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  • ...usness; and the other process is directly connecting everything with Kṛṣṇa in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. ...ss is itself the purifying process, and by the direct method of devotional service it is simultaneously easy and sublime.</p> ...
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  • ...servant. It is my duty to serve"|"Pure devotion means without any motive"|"no motive. That is pure devotion"}} [[Category:God Is Lord Krsna]] ...
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  • {{terms|"In the Adi-līlā of Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Chapter Eight, there is a descrip [[Category:Described in the Caitanya-caritamrta]] ...
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  • [[Category:Qualified for Devotional Service to God]] ...guidance of a proper spiritual master, he can achieve the highest success in life. ...
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  • ...gage in transcendental devotional activities because they desire elevation to the spiritual world, where they can live eternally and peacefully and with [[Category:Devotees of God Do Not Care For]] ...
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  • ...ithfully and rigidly, then in this life you will be able to see Krsna face to face. That is a fact"}} [[Category:Our Devotional Service to God (Disciples of SP)]] ...
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  • {{terms|"If one's mind is always engaged in the service of the Lord, there is no possibility that one will think, feel or act materially"}} [[Category:One (as in someone)]] ...
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  • ...ant the holy name of the Lord without offenses, they are no longer subject to my rulings"}} [[Category:Taking God]] ...
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  • ...the duties, one must associate with devotees, and one must be very honest in dealing. Six things. If these six things are there, sure success"}} [[Category:Association of Devotees of God]] ...
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  • {{terms|"When one engages himself in the nine processes of devotional service"|"one's heart becomes purified, and he immediately understands his relation [[Category:One (as in someone)]] ...
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  • ...e mind is controlled and the senses are subjugated, also appears ludicrous to a pure devotee"}} [[Category:Pure Devotees of God]] ...
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  • [[Category:Society of Devotees of God|2]] [[Category:Pure Devotees of God|2]] ...
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  • ...ional service, can develop all the good qualities that are generally found in the demigods"}} [[Category:Engaging in Krsna Consciousness]] ...
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  • ...magoria for the devotee. After all, the heavenly planets are material, and in due course of time they will all be dissolved"}} [[Category:For Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...simply make a show but not actually realize it. Niyamagrahah, laulyam, and to become very greedy, and jana-sangas ca, and mixing with persons who are not [[Category:to Become]] ...
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  • ...o be doing the best service to the whole world and to be pleasing everyone in the world"}} [[Category:Engaging in Devotional Service to God]] ...
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  • ...g one newspaper and talking for hours. These things should be avoided. And to associate with nondevotees. And greediness. These things should be avoided" [[Category:Association of Nondevotees of God]] ...
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  • [[Category:Pure Devotees of God]] [[Category:Realizations of a Devotee of God]] ...
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  • ...es, and being always open-minded, you should all render devotional service to the Lord"}} [[Category:God Is Lord Prthu]] ...
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  • ...omewhat interested in spiritual life, the devotees of the Lord protect him in many ways"}} [[Category:Devotees of God Protect Those Who Are Somewhat Interested in Spiritual Life]] ...
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  • ...thinking himself the lord of material nature, it is very difficult for him to surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</div> ...in. He becomes full in knowledge; then it is possible for him to surrender to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</div> ...
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  • [[Category:Chanting the Holy Names of God]] ...ssociation of Lord Viṣṇu's order carriers, who saved him from your attempt to arrest him. This is quite all right. It is a fact that even a chronically s ...
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  • ...d qualities, such as religion, knowledge and renunciation, become manifest in the body of one who has developed unalloyed devotion for the Supreme Person [[Category:Developing Devotional Service to God]] ...
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  • {{terms|"duplicitous"|"duplicitously"|"duplicity"}} [[Category:Duplicity|1]] ...
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  • {{terms|"In addition to human society, he is pleasing even the trees and animals, because they also [[Category:Engaging in Devotional Service to God]] ...
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  • ...orld, apparently take birth in different places in the material world just to save the conditioned souls"}} [[Category:Concern of a Devotee of God]] ...
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  • [[Category:God Is Lord Narayana]] [[Category:Order Carriers of God]] ...
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  • ...road propaganda program for the Krsna consciousness movement of devotional service all over the world is the highest humanitarian welfare activity"}} [[Category:Propagating Devotional Service to God]] ...
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  • ...ing full knowledge about one's self-identity, and understanding devotional service"}} [[Category:Devotional Service to God and Controlling the Mind]] ...
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  • ...each and every man can feel pleasure in this Krsna consciousness is stated in the Padma Purana"}} [[Category:Attracted to the Krsna Consciousness Movement]] ...
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  • ...ties and the occupations in which you are situated, you should engage your service at the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead with full confidenc [[Category:In Which]] ...
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  • ...a lower status of life is not a disqualification for success in devotional service"}} [[Category:Explained in the Srimad-Bhagavatam]] ...
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  • ...ind and intelligence, he is sure to be successful in going back home, back to Godhead"}} [[Category:Seriously Engaged in Devotional Service to God]] ...
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  • ...s himself in the loving service of the Lord as an actual brahmana, his aim to achieve the final interest of life is attained"}} [[Category:in This Way]] ...
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  • ...s, he must be driven by his own mental speculations and must engage in the service of the Lord's external energy"}} [[Category:Engaging in God's Service]] ...
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  • ...ut the glories of the Lord, and his body in executing the service required to satisfy the Lord"}} [[Category:Satisfying God]] ...
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  • ...rson, and he is actually a candidate for further advancement in devotional service"}} [[Category:Madhyama-adhikari - Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...ory:The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 01 - Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service]] [[Category:The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51]] ...
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  • ...here are so many persons in the modern world who have been highly educated in the materialistic universities, but it is seen that they cannot take up the ...ory:The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 01 - Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service]] ...
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  • ...are described here as kāma-dughāṅghri-paṅkajam because they have all power to fulfill the desires of everyone"}} [[Category:God's Lotus Feet]] ...
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  • ...ory:The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 01 - Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service]] [[Category:The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51]] ...
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  • ...ly, if he cannot go beyond the sphere of mental activities then he is sure to perform only material activities and thus remain impure"}} ...ory:The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 01 - Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service]] ...
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  • {{terms|"One who is not in Krsna consciousness usually cannot sit silently even for half an hour"}} ...ory:The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 01 - Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service]] ...
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  • ...on becomes highly developed in good qualities, whereas a person who is not in Krsna consciousness cannot do so"}} [[Category:The Nectar of Devotion Chapters 01 to 51]] ...
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  • {{terms|"Those who are not in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, although very highly educated, are often drunkar ...ory:The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 01 - Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service]] ...
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  • ...are satisfied, and when he at last quits his body, he goes back home, back to Godhead, without a doubt"}} [[Category:Devotees of God Are]] ...
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  • ...may be all right for materialistic persons, but how long will they be able to keep themselves silent"}} [[Category:You Are God]] ...
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  • ...ic point of view, but in the actual field of his activities he can be seen to be baser than the animals"}} [[Category:Have No]] ...
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  • ...our dealings"|"honest in their dealings"|"honest, simple-dealing"|"honest, to be gentle, fair-dealing"|"which do You call honest"}} ...y glorified. Whatever interpretations have been given by Śaṅkarācārya have no direct bearing on the sūtra, and therefore such commentation spoils everyt ...
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  • ...ivities in terms of society, community or nation. There is even an attempt in the form of the United Nations for world-help activity"}} [[Category:In Terms Of]] ...
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  • ...mmediately after their yogic performance they will engage themselves again in such activities as illicit sex life, gambling, meat-eating and many other n [[Category:In Such]] ...
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  • {{terms|"due to the shortcomings of limited national activities, such a general mass welfar [[Category:due To]] ...
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  • ...avoring for this so-called silent meditation. Simply because he is engaged in Krsna consciousness he automatically gives up all this nonsense and develop [[Category:Elevated to Krsna Consciousness]] ...
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  • ...the deer and all the other wild animals joined Him and were participating, in their own ways"}} ...ory:The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 01 - Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service]] ...
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  • {{terms|"In this way, a kṣatriya can satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead by hi [[Category:In This Way]] ...
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  • ...hest character by becoming a pure devotee of Krsna. The conclusion is that no one can truly have any good qualities if he is lacking Krsna consciousness" [[Category:One (as in someone)]] ...
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  • ...ational duties—engaging himself in producing foodstuffs, giving protection to cows, and trading if necessary when there is an excess of agricultural prod [[Category:Supreme God]] ...
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  • {{terms|"pure devotional service means"}} [[Category:Pure Devotional Service to God|3]] ...
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  • [[Category:Vaniquotes English Dictionary A to Z]] ...be enthusiastic. Similarly, one has to be very enthusiastic in devotional service. Enthusiasm means action, but action for whom? The answer is that one shoul ...
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  • ...a common interest—to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead—there are no distinctions between them"}} [[Category:No One Is]] ...
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  • ...sness movement, however, is so nice that it can render the highest benefit to the entire human race. Everyone can be attracted by this movement, and ever [[Category:Attracted to the Krsna Consciousness Movement]] ...
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  • ...oned in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.5.32) as follows, with special reference to the saṅkīrtana-yajña:</p> ...the saṅkīrtana-yajña is easy and sublime for all purposes, as recommended in Bhagavad-gītā also (9.14).</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"He saves his valuable time from being extravagantly spent in the way of smoking, drinking, attending the theater and dancing"}} ...ory:The Nectar of Devotion Chapter 01 - Characteristics of Pure Devotional Service]] ...
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  • {{terms|"The question may be raised that since the Lord is supposed to be worshiped by great demigods like Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva and others, ho [[Category:Since God]] ...
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  • ...xplained by Pṛthu Mahārāja by the use of the word yathādhikāra"|"according to one's ability"|"If one sincerely executes his occupational duty, that will [[Category:Serving God]] ...
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  • [[Category:Devotees of God Do Not Care For]] [[Category:Pure Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...rding to the material modes of nature and the particular duties discharged in those modes"}} [[Category:God's Creation]] ...
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  • ...he Eighteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā, sva-karmaṇā tam abhyarcya: one has to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead by one's occupational duties. Th [[Category:One Has To]] ...
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  • ...Personality of Godhead. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa also recommends this direct process in the Bhagavad-gītā. ...
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  • [[Category:26 Qualities of a Devotee of God]] [[Category:Vaisnava - Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...He is not influenced by the Lord's illusory energy. (19) He offers respect to everyone"|"Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja lists the following twenty-six good q [[Category:26 Qualities of a Devotee of God]] ...
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  • [[Category:26 Qualities of a Devotee of God]] [[Category:Vaisnava - Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...lities of a Vaiṣṇava"|"(12) He is always surrendered to Kṛṣṇa. (13) He has no material desires. (14) He is very meek. (15) He is steady. (16) He controls [[Category:26 Qualities of a Devotee of God]] ...
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  • ...He is truthful. (4) He is equal to everyone. (5) No one can find any fault in him"}} [[Category:26 Qualities of a Devotee of God]] ...
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  • ...uthor of Caitanya-caritāmṛta, says that all good qualities become manifest in the body of a Vaiṣṇava and that only by the presence of these good qual [[Category:Manifestations of a Devotee of God]] ...
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  • ...uctions of Bhagavad-gītā, one can be freed from all miseries and anxieties in this life, and one's next life will be spiritual. Viṣṇoḥ padam avāpn ...on account of the seriousness of the situation. He was therefore quite fit to be a politician.</div> ...
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  • ...ject matters, but when one has lost such interest and is simply interested in transcendental subject matters, he is quite fit for being initiated"}} [[Category:Initiated Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...impressed?|0612|Very cautiously and intelligently we have to make progress in spiritual life. Don't take it very insignificantly. We should be very much ...egory:Prabhupada 0613 - in all Languages|''' This page has been translated in many languages.''']] ...
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  • [[Category:Understanding God]] [[Category:Respecting Devotees of God]] ...
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  • [[Category:Be Very Careful To Avoid]] [[Category:Avoiding Offenses Against the Holy Names of God]] ...
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  • {{terms|"pure devotional service"}} [[Category:Pure Devotional Service to God|1]] ...
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  • ...tform of devotional service and is interested only in worshiping the Deity in the temple"}} [[Category:One Should Not Remain a Kanistha-adhikari Devotee of God]] ...
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  • {{terms|"generally, when we think of service, we think of our hand and legs, that"}} [[Category:service]] ...
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  • ...is called a neophyte, but by gradually following the process he will rise to the platform of a first-class devotee"|"faith is soft and pliable is called [[Category:Faith of a Devotee of God]] ...
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  • [[Category:Advanced Devotees of God]] [[Category:Uttama-adhikari - Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...ted by the bona fide spiritual master and when he seriously engages in the service of the Lord, he should be accepted as a madhyama-adhikari"}} [[Category:Seriousness of a Devotee of God]] ...
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  • ...becoming implicated, so make all your desires extinct. Then there will be no more feelings of pains and pleasure. Desirelessness."</p> ...mā has desire; I have got desire; you have got desire. This is artificial, to make desireless. That is not possible.</p> ...
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  • ...ore Bhagavad-gītā is best understood by a person who has qualities similar to Arjuna's.</p> ...order of Kṛṣṇa, and Lord Kṛṣṇa originally made Vivasvān His first disciple to understand the science of Bhagavad-gītā. The Gītā is not, therefore, a ...
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  • ...ns attaining peace from all disturbances caused by material contamination. In other words, it is the process by which the mind is cooled"}} [[Category:Devotional Service to God Means]] ...
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  • ...idea was to throw away all the stumbling blocks on the path of devotional service"}} [[Category:Practical Devotional Service to God]] ...
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  • ...hen one takes to Krsna consciousness and engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord"|"beginning with chanting and hearing the glories of the Lord - [[Category:Taking to Krsna Consciousness]] ...
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  • {{terms|"try to serve"|"trying to serve"}} [[Category:Try To Serve|1]] ...
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  • ...and thoroughly cleansed when one no longer desires anything but devotional service"}} [[Category:No Longer]] ...
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  • ...nciples"|"principle of devotional"|"principles of devotion"|"principles of devotional"}} [[Category:Principles of Devotional Service to God|1]] ...
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  • ...rms|"endeavor for material opulence is against the principle of devotional service"}} [[Category:Principles of Devotional Service to God]] ...
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  • ...activity for others. Those who are ignorant of the benefits of devotional service must be educated by preaching"}} [[Category:Described in the Caitanya-caritamrta]] ...
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  • ...e stops preaching and simply sits down in a solitary place, he is engaging in material activity"}} [[Category:Benefits of Devotional Service to God]] ...
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  • ...ually fallen into the material conception of life because they have failed to chant the holy name of the Lord"}} [[Category:Supposed To Be]] ...
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  • ...that You manifest Yourself in the particular eternal form of transcendence in which they always think of You.</p> ...attached to one of the many transcendental forms of the Lord, as described in the Vedas.</p> ...
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  • ..., before going to bed, to beat the mind a hundred times with a broomstick. In this way one's mind can be kept under control. An uncontrolled mind and an ...
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  • [[Category:Seeing God]] [[Category:God Is Situated Within Our Heart]] ...
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  • ..._text="Introduction to Gitopanisad (Earliest Recording of Srila Prabhupada in the Bhaktivedanta Archives)"> ...ne who surrenders unto the Lord, He takes the responsibility to indemnify, to indemnify from all reactions of sins.</p> ...
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  • ...ligion and were justified, glorious, full of mercy and equity, and without duplicity.</p> ...o the point. And it was glorious because she wanted to show proper respect to a great family.</p> ...
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  • ...If one desires to make a compromise with the Mayavadis, he is also engaged in material activity. A devotee should never make compromises with nondevotees [[Category:Devotees of God Should Never Make Compromise with Nondevotees]] ...
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  • [[Category:Anartha-nivrtti - Devotional Service to God]] ...rt should be cleansed and soothed to receive Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and enable Him to sit within the heart without disturbance. ...
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  • ...e prescribed by Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself. Whatever else we eat cannot be offered to Him, since He will not accept it. Thus we cannot be acting on the level of <div class="heading">The real purpose is to exhibit one's loving devotion to the Lord; the offerings themselves are secondary. ...
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  • ...of them are energies. The superior energy, living entity, is managing how to collect this iron, copper, this, that, and make nice car. And he is riding ...and that there is no God in control. It is produced of sex desire and has no cause other than lust."</p> ...
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  • ...joyment from the heart of the devotee who relishes His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted"|"who is the Paramatma" [[Category:Truthful Devotees of God]] ...
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  • {{terms|"We cannot perceive the Lord's presence in our hearts unless our hearts are cleansed"}} [[Category:Perceiving God]] ...
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  • {{terms|"A neophyte devotee is certain to be attacked by other material desires as well, namely desires for women and [[Category:Neophyte Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...ity of Godhead by such activities, nor do we give the Lord a chance to sit in our hearts peacefully"}} [[Category:No One Can]] ...
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  • [[Category:Anartha-nivrtti - Devotional Service to God]] ...rt should be cleansed and soothed to receive Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and enable Him to sit within the heart without disturbance. ...
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  • ...editation are all compared to grains of sand. They simply cause irritation to the heart"}} [[Category:God's Existence]] ...
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  • {{terms|"If a devotee at all wants to cleanse his heart, he must chant and hear the glories of the Lord, Sri Krsn [[Category:If Devotees of God]] ...
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  • {{terms|"Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu used to teach every devotee by His personal behavior. Everyone who spreads the cult [[Category:Caitanya Used To]] ...
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  • ...ose who are engaged as acaryas must learn from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu how to train devotees by personal example"}} [[Category:Acarya - Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...comes harder and harder, like that of a materialist. Gradually one desires to become a reputed devotee or an avatara"}} [[Category:In This Way]] ...
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  • ...s not factual devotee, his good qualification, academic qualification, has no value"}} [[Category:Have Nothing To Do With]] ...
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  • ...passion for honor—these transcendental qualities, O son of Bharata, belong to godly men endowed with divine nature.</p> ...everyone, and they strive to establish a competitionless society with God in the center. ...
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  • ...Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī accepted Nityānanda Prabhu and the six Gosvāmīs in the category of guru. ...is) of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Gadādhara, Dāmodara and Jagadānanda belong to this category of internal energy. ...
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  • ...the sun and moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauḍa to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction ...the sun and moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauḍa to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction ...
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  • ...ay: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is stated in the Vedas (Śvetāśvatara Up. 6.23):</p> ...ns of the sādhu, the revealed scriptures and the spiritual master in order to understand the real purpose of spiritual life.</p> ...
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  • ...ly carried away by bad association should be shown favor if they are eager to receive proper instructions from pure devotees"}} [[Category:Receiving Instructions from Pure Devotees of God]] ...
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  • ...ss is no longer obliged to anyone, nor is he a debtor to anyone, as one is in the ordinary course of activities. It is said:</p> ...ṣṇa to Arjuna in this verse, and the matter will be more clearly explained in the following verses.</p> ...
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  • [[Category:Qualities of a Devotee of God|1]] ...rth he was the son of a maidservant and had no knowledge of his father and no academic education, even of the lowest status. But simply by associating wi ...
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  • ...">The great sages, headed by Sanaka, had opened doors everywhere. They had no idea of "ours" and "theirs." With open minds, they entered the seventh door ...ation. Then you will surely be successful in achieving the final objective in your lives.</p> ...
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  • ...the air carries aromas. Thus he takes one kind of body and again quits it to take another.</p> ...is process of transmigrating from one body to another and struggling while in the body is called karṣati, or struggle for existence.</p> ...
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  • {{notes|This page is not for the patient as in someone who is sick}} ...business, Kṛṣṇa's activities, Kṛṣṇa will surely take me back to home, back to..." Niścayāt.</p> ...
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  • ..._text="Introduction to Gitopanisad (Earliest Recording of Srila Prabhupada in the Bhaktivedanta Archives)"> ...future generation of human being to chalk out the plan of his life and act in that way so that his life, his mission of human life, can be perfect.</p> ...
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  • ...ṛṣṇa consciousness, all over the world. Only when one is mature can he sit in a solitary place and retire from preaching all over the world.</div> ...itary place to engage in devotional service. Indeed, he has written a song in this connection:</p> ...
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  • ...anliness, control of the senses, simplicity, essential knowledge, faith in God, scientific knowledge and so on. ...al infection. No material planet, even Satyaloka, is comparable in quality to the spiritual planets, where the five inherent qualities of the material wo ...
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  • [[Category:Sadhu-sanga - Devotional Service to God|1]] ...the duties, one must associate with devotees, and one must be very honest in dealing. Six things. If these six things are there, sure success.</p> ...
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  • ...sed with his service. The spiritual master can show the path of devotional service. If the disciple follows the principles rigidly and undeviatingly, he will ...devotional service is not a matter of idle meditation but practical action in the foreground of spiritual life.</p> ...
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  • {{notes|Contains quotes relating to Bhaktisiddhanta and cheating. Selected from Vedabase query: bhaktisiddhant ...re you? Simply for cheap adoration you sit in a solitary place and pretend to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, but this is all cheating." Thus Bh ...
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  • ...her desires"|"no more other desires"|"no other desire"|"no other desires"|"no other material desires"}} {{notes|VedaBase research query: "no other desire*"@7}} ...
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  • ...by an electrical current generated by the master, and the disciple begins to feel the shock. He becomes unconscious, and the master weeps for his exhaus ...becoming the victim of such advertisement. We do not find such folk tales in the dealings of Śukadeva Gosvāmī and his great disciple Mahārāja Parī ...
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  • ...ity of Godhead, but the intelligent souls enter into the spiritual planets to associate with the Personality of Godhead.</p> ...ty is dragged to the last point of liberation when the living entity wants to become one with the Lord. This is the last snare of māyā, or sense gratif ...
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  • ...bring about misfortune. Kṛṣṇa, however, never brings misfortune to anyone, to say nothing of His devotees.</p> ...
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  • ...atam" text="SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)"><h3>SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)</h3> ...ause of the modes of nature, I also am never to be considered liberated or in bondage.</p> ...
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  • [[Category:Vaniquotes English Dictionary A to Z]] <div class="heading">In the Vedic literature it is said that the mode of goodness means greater kno ...
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  • ...yle="display: inline;">Gradually, step by step, one should become situated in trance by means of intelligence sustained by full conviction, and thus the ...xists, one should not think about sense gratification. One should think of no pleasure aside from the pleasure of the Supreme Self. This state is easily ...
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  • ...in the universe. Owing to a gross material conception of things, most men in this age cannot imagine how such a small particle can become both so great ...re student, he placed the matter before his master and questioned Kṛṣṇa as to his best course of action.</p> ...
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  • ...they will not discuss, everyone is silent. That means deliberately, I mean to say, disobeying Ten Commandments. So where is religious principle? If you d ...ethic, and it's timeless and it's valid, but man is not really interested in...</p> ...
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  • ...ot contaminated by impure consciousness or matter. They are transcendental to the three modes of nature. We should know, however, that at this point our ...es cow dung is considered to be a purifying agent. One might consider this to be contradictory, but it is accepted because it is Vedic injunction, and in ...
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  • {{notes|This page is not for the patient as in someone who is sick}} ...se with great perseverance, not becoming discouraged if there is any delay in the attainment of success. Success is sure for the rigid practitioner. Rega ...
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  • ...t one should not be recognized as a Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava if he is not obedient to them.</div> ...22, Purport]]:''' There is no difference between atheists and the faithful in the Vaikuṇṭha planets because all who settle there are freed from the m ...
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  • ...nal service"|"platform of devotional service"|"platform of pure devotional service"}} {{notes|VedaBase research query: "platform of devotional service"/7}} ...
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  • {{terms|"no motive"|"no motives"}} [[Category:No Motive|1]] ...
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  • ...ā, he can take up the study of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam for further enlightenment in self-realization.</p> ...must be satisfied by the perfect scientific process of perfect devotional service.</p> ...
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  • ...the material world there are inanimate objects that are not conscious, but in the spiritual world nothing is inanimate. There a table is conscious, the l ...tood. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam has eighteen thousand verses, which are summarized in the four verses beginning with aham evāsam evāgre (53) and concluding wit ...
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  • ...these three desires of Mine were not satisfied, for one cannot enjoy them in a contrary position.</p> ...hāṭa, in Vṛndāvana and attracts all the gopīs to His transcendental loving service.</p> ...
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  • [[Category:Society of Devotees of God|1]] ...y of devotees can take place only among those who are really anxious to be in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. ...
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  • ...by the great sage Vyāsadeva (in his maturity), is sufficient in itself for God realization. What is the need of any other scripture? As soon as one attent ...f-realization and which makes reference to man's eternal relationship with God.</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"can no longer tolerate"|"can't tolerate"|"cannot tolerate"|"could not tolerate"}} ...kaniṣṭha-adhikārī also cannot tolerate such blasphemy, he is not competent to stop it by citing śāstric evidences. ...
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  • [[Category:Vaniquotes Sanskrit Dictionary A to Z]] ..."heading">Dhairya means patience. Patience. There may be so many obstacles in prosecuting our spiritual life, but we should patiently go forward. ...
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  • ...rtunity"|"no sex opportunity"|"no such opportunity"|"no such opportunity"|"no this opportunity"}} [[Category:No Opportunity|1]] ...
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  • ...ns are as good as Viṣṇu Himself; nevertheless, because of their activities in controlling māyā, sometimes they are known as māyika, or having a relati ..., and to the eyes of one who is suffering from jaundice everything appears to be yellow. Therefore we cannot rely on the knowledge acquired through such ...
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  • ...īmad-Bhāgavatam and make an all-around solution to all problems pertaining to social, political or religious matters.</p> ...tence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please him to complete satisfaction.</p> ...
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  • ...sato vrtteh"|"six principles favorable to the execution of pure devotional service"|"tat-tat-karma-pravartanat"|"utsahan niscayad dhairyat"}} ...sidhyati" or "six principles favorable to the execution of pure devotional service" or "sanga-tyagat" or "sato vrtteh" or "tat-tat-karma-pravartanat"}} ...
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  • [[Category:Acarya - Devotees of God|2]] <div class="heading">One should hear from authentic sources how to advance in spiritual life; such instructions should be taken from the ācārya and sho ...
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  • <div class="heading">The truth should be spoken in a straightforward way, so that others will understand actually what the fac ...atable to others. But that is not truthfulness. The truth should be spoken in a straightforward way, so that others will understand actually what the fac ...
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  • ...ṣṇa" and Kṛṣṇa Himself are identical. Having such faith, one must continue to chant the holy name.</p> ...e Lord is identical with the Lord is a pure devotee, even though he may be in the neophyte stage. By his association, others may also become Vaiṣṇava ...
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  • ...Bhāgavatam. One who has no knowledge of the Bhāgavatam will hardly be able to know what the Vedānta says.</p> ...al stage, but because he was in the householder's life, he did not pretend to be a liberated soul, as a matter of custom.</p> ...
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  • ...e value. This is because he is hovering on the mental plane and is certain to be attracted by the glaring material energy." ([[Vanisource:SB 5.18.12|SB 5 ...ss, he need not act in relationship to the material world with obligations to family traditions, humanity, or nationality. Fruitive activities are the en ...
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  • ..." not "what is the difference between" not "not * difference between" not "no * difference between"}} ...uld try to discriminate between sexual love and pure love, for they belong to different categories, with a gulf of difference between them. They are as d ...
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  • ...vad-gītā (18.66) Lord Kṛṣṇa says, "Give up all your nonsense and surrender to Me. I will protect you."</p> ...sion, says to us, “Don’t do it, or you’ll be out of my clutches. Just stay in my clutches, and I’ll kick you.”</p> ...
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  • ...t. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā: "With your activities dedicated to Me and your mind and intelligence fixed on Me, you will attain Me without d ...ṣṇa, he is sure to go back to Godhead without any doubt. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (8.5-15):</p> ...
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  • <div class="heading">Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura comments in his Anubhāṣya that among the five tattvas, two are energies (śakti-tatt ...ental love, fraternity and servitude are included in conjugal love of God. In conclusion, therefore, every confidential devotee is a pure devotee of the ...
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  • ...devotion's not "nectar of devotion" not "love and devotion" not " devotion to krsna" not "pure devotion" not "unalloyed devotion"}} ...arly, He does not fear the asuras. Thus there is no question of partiality in the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p> ...
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  • ...keep the women chaste, it was the function of the responsible father, or, in the absence of father, the elder brother. ...ition is different. We are speaking of ordinary woman. Because Kṛṣṇa says, in another place, striyo vaiśyas tathā śūdraḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 9.32 (197 ...
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  • .... Practical examination. Those who are science students, in BAC, they have to give, pass theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge also. Simply theor ...ss of a śūdra like a dog. That is prohibited. And nowadays we are claiming to become brāhmaṇa and going here and there with application, "If there is ...
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  • ...rise early in the morning, bathe in the well or rivers, go to the temples to attend maṅgala-ārati, chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and take p ...Westerner, and the blind Westerner can see with the help of the lame man. In short, the material advancement of the Western countries and the spiritual ...
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  • ...eling and willing. Then there is Brahman realization, called vijñāna-maya, in which the living entity's mind and life symptoms are distinguished from the ...nd the nature of the field of activities. One has to search for this truth in the Vedānta-sūtra, or Brahma-sūtra.</p> ...
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  • ...r powerful he may become by dint of severe penance, can never become equal to the Supreme Lord.</p> ...Pūtanā because she pretended to be an affectionate mother, allowing Kṛṣṇa to suck her breast. The Lord accepts the least qualification of the living ent ...
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  • [[Category:Vaniquotes English Dictionary A to Z]] <div class="heading">Unalloyed devotion means service to the Lord without desire for the above-mentioned personal benefits. ...
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  • ...parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13"><h3>SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13</h3> ...t in this way? Because of the present world situation, Kṛṣṇa has descended in the form of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. This is quite natural, ...
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  • ...faithful philosophers, politicians, educators, scientists, etc.—surrender to the lotus feet of the Supreme Person, the all-powerful authority.</p> <div class="heading">Out of madness the people frankly say that there is no need for self-realization because they do not realize that this brief life ...
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  • ...brāhmaṇas, let me tell you about the captains who are especially qualified to lead my military force.'''</div> ...he term Bhagavān to mean the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is considered to be the best of the brāhmaṇas, or a Vaiṣṇava.</div> ...
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  • ...in all respects. She is the embodiment of mahābhāva, and She surpasses all in good qualities."</p> ...urpasses all in beauty, in good qualities, in good fortune and, above all, in love.</p> ...
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  • <div class="heading">A kṣatriya must be tolerant in all circumstances, especially on the battlefield. ...nam ([[Vanisource:BG 18.43 (1972)|BG 18.43]]). A kṣatriya must be tolerant in all circumstances, especially on the battlefield. Thus Bali Mahārāja asse ...
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  • ...this may all seem very wonderful, but as one makes progress in devotional service, all this can be realized.</p> ...ure directs us not to be captivated by the dark regions (tamaḥ) but to try to reach the shining regions of the Absolute (yogi-dhāma).</p> ...
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  • ...s, if you love God, you love matter and God... Because matter is energy of God.</p> ...you'll find out whether a technique is the best or not when your love for God will increase and love for matter will decrease.</p> ...
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  • ...ly without material prosperity, but they have a very secret treasure-house in the lotus feet of the Lord. ...ly without material prosperity, but they have a very secret treasure-house in the lotus feet of the Lord.</p> ...
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  • ...id not create misunderstandings among them. Rather, they enjoyed happiness in these dealings.</p> ...that one is very expert, learned, humorous, cunning, beautiful and skilled in manifesting caricatures.</p> ...
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  • ...the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra died in battle, it would be very difficult to live in their absence. ...the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra died in battle, it would be very difficult to live in their absence. Under the circumstances, that would be another kind of defea ...
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  • ...isource:CC Madhya 19.170|CC Madhya 19.170]]). Bhakti, the whole devotional service program, means hṛṣīkena hṛṣīkeśa-sevanam. So Arjuna was meant fo <div class="heading">A man works very hard day and night to become rich just to make a show that "My dear friends, my dear relatives, you see that how I ha ...
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  • <div class="heading">Those who are spontaneously devoted to the Lord and have no aims for material gain are called attracted devotees. ...tion, and pure devotional service is identical with spontaneous devotional service.</p> ...
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  • ...ar the marks of lotus flowers, will uproot the deep-rooted desire for work in this material world.</p> ...reatest Vedic scholar. After receiving knowledge to be applied practically in his life, how did the saintly King attain his desired destination?</p> ...
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  • ...e;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">As fools are attached to the flowers of poisonous trees without knowing the results of such attracti ...res of life. It is understood that there are gardens called Nandana-kānana in which there is good opportunity for association with angelic, beautiful wom ...
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  • <div class="heading">Such a detached person naturally prefers to live in a secluded place, he does not eat more than what he requires, and he contro ...rom false proprietorship, and peaceful—such a person is certainly elevated to the position of self-realization.''' ...
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  • ...ative of the Lord. The revealed scriptures prohibit one's pretending to be God, but a bona fide spiritual master is a most faithful and confidential serva ...e Personality of Godhead. The tenth item is the shelter of all the others. To distinguish this ultimate shelter from the other nine subjects, the mahāja ...
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  • ...we're going to Hong Kong, but there's no temple there. We'll have to live in hotels.</p> <p>Prabhupāda: And where is that boy gone that was in Hong Kong?</p> ...
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  • ...chariot from the mud, so Kṛṣṇa asked Arjuna "That this is the opportunity to kill him. You kill him immediately." ..." So at that time he had no weapons and he fell down from the chariot, and in that position he was killed by Arjuna by the order of Kṛṣṇa. This is ...
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  • ...ving enacted the most inglorious murder. Due to her female nature, and due to her being naturally good and well-behaved, she showed him due respects as a ...rd, and now he wants to know with confidence whether the child will follow in the footsteps of his great forefathers. That is the way of the monarchical ...
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  • ...ust. Generally at that time people go to Vṛndāvana to offer their respects to the Deities there.</p> ...ose original abodes, for they are facsimiles of those original holy places in the transcendental world. They are as good as Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself and ...
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  • <div class="heading">Men should offer everything to the transcendental service of the Lord because He is the proprietor of all planets and the demigods th ...less one understands these bare facts, it is not possible to achieve peace in the world either individually or collectively.</p> ...
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  • ...out fail at the time of death, when we are in such a precarious condition. In this regard, one may also see Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (6.2.9-10 and 14-15).</p ...ppened in their past lives, but Bharata Mahārāja did not forget. According to Bhagavad-gītā:</p> ...
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  • ...to Harikrishnadas Aggarwal -- Los Angeles 3 March, 1968" link_text="Letter to Harikrishnadas Aggarwal -- Los Angeles 3 March, 1968"> ...implemented very nicely. So my first concrete program is that if you agree to organize such a Sankirtana party, a batch of American students may join, an ...
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  • ...in the scriptures, and practical application of the brahminical qualities in life. ...these qualifications, when one fully engages in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, he becomes a Vaiṣṇava.</p> ...
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  • ...injunctions and your relatives for My sake. I disappeared behind you only to increase your concentration upon Me. Since I disappeared for your benefit, ...d jump vast distances. In the Rāmāyaṇa, Hanumān is described as being able to lift huge weights as heavy as hills and jump over the ocean. Modern astrono ...
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  • ...learned the Bhāgavatam from that great and powerful sage. Now I shall try to make you hear the very same thing as I learned it from him and as I have re ...rson, at the very beginning one can assuredly see Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa in person in the pages of Bhāgavatam.</p> ...
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  • ...of the Lord, which the devotee can achieve in spite of his being attached to the sensual platform.</p> ...Instead He clearly requests that a leaf, fruit, flowers and water be given to Him, and He says of this offering, "I will accept it."</p> ...
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  • ...work. Rather, by working in the spirit of devotion, he should engage them in all sorts of activities (for the gradual development of Kṛṣṇa conscio ..., and such a learned person can sacrifice any amount of material happiness to achieve the desired goal known as brahma-sukham, or absolute happiness.</p> ...
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  • ...d in Kṛṣṇa consciousness has certainly already entered into the kingdom of God.</p> ...s, by the grace of the Lord, and both of us were trained in the devotional service of the Lord from the very beginning of our lives. Later on we met by the or ...
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  • ...be controlled and that it drags them down to sensual activities. A person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not run this risk. ...iples of yoga is recommended for inferior men; superior men, being engaged in the superior activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, naturally retire from ...
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  • ...resolved that they would attack the Lord if He dared to punish them again in such a manner. This incident provoked some malicious talks about the Lord o ...ādī cannot have access to the Bhāgavatam, but those who are really anxious to get out of this material existence may take shelter of this Bhāgavatam bec ...
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  • ...dually move west, the movement They began five hundred years ago will come to the Western civilizations by Their mercy.</p> ...s of ignorance. Whatever one sees or otherwise experiences one should know to be simply an exhibition of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's energy. Eve ...
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  • ...l material sense enjoyment due to his higher taste for spiritual enjoyment in the association of the Lord. That is the secret of success.</p> ...slim family, he was elevated to the post of nāmācārya by Lord Caitanya due to his rigidly attended principle of chanting three hundred thousand holy name ...
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  • ...mple of the Lord, he should similarly properly respect each and every body in which the Paramātmā dwells. Everyone should therefore be given proper res ...e Lord. Due to rebellion against the Supreme Lord, one becomes subordinate to material nature. One must know and be convinced of this truth.</p> ...
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  • ...are of the spiritual master one cannot rise to the plane of transcendental service. ...y: inline;">"One should know the ācārya as Myself and never disrespect him in any way. One should not envy him, thinking him an ordinary man, for he is t ...
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  • ...rly, where particular modes of material nature are proportionately greater in quantity, the different species of life are manifested accordingly.</p> ...o the point. And it was glorious because she wanted to show proper respect to a great family.</p> ...
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  • ...un and the moon because They dissipate the darkness of the material world. In this instance the sun and the moon have risen together.</p> ...the sun and moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauḍa to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction ...
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  • ...a (the present yuga, or age), when people in general are short-lived, slow in spiritual realization and always disturbed by various anxieties, the best m ...y name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way."</p> ...
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  • ...ir anabhisvangah"|"bhaktir avyabhicarini"|"constant and unalloyed devotion to Me"|"duhkha-dosanudarsanam"|"freedom from entanglement with children, wife, ...bhisvangah" or "bhaktir avyabhicarini" or "constant and unalloyed devotion to Me" or "duhkha-dosanudarsanam" or "freedom from entanglement with children, ...
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  • ...is the eternal occupation of the living entity. We are temporarily engaged in different activities, but all of these activities can be purified when we g ...supposed to have a great heritage. A great heritage brings responsibility in the matter of proper discharge of duties; therefore, he cannot avoid fighti ...
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  • ...ir respects. The Kazi's descendants are residents, and they never objected to saṅkīrtana, even during the Hindu-Muslim riot days.</p> ...in the order of the Śaṅkarācārya-sampradāya, and he himself also belonged to that cult. As such, the Bhaṭṭācārya desired that the young sannyāsī ...
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  • ...is different from the individual living entity. When the sky is reflected in water, the reflections represent both the sun and the moon and the stars al ...s material body but that he is different from it and that his happiness is in eternal life, bliss and knowledge. These are transcendental, beyond both bo ...
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  • ...philosophy. It is meant for my brother and my sister, not for anyone else. No. It is meant for everyone.</p> ..., "Enjoy life, senses. Gratify your senses some way or other." "No, I have no sufficient money." Ṛṇam kṛtvā: "Take. Beg, borrow, steal. Bring mone ...
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  • ...nd others (the regulated householders) sacrifice the objects of the senses in the fire of the senses.</p> ...ve an aural reception to these messages, and what to speak of surrendering to the will of the Supreme Lord? Narādhamas, or the lowest of mankind, willfu ...
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  • ...not satisfying the spiritual master, there is no chance of being promoted to the plane of Kṛṣṇa consciousness." ...s one's mission in life. Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura instructs us, in his famous prayers for the spiritual master, as follows:</p> ...
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  • {{notes|VedaBase query: "Word* of" not "krsna word*"@6 not "word* god*"@3 not "word* lord"@5}} ...d devotees, there are many such instances, proving that once one has taken to the shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord, he cannot be lost (kaunteya prat ...
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  • {{terms|"like the sun"|"likened to the sun"|"sun is like"|"sun is likened"|"sun like"|"sunlike"}} ...the sun and moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauḍa to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction ...
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  • ...A grassworm confined in a hole of a wall by a bee always thinks of the bee in fear and enmity and later becomes a bee simply because of such remembrance. ...other leaders, is under the bodily conception of life, which is condemned in the śāstras. Sa eva go-kharaḥ: ([[Vanisource:SB 10.84.13|SB 10.84.13]]) ...
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  • ...ised her: Oh, what a beauty! What rare self-control! What a budding youth! In the midst of us all, who are passionately longing for her, she is moving ab ...His lips. Once devoting his mind to this, the yogī should no longer desire to see anything else.</p> ...
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  • ...istence is eternal. But somehow or other we are put into asat. Asat refers to that which does not exist.</p> ...e do not know how to do it. The solution is given here, and it rests on us to assimilate it or not.</p> ...
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  • ...tity is the servant of God. This vision of equality is perfect in a person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> ...who, by comparison to his own self, sees the true equality of all beings, in both their happiness and their distress, O Arjuna!</p> ...
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  • ...chment. He was truly virtuous, as these qualities, combined with his faith in the words of instruction of Śrī Kṛṣṇa (his spiritual master), indic <div class="heading">It is very difficult to control the mind and senses without being fully Kṛṣṇa conscious. ...
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  • ...spicious activities does not meet with destruction either in this world or in the spiritual world; one who does good, My friend, is never overcome by evi ...inking of doing good for others. The best training for the mind is gravity in thought. ...
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  • ...In Satya-yuga there was only one social division, called haṁsa; there were no divisions of varṇa like brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra. The ...for worship of the demigods. Fire was one only, and the only order of life in human society was known as haṁsa.</p> ...
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  • ...ot meant for the envious, for the agnostics or for persons who are unclean in their behavior. Nor is it for hypocrites or for persons who are proud of ma <div class="heading">A disciple should never be a hypocrite or be unfaithful to his spiritual master. ...
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  • ...e Nectar of Instruction''' ''Second Printing 1976''<br />''Click the cover to download the PDF.''</div>]] ...to achieve the topmost desire of all ''Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas'' - pure love of God. ...
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  • ...personally I have any credit in this matter, it is only that I have tried to present Bhagavad-gītā as it is, without any adulteration. ...e path of spiritual guidance and will not be able to go back to home, back to Godhead.</p> ...
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  • ...ist artificially. It is better to be situated in one's position and to try to attain Kṛṣṇa consciousness under superior training.</p> ...n, and whose aim is inward is actually the perfect mystic. He is liberated in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme.</p> ...
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  • ...a consciousness, however, is different from these because it is the direct service of the Supreme Lord. Kṛṣṇa consciousness cannot be attained by any on ...pted so that some day one may come to the stage of pure devotional service to the Supreme Lord.</p> ...
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  • ...understood only by devotees, and no one else can taste it, as it is stated in the Fourth Chapter of the book. Nor can the Gītā be touched by persons wh ...style="display: inline;">Those persons who execute their duties according to My injunctions and who follow this teaching faithfully, without envy, becom ...
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  • ...s no supreme cause and that everything is ultimately void. Such people are in a diseased condition of life.</p> ...ng a great white snake from His mouth, and thus He was carried by Śeṣanāga in the shape of a serpent.</p> ...
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  • ...ls Arjuna that he need not give up his occupation, but while he is engaged in his occupation he should remember Kṛṣṇa (mām anusmara ([[Vanisource: ...order of life who is absolutely devoted to spiritual culture, are eligible to enter into the sun globe, which is so powerful and dazzling.</p> ...
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  • <div class="heading">It may be seen that a person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness commits some act which may be taken as most abomi ...material contamination is so strong that even a yogī fully engaged in the service of the Lord sometimes becomes ensnared; but Kṛṣṇa consciousness is so ...
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  • {{terms|"highest devotional platform"|"highest devotional platform"|"highest perfectional platform"|"highest platform"|"highest spiri ...ty is the highest perfectional stage of Vedic knowledge. This is confirmed in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (3.33.7) as follows:</p> ...
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  • ...Sometimes the soul is called the steady, or kūṭa-stha. The body is subject to six kinds of transformations. It takes its birth from the womb of the mothe ...tion perfectly well, without falsely trying to become one with the Supreme in all respects. This is called Brahman realization, or self-realization. Such ...
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  • ...itude of persons who consider Kṛṣṇa to be an ordinary human being, subject to the modes of material nature.</p> ...o the point. And it was glorious because she wanted to show proper respect to a great family.</p> ...
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  • ...5]]). "I will take you back." It is stated. Kṛṣṇa is not a liar so we have to work with enthusiasm.</p> ...our duties, it is very nice to go to the superior person and ask him what to do. So who can be superior person than Kṛṣṇa?</p> ...
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  • ...rd Kṛṣṇa elaborately explained karma-yoga, or work in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, in this Third Chapter.</p> ...s show—bottle spiritualism to cheat the innocent public. A sincere sweeper in the street is far better than the charlatan meditator who meditates only fo ...
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  • ...avān, he'll take shelter of Kṛṣṇa. If not is this life, he'll have to come to this status. Therefore nirviśeṣa vadi, impersonalists... Kṛṣṇa say ...ūpa Gosvāmī says, nirbandhe kṛṣṇa-sambandhe. Kṛṣṇa-sambandhe. You can deal in politics. Then politics will be perfect. Kṛṣṇa-sambandhe, you can mak ...
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  • ...a particular order of life follow this principle, but every member, be he in the brahmacārī āśrama, gṛhastha āśrama, vānaprastha āśrama or sa ...goodness in order to chant the Gāyatrī mantra successfully and then attain to the stage of transcendentally realizing the Lord, His name, His fame, His q ...
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  • ...hat no other process can be used, can be recommended, or can be successful in understanding Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...d in the confidential entourage of the Lord and is entrusted with specific service of the Lord through the agency of the spiritual master.</p> ...
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  • ...become so degraded that they are just like animals and can no longer claim to have a human civilization.</p> ...erformed by Murāri, a great devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Sometimes in his ecstasy he would slap the cheek of a tiger, and sometimes he would play ...
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  • ...ws, must be given all protection—that is real advancement of civilization. In modern human society, spiritual knowledge is neglected, and cow killing is <div class="heading">"Even if I live in the darkest regions of a forest I shall be accompanied by Kṛṣṇa, and ...
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  • ...hough His wife was sixteen and His mother seventy and He was the only male in the family. Although He was a brāhmaṇa and was not rich, He took sannyā ...relationships with the Lord. The activities of Lord Caitanya are primarily in the role of the pleasure-giving portion of His internal potency.</p> ...
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  • ...remains the same—fragmental. But once liberated, he lives an eternal life in bliss and knowledge with the Personality of Godhead.</p> ...hould be based on the principles of such standard śāstras. One who desires to improve himself must follow the standard rules as they are practiced by the ...
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  • ...ypes of bodies, offering a particular body to each living entity according to his character and fruitive actions, the Lord revives all the qualities of m ...sion, therefore, is that the Lord is always impartial and always very kind to all living entities.</p> ...
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  • ...e living being to attract Him does the living being become a pure lover of God. But when the same hlādinī-śakti is adulterated by the external, materia ...th God or compete with God, everyone directly or indirectly engages in the service of the Lord.</p> ...
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  • ...t the mercy of God, the devotees can live very comfortably by the mercy of God.</p> ...ṛṣṇa consciousness and go back to home, back to Godhead. Now any question? No question? Everything all right?</p> ...
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  • ...... Not accept blindly, but you can employ your logic and argument and try to understand, then your knowledge is perfect.</p> ...is self-realized and we have surrendered there honestly, with inquiry and service, then we must know that our spiritual salvation is guaranteed. ...
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  • ...r, one is not able to construct a temple for Kṛṣṇa, one can engage himself in cleansing the temple of Kṛṣṇa; that is also kṛṣṇa-karma.</p> ...please the Lord. Thus the subject matter was explained by the grandfather to his grandchildren.</p> ...
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  • ...mpradāya. The whole world is full of cheaters and cheated. Because we want to be cheated, there are so many cheaters. They don't want real thing.</p> ...rascals, but they cheat. They pose themselves as scholars and people want to be cheated, so they take their words. So they cannot understand Kṛṣṇa ...
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  • ...inline;">Devotee: Why should we... He said... You say that we are all come to the, as servants of Kṛṣṇa. So why should we think that we are Kṛṣ <p>Devotee: Belong to Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • [[Category:Vaniquotes Sanskrit Dictionary A to Z]] ...minated. This is very nicely explained in the Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad (3.19) in the verse apāṇi-pādo javano grahītā.</p> ...
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  • ...e="display: inline;">The authorized scriptures direct the individual souls to revive their relationship with the Supersoul. Indeed, the system of yoga is ...ead. If such a man argues about this matter, certainly he must be doing so to agitate the minds of his opponents.</p> ...
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  • ...ral public and gain fame as a wonderful mystic, but all this is considered to be dust, straw and grains of sand within the heart. ...this is considered to be dust, straw and grains of sand within the heart. In addition, one should follow the regulative principles and not desire illici ...
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  • ...sive stage of chanting one may desire all kinds of material happiness, but in the second stage one becomes clear of all material contamination. ...cendental stage, one attains the most coveted position—the stage of loving God. Lord Caitanya taught that this is the highest stage of perfection for huma ...
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  • ...to imitate their actions. One should not try to drink the ocean of poison in imitation of Lord Śiva. ...e Lord did in His childhood. It is impossible for any human being. We have to follow His instructions, but we may not imitate Him at any time. The Śrīm ...
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  • ...nly Kṛṣṇa can claim this because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. No living entity, including Brahmā, Lord Śiva, or Nārāyaṇa, can possess ...ast, present and future. The consciousness of the individual soul is prone to be forgetful. When he is forgetful of his real nature, he obtains education ...
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  • ...s no supreme cause and that everything is ultimately void. Such people are in a diseased condition of life. ...of spiritual speculation out of hopelessness. This last class of men take to the shelter of some kind of intoxication, and their affective hallucination ...
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  • ...at is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. We have to learn how to act only for Kṛṣṇa, how to love only Kṛṣṇa. Then our life is successful.</p> ...e in the Bhagavad-gītā openly speaks that just control your eating process in the yajña. Just begin your karma-yoga from the eating formula. Then, gradu ...
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  • ...a Purāṇa it is said that the same Viṣṇu expands Himself as Brahmā and Śiva to direct the different qualities.</p> ...ptures Viṣṇu has been described as being free from all material qualities. In the Tenth Canto of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said:</p> ...
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  • ...i -- ISKCON Inc., 26 2nd Ave, New York, N.Y 5 May, 1967" link_text="Letter to Ballabhi -- ISKCON Inc., 26 2nd Ave, New York, N.Y 5 May, 1967"> ...Please try to chant at least 16 rounds of the beads and while chanting try to hear each and every word. ...
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  • ...age of a brāhmaṇa. When a qualified brāhmaṇa factually becomes a Vaiṣṇava, in the enlivened state of liberation he can know what is actually the Personal ...on "most confidential" is significant here because knowledge of devotional service is far, far above knowledge of impersonal Brahman.</p> ...
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  • ...ouse. They are called first-class prisoners. So to become a brāhmaṇa means to becomes a first-class prisoner. That's all.</p> ...isource:BG 15.15 (1972)|BG 15.15]]). The Vedas means, to study Vedas means to understand Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...bts have been destroyed by transcendental knowledge, is situated factually in the self. Thus he is not bound by the reactions of work, O conqueror of ric ...style="display: inline;">O conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread.</p> ...
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  • ...ense gratification, will he attain a higher birth in a family of Vaiṣṇavas in his next life or anything like this?</p> ...problem for his bread. So he can exclusively engage himself in devotional service. Provided he gets the assistance of a bona fide spiritual master. So your a ...
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  • ...rity in the mode of goodness is recommended by the scriptures, but charity in the modes of passion and ignorance is not recommended, because it is simply ...ng to this cause, but we must also arrange to preach this cult of devotion to others because that is also one of the orders of the Lord.</p> ...
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  • ..." class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withe ...ements. Firearms were counteracted by water weapons, which are now unknown to modern science. Nor do modern scientists have knowledge of tornado weapons. ...
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  • ...to imitate Haridāsa Ṭhākura. The actual result of their so-called chanting in a secluded place, however, is that they sleep and think of women and money. ...to imitate Haridāsa Ṭhākura. The actual result of their so-called chanting in a secluded place, however, is that they sleep and think of women and money. ...
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  • ...rom false proprietorship, and peaceful—such a person is certainly elevated to the position of self-realization.</p> ...re, clean both inside and outside, merciful to the suffering, and truthful in daily behavior. That is the way of correcting the flaws of human society, w ...
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  • ...iosity based on gross or subtle sense gratification is completely rejected in the process of bhāgavata-dharma, or the transcendental religion that is th ...evotees and only through the process of devotional service. The Lord tried to conceal His identity as the Supreme Personality of Godhead by representing ...
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  • ...ña inaugurated by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. But one should not indulge in animal killing and counteract it by performing the hari-nāma yajña. ...ña inaugurated by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. But one should not indulge in animal killing and counteract it by performing the hari-nāma yajña. Those ...
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  • {{terms|"faithless"|"faithlessly"|"faithlessness"|"no faith"|"without faith"}} ...faith in liberation from material bondage, and they are very much attached to the pompous ceremonies of Vedic sacrifices. ...
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  • ...s this? I have to kill my own men." Svajanam. Svajanam means own men. "No, no."</p> ...... So, so many differences. But here I see there is no difference at all. No difference at all. Only some bodily features.</p> ...
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  • {{notes|not compiling "no good qualification*"}} ...these qualifications, but engagement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and devotional service automatically helps him develop them.</p> ...
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  • ...anātana Gosvāmī... Not that simply by imitating his cloth. You must follow in principle all the rules and regulations given by...</p> ...a Gosvāmī did not do any business by showing the Deity. Therefore you have to follow strictly the principles of Rūpa Gosvāmī, Sanātana Gosvāmī. The ...
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  • {{terms|"I think in Darwin's theory there is no such conception of coming to the point of sattva-guna, goodness. They do not know even what it is, sattv [[Category:No Such]] ...
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  • ...f the Lord, his head in offering obeisances unto the Lord, and his desires in executing the mission of the Lord. All these transcendental activities are ...isplay: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Arjuna saw in that universal form unlimited mouths, unlimited eyes, unlimited wonderful v ...
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  • ...ajanti anya-devatāḥ ([[Vanisource:BG 7.20 (1972)|BG 7.20]]). "Those who go to worship the demigods they have lost their intelligence on account of too mu ...But if you become, I mean to say, true to your state laws you haven't got to bribe the constable or this officer, that officer. You see.</p> ...
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  • ...ousness very nicely. So we should not deride. We shall give him concession to reform.</p> ...class="text"><p style="display: inline;">This is called unflinching faith. In spite of seeing my respectful superior abominable, not willingly, but by ac ...
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  • ...s demon and as such is untouchable, a not to be seen persona non grata fit to be punished by the Plutonic king.</p> ...ddha-sattva. Only in this śuddha-sattva state can one always see Kṛṣṇa eye to eye by dint of pure affection for the Lord.</p> ...
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  • ...hey have no idea that one must think of the soul, and thus make a solution to the material miseries.</p> ...earing the path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness for all students who seriously want to understand the mystery of the Bhagavad-gītā.</p> ...
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  • ...Caitanya Mahāprabhu. What will be described herein, therefore, has nothing to do with the experimental thoughts created by the speculative habits of iner ...impersonal feature realized by common spiritualists who are merely trying to enter the spiritual region from the mundane platform.</p> ...
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  • ...ex="0" parent="Correspondence" text="1947 to 1965 Correspondence"><h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3> ...Letter to Gandhi Memorial Fund -- Calcutta 5 July, 1949" link_text="Letter to Gandhi Memorial Fund -- Calcutta 5 July, 1949"> ...
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  • ...at the end of everyone's life, everyone is required to leave home, perform devotional activities, but not necessarily take sannyāsa.</p> ...ontinue from the very beginning. For the management of affairs, we require to divide. Because there are different classes of brain, so those who have ver ...
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  • ...ng to make advancement in spiritual realization should not commit violence to animals. Real ahiṁsā means not checking anyone's progressive life.</p> ...
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  • ...be awakened from its dormant position by the execution of pure devotional service, just as a person bitten by a serpent and fallen unconscious can be revived ...demigod or even any other form of Kṛṣṇa, nor is there room for indulgence in speculative empiric philosophy or fruitive activities.</p> ...
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  • ...-gītā is really profitable and authorized for the welfare of human society in fulfilling the mission of life.</p> ...e indication of this verse. For such persons, cultivation of the knowledge in the Vedic literature, like the Vedānta-sūtra and the Upaniṣads. is alwa ...
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  • {{terms|"no qualification"|"no qualifications"|"not qualification"}} ...entering into the kingdom of God. Fruitive activities and speculation are no qualifications for entering.</p> ...
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  • ...you are a brāhmaṇa, but if you act for the satisfaction of Kṛṣṇa according to the prescription of your position, then your life is perfect.</p> ...o say, eulogized by Kṛṣṇa. But Kṛṣṇa condemned it. Yes. Just the opposite. In other words, Kṛṣṇa is very strict also. That is the qualification of ...
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  • ...f works." A human being is sometimes restricted in sense gratification due to certain circumstances, such as disease, but such proscriptions are for the ...he also becomes purified by the spiritual attraction of the Lord. Although God is great and the living entity small, they are spiritual individuals, and t ...
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  • ...e="display: inline;">Let me see those who have come here to fight, wishing to please the evil-minded son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra.</p> ...hat he wanted to see them to make an estimate of the strength which he had to face, although he was quite confident of victory because Kṛṣṇa was si ...
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  • ...ure to commit mistakes, (2) is invariably illusioned, (3) has the tendency to cheat others and (4) is limited by imperfect senses. With these four imperf ...for the living entity to be happy without rendering transcendental loving service unto the Supreme Lord.</p> ...
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  • ..."must know the..., learn"|"must learn"|"must submissively learn"|"must try to learn"}} ...mes nonviolent, then the whole state will be in chaos. They must learn how to kill any criminal. He should be immediately killed.</p> ...
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  • [[Category:God Dissipates Darkness|1]] ...ng the darkness of ignorance from the heart of a devotee. He confirms this in Bhagavad-gītā (10.10)</p> ...
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  • ...responsibility of Indian empire to the Indian people, Gandhi was thinking in the morning, "Oh, I am so unhappy. Now only death will please me." And the ...and kāma. Kāma. It has been very simplified by Kavirāja Kṛṣṇadāsa Gosvāmī in his Caitanya-caritāmṛta: ātmendriya-prīti-vāñchā tāre bali 'kāma' ...
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  • [[Category:Uttama-adhikari - Devotees of God|1]] ...ectful obeisances unto Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī before he begins his answers to the questions of the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya.</p> ...
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  • ...f yoga teaches meditation on the transcendental form of the Lord. There is no question of meditating on something void or impersonal. When one can medita ...cendental stage, one attains the most coveted position—the stage of loving God. Lord Caitanya taught that this is the highest stage of perfection for huma ...
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  • ...source:NOI 2|NOI 2]])) are against the principles by which one can advance in spiritual life.</p> ...mes tainted with lust and greed and falls down from the path of devotional service.</p> ...
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  • ...ond of mental speculation (jñāna-mārga) or want to meditate in mystic yoga to find the Absolute Truth must approach the impersonal effulgence of the Lord ...uddha-bhakti (pure devotional service) and viddha-bhakti (mixed devotional service).</p> ...
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  • ...he describes Rādhārāṇī and Kṛṣṇa as seated beneath a wish-fulfilling tree in Vṛndāvana, on a throne decorated with valuable jewels. There Kṛṣṇa ..." class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"If I deliberate on a way to taste it, I find that I hanker for the position of Rādhikā."</p> ...
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  • ...most confidentially stored benediction, He can distribute love of Godhead to anyone and everyone without consideration."</p> ...odhead to anyone and everyone. This can be actually experienced, as stated in the next verse.</p> ...
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  • ...of his previous life, and he again tries to make further progress in order to achieve complete success, O son of Kuru.</p> ...ine consciousness of his previous life, he automatically becomes attracted to the yogic principles—even without seeking them. Such an inquisitive trans ...
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  • {{terms|"Devotional service means"|"Devotional service, means"}} [[Category:Devotional Service to God|3]] ...
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  • ...ans that one is clean"|"Brahmana means to be always clean"|"Brahmana means to be clean"|"Brahmana, means a cultured brahmana, they are always pure"|"Suci ...e:BG 7.28 (1972)|BG 7.28]]), they can stick to the principle of devotional service. Otherwise, if he's not free from the contamination of sinful life, he may ...
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  • ...alled vivarta-vāda. Every conditioned living entity who considers the body to be the soul is deluded by this vivarta-vāda. One can be attacked by this v ...the goddess of fortune in the house of Candraśekhara Ācārya. He also went to see Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu when He was staying at Jagannātha Purī.</p> ...
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  • ...ex="0" parent="Correspondence" text="1947 to 1965 Correspondence"><h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3> ...k="Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 14 September, 1951" link_text="Letter to Mr. Bailey -- Allahabad 14 September, 1951"> ...
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  • ...o remembering the Supreme Lord and will enable one, upon leaving the body, to attain a spiritual body which is just fit for association with the Supreme ...engaged in remembering Me, undeviated from the path, he, O Arjuna, is sure to reach Me." ([[Vanisource:BG 8.8 (1972)|BG 8.8]])</p> ...
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  • ...ṣṇa consciousness perfectly, for him, after leaving this body, he's coming to Me. This is His assurance. So we haven't got any doubt, Kṛṣṇa has ass ...eeny. But be assured that the desired result will come if we act sincerely to the point.</p> ...
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  • ...ep them always aloof from all kinds of contamination of sinful association in the material world.</p> ...to keep aloof from the objects of the senses. But aside from that, one has to strengthen the mind by use of intelligence.</p> ...
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  • ..."Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 12 January, 1970" link_text="Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Los Angeles 12 January, 1970"> ...ary Godbrothers alive on this point. Surely we will bring in a new chapter in the history of the world.</p> ...
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  • ...ning of Kali-yuga, the Lord will appear as Lord Buddha, the son of Añjanā, in the province of Gayā, just for the purpose of deluding those who are envio ...Buddha. That was the mercy of Lord Buddha: he made the faithless faithful to him.</p> ...
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  • ...iosity based on gross or subtle sense gratification is completely rejected in the process of bhāgavata-dharma, or the transcendental religion that is th ...fe. Let us all worship Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu for His gracious mercy to the conditioned souls.</p> ...
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  • ..... In this way there are nine qualification to become first-class man. And to become first-class man, the preliminary qualification is that you should no ...javam, whether he is strictly following how to become self-controlled, how to remain always pure, clean, śuci. ...
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  • ...972)|BG 18.66]]). So one who has accepted this fact, that, "If I surrender to Kṛṣṇa, my all business is successful," he is Kṛṣṇa's representa ...iterature, how to apply practically in life, how to become firmly fixed up in conviction. These are brāhmaṇas'. Similarly, kṣatriya's—fighting. Th ...
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  • ...ause of Kṛṣṇa's transcendental position, it is very difficult for a layman to actually know the Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, His holy name and fa ...ause of Kṛṣṇa's transcendental position, it is very difficult for a layman to actually know the Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, His holy name and fa ...
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  • ...so the transcendentalist, whose mind is controlled, remains always steady in his meditation on the transcendent Self.</p> ...ant undisturbed meditation on his worshipable Lord, is as steady as a lamp in a windless place.</p> ...
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  • ...the sun and moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauḍa to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction ...the sun and moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauḍa to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction ...
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  • ...y: inline;">"One should know the ācārya as Myself and never disrespect him in any way. One should not envy him, thinking him an ordinary man, for he is t ...t from the Personality of Godhead, and therefore to envy such an ācārya is to envy the Personality of Godhead Himself. This will produce an effect subver ...
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  • ...or. As for actual advancement in spiritual science, one should have a test to see how far he is progressing. He can judge by these items.</p> ...y take the dress of the renounced order of life and engage in all nonsense in that dress. Actually there are so many restrictions for one who has renounc ...
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  • ...o control the forces of the senses as effectively as those who are engaged in transcendental bliss by serving the lotus feet of the Lord, uprooting the d ...o his complete knowledge in self-realization, he always remains in trance. To cite an analogous example of this:</p> ...
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  • ...āmī are on the transcendental level. There is no motive for material gain. In such discourses, unlimited transcendental pleasure is relished both by the ...ing">Any living creature who wants real benefit in life must act according to the direction of the Vedic literature.</div> ...
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  • ...sarvā bhūtāni: ([[Vanisource:BG 9.4 (1972)|BG 9.4]]) never commit violence to anyone.</p> ...by Arjuna at the instruction of Kṛṣṇa is with full knowledge, so there is no possibility of sinful reaction.</p> ...
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  • ...Buddha. That was the mercy of Lord Buddha: he made the faithless faithful to him.</p> ...quality. These are some of the symptoms of the Kali age which are harmful to the general welfare of human society.</p> ...
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  • ...s the vairāgya. It is called vairāgya. Jñāna-vairāgya. Two things required in human life: knowledge and vairāgya, detachment.</p> ...ass containing water. If you want to put milk in this glass, then you have to throw away the water. If you think that "I shall keep half water, half milk ...
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  • ...of knowledge and mystic powers, and (3) the path of worship and devotional service.</p> ...
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  • ...ex="0" parent="Correspondence" text="1947 to 1965 Correspondence"><h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3> ..."Letter to Sumati Morarjee -- New York 27 October, 1965" link_text="Letter to Sumati Morarjee -- New York 27 October, 1965"> ...
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  • ...;">He is peaceful, self-controlled and fully devoted to the transcendental service of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa. He is affectionate toward His devotees, He is ge ...;">"Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is very affectionate toward His devotees, sells Himself to a devotee who offers Him merely a tulasī leaf and a palmful of water."</p> ...
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  • ...e for worldly gain, worldly reception and worldly fame are all detrimental to the progress of bhakti, or Bhāgavata-dharma.</p> ...Vāsudeva, and if one is successful in that attempt, one realizes Vāsudeva in full. But by ill luck most yogīs are stranded by the powers of mysticism a ...
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  • <div class="heading">So if we take up this missionary work, to preach Bhagavad-gītā as it is, without any interpretation and without any ...="text"><p style="display: inline;">So if we take up this missionary work, to preach Bhagavad-gītā as it is, without any interpretation and without any ...
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  • ...ode of goodness, one is more or less free from sinful reactions. Actually, in the Vedic literature it is said that the mode of goodness means greater kno ...t, one becomes degraded. The definition of the mode of ignorance is stated in the Vedic literature. Vastu-yāthātmya-jñānāvarakaṁ viparyaya-jñāna ...
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  • ...ible when one works without attachment to fruitive results and is situated in the fixed conception of the real self.</p> ...here is the brāhmaṇa, or he who is intelligent enough to utilize this body to solve all the problems of life. Ya etad akṣaraṁ gārgi viditvāsmāḻ ...
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  • [[Category:Vaniquotes Sanskrit Dictionary A to Z]] ...more confidential. But when such knowledge is turned into pure devotional service and the confidential part of transcendental knowledge is attained, it is ca ...
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  • ...o desires"|"no material desire"|"no more other desires"|"no other desire"|"no such desire"|"not void of desire"}} [[Category:No Desire|1]] ...
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  • ...modes of material nature, but because of their transcendental intelligence in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they are not influenced by the material qualitie ...modes of material nature, but because of their transcendental intelligence in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, they are not influenced by the material qualitie ...
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  • .... Practical examination. Those who are science students, in BAC, they have to give, pass theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge also. Simply theor <div class="heading">Now, today we have to consider that simply theoretically knowing that "I am consciousness" will n ...
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  • ...ense enjoyment. Such exalted kings, who were known as rājarṣis, ruled only to maintain and protect the kingdom for the welfare of the citizens. The histo ...is said that unless human society is regulated by varṇāśrama-dharma, it is no better than a bestial society of cats and dogs. Mahārāja Priyavrata, ther ...
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  • ...ant of God, Krsna"|"servant of Krsna"|"servant of Lord Krsna"|"servants of God, Krsna"|"servants of Krsna"|"servants of Lord Krsna"}} ...hat artificially we want to be served. That is not possible. When we agree to serve... As Caitanya Mahāprabhu has given us the path of liberation, jīve ...
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  • <div class="heading">Service with love and faith is especially meant for the Supreme Personality of Godh ...e Supreme Personality of Godhead, and thus every living entity is intended to serve the Supreme Lord by his own constitution.</p> ...
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  • ...suitable worshipable form of the Lord, and the disciple should be engaged in worshiping the Deity regularly by śṛṅgāra, by proper decoration and d ...the neophyte devotee all these kindly and personally to help him gradually in the realization of the transcendental name, quality, form, etc., of the Lor ...
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  • ...ex="0" parent="Correspondence" text="1947 to 1965 Correspondence"><h3>1947 to 1965 Correspondence</h3> ...5" link="Letter to Mr. Banerjee -- Bombay 28 July, 1958" link_text="Letter to Mr. Banerjee -- Bombay 28 July, 1958"> ...
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  • [[Category:Devotees of God Should Not|1]] ...will be stopped in due course, as soon as a devotee is completely situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> ...
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  • ...atam" text="SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)"><h3>SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)</h3> ...taking note of the fearful omens, he approached the Personality of Godhead in a private place. He bowed down with his head at the lotus feet of the supre ...
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  • ...Lord. He is the Supreme Personality of Servitor Godhead. It is worthwhile to take shelter of such a steady devotee, who is called āśraya-vigraha, or t ...t from the Personality of Godhead, and therefore to envy such an ācārya is to envy the Personality of Godhead Himself. This will produce an effect subver ...
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  • ...e while chanting the holy name, and (10) to be attached to material things in spite of chanting the holy name.</p> ...us one comes to the fifth stage of perfection, or engagement in the loving service of the Lord (premā pum-artho mahān).</p> ...
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  • ...ying the teachings of Lord Caitanya, and by such knowledge one can advance in spiritual existence.</p> ...cerely hope that by understanding the teachings of Lord Caitanya presented in this book, Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, human society will experience a ne ...
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  • ...ht, taxation and famine. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is the only hope to save the world from such devastation. It is the most scientific and authori ...ception. Freedom from māyā's influence is possible when one engages in the service of the great devotees (mahac-caraṇa-sevā). Without worshiping the lotus ...
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  • ...uence of the modes of nature, māyā, the Lord's external energy, which acts in creation and annihilation. Thus all the demons killed by the Supreme Lord a ...ation. What then is to be said of devotees who always engage in the Lord's service with love and faith?</p> ...
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  • ...us of killing the cow is in the grossest ignorance. There is also a prayer in the Vedic literature that states:</p> ...orld." (Viṣṇu Purāṇa 1.19.65) The purport is that special mention is given in that prayer for the protection of the cows and the brāhmaṇas. Brāhmaṇ ...
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  • ...morning duties by burning a sacrificial fire and offering a seat of esteem to Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī, the great sages made inquiries, with great respect ...following their predecessors who delivered the spiritual message unbroken to them.</p> ...
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  • [[Category:Vaniquotes Sanskrit Dictionary A to Z]] <div class="heading">Śuci means purified. By the spirit of rendering service with one's senses, one's entire existence becomes śuci-sadma, the platform ...
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  • ...Lord Kṛṣṇa; and the highest Vedāntist is the great soul who takes pleasure in chanting the holy name of the Lord. That is the ultimate purpose of all Ved .... Lord Śiva says, mukti-pradātā sarveṣāṁ viṣṇur eva na saṁśayaḥ: "There is no doubt that Viṣṇu is the deliverer of liberation for everyone."</p> ...
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  • ...aṇa is certainly in the mode of goodness, but if a person is not by nature in the mode of goodness, he should not imitate the occupational duty of a brā ...s, but a kṣatriya is not supposed to give up his occupational duty and try to perform the duties of a brāhmaṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...he Lord. To teach the principles of such loving dealings, the Lord decided to appear as Lord Caitanya.</p> ...criptures in the quality of goodness and the celebrated transcendentalists in the divine nature."</p> ...
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  • ...locked side. That is called. So there are so many. But ultimate yoga means to get this power. That is yoga. So all these powers, they are simply fragment ...d transmigration. The mind is creating, as we are making our consciousness in this life, so we are making our next life also. Yānti deva-vratā devān p ...
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  • ...lthough he is fool number one, we have to flatter like that. "Oh, there is no greater man like you. You are so intelligent, you are so rich, you are so b ...s. Still. Still, they are my superiors." This is called unflinching faith. In spite of seeing my respectful superior abominable, not willingly, but by ac ...
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  • [[Category:Vaniquotes Sanskrit Dictionary A to Z]] ...ature: he is sure to commit mistakes, his senses are imperfect, he is sure to fall into illusion, and he is cheating. Unless one has perfect knowledge fr ...
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  • ...arge of delivering such a devotee. That is the highest perfection of life. In whatever occupation one may be engaged, if he serves the Supreme Lord he wi ...Bhāgavatam. One who has no knowledge of the Bhāgavatam will hardly be able to know what the Vedānta says.</p> ...
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  • ...elf by his work just to remain fit for action in the transcendental loving service of the Lord.</p> ...is undoubtedly washed clean of all misgivings and is in perfect knowledge in everything concerning transcendence.</p> ...
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  • ...rotection to cow"|"protection to cows"|"protection to the cow"|"protection to the cows"}} ...us of killing the cow is in the grossest ignorance. There is also a prayer in the Vedic literature that states:</p> ...
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  • ...l these six opulences in fullness together. That is the full definition of God.</p> ...the followers does chanting give? I heard from one that it transports them to a utopian type situation. I wondered if you could elaborate on that a littl ...
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  • ...prescribed duty without being attached to the result. One who is attached to the result of his work is also the cause of the action. Thus he is the enjo ...t to the result; such disinterested obligatory duties doubtlessly lead one to the path of liberation.</p> ...
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  • ...ion"|"exalted to the position"|"exalted transcendental position"|"exalted, in any position"|"exalted, transcendental position"|"position as exalted"|"pos ...se the purifying process is already there in the heart of the devotee, due to his remembering the Supreme Personality of Godhead constantly. Therefore, t ...
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  • ...So that is the return. If we offer something to Lord, oh, that is rewarded in many millions of times. So we should not expect.</p> ...." Who? "Who has surrendered himself fully unto Me and he is engaged in My service as a matter of duty." That's all.</p> ...
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  • ..., he is simple, he is tolerant... In this way there are nine qualification to become first-class man. ..... In this way there are nine qualification to become first-class man. And to become first-class man, the preliminary qualification is that you should no ...
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  • {{notes|VedaBase query: "Word* of" not "krsna word*"@6 not "word* god*"@3 not "word* lord"@5}} ...try to find a genuinely qualified spiritual master for actual advancement in spiritual understanding.</p> ...
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  • ...inline;">Perform your duty equipoised, O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga.</p> ...s very dear to Him, for the Lord is always pleased with all his activities in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> ...
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  • ...iders the spiritual master equal to the Lord, but always considers himself to be a humble servant of the servant of the Lord (CC Madhya 13.80). ...he Lord ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.80|CC Madhya 13.80]]). This is the pure devotional path.</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"Back to God"|"Back to Godhead"}} ...ing to Back to Godhead as in going to the spiritual world and not the Back to Godhead magazine}} ...
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  • ...ately, something rejecting immediately, very flickering. Therefore we have to train up the mind, and when the mind is trained up, then automatically your ...ated, jñāna, and he must apply the knowledge in practical life and believe in the Vedic injunctions. These are the qualifications of brāhmaṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13"><h3>SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13</h3> ...ee from material existence but offers him transcendental bliss in love and service.</p> ...
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  • ...Worship of different demigods is also on the same basis—namely, according to different qualities.</p> ...ne;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Worship of the Deity in the temple is saguṇa worship, for the Lord is represented by material qua ...
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  • ...d by Bhīṣma, and the other side, although Bhīma is very strong, but he has no brain very much." So he was very hopeful of victory.</p> ...5]]). "I will take you back." It is stated. Kṛṣṇa is not a liar so we have to work with enthusiasm. Just... Not viparītāni. That will be accepted by Ar ...
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  • ...parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13"><h3>SB Canto 10.1 to 10.13</h3> ...āja Parīkṣit forgot the fatigue brought about by his fasting. Enthusiastic to describe Kṛṣṇa, Śukadeva Gosvāmī said, "Like the waters of the Gan ...
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  • ...Viṣṇudūtas are all pure devotees of the Lord, the Supreme Person in regard to the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic manifestation. Ne ...tial manifestations of His personality are Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva, who are in charge of the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this universe.</p> ...
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  • ...ūdras, but a sannyāsī, who is on the top of the institution, is considered to be the spiritual master of the brāhmaṇas also.</p> ...duty to inquire from Arjuna whether he understood the whole Bhagavad-gītā in its proper perspective.</p> ...
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  • ...arma. Unless we understand that we are eternal servants of Kṛṣṇa, there is no beginning of spiritual life. It is still material life. That conviction mus ...master an ordinary man. Nor should one consider a pure Vaiṣṇava to belong to a particular caste, etc." (Padma Purāṇa)</p> ...
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  • ...existence becomes purified; by the purification of existence finer tissues in the memory become sanctified. ...can think of the path of liberation, and all these combined together lead to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the great necessity of present-day society.</p> ...
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  • ...play: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"According to the intimate relationships between Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the primeval Lord, an ...rabhu Himself graced Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī in a dream and ordered him to leave on the next day for Vṛndāvana.</p> ...
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  • <div class="heading">In the Age of Kali the citizens will be free to act as they like, without respect for sādhu, śāstra and guru. ...nce of religious principles will be embarrassed by so many obstacles as if in the trembling condition of falling down at any time.</p> ...
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  • ...="display: inline;">"If someone gives up his occupational duties and works in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and then falls down on account of not completing ...ibed duties in terms of material existence. Therefore, without being fully in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one should not give up his occupational duties.< ...
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  • ...d then enjoys with Her. Thus Kṛṣṇa manifests Himself as Rādhārāṇī in order to enjoy His internal pleasure potency. Of the many extensions, expansions and ...nal relationship of the living entities with the Supreme Lord is explained in that verse. The next verse (55) instructs that the Supreme Personality of G ...
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  • <div class="heading">For those grossly engaged in identifying the body as the self, pious activity, or karma-yoga, is recomme ...s of material contamination. It is executed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, solely to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p> ...
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  • ...creased, I was requested by many scholars and devotees to present the book in its original form.</p> ...y: inline;">Instead of satisfying his own personal material senses, he has to satisfy the senses of the Lord. That is the highest perfection of life. The ...
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  • ...ial entanglement. Those who do not make an offering of their food, He says in the same verse, are eating only sin.</p> ...ne;">Kaśyapa: One of the prajāpatis, the son of Marīci and one of the sons-in-law of Prajāpati Dakṣa. He is the father of the gigantic bird Garuḍa, ...
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  • ...nder unto the will of the Supreme Lord, he changed his decision and agreed to fight for the satisfaction of the Lord.</p> ...d by such service. Why then should they accept any pleasures that are lost in the course of time?"</p> ...
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  • ...bility of the conception of the soul. Repetition of something is necessary in order that we understand the matter thoroughly, without error.</p> ...he banks of the Ganges. The Lord requested him to compose a Sanskrit verse in praise of the Ganges, and the paṇḍita within a short time composed a hu ...
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  • ...tem by birthright; rather, He strictly followed the verdict of the śāstras in the matter of one's svarūpa, or real identity.</p> ...eir sinful habits, and the kind Lord accepted them and did not again refer to their past misdeeds.</p> ...
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  • ...atam" text="SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)"><h3>SB Cantos 10.14 to 12 (Translations Only)</h3> ...e most lucid and purifying, becomes purified day by day, for he reveals Me to others with the lamp of transcendental knowledge.</p> ...
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  • ...a forbids this. First the father, spiritual master or husband must be able to release the dependent from repeated birth and death. If he cannot do this, ...and again went to Pulaha-āśrama. He finally ended his fruitive activities in the form of a deer, and when he died he was released from the deer's body.< ...
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  • ...class="heading">This very understanding that Kṛṣṇa is present as Paramātmā in everyone's heart makes the yogī faultless. ...eko 'pi san bahudhā yo 'vabhāti. "Although the Lord is one, He is present in innumerable hearts as many."</p> ...
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  • ...l world, but is only a servant of the senses. At that time he begs for the service of the Lord and thus becomes happy without being illusioned by so-called ma ...anger, pride, etc. Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, observing all these omens, spoke to his younger brother.</p> ...
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  • ...o affected by material conditions. Arjuna envisioned only painful reverses in the battlefield—he would not be happy even by gaining victory over the fo ...udāna-vāyu goes upwards—and when one is enlightened, one engages all these in searching for self-realization. (Surrender-Unto-Me )</p> ...
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  • ...t of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, or the cult of Bhāgavata-dharma, has nothing to do with mundane affairs, sociology, politics, economic development or any s ...style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In Kali-yuga, the duration of life is shortened not so much because of insuffi ...
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  • ...hat artificially we want to be served. That is not possible. When we agree to serve... As Caitanya Mahāprabhu has given us the path of liberation, jīve ...s gone to heaven, the work has changed? No. The work will continue. Either in this hell or heaven, typewriter will kat, kat, kat, kat.</p> ...
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  • ...nses were unborn when the Lord glanced over material nature. Thus evidence in the Vedas proves that beyond a doubt the Lord has transcendental eyes and a ...nd her laws are there to penalize them. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā in the well-known verse yadā yadā hi dharmasya glāniḥ. "Whenever there is ...
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  • ...he eight principles of yoga is recommended for inferior men. Being engaged in the superior activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, superior men naturall ...that as long as He should continue to be an inhabitant of Nadia belonging to a certain family, His mission would not meet with complete success.</p> ...
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  • <div class="heading">Simply to know is useless. You must practically apply in life. That is called vijñānam. ...led vijñānam. So by practical knowledge you should be well-acquainted with God. That is brāhmaṇa's business.</p> ...
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  • ...lf by the grace of the Supreme Lord, all credit goes to the master and not to the servant.</p> ...piritual master who is not even fit to become a disciple because they want to keep him under their control. This is useless for spiritual realization.</p ...
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  • ...passion, instead of being degraded into the mode of ignorance, is elevated to the mode of goodness by the prescribed method of living and acting, then on ...atisfaction of the Lord. Therefore, lust and wrath, when they are employed in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, become our friends instead of our enemies.</p> ...
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  • ...(Aśvatthāmā) saw that his horses were tired, he considered that there was no alternative for protection outside of his using the ultimate weapon, the br <div class="purport text"><p>In the ultimate issue only, when there is no alternative, the nuclear weapon called the brahmāstra is applied. The word ...
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  • ...rial activities but only in the understanding of God, the Supreme, and His service. That is spiritual life.</p> ...ork rendered to society and not in terms of birthright, as falsely claimed in the present degraded society.</p> ...
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  • ...ectarean honey of the Lord's lotus feet, and whose mind is always absorbed in His glories, may sometimes be checked by some impediment, but he still neve ...act very affectionately toward his wife and children, he is never attached to these activities.</p> ...
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  • ...aṇa is certainly in the mode of goodness, but if a person is not by nature in the mode of goodness, he should not imitate the occupational duty of a brā ...another's occupation and perform it perfectly. Duties prescribed according to one's nature are never affected by sinful reactions.''' ...
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  • ...āmī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and many other authorities of Vedic knowledge in India.</p> ...th the eternal Supreme Lord. Sanātana-dharma refers, as stated previously, to the eternal occupation of the living entity. Śrīpāda Rāmānujācārya h ...
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  • [[Category:Group of Devotees of God|1]] <div class="heading">Only devotees. who belong to none of the above-mentioned groups, are transcendental. ...
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  • ...in the conditioned soul continues even up to the stage when a person wants to be one with the Lord, and thus even the greatest of the empiric philosopher ...f in the process of hearing and chanting the glories of the Lord, there is no possibility for liberation.</p> ...
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  • .... Now, today, I surrender unto you. Kindly accept me and engage me in your service.' " This is called surrender. Thank you very much. (end)</p> ...atever Veda says, that's right. Yes. No argument. That is called āstikyam. No argument.</p> ...
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  • ...yle="display: inline;">In terms of His various manifestations, He is known in three features, called the impersonal Brahman, the localized Paramātmā an ...ity of Godhead such as Śrī Rāma, Nṛsiṁha and Varāha all undoubtedly belong to the Viṣṇu group, but all of Them are either plenary portions or portion ...
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  • ...t approaching that abode of the Supreme Lord. Information of this is given in the Eighth Chapter. It is said there:</p> ...8.5 (1972)|BG 8.5]]) One who thinks of Kṛṣṇa at the time of his death goes to Kṛṣṇa. One must remember the form of Kṛṣṇa; if he quits his bod ...
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  • ...anufacture a religious principle by imperfect speculation. One must follow in the footsteps of great authorities like Brahmā, Śiva, Nārada, Manu, the ...faithful philosophers, politicians, educators, scientists, etc.—surrender to the lotus feet of the Supreme Person, the all-powerful authority.</p> ...
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  • ...Caitanya Mahāprabhu. What will be described herein, therefore, has nothing to do with the experimental thoughts created by the speculative habits of iner ...e can at once capture the Supreme Lord in their hearts. Therefore there is no need for any scripture other than Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam."</p> ...
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  • [[Category:Devotees of God Should|1]] ...can live anywhere and create the atmosphere of Vṛndāvana by his devotional service. It was Śrī Advaita who told Lord Caitanya, "Wherever You are, O Lord-the ...
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  • ...lay: inline;">Yogi Amrit Desai: That is the strongest bond between the..., to the body and the soul.</p> <p>Prabhupāda: He is asat. He doesn't... We say that strī-saṅgī, to associate with woman without marriage, we say, "Don't do this," but Caitany ...
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  • ...ance, simplicity, cleanliness, knowledge, truthfulness, devotion and faith in the Vedic wisdom. ...anliness, knowledge, truthfulness, devotion and faith in the Vedic wisdom. In the present age, consideration of the necessary qualification is being negl ...
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  • <p>Prabhupāda: Yes. She never saw him. So in European countries...</p> ...ng, that sannyāsī is taking part in marriage. But what can be done? I have to execute my mission. Go on. I think it is now...</p> ...
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  • ...rabhupāda: That you have to judge. What can I say? If you don't want to go to Kṛṣṇa, you can do anything else.</p> <p>Woman (2): I mean... Are these movements leading to Kṛṣṇa?</p> ...
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  • <div class="heading">If you want to know this transcendental science, then you must fully surrender. This is fi ...n if you cannot understand, then you question. Otherwise you have no right to question from a Vaiṣṇava.</p> ...
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  • ...s="heading">Sva-dharma is ordained by the Lord, and this will be clarified in the Fourth Chapter. ...in accordance with the orders of higher authorities serves to elevate one to a higher status of life.</p> ...
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  • ...on of the soul in different aspects. But if, somehow or other, one is able to understand the subject matter of the soul, then one's life is successful.</ ...avoiding all kinds of sense gratification, of which sex life is the chief. In the rules of celibacy written by the great sage Yājñavalkya it is said:</ ...
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  • ...moniac man is his enemy. There are many demoniac people, and each is enemy to the others. This enmity becomes more and more deep—between persons, then ...day, though we are completely dependent on Your mercy and have no one else to protect us, now when all kings are at enmity with us?</p> ...
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  • {{terms|"no qualification"|"no qualifications"|"no qualified"|"not qualification"}} ...ir respects. The Kazi's descendants are residents, and they never objected to saṅkīrtana, even during the Hindu-Muslim riot days.</p> ...
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  • ...all other truths are relative to Him. He is omniscient. For Him, there is no illusion.</p> ...ants to see Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa in the pages. That is the process, and there is no alternative.</p> ...
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  • ...y accept. Generally a spiritual master who constantly instructs a disciple in spiritual science becomes his initiating spiritual master later on.</p> ...ledge of the Personality of Godhead. The samvit-śakti should be maintained in that state. Material knowledge and indirect spiritual knowledge are by-prod ...
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  • ...reatest politician in the history of the world, Cāṇakya Paṇḍita. According to his opinion, viśvāso naiva kartavyaḥ strīṣu rāja-kuleṣu ca. He ha ...d. So even in the heavenly planets, these things are there, politics. Even in animal kingdom, these politics are there. This is the nature. Matsaratā. M ...
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  • ...es of goodness, then you go to the, promoted to the higher planets because in the higher planets, the third-class living entities are not allowed.</p> ...tem, and those who are in the modes of ignorance, they are allowed to live in the lower planetary system.</p> ...
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  • ...he sacrifice of congregational chanting of the holy name, learned scholars in the Age of Kali worship Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is now nonblackish because of ...worship Kṛṣṇa in a purified state of mind. I shall constantly petition Him in humbleness.</p> ...
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  • ...Hiraṇyakaśipu, and describes how his father envied his own qualified son. In this way the chapter ends.</p> ...r, and he considered his teachers, spiritual masters and older Godbrothers to be as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He was completely free fr ...
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  • [[Category:To Some Extent|1]] ...ministration, a class of men very expert in production, and a class of men to work. That is required. You cannot avoid it. That is the Vedic conception. ...
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  • ...ughout the whole world"|"world, especially the Western countries, there is no record of selling religious books so many daily. It is unique"}} [[Category:Unique in the World|1]] ...
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  • [[Category:Sadhu - Devotees of God|1]] ...ny sinful actions. The primary sinful activities are described, and we try to follow. And if we chant sixteen rounds and keep ourself always aloof from t ...
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