this way, he is certainly elevated to spontaneous love for the Supreme Personality of Go ...epend on his knowledge of the science of Kṛṣṇa. It does not matter whether he is a brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, sannyāsī or śūdra.</div> ...
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  • ...s very merciful upon living entities, especially human beings. To this end He spoke the Bhagavad-gītā, making His friend Arjuna His student.</div> ...nal service, for the Lord Himself is the composer of the Vedānta-sūtra and He is its knower. That is described in the Fifteenth Chapter. In every scriptu ...
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  • ...should simply endeavor to return home, back to Godhead. Then all problems will be solved.</p> ...ached person in material existence always suffers from threefold miseries, he does not develop a distaste for the way of material existence.</p> ...
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  • ...spect of the Lord). When one is well conversant with all these principles, he becomes a devotee and performs bhāgavata-dharma. Prahlāda Mahārāja, the ...n a child, he knows. You give him something eatable. Immediately takes and he knows it is to be put here, not there, not there. Natural. You don't requir ...
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  • ...taneous emotion. When one can rise to the platform of spontaneous emotion, he can make further progress by spiritual attachment, feeling, love, and many ...re from the senses, but being illusioned by false pleasures of the senses, he becomes servant of the senses. Therefore, we need His protection for our ow ...
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  • ...es of religion. From Mahābhārata, Sabhā-parva (4.11) it is understood that he was also present in the royal assembly of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira and at .... The yogī sees all the planets of the universe burning to ashes, and thus he leaves for Satyaloka by airplanes used by the great purified souls. The dur ...
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  • ...he thought himself unfit to see the Lord. In his humility, he thought that he could not practice yoga. In other words, how can those who are like animals ...
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  • ...ya. He knows the purport of the scriptures, and he behaves in his life and he teaches his student in that way.</div> ...ptures, and he behaves in his life and he teaches his student in that way. He is called ācārya.</div> ...
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  • ...ything more. Just hear about Kṛṣṇa. Śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ... Then everything will be cleared, gradually. This is our purpose. This center is giving chance th ...
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  • Prabhupāda: Shock, you will feel. So it is not false, but that feeling is temporary, that's all. So thi ..."heading">God explains the mechanistic phenomena, like the laws of nature. He explains that that is the only effective means of fulfilling God's purpose. ...
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  • ...ble for your purpose." Only by God's grace can one get a nice wife just as he desires.</p> ..., their possessions. Everything is being utilized for Your purpose. So how will You be able to repay Your debt to them? You have already given Yourself to ...
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  • ...were his military commander. One has to sacrifice everything for the good will of the Supreme Lord, and at the same time discharge prescribed duties witho ...y the Lord Himself that the disciplic succession was broken, and therefore He declared that the purpose of the Gītā appeared to be lost. ...
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  • ...-rāja, the King of the Yavanas, was also a servant of Kṛṣṇa. Consequently, he wanted to execute the purpose of Kṛṣṇa through the agency of Kālakan ...o material advancement. Under illusion people think that material opulence will save them, but although there has been much advancement in material science ...
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  • ...ad, he dedicates his activities to the welfare of the entire universe, for he knows the purpose of the universal creation. This supremely powerful Lord B ...come to the material world to enjoy material activities. For this reason, he disseminates the Vedic knowledge throughout the universe for everyone's gui ...
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  • ...Translation and Purport]]: Unfortunate, foolish persons, not knowing that he is engaged in his own self, laugh at him. Such foolish persons engage in ma ...cosmetics, be given to Lord Kṛṣṇa only, because Kṛṣṇa is the real enjoyer. He refuses to accept such luxurious items himself because they are only meant ...
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  • ...anya Mahāprabhu, and then he went to Vṛndāvana. Before going to Vṛndāvana, he lived for some time in a village named Sāṅcaḍāpāṅcaḍā, which is ...ill come and give me money and I shall eat and sleep very nicely." Then it will gradually become Rādhā-Dāmodara temple or any other temple. Bharatpur Ma ...
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  • ...inent, and because the glories of the Lord are nondifferent from the Lord, he got direct association with the Lord by means of sound representation.</div ...unter was taking pleasure in killing animals, but after becoming a devotee he was not prepared to kill even an ant. Such is the quality of a devotee</div ...
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  • <div class="heading">This service attitude will induce the great souls to be more favorable in bestowing their mercy, which ...service physically and mentally without reservation. This service attitude will induce the great souls to be more favorable in bestowing their mercy, which ...
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  • ...he remains humbly and hears from the real authority, then by hearing only he can conquer Ajita</div> ...he remains humbly and hears from the real authority, then by hearing only he can conquer Ajita." Ajita is Bhagavān. ...
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  • ...was rendering devotional service by hearing and chanting. In other words, he was performing the usual sacrifices by the method of sankirtana-yajna.</div ...age himself in this type of meditation or in the mystic yoga system, which will help him not only to see the Lord within constantly but to see Him face to ...
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  • ...ess for me. My real business is spiritual advancement of life." Everything will be clear if you simply execute devotional service of Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...e="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: If you don't accept this kīrtana, then it will prove that you don't accept the philosophy.</p> ...
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  • ...not the taste what is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, simply accept sannyāsa, then he will do all this nonsense work.</p> ...
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  • .... If your preaching work is strong, then your management of temple affairs will also become automatically very strong</div> ...e head is healthy. If the hands are removed, the body will not die, but it will be crippled. So preaching is more important than management, but both must ...
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  • ...aloka to become an associate of Saṅkarṣaṇa. Indra knew this, and therefore he was morose at having killed such a demon, who was actually a Vaiṣṇava o ...by the evolutionary process...So unless that human body also reformed, so he remains animal. That reformation required, saṁskāra, reformation, enligh ...
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  • ...ished, and the real, experienced knowledge of authorities like Lord Brahmā will be established</div> ...nature. In this way God is presented in various ways, but Your appearance will establish what the real form of God is."</div> ...
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  • ...that, or on this planet or another, but nowhere in the material world can he fulfill his real desire of life, namely eternal life, full intelligence and ...
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  • ...Battle of Kurukṣetra, he had to adopt diplomacy, everything, but not that he would forget his real duty. This is perfect civilization, that one should n ...mother together gives education to the son about Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then he can be saved. The father-mother's duty is... The same, apavarga-vartmani. A ...
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  • ...laced by the goat's head, he was as intelligent as he had previously been. He prayed very nicely to satisfy Lord Śiva and Lord Viṣṇu, which is not p ...igence. An intelligent person never goes to demigods to pray for anything. He goes directly to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the cause of al ...
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  • ...aiṣṇava. Although a kaniṣṭha-adhikārī also cannot tolerate such blasphemy, he is not competent to stop it by citing śāstric evidences. Therefore Tapana <div class="heading">One who has developed real love for Kṛṣṇa, he cannot do without thinking of Kṛṣṇa, without talking of Kṛṣṇa, ...
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  • ...him, not even the body. By one's karma, one gets a particular body, and if he does not utilize his body to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead, all ...r 16, 1972]]:''' Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, in front of whom we are now speaking, he gave us the definition how one can make progress in spiritual life. Everyon ...
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  • ...s very merciful upon living entities, especially human beings. To this end He spoke the Bhagavad-gītā, making His friend Arjuna His student.</p> ...on the impersonal feature, the virāṭ-rūpa, or universal form of the Lord, will gradually qualify one to rise to personal contact.</p> ...
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  • ...to envy such an acarya is to envy the Personality of Godhead Himself. This will produce an effect subversive of transcendental realization.</div> ...shelter of a real ācārya, spiritual master, from the disciplic succession, he knows</div> ...
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  • ...nake is not false; one has experience of a snake in reality, and therefore he knows that although the representation of the rope as a snake is false or i ...not look forward his future. He's very playful. He sees that "This playing will make me happy." Similarly, these rascals, they are simply enjoying senses, ...
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  • ...face, but is attracted instead to attainment of some material power, then he is detoured from proceeding further. Material enjoyment, as encouraged by b ...evotee thinks in this way. When a devotee is put into an awkward position, he takes it as the mercy of the Supreme Lord. ...
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  • <div class="heading">When he grows up, he may distribute that eatable to his other brother and sister. So this does n ...h. This is satisfaction. He wants to satisfy his senses. When he grows up, he may distribute that eatable to his other brother and sister. So this does n ...
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  • ...e fruits of the tree of devotional service were innumerable, and therefore He wanted to distribute them unrestrictedly to everyone. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvām ...one were so generous, kind and magnanimous as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, for He distributed the most confidential aspect of devotional service, namely, the ...
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  • <div class="heading">When He met Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya on the bank of the Godāvarī, the varṇāśra ...Personality of Godhead, appeared for the deliverance of all fallen souls, He advised the deliverance of all living entities as follows. The Supreme Abso ...
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  • ...bda (A.D. 1511) during the Cāturmāsya period, and it was at that time that He met Prabodhānanda, who belonged to the Rāmānuja-sampradāya. How then co ...akābda (A.D. 1511), when Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was touring South India, He stayed for four months during the period of Cāturmāsya at the house of Ve ...
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  • ...ead of teaching them, he was taught how to eat meat. Sannyāsī eating meat. He was convinced, "Yes, why not?" At least, in India still, the sannyāsīs th ...
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  • ...s due to the darkness of māyā. But as soon as one becomes Kṛṣṇa conscious, he is immediately relieved from such misconceptions.</div> ...ion. Everything is described in the śāstra. Nowadays any rascal comes, and he says, "I am incarnation." What is your father's name? Whatever it is descri ...
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  • ...sionate toward such unfortunate victims of worthless literatures, and thus he advises Śrī Vyāsadeva to compose transcendental literature which is not ...
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  • ...' By an analytical study of the truth of Lord Caitanya, one will find that He is not different from the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa; no on ...lusion of transcendental knowledge, think that artificially shedding tears will deliver them. Similarly, other false devotees think that studying books of ...
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  • .... And one activity, to serve Kṛṣṇa. That's all. There will be peace. There will be actually peace all over the world. So I request you to, at least to unde ...at books and rituals and dogmas and temples are secondary details, anyway. He said they're not the most important thing, anyway. You don't have to read t ...
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  • Indian: Yes. So I think your Gītā will give me some more reflection. ...tattvataḥ... Out of many millions of siddhas, one can understand Kṛṣṇa as He is. If we do not understand Kṛṣṇa, then how we can understand gopīs? ...
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  • ...osophy sincerely, then Krishna will provide you with all facility, and you will not fall down into material entanglement.</span> ...appreciated very much the spiritual movement. Try to read our book and you will advance more and more.</span> ...
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  • ...erness. One Because Rūpa Gosvāmī is the father of this devotional service. He has written that book, Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu. In that book there is nic ...edic literatures. But this is not necessary. This one book, Bhagavad-gītā, will suffice, because it is the essence of all Vedic literatures and especially ...
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  • <div class="heading">A human being, he should learn about the Bhāgavata-dharma from the beginning of his kaumāra ...of devotional service, bhāgavatān. Fortunately, we got a very nice father; he engaged us in this devotional service from the very beginning of our life. ...
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  • ...eme Self. Arjuna is showing ignorance of his real self-interest by Kṛṣṇa's will. One's real self-interest lies in Viṣṇu, or Kṛṣṇa. The conditione ...compassionate. He is not satisfied that only he himself is a devotee, but he tries to distribute the knowledge of devotional service to everyone. There ...
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  • ...Similarly, everyone is to offer his worship to the Supreme Lord only. That will automatically satisfy the different officers and directors of the Lord. The ...Similarly, everyone is to offer his worship to the Supreme Lord only. That will automatically satisfy the different officers and directors of the Lord. The ...
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  • ...ptures. One should at once quote from scriptural authority to back up what he is saying.</div> ...ptures. One should at once quote from scriptural authority to back up what he is saying. At the same time, such talk should be very pleasurable to the ea ...
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  • ...way you will understand Me, the Personality of Godhead, and ultimately you will come back to Me, back to Godhead, back home."</div> ...ve anything; he is equally disposed to every living entity. In that state, he attains pure devotional service unto Me."</div> ...
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  • <div class="heading">The second-class devotee is he who is merciful and compassionate to the fallen soul. ...tee is always cognizant of his position as an eternal servant of the Lord; he therefore makes friendships with devotees of the Lord, acts compassionately ...
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  • ...n, is sure ultimately to fail, for the slightest thought of sense pleasure will agitate him to gratify his desires.</p> ...ta Gosvāmī fulfilled all these qualifications as a disciple, and therefore he was endowed with all favors by his learned and self-realized spiritual mast ...
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  • ...maginary meaning. It does not actually appeal to the mind of any sane man. He has done this to convince the atheists and bring them under his control.''' ...anted to establish the predominance of one's spiritual identity; therefore he wanted to convert the atheists through an imaginary interpretation of the V ...
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  • ...nd sectarianism were the two great enemies of progress and that as long as he should continue to be an inhabitant of Nadia belonging to a certain family, ...tion with his particular family, caste and creed, and with this resolution he embraced the position of a sannyāsī at Katwa, under the guidance of Keśa ...
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  • ...to conduct a so-called secular state, and the so-called educated brāhmaṇas will be purchased by such unscrupulous administrators.</p> ...adually diminishing. Even the fragmental existence of religious principles will be embarrassed by so many obstacles as if in the trembling condition of fal ...
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  • ...ir qualification of detachment to the material advancement of civilization will alone help them to advance in Krishna or God consciousness.</p> ...early pointed out by Lord Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita in every chapter that He can be achieved only by finally engaging directly in devotional service, or ...
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  • ...eme Lord, for the human form of life is meant for seeking that protection. He was warned of his precarious conditions more and more by the following word ...ual advancement of life. Unless one is sufficiently protected by the Lord, he may fall down from his spiritual position; therefore one has to pray consta ...
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  • ...is very transcendental existence is total bliss. He is eternally existent; He is all-cognizant and all-blissful. ...erything that is offered to Him in pure devotional service. It is not that He is in want for such things, because the things are themselves generated fro ...
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  • ...eking the opportunity to establish authority, and by the grace of the Lord he found a hole in the puffed-up, inexperienced son of a brāhmaṇa</div> ...and he had the audacity to punish such a great king as Mahārāja Parīkṣit. He wanted to take the place of Lord Kṛṣṇa after His departure. These are ...
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  • ...hey know... Tattva-darśī, one has seen or has realized the Absolute Truth, he knows that in the material world there cannot be any happiness. This conclu ...
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  • ...ass="heading">The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth. ...ice unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth." ([[Vanisource:BG 4.34 (1972)|BG 4.34]])</p> ...
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  • ...ete science of the Absolute Truth, namely Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. He thus knows his constitutional position perfectly well, without falsely tryi <div class="heading">He is not joyful in achieving something, nor does he lament in losing anything which is related to this body. This steadiness of ...
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  • ...a, the son of King Nābhi and Merudevī, was an incarnation of the Lord, and He instructed His sons to follow the path of perfection by tapasya, which sanc ...s verse, it is definitely assured that the Supreme Lord is not impersonal. He is a person, but His body is different from those of conditioned persons li ...
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  • ...has faith in the conviction that devotional service to Kṛṣṇa is very good, he has not yet gained adequate knowledge of Kṛṣṇa through the scriptures ...has faith in the conviction that devotional service to Kṛṣṇa is very good, he has not yet gained adequate knowledge of Kṛṣṇa through the scriptures ...
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  • ...an society gives itself to the process of hearing the Vedic literature, it will not become a victim to the impious sounds vibrated by impious men who degra ...nality of Godhead comes Himself or sends His bona fide representative, and He leaves behind scriptures like Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, so ...
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  • ...will be very, very nice, and everyone will live very peacefully and there will be no fight, no ism, no schism.</div> ...very peacefully and there will be no fight, no ism, no schism. Everything will be all right. That is the purpose of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Don't think ...
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  • ...lf smokes. Lord Caitanya said that a teacher should behave properly before he begins teaching. One who teaches in that way is called ācārya, or the ide ...proach a bona fide person who can teach you Kṛṣṇa consciousness." Then you will learn it.</div> ...
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  • ...one should take to the process of sanātana-dharma, or bhakti-yoga, so that he can put an end to this perpetual bondage in material bodies and return home ...busily engages in the so-called advancement of science, what benefit will he derive? If one is carried away by the waves of nature, what is the meaning ...
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  • ...out of them the empiric philosophers, and out of them the liberated souls. He said that there are only a few who are actually pure devotees of Lord Śrī ...
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  • ...one hundred percent Kṛṣṇa conscious is the bona fide spiritual master, for he can solve the problems of life. Lord Caitanya said that one who is master i ...is in the renounced order of life-if he is master in the science of Kṛṣṇa, he is the perfect and bona fide spiritual master" ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.12 ...
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  • ...son is never bewildered by mistaking the gross body for the soul, nor does he accept the body as permanent and disregard the existence of the soul. This ...ete science of the Absolute Truth, namely Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. He thus knows his constitutional position perfectly well, without falsely tryi ...
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  • ...sitions and so on. The materialists do not know that in the next life they will be degraded and that all their activities simply serve as parābhava, their ...ext"><p style="display: inline;">Everyone is under this contemplation that he is this body and his bodily interest is the prime interest. But nobody sees ...
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  • ...impious, unqualified men will claim a certain status in society, and that will make the social order perish.</div> ...d from Viṣṇu Purāṇa. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, "Oh, this is rejected." He immediately rejected. Now, so scientific institution of varṇāśrama-dhar ...
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  • ...g">Being envious of the scriptures and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he puts forward false arguments against the existence of God and denies the sc ...he has an enemy who might check the advancement of his sensual activities, he makes plans to cut him down by his own power.</div> ...
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  • ...f others' lives deserves to be killed for his own well-being, otherwise he will go down by his own actions.</p> ...the animal, he who administers distribution of the foodstuff, and at last he who eats such cooked animal food are all murderers, and all of them are lia ...
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  • ...ass="heading">The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth." Lord Brahmā is one of these self-realized authorities ...ice unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth." Lord Brahmā is one of these self-realized authorities ...
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  • ...ta Gosvāmī fulfilled all these qualifications as a disciple, and therefore he was endowed with all favors by his learned and self-realized spiritual mast ...ta Gosvāmī fulfilled all these qualifications as a disciple, and therefore he was endowed with all favors by his learned and self-realized spiritual mast ...
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  • ...isfaction. His criterion of success is the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa, and thus he is the perfect sannyāsī, or perfect yogī. ...isfaction. His criterion of success is the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa, and thus he is the perfect sannyāsī, or perfect yogī. Lord Caitanya, the highest per ...
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  • <div class="heading">Neither he who thinks the living entity the slayer nor he who thinks it slain is in knowledge, for the self slays not nor is slain.</ ...tion and Purport]]: Neither he who thinks the living entity the slayer nor he who thinks it slain is in knowledge, for the self slays not nor is slain.'' ...
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  • ...and kill the demigods. He prayed to Brahmā for such things, but ultimately he was killed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. To undergo penances for s ...
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  • ...ephemeral cosmic manifestation with it, and in the eternal kingdom of God he enjoys his eternal life of bliss and knowledge. ...s of bodily change. Whether he takes the form of a man, demigod or animal, he ultimately has to endure an unmanifested condition during the two devastati ...
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  • ...led practice of yogic postures can never help a man toward spiritual life. He must be trained in Kṛṣṇa consciousness by higher intelligence.</div> ...
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  • ...amonds. As soon as he saw the Supreme Personality of Godhead face to face, he immediately became conscious of the unimportance of his demand from the Lor ...l senses to gratify. So Kṛṣṇa is so pleased, so merciful, not pleased, but He's very merciful, "All right, this rascal wants like this. Give him this fac ...
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  • <div class="heading">Kṛṣṇa will now tell him about the working process in buddhi-yoga, or karma-yoga, or in ...o are always engaged in devotional service out of transcendental love does He award the pure knowledge of devotion in love. In that way the devotee can r ...
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  • ...ugh they may be very carefully maintained, no one can guarantee that there will be no danger even on the safest road. The sense enjoyment spirit has been c ...at means restriction. Goddess Kālī cannot be worshiped daily. So at least, he is forbidden to eat daily, meat. That is the idea. ...
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  • Prabhupāda: So for this age, when people are so much fallen, no other process will be successful. This process is the only process. It is very easy and sublim ...hman, he is liberated, his mind is peaceful, his passions are quieted, and he is freed from sin [Bg. 6.27]." Twenty-eight: "Steady in the Self, being fre ...
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  • ...in the mode of goodness is not so much affected by material miseries, and he has a sense of advancement in material knowledge. The representative type i ...el that he is advanced in knowledge and is better than others. In this way he becomes conditioned. The best examples are the scientist and the philosophe ...
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  • ...as soon as there is some opportunity for enjoyment, the serpentlike senses will certainly take advantage of it. There are many such instances in history, j ...ne forgets all such membership in material circumstances and realizes that he is an eternal servant of the Supreme Lord, that is actual forgetfulness of ...
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  • ...to work hard to acquire prestige and fortune. Thus in the mode of passion he experiences anxiety and struggle.'''</div> ...f the Bhagavata 1]]:''' Because of this quality, called tamas (ignorance), he considers himself different from the Absolute Whole and forgets his purity, ...
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  • A saintly person doesn't wish to speak to anyone and everyone, and he is therefore grave and silent. Generally a common man does not need to be a ...does not matter. If one is actually sincere in writing, all his ambitions will be fulfilled.</div> ...
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  • ...h Kṛṣṇa is certainly always in distress and is without peace, however much he may make a show of peace and spiritual advancement in life. Kṛṣṇa con ...ḥ and śambhuḥ. Śambhuḥ is also born of Brahmā. Śambhuḥ means Lord Śiva. So he is also one of the ācāryas.</div> ...
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  • ...ble conditions that affect his realization. And, in perfect determination, he should not hanker after unnecessary material things that entangle him by fe ...t a later stage of life as recommended by Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, and that will help one to achieve the desired success.</div> ...
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  • ...elfishly interested. Selfishness is either self-centered or self-extended. He was neither. His interest was to please the Supreme Truth, Personality of G ...ewildered conditioned soul hardly can know Him in His eternal form. By the will of the Lord, therefore, the impersonalist, even after knowing the Brahman a ...
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  • ...omplacent: "Oh, I am very..., I have advanced very much." Your advancement will be tested when you can meet opposing elements. Not that when the opposing e ...paraḥ, avyaktāt. Nārāyaṇa is transcendental to this cosmic manifestation. He's above. So the Māyāvādī philosopher, they think that "I have become no ...
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  • ...of the foolish fruitive worker who does not know for whom he should work. He does not know that karma (action) is meant for yajña (sacrifice). ...o hear of the sense-enjoyable tidings of the flickering mundane world, but will have very little time to hear about the eternal living force that moves the ...
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  • ...g entity is that he has to act according to the order of the Supreme Lord. He is meant for self-discipline.</div> ...s serving in this material world. He is bound by his lust and desires, yet he thinks of himself as the master of the world. This is called illusion.</div ...
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  • ...ms|"A Kṛṣṇa conscious person has no desire for any kind of self-enjoyment. He is always engaged for the enjoyment of the Supreme"}} ...me. A Kṛṣṇa conscious person has no desire for any kind of self-enjoyment. He is always engaged for the enjoyment of the Supreme. One who has no informat ...
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  • <div class="heading">Self-evident and self-sufficient, He is not caused by any superior cause. ...the evidence of experimental knowledge. Self-evident and self-sufficient, He is not caused by any superior cause. Let me offer my respectful obeisances ...
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  • ...conscious becomes self-illuminated by the grace of the Lord, and therefore he no longer has any obligations to the Vedic injunctions. ...duty thus becomes self-illuminated by the grace of the Lord, and therefore he no longer has any obligations to the Vedic injunctions. Such a Kṛṣṇa ...
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  • ...ete science of the Absolute Truth, namely Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān. He thus knows his constitutional position perfectly well, without falsely tryi ...ered by the influence of eternal time and thus nothing is hidden from Him. He is eternally self-intelligent. Therefore His calling for Uddhava to give Hi ...
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  • ...inline;">Arjuna is showing ignorance of his real self-interest by Kṛṣṇa's will. One's real self-interest lies in Viṣṇu, or Kṛṣṇa. The conditione ...isfaction. His criterion of success is the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa, and thus he is the perfect sannyāsī, or perfect yogī.</p> ...
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  • ...ide spiritual master is in the disciplic succession from time eternal, and he does not deviate at all from the instructions of the Supreme Lord as they w ...ay: inline;">Mahārāja Vena did not adhere to this principle of ruling, and he disobeyed the learned brāhmaṇas. The broad-minded brāhmaṇas were not ...
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  • ...una stood up on the chariot, but he was so afflicted with lamentation that he sat down again, setting aside his bow and arrows. Such a kind and soft-hear ...the next verse. The Lord has confirmed herein the superiority of yoga, but He has not mentioned that it is better than bhakti-yoga. Bhakti-yoga is full s ...
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  • ...d rise during the brāhma-muhūrta period and touch water. With a clear mind He would then meditate upon Himself, the single, self-luminous, unequaled and ...and devoid of material qualities. But through the agency of the very modes He has created, the one Supreme Truth manifests as many among the expansions o ...
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  • ...e Lord only in the matter of His internal potencies, but also explains how He associates with His external potencies.</p> ...e gratification. Whatever he earns, whatever he eats and whatever he does, he offers for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p> ...
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  • ...use he remains satisfied in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, he can remain steady, like the ocean, and therefore enjoy full peace.</div> ...n the service of the Lord, and he has no desires to be fulfilled. In fact, he does not even desire liberation from the so-called material bondage. The de ...
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  • <div class="heading">Śukrācārya, was the spiritual master of the demons; he was an extremely intelligent and far-seeing politician. Thus Śukrācārya ...mong the kavis, Uśanā, Śukrācārya, was the spiritual master of the demons; he was an extremely intelligent and far-seeing politician. Thus Śukrācārya ...
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  • ...t of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is that one becomes increasingly enlightened, and he enjoys life with a thrill, not only for some time, but at every moment.</p> ...ys continuously he heard Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from the right source, and thus he got shelter at the lotus feet of the Lord by that opportunity.</p> ...
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  • ...ndful so that the creeper which has so grown will not be cut off.Therefore he should be mindful of the following considerations: ...ery careful to uproot the different weeds in the very beginning. Only then will the healthy growth of the main creeper not be stunted. ...
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  • ...stage [SB 4.30.20]. When one is free from the material conception of life, he becomes peaceful and cannot be agitated. This is described in Bhagavad-gīt ...pontaneous love will be agreeable to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and the Lord will ask him more and more about this subject.</div> ...
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  • ...ut because He was playing the role of ācārya (one who teaches by example), He accepted a spiritual master</div> ...that the Lord takes a spiritual master because He is in want of knowledge. He is simply stressing the importance of accepting the disciplic succession. T ...
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  • ...r, present himself as a royal authority empowered to command everyone, for he wanted to present his statement in humble submission before the assembly of ...hu Mahārāja was above all these, still, like an ordinary conditioned soul, he presented his statements to the great souls, sages and saintly persons pres ...
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  • ...royal duties on behalf of the Lord, and as a responsible king of the world he was always careful to see that the influence of Kali would not enter his ki ...royal duties on behalf of the Lord, and as a responsible king of the world he was always careful to see that the influence of Kali would not enter his ki ...
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  • ...nality cannot be the object of envy, so Vidura, in astonishment, asked why he was taken as such, especially by Dakṣa.</p> ...Lord Advaita. Similarly, Lord Śiva has a sampradāya, the Rudra-sampradāya. He is always thinking about the deliverance of the fallen souls, as exhibited ...
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  • ...ly forgot to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead. After a few days, he forgot everything about his spiritual advancement.''' ...egularly chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. If we neglect doing this, we will eventually fall down. We must rise early in the morning, bathe, attend mang ...
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  • ...understands the Personality of Godhead, the reservoir of pleasure, Kṛṣṇa, he actually becomes transcendentally blissful." (Taittirīya Upaniṣad 2.7.1) ...wards them all sorts of material happiness, more than they can desire, but He is not satisfied with them because they are not pure devotees. The Lord doe ...
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  • <div class="heading">In Kali-yuga the citizens will be free to act as they like, without respect for sādhu, śāstra and guru. ...adually diminishing. Even the fragmental existence of religious principles will be embarrassed by so many obstacles as if in the trembling condition of fal ...
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  • ...study the history of Kṛṣṇa's life, we shall find that for most of His life He predominantly engaged in killing demons one after another.</p> <div class="heading">Sādhu, from his side, he has no enemy. He is friend of everyone, always peaceful. These are the qualities of sādhu, ...
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  • ...service, if one simply has unflinching faith in Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Person, he is understood to be a sādhu. Sādhur eva sa mantavyaḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 9 ...become pure Vaiṣṇavas, so that by their mercy all the people of the world will be transferred to Vaikuṇṭhaloka, even without their knowledge.</p> ...
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  • ...ns. Why was Dhṛtarāṣṭra living there at the house of the Pāṇḍavas? Because he wanted to continue his life comfortably, even at the risk of all humiliatio ...
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  • ...d the opulence of the demigods, and after enjoying such material opulence, he is given the chance to revive his Kṛṣṇa consciousness ...d to enjoy his material opulences and his wife, kingdom and sons; instead, he wanted to renounce them all. Therefore, after having described the material ...
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  • ...but on the contrary revived his consciousness of the songs of the Lord, as He sang them personally.</div> ...but on the contrary revived his consciousness of the songs of the Lord, as He sang them personally. This revival of consciousness is assured by the Lord ...
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  • ...attitude towards his insulting stepmother, did not think of mukti, nor did he know what mukti was.</div> ...w the Supreme Personality of Godhead present personally before him because he was elevated to the vasudeva platform. The vasudeva platform refers to the ...
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  • ...in the mode of goodness is not so much affected by material miseries, and he has a sense of advancement in material knowledge. The representative type i ...in the mode of goodness is not so much affected by material miseries, and he has a sense of advancement in material knowledge. The representative type i ...
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  • ...bers of the family. By being engaged in various religious practices, women will not be misled into adultery.</p> ...ing">Yoga means what is required by him, and kṣemam means what he has got, he requires to be protected. ...
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  • ...the student who took lessons from Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, accepts everything that He says without contradicting Him. One is not allowed to accept one portion of ...be in some relation with the Supreme. When he acts in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is actually in his constitutional position. In the first process, Sāṅkhy ...
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  • ...Absolute Truth, and that sort of engagement will make one happy because he will be less engaged in varieties of sense gratification. And what that Absolute ...
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  • ...ce by giving the greatest respect to the spiritual master and the acaryas. He should be compassionate to the poor and make friendship with persons who ar ...ness. A man may be very rich materially, but if he is not Krsna conscious, he is considered poor. On the other hand, many acaryas, such as Rupa Gosvami a ...
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  • ...tful of Him. When the devotee is further advanced, he has nothing to fear. He considers the Lord and himself on an equal level. At such a time, the devot ...e, Patrī bowed down before his master, and with great respect and control, he stifled his smiling. This subdued smiling is an instance of concealment cau ...
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  • ...babhūva ha, He became satisfied: "There is My real representative, and he will work nicely."</p> ...nment as representative of Kṛṣṇa, they will be blessed by Kṛṣṇa, and Kṛṣṇa will be pleased. So at the present moment, the so-called democracy,... Nobody is ...
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  • ...s to tolerate different types of onslaughts from the very persons for whom he works.</div> ...ind. He will be munificent like the lord of the Kailāsa Hill, Śiva. And he will be the resort of everyone, like the Supreme Personality of Godhead Nārāya ...
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  • ...to animal protection. The productive energy of the laborer is misused when he is occupied by industrial enterprises. Industry of various types cannot pro ...s="text">'''[[Vanisource:SB 6.4.12|SB 6.4.12, Purport]]:''' By the supreme will of the Personality of Godhead, there are various protectors and maintainers ...
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  • ...ully in harer nāmānukīrtanam—chanting and hearing the glories of the Lord. He restrains himself from the vibrations of material sounds, and his hearing i ...service one can go above Brahmaloka, or to the spiritual world, wherefrom he never comes back. Māyāvādī sannyāsīs are very proud of becoming liber ...
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  • ...ecution of devotional service"|"result of such devotional service"|"result will be that our devotional service"|"result, namely, the development of devotio ...is is a result of performing devotional service by hearing, chanting, etc. He is the cause of the extension of the material world.</p> ...
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  • ...ality of Godhead is already liberated from material bondage, and therefore he returns to the kingdom of God immediately after quitting this present mater ...ality of Godhead is already liberated from material bondage, and therefore he returns to the kingdom of God immediately after quitting this present mater ...
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  • ...all-powerful, and if He is satisfied by our obedience unto His lotus feet, He is competent to bestow upon us all kinds of blessings for the successful ex Prabhupāda: That's all right. But if it is accepted by the great ācāryas that He's God then there is no doubt. If Kṛṣṇa is accepted God, by all the ā ...
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  • ...ghly elevated, one who is proud of possessing them becomes blind, and thus he loses his good sense and cannot appreciate the glories of great personaliti ...ghly elevated, one who is proud of possessing them becomes blind, and thus he loses his good sense and cannot appreciate the glories of great personaliti ...
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  • ...bda (A.D. 1511) during the Cāturmāsya period, and it was at that time that He met Prabodhānanda, who belonged to the Rāmānuja-sampradāya. How then co ...istant, not to allow Kamalākānta Viśvāsa to come into His presence because he had become a bāuliyā. Thus although the bāula-sampradāya, āula-samprad ...
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  • ...concerned, it is enjoined in the śāstras that intelligent men in this age will take to the saṅkīrtana movement, and by so doing they shall worship the ...e of this great sacrifice and join in the Society's activities; then there will be no scarcity.</p> ...
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  • ...he author briefly recounts Lord Caitanya's divine birth and His life until He accepted the renounced order. This account includes His childhood miracles, ...he Upaniṣads, He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa Himself, and He is worshipable by everyone in this age of disagreement. Everyone can join i ...
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  • ...existence, which is filled with the waves of blazing, firelike dangers. It will be very easy for me, for I am becoming mad to hear about Your transcendenta ...port text"><p>The significant point in Dhruva Mahārāja's statement is that he wanted the association of pure devotees. Transcendental devotional service ...
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  • ...as old mother, had no one else to look after them. Yet for a higher cause He took sannyāsa and was steady in the discharge of higher duties. That is th ...the injunctions for purification in the śāstras, what does it avail him if he is not Kṛṣṇa conscious?" So the purificatory process is necessary for ...
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  • ...the only male in the family. Although He was a brāhmaṇa and was not rich, He took sannyāsa, the renounced order of life, and thus extricated Himself fr ...
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  • ...m that "You give Me sannyāsa." So He took sannyāsa from Keśava Bhāratī and He was assisted by Nityānanda, Murāri Gupta, and some other people. So this <p>Hayagrīva: How does He, How does He accept sannyāsī? I mean how does He...?</p> ...
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  • ...m. What is the qualification that Bhagavad-gītā was taught to him? Because he was devotee.</p> ...pare even a portion of land holding the sūcyagra, the point of a needle... he refused that "I cannot spare even so much land which can hold the point of ...
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  • ...><p style="display: inline;">When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu visited Varanasi He was invited to a philosophical discourse by the Prakashananda Sarasvati a g ...e;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The general programme of work will be as mentioned above in terms of medical treatment by the Sankirtana movem ...
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  • ...things and amass money from the innocent public. A sannyāsī is proud that he is always thinking of Kṛṣṇa within himself. Of course, there are two ...nsciousness, but if, by the grace of Kṛṣṇa, facilities are available, then he may construct temples and monasteries to give shelter to the serious studen ...
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  • ...ties meant for making a person progress in spiritual understanding so that he can get liberated from the material world. ...in the darkest regions of a forest I shall be accompanied by Kṛṣṇa, and He will give me all protection." That conviction is called abhayam, fearlessness. T ...
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  • ...to reinstate Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu into the Sarasvatī sampradāya because he did not like the Lord’s belonging to the Bhāratī sampradāya or Purī s ...e Lord’s belonging to the Bhāratī sampradāya or Purī sampradāya. Actually, he did not know the position of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. As the Supreme Pers ...
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  • ...ng, the Paramātmā, from within you, He'll speak, "Yes, now you are right." He'll speak to you.</div> ...ples of scripture. Nobody can be accepted as guru, or spiritual master, if he does not follow the principles of scripture. This is the test.</div> ...
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  • ...">When his mind, thus purified, finds satisfaction in the self alone, then he is said to be in pure transcendental consciousness</div> ...d when his mind, thus purified, finds satisfaction in the self alone, then he is said to be in pure transcendental consciousness.''' ...
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  • ...andidate does not shave for four months during the year (July to October), he does not eat certain foods, does not eat twice in a day or does not leave h ...hat above the individual soul there is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the twenty-sixth element.</p> ...
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  • ...ofessor of many sannyāsīs in the order of the Śaṅkarācārya-sampradāya, and he himself also belonged to that cult. As such, the Bhaṭṭācārya desired ...the text of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. One who has no knowledge of the Bhāgavatam will hardly be able to know what the Vedānta says.</p> ...
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  • ...ārya had to make some compromise with the Buddhist philosophy, and as such he preached the philosophy of monism, for it was required at that time. Otherw ...
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  • ...a, but when he wanted to see the Lord, the Lord refused to see him because he was a king. For a devotee who desires to go back to Godhead, two things are ...vised here by Lord Manu that he is a pure servitor of the Lord. Why should he unnecessarily engage, like the animals, in the bodily concept of life? An a ...
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  • ...ped the Supreme Personality of Godhead in that sacrifice. O King, although he had committed a gravely sinful act, it was nullified at once by that sacrif ...rāja, however, since he was not a common, ordinary man, whatever questions he posed would have to be answered, even by a great and exalted personality. T ...
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  • ...odhead under the direction of a bona fide spiritual master, then gradually he rises to the platform of serving in pure love of God."</div> ...ities, a human being does not fully utilize his life for self-realization, he must be considered ātma-hā, a killer of the soul. Śrī Īśopaniṣad wa ...
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  • ...If He is so accepted, Nityānanda Prabhu belonged to the Madhva-sampradāya. He did not belong to the tāntrika-sampradāya of Bengal.</div> ...
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  • ...e after death, decides the living entities' destinies in their next lives. He is surely among the most confidential representatives of the Lord. Such con ...Bhagavad-gītā the Lord says that whenever one sees an extraordinary power, he should conclude that a specific partial representation of the Supreme Perso ...
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  • ...ritual master is not very difficult. Any ordinary man can become, provided he becomes a pure servant, delivering the letter. "Here is Kṛṣṇa's messa ...rrender unto Caitanya Mahāprabhu. That is the beginning of spiritual life. He's a learned man, highly learned man in Sanskrit and Arabian language.</div> ...
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  • ...e habits did not deteriorate his high intelligence and dignity and as such he had compiled many useful literatures which are still read by millions for s ...e habits did not deteriorate his high intelligence and dignity and as such he had compiled many useful literatures which are still read by millions for s ...
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  • ...e. So that is required. You have to make your senses purified; then bhakti will begin. Otherwise, if your senses are not purified, then it is karma.</div> ...Him. Therefore qualification required. Premāñjana-cchurita. When your eyes will be annointed with, what is called? ...
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  • ...at the living entity (jīva) is eternally the servitor of the Lord and that he is simultaneously one with and different from the Lord. This tattva of Lord ...s one accepts a mantra from one of these sampradāyas, the so-called mantra will not act in Kali-yuga. ...
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  • ...uated beyond this material world, and it is especially meant for those who will never be reborn. Others, who are attached to family life and who do not str .... And in this age, because everyone is after employment—without employment he cannot survive—therefore it is said, kalau śūdra sambhava. In the Kali- ...
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  • ...nnot be limited by any boundaries. Those belonging to some sectarian faith will wrongly consider that sanātana-dharma is also sectarian, but if we go deep ...ity is never born and he never dies. He is eternal and indestructible, and he continues to live after the destruction of his temporary material body. In ...
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  • ...other words, a devotee does not much care whether or not he is liberated; he is eager only for devotional service. Devotional service means that one doe ...
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  • ...lives with the jīva soul as witness and sanction-giver. He is also bhoktā; He gives maintenance and sustenance to the conditioned soul.</div> ...
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  • ...do anything which is not conducive to development of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. He may even act exactly like the ignorant person, who is too much attached to ...e has seen that all these things has not given him any peace of mind, then he wants to become out of this scene and become one with the Supreme.</div> ...
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  • ...to dovetail themselves into engagements of transcendental loving service. He is Kṛṣṇa teaching His own service from the position of a devotee. The ...
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  • ...res in different Universities and Colleges, so that after reaching there I will find all the engagements there.</p> ...of June, but I understand you are coming back to L.A. by that time. So we will think over the matter later on. But I shall be glad to know when the exact ...
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  • ...hat above the individual soul there is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the twenty-sixth element. Thus gradually they also come to the standard ...ition, but he is not actually perfect in Brahman realization. If he wants, he can continue to stay in the Brahman position and then gradually rise up to ...
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  • ...ess one is situated on the transcendental platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he cannot get free from the influence of the modes of material nature. ...be very learned, but because of his long association with material nature, he is in bondage. Kṛṣṇa consciousness helps one to get out of the materi ...
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  • ...lthough he was born in the royal household, is another sign of detachment. He was truly virtuous, as these qualities, combined with his faith in the word ...only does one become happy and opulent in this life, but also, at the end, he enters into the eternal kingdom of God, either merging into the impersonal ...
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  • ...s that he is no longer interested in any sort of materially elevated life. He does not even aspire to become a personality like Lord Brahmā.</div> ...educational system in the human form of life should be so perfect that one will understand his intimate relationship with God, or Viṣṇu. Every living e ...
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  • <div class="heading">If one chants the holy name of the Lord purely, he attains the platform of loving service to the Supreme Personality of Godhea ...the holy name of the Lord. If one chants the holy name of the Lord purely, he attains the platform of loving service to the Supreme Personality of Godhea ...
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  • ...he part of an ācārya, the Lord considered Himself an ordinary human being. He also wanted to give instructions to ordinary human beings</div> ...s. The point is that even though one plays the part of a spiritual master, he should not accept obeisances or permit a disciple to wash his feet before t ...
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  • ...ly by his satisfaction can one please the Personality of Godhead, and when he is dissatisfied there is only havoc on the path of spiritual realization."< ...odhead, but if one displeases the spiritual master one does not know where he is going.</p> ...
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  • ...s="q_heading">'''Maitreya Muni was greatly attached to Him [the Lord], and he was listening in a pleasing attitude, with his shoulder lowered. '''</span> ...n and Purport]]: Maitreya Muni was greatly attached to Him [the Lord], and he was listening in a pleasing attitude, with his shoulder lowered. With a smi ...
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  • ...duty thus becomes self-illuminated by the grace of the Lord, and therefore he no longer has any obligations to the Vedic injunctions. Such a Kṛṣṇa ...iving beings and be a peaceful, unalloyed devotee of Nārāyaṇa. In this way he should move from one place to another.</div> ...
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  • ...explained by Kapila Muni, does not aspire for any of the five liberations. He especially despises as hellish the idea of becoming one with the Supreme Pe ...ome to the path of devotional service to attain the highest perfection, or will be able to do so only after a very long time. ...
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  • ...s Himself in the Bhagavad-gītā, the most authentic scripture in the world. He is further explained in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which is considered the expla ...
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  • ...itical institution of the state, but I do not wish to die. Death comes and he takes away everything, my political position, my wealth, my everything, fam ...itical institution of the state, but I do not wish to die. Death comes and he takes away everything, my political position, my wealth, my everything, fam ...
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  • ...ant—ye yathā māṁ prapadyante ([[Vanisource:BG 4.11 (1972)|BG 4.11]])—Kṛṣṇa will give you.</p> ...s. He came to install Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, Dharmarāja, on the throne, and He wanted to kill the adharma, Duryodhana and company. That was his business. ...
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  • ...ave to follow. In the beginning we have no love for Kṛṣṇa, so this process will help how to invoke his love for Kṛṣṇa. This is standard process.</p> ...Just like a child. You are planning to kill her or kill him, he is happy, he's laughing, because innocent. That is ignorance.</p> ...
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  • ...sessions he has already, such as land, family, house and bank balance, and he is always planning to improve them. ...past good deeds. He is given an opportunity to accumulate such things, but he has no conception of past causes.</p> ...
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  • ...explained by Him that the puruṣa, or the Supreme Lord, is active and that He creates by looking over the prakṛti. This is accepted in the Vedas and in ...equate the Pañcarātras with the philosophy of the atheist Kapila, and thus he has tried to prove that the Pañcarātras contradict the Vedic injunctions. ...
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  • ...th an ulterior purpose, to get material benefit or personal gratification, will never be able to grasp the philosophy of this movement.</div> ...th an ulterior purpose, to get material benefit or personal gratification, will never be able to grasp the philosophy of this movement.</div> ...
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  • ...uman being; nonetheless, He presents Himself as being hungry, and as such, He can eat everything and anything, regardless of quantity. The philosophy und ...red the food acquires a transcendental quality. Because the Lord is pūrṇa, He remains the same even after eating. Pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam ...
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  • ...has no knowledge that "This boy is being trained up in higher science. Why he should be disturbed?" But they have no idea. Therefore imperfect. The intel ...ic advancement, if he does not know how to organize society, he is a fool. He's a fool.</div> ...
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  • ...e planet, Kṛṣṇaloka, or any of the other planets within the spiritual sky, will not meet with these material inconveniences. Amongst all of the planets in ...Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, he certainly reaches one of the spiritual planets, according to the mode of hi ...
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  • ...e going to attend a very important meeting of the planning commission, and he had to surrender his life, wife, children, house, land, wealth, etc. ...e going to attend a very important meeting of the planning commission, and he had to surrender his life, wife, children, house, land, wealth, etc. During ...
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  • ...Therefore they are compared to the camel who relishes thorny twigs because he likes the taste of the twigs mixed with blood.</p> ...where he has exploited the resources of nature to the best of his ability. He wants to go to the moon or the planet Venus to exploit resources there. But ...
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  • ...nt, and in the future his going back home, back to Godhead, is guaranteed. He is above all materialistic criticism, just as Kṛṣṇa is above all crit ...alified to enter the Vaikuṇṭhalokas, and if anyone follows such a devotee, he also enters into Vaikuṇṭhaloka. Others, who engage in envious activitie ...
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  • ...e, free from all material contamination. Once one becomes a pure Vaiṣṇava, he transcends all material conceptions of life.</p> ..."heading">So Akrūra understood that Dhṛtarāṣṭra was planning something. So he talked with him that "Why you are implicated in such planning? Kṛṣṇa ...
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  • ...rguing that a materialistic man can be happy. No materialistic creature—be he the great Brahmā or an insignificant ant—can be happy. Everyone tries to ...is a great barrier for spiritual advancement because the people in general will not agree to renounce material activities which hold them in material bonda ...
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  • ...ice house, and if you know that next day you'll be kicked out, you'll die, will you do that? But it is a fact. Next day or two days after, you'll die.</p> ...s. Everyone should be eager how to do good to others. That is Vaiṣṇava. If he's planning something, that "I shall be leader," "I shall be doing something ...
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  • <div class="heading">The first symptom of a self-realized soul is that he does not make any plan for his prosperity. ...or. Then he will learn. And when he's accustomed, when he's elevated, then he'll be able to make independent plans. Although not independent always, but ...
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  • ...sness. Wherever you may remain please do not forget Krishna Kirtana and it will do good to you and your friends.</p> ...ing for confirmation of this invitation and just as soon as I hear word, I will let you now so you may make your arrangements. I have included a copy of my ...
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  • ...presence of the Lord's unalloyed devotees. If anyone visits a holy place, he must search out the pure devotees residing in such holy places, take lesson ...erious devotional service with detachment. Thus his mind and consciousness will be under full control.''' ...
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  • <div class="heading">If a living entity has polluted intelligence, he prolongs his materialistic life.</div> ...distress. If one performs fruitive activities under such conditions, what will be the benefit?''' ...
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  • ...It will be freed from absorption in material contamination. The pure soul will be able to return home, back to Godhead.</div> ...xt">'''[[Vanisource:SB 2.9.35|SB 2.9.35, Purport]]:''' Therefore, although He is present in every atom, the Supreme Personality of Godhead may not be vis ...
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  • ...ess one practices devotional service to the Lord, one cannot know Kṛṣṇa as He is (tattvataḥ), even though one is a great scholar or philosopher. ...ast word in Brahman realization, and the devotees alone can realize Him as He is.</p> ...
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  • ...d protection"|"pray to Krsna to protect"|"pray to Lord Sri Krishna that he will protect"|"pray to the Holy Name to give us protection"|"pray to the Lord to ...adeva. Disappointed, Urvaśī cursed Arjuna and left. In the heavenly planet he also met the great celebrated ascetic Lomasa and prayed to him for the prot ...
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  • ...ed yoga. So if you can attract all the westerners in India in that way, it will be a great service, and I am repeatedly requesting you to take up this matt ...evelop into a students home, preaching our philosophy to the residents, it will be a great service.</div> ...
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  • ...are executed in an offenseless manner, it is certain that the participants will gradually attain spiritual perfection without having to undergo more rigoro ...t"><p style="display: inline;">When the Lord was on the lap of His mother, He would at once stop crying as soon as the ladies surrounding Him chanted the ...
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  • ...tanam, etc.). If one can successfully execute the preliminary seven items, he can in the future be situated on the platform of sakhyam ātma-nivedanam.</ ...evotional service in other parts of the world, people throughout the world will actually benefit. ...
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  • ...hearing because if the common man simply hears from authoritative sources he can progress. ...tative sources he can progress, especially, according to Lord Caitanya, if he hears the transcendental vibration Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛ ...
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  • ...y is killed, that's all." This is sādhu. Titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ. In one side he is tolerant, and other side, merciful.</p> ...ive it. That doesn't matter. Their duty is to preach. The fortunate person will be attracted, unfortunate may not be attracted, but they have to do the dut ...
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  • ...ational consciousness. Similarly, when one is mature in knowledge of self, he must knows what is the duty of the self. The impersonalist due to poor fund ...tated in the spiritual nirguna activities. When one can understand nirguna he can understand nirakara, also. This akar or form of material existence is t ...
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  • ...l down into material nature. God has no such tendency. Being all-powerful, He never comes under the control of material nature. Indeed, material nature i ...l beneath the clouds. Because the Supreme Lord is not subject to illusion, He is unconditioned; because we, as finite living entities, are prone to fall ...
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  • ...residence for more than half an hour (at the time of milking the cow), and he would just take alms from the fortunate householder. That was to sanctify t ...Because His mission is to propagate this Vedic culture all over the world. He's not confined within some limited area. Pṛthivīte āche yata nagarādi ...
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  • <div class="heading">Anyone, regardless of what he is, who is well versed in the science of Kṛṣṇa (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ...vad-gītā. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said that anyone, regardless of what he is, who is well versed in the science of Kṛṣṇa (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam ...
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  • ...n the society of Vaiṣṇavas [Cc. Madhya 13.80]. However, if one thinks that he has become very mature and can live separate from the association of Vaiṣ ...footsteps of the predecessor ācāryas who understand things. Then our life will be successful. We'll understand.</div> ...
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  • ...gages himself in helping the missionary activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he gradually feels spiritual progress. This advancement in spiritual life does ..., Nārada also became engaged, and sometimes, in the absence of his mother, he would serve the great devotees himself.</p> ...
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  • ...s or blessings upon the subordinates; the devotee of the Lord, even though he may not be a brāhmaṇa, is more powerful than a brāhmaṇa. But a powerf ...Not only was Śukadeva Gosvāmī vastly learned in the Vedic literatures, but he was also a great self-realized soul and a powerful devotee of the Lord. A p ...
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  • <div class="heading">Having been too much addicted to sex, he became very poor in intelligence and lost all his opulence.</div> ...n intelligence and lost all his opulence. Being bereft of all possessions, he was conquered forcibly by the Gandharvas and the Yavanas.''' ...
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  • ...s principles, the Vedas, has personally pointed out these differences, and He is about to explain the reason for this in the following ślokas.</p> ...āmā failed to discharge the duties of a brāhmaṇa or teacher, and therefore he was liable to be rejected from the exalted position of a brāhmaṇa. ...
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  • ...s of the surrender of the living entity, and in the case of a pure devotee He directly controls the senses. Here on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra the L ...tee, hear from him about self-realization and follow in his footsteps, one will be gradually elevated to the position of a pure devotee</div> ...
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  • ...principles should be given more importance than politics or sociology, but he did not know that knowledge of matter, soul and the Supreme is even more im ...gṛhastha, governor, and according to our social custom, karaṇa, śūdra. So he was hesitant.</div> ...
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  • ...ll Vedic knowledge. Acknowledging the benediction offered to him by Kṛṣṇa, he became the original spiritual master of all living entities.</div> ...d formalities but does not become elevated to the position of love of God, he is considered to be a chained animal</div> ...
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  • ...le in pursuance of the Vedic usages, and by His transcendental association He elevated many lowborn, or those disqualified by birth or action, to the sta ...nt in the order of society, if he is conversant with the science of Krsna, he can be accepted as an acarya or guru, a spiritual master.</div> ...
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  • ...la was fully satisfied and unattached to the world. He was equipoised, for he could see everything resting in the Supersoul and the Supersoul present in ...scrimination based on the different material forms of the living entities. He sees everyone as part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The ...
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  • ...i Maitreya and was thoroughly educated by him in transcendental knowledge, he was quite competent to occupy the post of an ācārya, or spiritual precept ...conversant in the transcendental knowledge, or the science of Godhead, be he a brahmana or a sudra, a householder or a sannyasi, is eligible to become a ...
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  • ...He is omnipotent, and He is the supreme performer of everything. Therefore He is worshipable by everyone. Unto that Supreme Person do I offer my respectf ...
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  • ...at's all. I cannot. But somebody may come—he's more powerful in arguments. He can defeat you. So don't depend on your speculative function or arguments. ...eading">The original and source of everything, He has His brain. He knows. He has the power of knowledge.</div> ...
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  • ...s you have opined and if in this old age we can do something combinedly it will be a great triumph. I thank you very much once more.</div> ...
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  • ...faultless and powerful brāhmaṇa was heinous and uncivilized. Consequently he was distressed.''' ...owerful brāhmaṇa was certainly to be punished by the laws of the Lord, and he was expecting something very difficult in the very near future.</div> ...
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  • ...nation and killing in a great fight a demon of unprecedented prowess as if he were just a plaything. This has been narrated by me as I heard it from my p ...ation, but explained whatever he had heard from his spiritual master. Thus he accepted as bona fide the system of paramparā, or receiving the transcende ...
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  • ...The living entities are described as parts and parcels of the Lord because He is the life and soul of all living entities, being situated within their he ...The living entities are described as parts and parcels of the Lord because He is the life and soul of all living entities, being situated within their he ...
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  • Any business you give to Vaiṣṇava, he will be able to do it very nicely. There are twenty-six qualifications. So we ha .... Dakṣa means very expert. Any . . . any business you give to Vaiṣṇava, he will be able to do it very nicely. There are twenty-six qualifications. So we ha ...
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  • ...be happy. And if you take to other demigods, those who are material, that will not be your perfect happiness or permanent happiness. ...
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  • ...he seventh of the twelve gopālas, was very liberal. In great love of Kṛṣṇa he danced to the beating of a kettledrum like a madman.</p> ...
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  • ...ned to this position of questioning his suffering, unless he realizes that he doesn't want suffering but rather wants to make a solution to all suffering ...sā. Every activity of the human being is to be considered a failure unless he inquires about the nature of the Absolute. Therefore those who begin to que ...
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  • ...age himself in this type of meditation or in the mystic yoga system, which will help him not only to see the Lord within constantly but to see Him face to ...m) the transcendental messages of the Lord through the mouths of devotees, he gradually conquers the unconquerable God. ...
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  • ...s and turns his intelligence to inquiring about it from the right sources, he gets information of the transcendental loving service of the Lord. Instead ...Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, if one compares saṅkīrtana-yajña to other yajñas, he is a pāṣaṇḍī, an infidel, and is liable to be punished by Yamarāja ...
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  • ...he all-pervading Viṣṇu. He is all-perfect knowledge and all-perfect bliss. He is the Supreme Transcendence.'''</div> ...ls and ceremonies, he is simply wasting his time (śrama eva hi kevalam) if he does not attain this perfection.</div> ...
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  • ...challenge the authority of the Supreme and know Him also at the same time. He reserves the right of not being exposed to such a challenging spirit of an ...parā system. Pṛthu Mahārāja was completely trained in that line; therefore he did not deserve to be considered an ordinary man. An ordinary man, who has ...
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  • ..., and 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 verd ...Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who is the collective Paramātmā of all living beings. He is called Hari, and from Him all incarnations within the universe are expan ...
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  • ...name must be heard, glorified and remembered everywhere in the world. That will bring about the desired peace and prosperity so eagerly awaited by the peop ...he tongue, which is given to the human being for chanting the Vedic hymns, will be considered a prostitute when engaged in chanting some mundane nonsense.< ...
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  • ...vad-gītā will come from the mouth of Śrī Kṛṣṇa? And because he is devotee, he is perfectly playing in such a way that Kṛṣṇa is giving instruction. ...(2): If I am the student, I am going to the class, and I want to know that he's the principal teacher or not? ...
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  • ...<p style="display: inline;">A strong faith that by Kṛṣṇa consciousness one will be elevated to the highest perfection of life is called vyavasāyātmikā i ...ons from past good or bad deeds. When one is awake in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he need no longer endeavor for good results in his activities. When one is sit ...
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  • ...n travel all over the universe and show wonderful feats like Kardama Muni, he cannot be compared to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose power and i ...ot follow the brahminical culture, he is simply a burden on the state, for he cannot benefit the citizens. Mahārāja Pṛthu is the perfect example of a ...
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  • ...goodness, the brahminical stage. Then our life, our evolutionary process, will be successful. Tamasas tu rajas tasmāt sattvaṁ yad brahma-darśanam. Gra ...and. We cannot get full information. But if we take Kṛṣṇa's instruction... He's giving personally the instruction in the Bhagavad-gītā. If we take care ...
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  • ...and spirit, can leave the gross dress of the soul in perfect order and as he desires. By the grace of God, we have complete freedom. Because the Lord is ...e's law. That is... A tiger is made by nature's law in that way; therefore he can do that. You cannot do it. Your nature is different. You have got discr ...
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  • ...rvitor of the Lord, Brahmā creates all these as a matter of necessity, but he is not happy in doing so because a devotee of the Lord naturally does not l ...fore he purified himself by meditation on the Personality of Godhead. Then he began another term of creation.''' ...
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  • ...ural reception to these messages, and what to speak of surrendering to the will of the Supreme Lord? Narādhamas, or the lowest of mankind, willfully negle ...o need of austerity in life, that one can go on speculating and everything will be nice, is recommended neither in the Vedic literature nor in Bhagavad-gī ...
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  • ...eath 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 ac ...is at the same time executing devotional service is very dear to the Lord. He who is situated in pure knowledge of the transcendence of the Supreme Perso ...
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  • ...stronger, and even though the senses are very strong, like serpents, they will be no more effective than serpents with broken fangs. But even though the s ...ike fruitive workers, who are always prone to degradation. But even though he falls down, a devotee is never to be considered the same as a fallen karmī ...
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  • <div class="heading">A sādhu has no enemies, he is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime. ...ul and friendly to all living entities. He has no enemies, he is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime."</p> ...
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  • ...A sannyāsī should have an institution meant to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness; he need not accumulate money for himself. We recommend that as soon as money a ...ment should be extremely cautious in regard to this point. Otherwise money will be the cause of lamentation, illusion, fear, anger, material attachment, ma ...
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  • ...self-realized does not recommend the worship of anyone but the Supersoul. He knows that to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead is easier than to ...The idea is that a spiritual master must be a qualified brāhmaṇa; that is, he must be qualified by his activities.</div> ...
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  • ...least exaggeration but actual fact and to become a member for this mission will to your own interest. ...least exaggeration but actual fact and to become a member for this mission will to your own interest. And help others also who may be known to you.</p> ...
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  • ...erefore the Lord says that for anyone who is unflinchingly devoted to Him, He is easy to attain.</p> ...Kṛṣṇa consciousness knows that although Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality, He is all-pervading ...
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  • ...was on this planet, He set a practical example. He was a cowherd boy, and He was very respectful to the brāhmaṇas and devotees.</div> ...speculate who is your father, but that speculation will not help you. You will never understand who is your father. But you go to your mother, the supreme ...
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  • ...and blissfully, without cares and anxieties, and after quitting this body he goes back home, back to Godhead. The Lord confirms in the Bhagavad-gītā, ...or him to exhibit the symptoms of life. Generally if a person is breathing he is accepted to be alive. But a person without Kṛṣṇa consciousness may ...
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  • <div class="heading">The women amongst whom He lived as their husband are not, therefore, women of this mundane world, but ...o any part of God's creation. But being conditioned by the material modes, he tries to travel in space by spacecraft and so fails to reach his destinatio ...
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  • ...efore one should hear, one should be cautious, and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa will help. We should be cautious, but if something is done unwillingly, that is ...efore one should hear, one should be cautious, and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa will help. We should be cautious, but if something is done unwillingly, that is ...
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  • ...g 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 conditio ...nthropism, nationalism, communism, this "ism" and that "ism." These "isms" will not help us unless you come to the platform of Kṛṣṇa-ism, that "Every ...
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  • ...Not only was Śukadeva Gosvāmī vastly learned in the Vedic literatures, but he was also a great self-realized soul and a powerful devotee of the Lord. A p ...aid that the Lord reserves the right of not being exposed to everyone, and He keeps Himself concealed from the faithless by His yoga-māyā potency.</p> ...
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  • ...many great generals like Karṇa and others. After the Battle of Kurukṣetra, he punished Aśvatthāmā, who had killed all the five sons of Draupadī. Then ..., however, that the real controller is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is freed from the relativities of the world, such as distress, happiness, f ...
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  • ...ew, and then he began to describe the future movements of his uncle, which he could see by his foreseeing powers</div> ...ndha-kūpaṁ vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta [SB 7.5.5]). In this verse also, he stresses the same point. In the history of human society, no one, at any ti ...
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  • ...be in some relation with the Supreme. When he acts in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is actually in his constitutional position. In the first process, Sāṅkhy ...tuated in the transcendental position by various philosophical researches, he is said to have achieved samprajñāta-samādhi. ...
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  • ...led practice of yogic postures can never help a man toward spiritual life. He must be trained in Kṛṣṇa consciousness by higher intelligence.</p> ...dic version is confirmed in this verse of the Gītā personally by the Lord. He who accepts this truth on the strength of the authority of the Vedas and of ...
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  • ...losophical theses. Nonetheless, Tapana Miśra has been very kind to me, for he speaks about topics relating to Lord Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...ritual master of the entire world in teaching the six paths of philosophy. He is the best of devotees.</p> ...
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  • ...lity of religion speak, was fully satisfied, and without mistake or regret he gave his reply.''' ...n, was full of philosophy and knowledge, and the King was satisfied, since he could understand that the suffering bull was not an ordinary one. Unless on ...
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  • ...naḥ, "He who increases the honor of His devotees." By distributing Sāṅkhya He would increase the honor of the devotees; therefore, Sāṅkhya philosophy ...f transcendental forms and spiritual activities beyond the material world. He simply described voidism beyond this material existence. The Māyāvādī p ...
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  • ...hting by using Kṛṣṇa consciousness as an excuse. But as a sincere student, he placed the matter before his master and questioned Kṛṣṇa as to his be ...e service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, or if he is a nondevotee, he also cannot understand the philosophy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> ...
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  • ...erable condition of this material body. Without being unnecessarily upset, he should try to find out if there is a remedy. The remedial measures can be u ...f life; therefore when Jaḍa Bharata put the philosophy of life before him, he immediately appreciated it. This is the foundation of Vedic society.</div> ...
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  • ...ext"><p style="display: inline;">When one is awake in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he need no longer endeavor for good results in his activities. When one is sit ...ntry, humanity, etc. If Kṛṣṇa is satisfied by one's actions, then everyone will be satisfied.</p> ...
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  • ...ed the Lord an easy path for reaching the enemy's city. The impersonalists will see havoc in this red-hot sentiment of the Lord because they want to see ne ...ttempted to bridge the ocean, and, with the help of advice from Vibhīṣaṇa, He attacked Rāvaṇa's capital, Laṅkā.</div> ...
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  • ...onal life were observed by Vidura, an experienced devotee of the Lord, and he confirmed Uddhava's perfectional stage of love of Godhead. Ecstatic bodily ...
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  • ...ion, one should agree to act according to the order of the Supersoul. That will help one become situated constantly in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the highe ...ion, one should agree to act according to the order of the Supersoul. That will help one become situated constantly in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the highe ...
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  • <div class="heading">He is actually learned who has attained to such perfection of knowledge. ...al position as the eternal servitor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is actually learned who has attained to such perfection of knowledge. Devel ...
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  • ...x life is the focal point for all activities. Wherever one turns his face, he sees sex life predominant. Therefore, sex life is not unreal. Its reality i ...the unbiased reader to the highest perfectional stage of transcendence. It will enable him to transcend the three modes of material activities: fruitive ac ...
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  • ...such duties are unavoidable. Sva-dharma is ordained by the Lord, and this will be clarified in the Fourth Chapter. On the bodily plane sva-dharma is calle ...ode of goodness, but if a person is not by nature in the mode of goodness, he should not imitate the occupational duty of a brahmana. For a ksatriya, or ...
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  • ...es the highest planet, he cannot attain that perpetual happiness for which he is searching life after life.</div> ...Brahman happiness, knowing it for certain that unlimited happiness, which he is seeking, is never attainable in the material world.</div> ...
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  • ...d when a living entity becomes inclined to the service of the Supreme Lord he looks like gold. The Lord is a diamond, and so this combination is very nic ...sūtra, that Vedānta-sūtra is personal philosophy. So he was convinced, and he became his disciple.</div> ...
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  • ...Still, because his complete energy was engaged in the service of the Lord, he became an immortal sage. Such is the powerful action of devotional service. ...he himself was attracted by the transcendental activities of the Lord, and he studied Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from his great father, Śrī Dvaipāyana Vyās ...
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  • ...g">The factual Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa. He is the complete energetic person. ...eme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa. He is the complete energetic person, and He possesses different separated and internal energies.</p> ...
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  • ...e of the good will of these administrators, leave their material bodies at will during opportune moments arranged for entrance into the antimaterial univer <div class="heading">Is He managing personally? No. He is managing through His potency.</div> ...
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  • ...his own sake. He can attempt anything for Kṛṣṇa, but for his personal self he does not attempt anything. By such behavior one becomes actually transcende ...personal self-interest, a devotee should always be without diplomacy, and he should avoid the company of persons who are not advancing in spiritual life ...
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  • ...er make him happy. Instead of satisfying his own personal material senses, he has to satisfy the senses of the Lord.</p> ...fighting, because he thought that by not killing his relatives and kinsmen he would be happier than by enjoying the kingdom after conquering his cousins ...
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  • ...can be preliminarily perceived by His different energies, and in this way He is realized impersonally. As the demigod in the sun is a person and is perc ...and Rāma as the Supreme he thinks of Rāma and Kṛṣṇa as impersonal because he has no idea of service to Kṛṣṇa. Thus his only business is punaḥ pu ...
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  • ...tion for the Supreme Lord and is directed by the spiritual master, in whom he has similar unflinching faith, can see the Supreme Personality of Godhead b ...hurt by the enemy. The so-called king of today never visits the warfield. He is very much expert in artificially encouraging the fighting strength in th ...
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  • ...endental pleasure in striving to become one with the Lord is defeated when he sees the beautiful transcendental features of the Lord. Because of the frag ...ārya had to make some compromise with the Buddhist philosophy, and as such he preached the philosophy of monism, for it was required at that time. Otherw ...
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  • ...n SB 1.8.18-19 -- Bombay, April 9, 1971]]:''' Kṛṣṇa is present everywhere. He says, antar bahir avasthitam. The Brahma-saṁhitā says, ...nicely through this bird." This is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Everywhere he sees. Antar bahiḥ.</div> ...
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  • ...e, one Dr. Lal Mohan Gosal, he has very minutely analyzed the cow dung and he has found that cow dung is a composition of all antiseptic properties.</p> ...Who is able to give good protection, life, security for life and property, he should become king.</p> ...
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  • ...in the material world. However powerful the reactions of one's sins, they will immediately be vanquished if one chants the name of Hari, Kṛṣṇa, Bala ...rotective prayer known as the Nārāyaṇa-kavaca. By this intelligent mantra, he took away the opulence of the demons and gave it to Mahendra, the King of h ...
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  • ...urport text"><p style="display: inline;">The prajā-pati is Lord Viṣṇu, and He is the Lord of all living creatures, all worlds, and all beauties, and the ...tector of His pure devotees. Although God is equally disposed to everyone, He is especially inclined to His devotees. Sat means the Absolute Truth. And p ...
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  • ...rukṣetra fight. So the Lord wanted to exhibit His fighting spirit. And who will fight with Him? Therefore two of His devotees were resigned that they shoul ...ctor. You are Kazi. You are magistrate. And this Nimāi Paṇḍita, young boy, He is creating so much disturbance." ...
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  • ...generally we think that "This child, this boy has got his father, mother, he is well-protected." No. Father and mother... Every father and mother wants ...ld be there who will protect the society from danger, another class of men will be expert in producing food grains and give protection to the cows and make ...
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  • ...he asura can get remission from the stroke of the trisula of Mohamaya when he the asura, surrenders surrenders himself to Sri Krishna the Personality of <div class="heading">And so he fought very hard to kill Arjuna, but with Krishna as Protector, no one in w ...
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  • ...everything. Lord Janārdana is the director both externally and internally. He is the cause of the function of words and what is expressed in all sound</d He is the cause of all causes, the ultimate cause. In this regard Śrīla Madh ...
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  • ...n, but if any common man tries to drink even a fragment of such poison, he will be killed. There are many pseudo devotees of Lord Śiva who want to indulge <div class="heading">One should not be misled by a pseudodevotee. He himself must be plain and gentle to receive the instructions of a pure devo ...
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  • ...gh Ajāmila did not chant purely, he chanted without offense, and therefore he is now pure and eligible for liberation. ...though he did not chant purely, he chanted without offense, and therefore he is now pure and eligible for liberation."</p> ...
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  • ...e and works sincerely without consideration of defeat and hopelessness, he will surely be promoted to the stage of pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness ...e and works sincerely without consideration of defeat and hopelessness, he will surely be promoted to the stage of pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> ...
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  • ...ental knowledge, but according to the different processes of understanding He appears differently, either as impersonal Brahman, as Paramātmā, as the S ...six opulences: wealth, fame, strength, beauty, knowledge and renunciation. He is the Personality of Godhead in different spiritual skies. The various des ...
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  • ...ater on the boy became a victim of all debaucheries. From a pure brāhmaṇa, he fell down to the position of a wretched urchin, and it was all due to bad a ...d the opulence of the demigods, and after enjoying such material opulence, he is given a chance to take birth in a noble family of a pure brāhmaṇa, or ...
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  • ...sciousness, our actions will be dovetailed to the will of īśvara, and that will make us happy. ...sciousness, our actions will be dovetailed to the will of īśvara, and that will make us happy. It is not that we have to cease all activities. Rather, our ...
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  • ...the transcendental name, fame and qualities of the Lord, which means that he is constantly in touch with the Lord. The Lord is identical with His name, ...e Supersoul by controlling the senses from all other engagements, and thus he ultimately attains samādhi. A devotee more easily attains samādhi, or tra ...
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  • ...to give over his acquired position in the heavenly kingdom to Yayāti, but he did not accept it. Yayāti went to the heavenly planet along with great ṛ ...loving transcendental service of the Lord, He gives particular attention. He gives direction to such pure devotees to help them discharge their responsi ...
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  • ...ch marriage, voting that there will be no separation and that man and wife will work cooperatively in Krishna Consciousness.</div> ...ps. But if you do not assist him and be very obedient to his welfare, then he may become disgusted and go away. So there must be mutual responsibility by ...
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  • ...our bodily conception of life, and expansion of bodily conception of life. He is thinking in terms of bodily conception of life. Śyālāḥ bandhuḥ pi ...ulsory for man to marry. Because a man may remain brahmacārī. By training, he can abstain from sex. But if woman is not protected very strictly, it is ve ...
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  • ...inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">And I am sure that India will again go back to the Vedantic life when the principle is accepted by the Eu ...erit by your birthright claim, will you neglect that friend? I am sure you will not. I am able to give you such important information.</p> ...
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  • ...stament, New Testament. Similarly, Lord Buddha also, he rejected Vedas and He presented his own philosophy: ahiṁsā, nonviolence.</div> ...
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  • ...d man, so everyone must especially think of his protection from all sides. He might become engaged in the fight, and the enemy might take advantage of hi ...tant of the forest Khāṇḍava, and when the Khāṇḍava Forest was set on fire, he asked protection from Arjuna. Arjuna saved his life, and as a result of thi ...
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  • ...he Lord helps the devotee to achieve Kṛṣṇa consciousness by yoga, and when he becomes fully Kṛṣṇa conscious the Lord protects him from falling down ...he Lord helps the devotee to achieve Kṛṣṇa consciousness by yoga, and when he becomes fully Kṛṣṇa conscious the Lord protects him from falling down ...
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  • ...ast. When the child was protected by viṣṇu-mantra, mother Yaśodā felt that He was safe. In the meantime, all the cowherd men who had gone to Mathurā to ...is in danger, because the father and mother is very strong, very rich, he will be able to give protection to the child. No. That is not possible.</p> ...
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  • ...duty, and nothing else. He was not prepared to beget a number of children. He would beget only one child, who would help the mission of Viṣṇu. As sta ...howed personally how to give protection to the cows and calves. Similarly, He showed respect to Sudāmā Vipra, a real brāhmaṇa. From the Lord's perso ...
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  • ...give her a son. As a result of this combination, Ghaṭotkaca was born, and he fought very valiantly with his father against the Kauravas. In their forest ...th in the Vedic wisdom, one can become a brāhmaṇa and thus see the Lord as He is. And after surpassing the brahminical perfection, one has to become a de ...
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  • Harikeśa: Argentina, and India. Now there will be war. Wherever there is woman in charge, there is war, disruption. But th ...as speaking to me that some great astrologer long ago predicted the Russia will be first-class theist in future. Who was speaking that? ...
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  • ...āṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtam ([[Vanisource:BG 4.8 (1972)|BG 4.8]]). He has got two businesses. One business is to give protection to the devotees, ...
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  • <div class="heading">When the Lord descends on earth, He acts for the protection of the devotees and for the annihilation of the imp ...the rulings of the revealed scripture in order to teach us the process. If He does not do so, the common man may go wrong. But in the advanced stage, whe ...
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  • ...mant instinct of love of God was awakened. Śiśupāla saw the Lord also, but he saw Him as his enemy, and his love was not awakened. Therefore Śiśupāla ...ways carries a club and a cakra to kill demons, and in His other two hands He holds a conchshell and a lotus to give protection to His devotees. When His ...
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  • ...ng all the wives of Kṛṣṇa to Indraprastha, he was attacked on the way, and he could not protect the ladies in his custody. ...
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  • ...And as a result of this, when the child came out of the womb of his mother he became a great devotee...</p> ...ility is increasing, so many things, but this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement will solve all the questions. It is such a nice movement. It is a boon. So you s ...
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  • ...developed all good qualities. That is bhadra. A devotee cannot be abhadra. He must be bhadra. That is perfection. Therefore a devotee is never rude to an ...
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  • ...ess one practices devotional service to the Lord, one cannot know Kṛṣṇa as He is (tattvataḥ), even though one is a great scholar or philosopher. Only t ...and without considering the time or place. There should be no impediments. He should be able to carry out his service anywhere and at any time. Some say ...
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  • ...e Lord’s belonging to the Bhāratī sampradāya or Purī sampradāya. Actually, he did not know the position of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. As the Supreme Pers ...
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  • ...the injunctions for purification in the śāstras, what does it avail him if he is not Kṛṣṇa conscious?" So the purificatory process is necessary for ...e soul is engaged in his natural function of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, whatever he is able to do is good for him. The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.5.17) affirms th ...
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  • ...ust like I told you that Mahātmā Gandhi, he was a recognized good man, but he committed so many mistakes. So pure goodness is not possible in this materi ...
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  • ...in the mode of goodness is not so much affected by material miseries, and he has a sense of advancement in material knowledge.</div> ...in the mode of goodness is not so much affected by material miseries, and he has a sense of advancement in material knowledge. The representative type i ...
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  • ...everything nice goodness, but he is attacked by passion and ignorance, and he becomes entangled. ...ure devotional service only, you can remain in pure goodness. Otherwise it will be adulterated. Pure devotional service.</div> ...
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  • ...ee himself. The Lord is seated in the heart of all living beings, and thus he knows very well the movements of all individual persons. As soon as the Lor ...rdama Muni exactly carried out the instructions received from him and that he actually honored his spiritual master. To honor the spiritual master means ...
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  • ...style="display: inline;">Then Arjuna decided to accept Kṛṣṇa as his guru. He... Śiṣyas te 'ham: "I become your disciple." To become disciple means no ...ot to fight, that is his own sense gratification. And to fight in spite of he had no desire to fight, that is the satisfaction of the master. This is the ...
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  • ...mall particle of spirit is there in the ant and in the elephant. Therefore he sees the elephant and the ant on the same level, on spiritual vision, not o ...
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  • ...piritual science, one should have a test to see how far he is progressing. He can judge by these items.</div> Bhūrijana: He says chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. ...
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  • ...r heart Kṛṣṇa is situated there. Anywhere you go, Kṛṣṇa is within you, and He'll give you intelligence. Talking with Kṛṣṇa means buddhi-yogaṁ dad ...et in the colleges and universities. But Kṛṣṇa's instruction is different. He'll give you instruction so that you can get rid of this hellish condition o ...
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  • ...ersonally carried to the Vaikuṇṭha planet by the associates of Lord Viṣṇu. He now remembered her and wanted to take her with him. Actually, Dhruva Mahār ...
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  • ...he property of the Pāṇḍavas." But it is his greatness. He knew that Arjuna will never be killed because Kṛṣṇa is there. "So from material point of vi ...
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  • ...r, and a spiritual master is automatically expert in brahminical behavior. He also understands the Vedic śāstras. ....35]]). If the qualities of one varṇa are seen in someone born in another, he should be designated according to the varṇa of his qualities, not that of ...
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  • ..."><p style="display: inline;">Though a person be even the most sinful man, he can at once be purified by systematic contact with a pure Vaiṣṇava. A V ...imilarly the body of a pure Vaiṣṇava changes transcendentally at once when he gives himself up to the service of the Lord and is trained by a qualified V ...
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  • ...oves that Caitanya Mahāprabhu is identical to Lord Kṛṣṇa and explains that He descends to liberally grant the fallen souls of this degraded age pure love ...because of his association with the qualitative modes of material nature, he is captivated by its interactions of distressful, unhappy feelings.</div> ...
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  • ...ed to impress upon Kṛṣṇa that since He was afraid merely to see her stick, He should not perform such disturbing activities as breaking the container of ...ed to impress upon Kṛṣṇa that since He was afraid merely to see her stick, He should not perform such disturbing activities as breaking the container of ...
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  • ...e Supersoul by controlling the senses from all other engagements, and thus he ultimately attains samādhi. A devotee more easily attains samādhi, or tra ...such pure devotees of the Lord, Devarṣi Nārada is the chief, and therefore he has been described herein as the greatest of all philosopher devotees. Unle ...
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  • ...ch yoga, but because he is always engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, at death he can remember the Supreme Personality of Godhead by His grace. This is expla ...In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta the pure devotee is called niṣkāma, which means he has no desire for self-interest. Perfect peace belongs to him alone, not to ...
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  • ..., taught the same principles of sense control for executing higher duties. He desired the welfare of all as servants of God, and anyone desiring the welf ...
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  • ...process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness and happily live in this material world. He will eventually receive the supreme award of Kṛṣṇa.</div> ...yful. He does not lament for any material loss or aspire for gain, because he is full in the service of the Lord.</div> ...
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  • ...pure devotee is ordering Him, He obtains transcendental pleasure, although He is the infallible master in all circumstances.</div> ...pends on the Supreme Lord. And the pure devotee is satisfied with whatever He gives</div> ...
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  • ...e mahātmā does not divert his attention to anything outside Kṛṣṇa, because he knows perfectly well that Kṛṣṇa is the original Supreme Person, the c ...evotee is not confused by misguiding commentaries on Bhagavad-gītā because he knows what is what</div> ...
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  • ...pends on the Supreme Lord. And the pure devotee is satisfied with whatever He gives.</p> ...ified, as everyone else knew, but he did not want to counteract it because he knew also that the age of Kali had begun and that the first symptom of the ...
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  • ...Lord. Whatever action he performs, he performs it as service to the Lord. He does not give serious attention to the fruitive activities or prescribed du ...ntioned four activities are prescribed in the regulative way so that there will not be any undue competition for sense gratification. But Śrīmad-Bhāgava ...
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  • ...pure devotee like Vidura always feels the presence of the Lord everywhere. He sees everything in the potency of the Lord and the Lord in everything. ...pure devotee like Vidura always feels the presence of the Lord everywhere. He sees everything in the potency of the Lord and the Lord in everything.</p> ...
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  • ...blessed by the mode of goodness, and by transcending the mode of goodness he can be situated in pure goodness, which is called the vasudeva state, a sta ...vaṁ viśuddhaṁ vasudeva-śabditam: "When a man is situated in pure goodness, he worships Vāsudeva." The purport is that those who are completely purified ...
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  • ...maṇa. Even the great yogī Durvāsā was harassed by the Sudarśana cakra when he offended the Vaiṣṇava Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, who was neither a brāhma ...lize this with purified intelligence. When one's intelligence is purified, he can understand that unwanted, temporary, material life is just like a dream ...
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  • ...o are always engaged in devotional service out of transcendental love does He award the pure knowledge of devotion in love. ...o are always engaged in devotional service out of transcendental love does He award the pure knowledge of devotion in love. In that way the devotee can r ...
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  • ...aneous affection. Bhīṣmadeva was a pure devotee, and as a military marshal he constantly remembered the battlefield feature of the Lord as Pārtha-sārat ...
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  • ...tact of māyā. So one who can understand the position of Kṛṣṇa and himself, he's called mukta. Mukta means liberated. Mukti means to know perfectly what i ...o more under the control of this material world. And what is the test that he has attained purified knowledge and purified body? The test is bhajanti. ...
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  • ...at is the difference between robber and me?" And Alexander, from that day, he stopped his conquering propaganda. "Alexander and the Robber." The robber p ...why should you work so hard? But we have voluntarily accepted, "Oh, Kṛṣṇa will be satisfied." This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> ...
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  • ...hāgavata Purāṇa as the spotless literature for understanding the Lord, and He preaches that the ultimate goal of life for all human beings is to attain t ...of logic and grammar, but the Lord defeated him by His forceful arguments. He affirmed that we are all related with the Personality of Godhead eternally ...
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  • ...n charge. Similarly, the moon, Candradeva... They are all devas, demigods. He's in charge of, what is called, activating the vegetables, the moon, activa ...
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  • ...the modes of material nature and is fully situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he can perform anything and everything under the direction of a bona fide spir ...sticks to the principle of following the words of the spiritual master, he will see the Supreme Lord without difficulty.</div> ...
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  • ...lass="heading">The more one is affected by the principle of māyā, the more he is detached from the basic principle of love. ...rom the basic principle of love. One cannot factually love anything unless he is fully developed in the loving service of the Lord.</p> ...
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  • ...x life is the focal point for all activities. Wherever one turns his face, he sees sex life predominant. Therefore, sex life is not unreal. Its reality i ...
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  • ...to Arjuna, and, for that matter, to other highly elevated persons, because he was highly advanced compared to ordinary persons in other parts of the worl ...
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  • ...class="heading">If one adopts the principles enunciated in Bhagavad-gītā, he can make his life perfect and make a permanent solution to all the problems ...e spiritual sky. If one adopts the principles enunciated in Bhagavad-gītā, he can make his life perfect and make a permanent solution to all the problems ...
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  • ...the acceptance of the four orders and the four statuses of social life, as will be explained later. The whole purpose of the mission of incarnations is to ...he principles of Bhagavad-gītā from his father, Vivasvān, the sun-god, and he reinstructed the same to his son Mahārāja Ikṣvāku. In the beginning of ...
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  • ...edic injunctions may adopt the principles of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and that will take the place of performance of Vedic yajṣas, or karmas. ...edic injunctions may adopt the principles of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and that will take the place of performance of Vedic yajṣas, or karmas.</p> ...
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  • ...olar seeks to relish the real rasa in the spiritual form. In the beginning he desires to become one with the Supreme. Thus, less intelligent transcendent ...one is interested with the spirit soul and spirit soul's activities, then he is bhakta. That is... Actually the basic principle of activity is the soul. ...
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  • ...e spiritual sky. If one adopts the principles enunciated in Bhagavad-gītā, he can make his life perfect and make a permanent solution to all the problems ...under the rules and regulations, with the direction of a spiritual master, will surely bring one to the stage of love of God.</p> ...
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  • ...service for approaching Him. Such processes are very dear to the Lord, and He accepts a person engaged in them. The question of who is better—one who i ...e state service, for the Nawab was reluctant to let him leave. Nonetheless he came to Vārāṇasī, and the Lord taught him the principles of devotional ...
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  • ...ictly observes whether his sons are performing their duties, and sometimes he also punishes them.</p> ...nced order. Kaśyapa Muni was not in the renounced order of life. Therefore he is addressed here once as brahman and another time as gṛhamedhin. Aditi, ...
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  • ...satisfaction. Therefore to act or not to act is within his control because he acts only under the direction of Kṛṣṇa. This consciousness is the cau ...
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  • ...bers of the family. By being engaged in various religious practices, women will not be misled into adultery.</div> ...ing belongs to Kṛṣṇa (īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam [Īśo mantra 1]), and therefore he does not falsely claim proprietorship over anything. This transcendental kn ...
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  • ...spoiling energy because even if the moon is reached, the problems of life will not be solved. The devotees of the Lord are called akiñcanas because they ...when one is freed from the false ego by the cultivation of real knowledge, he sees himself, and that is the ultimate necessity of human life.</div> ...
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  • ...fighting, because he thought that by not killing his relatives and kinsmen he would be happier than by enjoying the kingdom after conquering his cousins ...fighting, because he thought that by not killing his relatives and kinsmen he would be happier than by enjoying the kingdom after conquering his cousins ...
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  • ...Lord at the time of death. That is the only way suggested by the Lord, and He guarantees the result: "There is no doubt."</p> ...activities dedicated to Me and your mind and intelligence fixed on Me, you will attain Me without doubt." ([[Vanisource:BG 8.7 (1972)|BG 8.7]])</p> ...
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  • ...cribed duties, when one attains the highest goal of life, love of Godhead, he achieves prayojana-siddhi, or the fulfillment of his human mission. ...cribed duties, when one attains the highest goal of life, love of Godhead, he achieves prayojana-siddhi, or the fulfillment of his human mission. In the ...
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  • ...ely his prescribed duties according to his religion, very good boy, but if he does not develop to hear about Kṛṣṇa, or God, this propensity... ...ely his prescribed duties according to his religion, very good boy, but if he does not develop to hear about Kṛṣṇa, or God, this propensity... Just ...
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  • ...hen he actually found that "On the other side there are my relatives," how he could slay them? Kṛṣṇa advised that "Everyone must execute his prescr ...When Kṛṣṇa is strict He's harder than the thunderbolt, and when He's soft, He's softer than the flower.</p> ...
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  • ...ascal and we have to go on with our own work positively. Fault-finding men will always be there, that is the history of the world, but one has to execute h ...igent boy and faithful to your parents and to your duty. Certainly Krishna will be very much pleased upon you. The father and mother are also as good as th ...
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  • ...rried wives, but the damsels of Vraja were young friends of the Lord while He was unmarried. The Lord stayed at Vṛndāvana till the age of sixteen, and .... His forgetfulness of his real constitutional position is māyā. Otherwise he is eternally Brahman.</p> ...
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  • ...class="heading">Even if one does not find the soul within the heart, where he is situated, one can still understand the presence of the soul simply by th ...al soul is prone to be forgetful. When he is forgetful of his real nature, he obtains education and enlightenment from the superior lessons of Kṛṣṇ ...
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  • ...ecause the soul has no birth, he therefore has no past, present or future. He is eternal, ever-existing, and primeval—that is, there is no trace in his ...class="heading">Even if one does not find the soul within the heart, where he is situated, one can still understand the presence of the soul simply by th ...
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  • ...nds. He decided to pass away at that time, therefore he died. These things will be more and more clear when you understand Krishna by revelation. I think i ...nue to keep your present attitude and certainly even within this life, you will be successful in attaining perfection of Krishna Consciousness.</div> ...
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  • ...nt. Just like Kṛṣṇa. In the books He has given many instructions, but then He says, sarva-dharmān parityaja. If one says that "You gave me instruction b ...aid Mr. So and So, both names, do hereby swear in the name of Kṛṣṇa that I will bear true faith and alliance to the constitution, by-laws, rules, regulatio ...
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  • ...I would have gone immediately to India but if I go just now the work here will suffer. So please be with me in this project as you have promised for the s ...hat if we have 1000 dealers, we can immediately sell 3000 copies, and this will give us sustenance for conducting our publication activities. I do not thin ...
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  • ...the line of disciplic succession. Otherwise even the most intelligent men will be bewildered regarding the standard actions of Kṛṣṇa consciousness</ ...the line of disciplic succession. Otherwise even the most intelligent men will be bewildered regarding the standard actions of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. ...
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  • ...">Had Arjuna not been taken up with an illusion of family affection by the will of the Lord, the Bhagavad-gītā would not have been spoken by the Lord Him .... Had Arjuna not been taken up with an illusion of family affection by the will of the Lord, the Bhagavad-gītā would not have been spoken by the Lord Him ...
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  • ...ontrol the senses. When one is accomplished in the practice of meditation, he ceases all disturbing mental activities.</p> ...splay: inline;">Envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the atheist will present a number of illicit incarnations manufactured in the factory of his ...
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  • ...rm his duties according to the modes of material nature. At the same time, he must have a full sense of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> ...he principles of religion. Sometimes He descends personally, and sometimes He sends His bona fide representative in the form of His son, or servant, or H ...
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  • ...consciousness. This voluntary service to the cause of Kṛṣṇa consciousness will help one to rise to a higher state of love for God, whereupon one becomes p ...d be given to the right receiver. There are different kinds of charity, as will be explained later on—charity in the modes of goodness, passion and ignor ...
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  • <div class="heading">Here is direct evidence of His great mission: He allowed even the wild animals to partake in His great movement. ...te, creed, color or species. Here is direct evidence of His great mission: He allowed even the wild animals to partake in His great movement.</p> ...
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  • ...ity, the pragmatic activities of a king and activities for salvation. Then he described the duties of women and devotees, both briefly and extensively.'' To give charity is one of the householder's main functions, and he should be prepared to give in charity at least fifty percent of his hard-ea ...
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  • ...hen he was questioned by Sāṅkhyāyana Ṛṣi, he spoke to him the same message he had heard from Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa. In other words, unless one hears from ...śāstras is an atheist, and we should not consult an atheist, however great he may be. A staunch believer in the śāstras, with all their diversities, is ...
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  • ...o struggle very hard with determination, and then automatically everything will come. Tato niṣṭhā tato rucis tataḥ, athāsaktis tato bhāvaḥ. So b Prabhupāda: Therefore he requires spiritual master's guidance. Because he is rascal. What is the use of accepting a spiritual master? If you want to ...
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  • ...his vivarta-vāda. One can be attacked by this vivarta-vāda philosophy when he forgets the inconceivable power of the omnipotent Personality of Godhead.</ ...ponsibility to see that the Africans follow properly, because the Africans will follow their example. ...
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  • ...he is not a disciple. And one who is not a disciple, his life is chaotic. He cannot be happy. Therefore Vedas say that "You must accept a bona fide guru ...but by quality. So anyone can be trained up first class, second class, as he likes. That is called civilization. Some men should be trained up as first- ...
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  • ...the creator of this particular universe, is known as the prajāpati because he is the grandfather of all who have taken birth. Thus prajā is used in a br ...ts. Any great man of the material world is, after all, a conditioned soul. He is bound by his hands and feet by the ropes of material nature, and still t ...
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  • ...o hear of the sense-enjoyable tidings of the flickering mundane world, but will have very little time to hear about the eternal living force that moves the ...an, but the gentleman inquire about what is God. Because he is human being he could inquire like that. So there is no cause of disappointment. At least o ...
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  • ...tated, Brahmā is the original spiritual master for the universe, and since he was initiated by the Lord Himself, the message of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is c ...ticular occupational duty under the guidance of a proper spiritual master, he can achieve the highest success in life</div> ...
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  • ...Kṛṣṇa was entrusted to look after this arrangement, and perfect as He is, He caused the yajñas to be performed by the bona fide twice-born brāhmaṇas ...t, Bhagavad-gītā gives you. You train the students in that way, then there will be perfect society. Thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṇa.</div> ...
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  • ...accepted because it is Vedic injunction, and indeed by accepting this, one will not commit a mistake; subsequently it has been proved by modern science tha ...even in exchange for the three worlds, let alone this earth. What pleasure will we derive from killing the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra?</p> ...
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  • ...ṇa is very pleased with a devotee, He takes away his material property, as He states in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.88.8): yasyāham anugṛhṇāmi hariṣ ...l riches are Nityānanda Prabhu and the lotus feet of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa." He further prays, "O Lord, kindly give me this opulence. I do not want anythin ...
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  • ...kuṇṭha planets, directly in touch with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is prone to fall down.</div> ...kuṇṭha planets, directly in touch with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is prone to fall down, either from the impersonal Brahman realization or fr ...
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  • ...to the kingdom of God, then surely, after quitting this material body, we will attain a spiritual body just like the Lord's.</div> ...to the kingdom of God, then surely, after quitting this material body, we will attain a spiritual body just like the Lord's.</div> ...
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  • ...<p style="display: inline;">A strong faith that by Kṛṣṇa consciousness one will be elevated to the highest perfection of life is called vyavasāyātmikā i ...ons from past good or bad deeds. When one is awake in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he need no longer endeavor for good results in his activities. When one is sit ...
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  • ...vice of the Lord, even without discharging his prescribed duties, whatever he may be able to advance in the cause is accepted by the Lord (buddhi-yoga). ...ed, "Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is in His full-fledged youthful life. How can He keep the principles of sannyāsa?"</p> ...
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  • ...ilated again and again." If one is unable to see the Supreme Lord although He is present as Kṛṣṇa in His various incarnations, one may see the Supr ...cticed the principles of spiritual life he had learned from them, and thus he achieved the supreme goal of life.</p> ...
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  • ...ve to be guided by the ācāryas. One who follows the principles of ācāryas, he knows the things as they are. That is the verdict. ...ācāryas. Ācāryavān puruṣo veda. One who follows the principles of ācāryas, he knows the things as they are. That is the verdict.</p> ...
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  • ...lf smokes. Lord Caitanya said that a teacher should behave properly before he begins teaching. One who teaches in that way is called ācārya, or the ide ...th and thereby be raised to the platform of knowledge. Only this knowledge will help one become promoted to the transcendental platform of spiritual unders ...
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  • ...rges undivertedly. He claimed the friendship of Maitreya Muni, not because he was Maitreya's son but because Maitreya was actually the friend of all who ...
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  • ...which alone can help one to act in yoga. Arjuna is a kṣatriya, and as such he is participating in the varṇāśrama-dharma institution. It is said in th ...
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  • ...nd everyone liberation (mukti) from the bondage of material existence, yet He rarely awards the privilege of love of Godhead. ...of the process of bhakti-yoga. As the Lord's desire is infallible because He is acyuta, similarly the desires of the devotees in the transcendental serv ...
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  • ...—perfection of one's constitutional position. So Arjuna was a devotee, and he was in touch with the Supreme Lord in friendship.</p> ...he beginning one must have a preliminary desire for self-realization. This will bring one to the stage of trying to associate with persons who are spiritua ...
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  • ...s—either by inertia or by active service. In other words, by his questions he is clearing the path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness for all students who seri ...like the feeling of satisfaction a hungry man has for every morsel of food he eats. The more one eats while hungry, the more one feels satisfaction and s ...
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  • ...m all sinful reactions, simply by the process of surrendering to Śrī Kṛṣṇa he is automatically freed. There is no need of strenuous effort to free onesel ...does not have to execute so many methods. That simple surrender unto Kṛṣṇa will save him from unnecessarily wasting time. One can thus make all progress at ...
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  • ...onal service. Although one may be very much exalted in devotional service, he should not give up the watering process of śravaṇa-kīrtana. If one give ...
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  • ...ofuse authority for preaching, and if someone reads our Krishna philosophy he becomes convinced</div> ...ofuse authority for preaching, and if someone reads our Krishna philosophy he becomes convinced. So try to increase the effect of preaching by distributi ...
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