Category:Dama
Compiling notes:
- dama - control, subdue, sense control
- dāma - string, rope
Subcategories
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
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Pages in category "Dama"
The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
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- A brahmana should be qualified with the eight qualities such as sama, dama, satya and titiksa
- A Vaisnava should possess the brahminical qualities such as satya, sama, dama, titiksa and arjava (BG 18.42)
- All these material qualification, highly educated, and sama, dama, titiksa, practice how to control the mind, senses - everything is complete. When one becomes such qualified, he becomes proud. That is the material status of life
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- In our Krsna consciousness movement, we are trying to develop the symptoms of brahmana. Not by birth; to educate them, how to become samo damas titiksa arjavam
- In politics there are different methods of achieving success: first repression (dama), then compromise (sama), and then asking for a gift - dana
- In spiritual life truthful is very essential. That is the first qualification, brahminical qualification: satya, sama, dama, titiksa, arjavam, and astikyam, jnanam, vijnanam brahma-karma svabhava-jam (BG 18.42), it is stated in the BG
- It is not that everyone should become a sudra or a vaisya and human society will prosper. As enunciated in BG, there must be a class of brahmanas with qualities like satya (truthfulness), sama (peacefulness), dama (self-control) and titiksa (tolerance)
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- The brahmanas are situated in the supreme transcendental mode of nature-sattva-guna. Because of this, they are fixed in mind control (sama), sense control (dama), and truthfulness (satya)
- The descendants of Kanu Thakura know him as Nagara Purusottama. He was the cowherd boy named Dama during krsna-lila. It is said that just after the birth of Kanu Thakura, his mother, Jahnava, died.
- The word dama, used in verse (CC Madhya 19) 213, means indriya-samyama - curbing one’s senses. The word dama can also mean curbing one’s enemies. A king has to take steps to curb the criminal activities of his citizens
- Twelve items, just like controlling the senses, subduing the mind, subduing the tongue - sama, dama, titiksa - to be tolerant, then simplicity, then full faith in the scriptures, knowledge, understanding Krsna. In this way there are twelve qualification