User contributions for Ghanashyam

31 March 2017

• 10:2410:24, 31 March 2017 diff hist +7,992‎ N Lord Krsna said, "He can very easily cross over ocean of nescience, and he is not subject to the influence he illusory energy. Dear friend, everyone should consider his father to be his first teacher because by the mercy of one's father one gets body" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"He can very easily cross over the ocean of nescience, and he is not subject to the influence of the illusory energy. My dear f..."
• 10:0010:00, 31 March 2017 diff hist +7,695‎ N Lord Krsna said, "If a man is sufficiently educated in student life under the guidance of a proper teacher, his life becomes successful in the future" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If a man is sufficiently educated in student life under the guidance of a proper teacher, his life becomes successful in the f..."
• 08:5108:51, 31 March 2017 diff hist +8,203‎ N Lord Krsna said, "After being relieved of his attachments to the materialistic way of life, one may accept the order of sannyasa" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"After being relieved of his attachments to the materialistic way of life, one may accept the order of sannyāsa"}} {{notes|}}..."
• 07:5607:56, 31 March 2017 diff hist +8,352‎ N Lord Krsna said, "In that stage, one has to return to the austerities and penances formerly practiced in brahmacari life and thus relieve himself of the attachment to household life" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In that stage, one has to return to the austerities and penances formerly practiced in brahmacārī life and thus relieve hims..."
• 06:4606:46, 31 March 2017 diff hist +8,535‎ N Lord Krsna said, "A brahmacari is meant to lead a life of austerities and penance. The householder is meant to live a regulated life of sense gratification, but no one should remain a householder for the third stage of life" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"A brahmacārī is meant to lead a life of austerities and penance. The householder is meant to live a regulated life of sense..."
• 06:3906:39, 31 March 2017 diff hist +8,788‎ N Krsna said, "One should utilize first part of life in becoming a bonafide student, receiving adequate knowledge and keeping oneself in the vow of brahmacarya, one may completely devote life for service of the spiritual master without sense gratification" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"One should utilize the first part of life in becoming a bona fide student, receiving adequate knowledge and keeping oneself in..."
• 06:1606:16, 31 March 2017 diff hist +8,690‎ N Lord Krsna said, "As I have stated in the Bhagavad-gita, human society should be divided into four varnas, according to quality and action. Similarly, everyone should divide his life into four parts" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"As I have stated in the Bhagavad-gītā, human society should be divided into four varṇas, according to quality and action...."
• 06:0006:00, 31 March 2017 diff hist +8,366‎ N Lord Krsna said, "My dear friend, I am Paramatma, the Supersoul present in everyone's heart, and it is My direct order that human society follow the principles of varna and asrama" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"My dear friend, I am Paramātmā, the Supersoul present in everyone’s heart, and it is My direct order that human society fo..."
• 05:4905:49, 31 March 2017 diff hist +8,563‎ N Lord Krsna said, "A human being who takes advantage of these spiritual masters and, receiving proper knowledge from them, crosses the ocean of material existence is to be understood as having properly utilized his human form of life" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"A human being who takes advantage of these spiritual masters and, receiving proper knowledge from them, crosses the ocean of m..."
• 05:4005:40, 31 March 2017 diff hist +8,241‎ N Lord Krsna said, "There may be many spiritual masters who instruct, but the initiator spiritual master is one" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"There may be many spiritual masters who instruct, but the initiator spiritual master is one"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Ghanashya..."
• 05:2805:28, 31 March 2017 diff hist +8,641‎ N Lord Krsna said, "The spiritual master who instructs the disciple about spiritual matters is called the siksa-guru, and the spiritual master who initiates the disciple is called the diksa-guru. Both of them are My representatives" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The spiritual master may be more than one. The spiritual master who instructs the disciple about spiritual matters is called t..."
• 05:1505:15, 31 March 2017 diff hist +8,432‎ N Lord Krsna said, "My dear friend, everyone should consider his father to be his first teacher because by the mercy of one's father one gets this body. The father is therefore the natural spiritual master" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"My dear friend, everyone should consider his father to be his first teacher because by the mercy of one’s father one gets th..."

30 March 2017

• 11:2611:26, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,454‎ N Krsna said, "My dear brahmana friend, that you remember all those days of our school life when you and I were living together at the boarding school (gurukula). Actually, whatever knowledge you and I received in life was accumulated in our student life" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"My dear brāhmaṇa friend, that you remember all those days of our school life when you and I were living together at the boa..."
• 10:4810:48, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,519‎ N Lord Krsna said, "They (unattached persons) show how by proper distribution of wealth one can become an ideal householder and at the same time a great devotee. Such ideal householders are to be considered followers of My footsteps" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"They show how by proper distribution of wealth one can become an ideal householder and at the same time a great devotee. Such..."
• 10:4110:41, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,375‎ N Lord Krsna said, "Such unattached persons haven't the least desire to accumulate wealth and prosperity for sense gratification, but sometimes they are found to collect money just to exhibit the exemplary life of a householder" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Such unattached persons haven’t the least desire to accumulate wealth and prosperity for sense gratification, but sometimes..."
• 10:3510:35, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,020‎ N Lord Krsna said, "In this material world, persons who are not attached to material opulence are very rarely found" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In this material world, persons who are not attached to material opulence are very rarely found"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Ghana..."
• 10:3110:31, 30 March 2017 diff hist +8,921‎ N Lord Krsna said - I know very well that from the beginning you were not at all attached to the materialistic way of life ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"I know very well that from the beginning you were not at all attached to the materialistic way of life"}} {{notes|}} {{compile..."
• 10:2210:22, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,529‎ N Lord Krsna said, "I believe that after you finished your education at the house of our teacher and after you sufficiently remunerated him, you must have gone back to your home and accepted a suitable wife" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Lord Kṛṣṇa said, “My dear brāhmaṇa friend, you are a most intelligent personality, and you know very well the princ..."
• 10:0810:08, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,040‎ N Lord Krsna said, "My dear brahmana friend, you are a most intelligent personality, and you know very well the principles of religious life" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Lord Kṛṣṇa said, “My dear brāhmaṇa friend, you are a most intelligent personality, and you know very well the princ..."
• 10:0310:03, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,396‎ N After the brahmana had been received nicely and seated on Lord Krsna's own cushioned bed, he and Krsna took each other's hands and began to talk about their early life, when they had both lived under the protection of the gurukula ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"After the brāhmaṇa had been received nicely and seated on Lord Kṛṣṇa’s own cushioned bed, he and Kṛṣṇa took e..."
• 09:5209:52, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,178‎ N They (the Queens) were especially surprised to see that Lord Krsna had embraced him exactly as He embraced His elder brother, Balaramaji, because Lord Krsna used to embrace only Rukmini or Balarama, and no one else ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"They were especially surprised to see that Lord Kṛṣṇa had embraced him exactly as He embraced His elder brother, Balarā..."
• 09:3809:38, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,271‎ N The Queens knew that he must have performed great pious activities; otherwise why was Krsna, the husband of the goddess of fortune, taking care of him so much? They were still more surprised to see that the brahmana was seated on the bedstead of Krsna ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"They knew that he must have performed great pious activities; otherwise why was Lord Kṛṣṇa, the husband of the goddess o..."
• 08:4808:48, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,297‎ N They (the Queens) wondered how Lord Krsna could personally receive a brahmana who was poor, not very neat or clean, and poorly dressed; but at the same time they could realize that the brahmana was not an ordinary living being ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"They wondered how Lord Kṛṣṇa could personally receive a brāhmaṇa who was poor, not very neat or clean, and poorly dre..."
• 08:3508:35, 30 March 2017 diff hist +8,671‎ N They (the Queens) were surprised to see how eager Krsna was to welcome this particular brahmana ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"They were surprised to see how eager Lord Kṛṣṇa was to welcome this particular brāhmaṇa"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Ghan..."
• 08:2908:29, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,135‎ N The goddess of fortune Rukminidevi personally began to fan him with the camara fan, but the other women in the palace were astonished at Lord Krsna's behavior in receiving the brahmana in that way ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The goddess of fortune Rukmiṇīdevī personally began to fan him with the cāmara fan, but the other women in the palace wer..."
• 08:2208:22, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,166‎ N The brahmana, being very poor, was not dressed nicely; his clothing was torn and dirty, and his body was very lean and thin. He appeared not very clean, and because of his weak body, his bones were distinctly visible ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The brāhmaṇa, being very poor, was not dressed nicely; his clothing was torn and dirty, and his body was very lean and thin..."
• 07:5407:54, 30 March 2017 diff hist +17,024‎ N He (Lord Krsna) immediately burned several kinds of scented incense and, as is usual, offered him arati with burning lamps. After thus offering him an adequate welcome and after the brahmana had taken food and drinks ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"He immediately burned several kinds of scented incense and, as is usual, offered him ārati with burning lamps. After thus off..."
• 07:1207:12, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,162‎ N Lord Sri Krsna is the supreme pure, but because He was playing the role of an ordinary human being, He immediately washed the brahmana’s feet and, for His own purification, sprinkled the water onto His head ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the supreme pure, but because He was playing the role of an ordinary human being, He immediately was..."
• 06:4106:41, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,131‎ N Lord Krsna had him seated on His own bedstead and personally brought all kinds of fruits and drinks to offer him, as is proper in receiving a worshipable guest ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Lord Kṛṣṇa had him seated on His own bedstead and personally brought all kinds of fruits and drinks to offer him, as is..."
• 06:1506:15, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,030‎ N Lord Krsna is the reservoir of all transcendental pleasure, yet He Himself felt great pleasure upon embracing the poor brahmana because He was meeting His very dear friend ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Lord Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of all transcendental pleasure, yet He Himself felt great pleasure upon embracing the poor b..."
• 06:0506:05, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,797‎ N Lord Krsna immediately left His seat and came forward to receive His brahmana friend and, upon reaching him, embraced the brahmana with His two arms ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Lord Kṛṣṇa immediately left His seat and came forward to receive His brāhmaṇa friend and, upon reaching him, embraced..."
• 05:5505:55, 30 March 2017 diff hist +9,420‎ N Krsna was sitting on the bedstead of Queen Rukmini. Even from a considerable distance He could see the brahmana coming to His home, He could recognize him as His friend ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Lord Kṛṣṇa was sitting on the bedstead of Queen Rukmiṇī. Even from a considerable distance He could see the brāhma..."

29 March 2017

• 11:4811:48, 29 March 2017 diff hist +9,752‎ N The brahmana entered one palace which was very gorgeously decorated. When he entered this beautiful palace, he felt that he was swimming in the ocean of transcendental pleasure. He felt himself constantly diving and surfacing in that transcendental ocean ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The brāhmaṇa entered one palace which was very gorgeously decorated. When he entered this beautiful palace, he felt that he..."
• 11:2811:28, 29 March 2017 diff hist +9,745‎ N In each camp there were very big gates, and he (the brahmana) also had to pass through them. After the gates and the camps, there were sixteen thousand big palaces, the residential quarters of the sixteen thousand queens of Lord Krsna ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In each camp there were very big gates, and he also had to pass through them. After the gates and the camps, there were sixtee..."
• 10:5310:53, 29 March 2017 diff hist +11,117‎ N It was of course very difficult to reach the palaces of the kings of the Yadu dynasty, but brahmanas were allowed to visit. When the brahmana friend of Lord Krsna went there, he, along with other brahmanas, had to pass through three military encampments ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It was of course very difficult to reach the palaces of the kings of the Yadu dynasty, but brāhmaṇas were allowed to visit...."
• 10:0610:06, 29 March 2017 diff hist +11,020‎ N Without waiting any longer, the brahmana took the presentation and proceeded toward Dvaraka to see his Lord. He was absorbed in the thought of how he would be able to see Lord Krsna. He had no thought within his heart other than Krsna ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Without waiting any longer, the brāhmaṇa took the presentation and proceeded toward Dvārakā to see his Lord. He was absor..."
• 09:5409:54, 29 March 2017 diff hist +9,741‎ N The wife (of the brahmana) immediately collected four palmfuls of chipped rice from her neighborhood friends and tied it in a small cloth, like a handkerchief, and gave it to her husband to present to Krsna ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The wife immediately collected four palmfuls of chipped rice from her neighborhood friends and tied it in a small cloth, like..."
• 07:4007:40, 29 March 2017 diff hist +9,450‎ N When he (the brahmana) had decided to go to Krsna, he asked his wife if she had anything in the home that he could offer to Krsna, because he must take some presentation for his friend ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"When he had decided to go to Kṛṣṇa, he asked his wife if she had anything in the home that he could offer to Kṛṣṇa..."
• 07:1007:10, 29 March 2017 diff hist +9,448‎ N He (the brahmana) thought, "If I go there I shall be able to see the Lord personally. That will be a great opportunity, even if I don't ask any material benefit from Him (Krsna)" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If I go there I shall be able to see the Lord personally. That will be a great opportunity, even if I don't ask any material b..."
• 06:0206:02, 29 March 2017 diff hist +9,689‎ N The wife of the brahmana again & again requested, in great humility and submission, that he go to Lord Krsna. The brahmana thought that there was no need to ask any material benefit from Sri Krsna, but he was induced by the repeated requests of his wife ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In this way, the wife of the brāhmaṇa again and again requested, in great humility and submission, that he go to Lord Kṛ..."
• 05:4805:48, 29 March 2017 diff hist +8,056‎ N She (the wife of the brahmana) said, "He (Krsna) will not hesitate to award you some material benefit for the bare necessities of life" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"He (Krsna) will not hesitate to award you some material benefit for the bare necessities of life"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Ghan..."
• 05:0305:03, 29 March 2017 diff hist +8,725‎ N She (the wife of the brahmana) said, "Lord Krsna is now the King of the Bhoja, Vrsni and Andhaka dynasties, and I have heard that He never leaves His capital city, Dvaraka. He is living there without outside engagements" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Lord Kṛṣṇa is now the King of the Bhoja, Vṛṣṇi and Andhaka dynasties, and I have heard that He never leaves His ca..."

28 March 2017

• 12:1412:14, 28 March 2017 diff hist +8,509‎ N She (the wife of the brahmana) said, "You are a householder; therefore without money you are in distress. But as soon as He (Krsna) understands your position, He will certainly give you sufficient riches so that you can live very comfortably" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"You are a householder; therefore without money you are in distress. But as soon as He understands your position, He will certa..."
• 11:4611:46, 28 March 2017 diff hist +8,727‎ N She (the wife of the brahmana) said, "You are saintly, learned & fully in control of your senses. Under the circumstances, Krsna is your only shelter. Please, therefore, go to Him. I am sure that He will immediately understand your impoverished position" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"You are saintly, learned and fully in control of your senses. Under the circumstances, Lord Kṛṣṇa is your only shelter...."
• 11:1011:10, 28 March 2017 diff hist +8,622‎ N She (the wife of the brahmana) said, "You are the most fortunate person because you have as your friend the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Lord Krsna is the only shelter for personalities like you because you are fully surrendered unto Him" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"You are the most fortunate person because you have as your friend the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Lord Kṛṣṇa is the..."
• 10:3510:35, 28 March 2017 diff hist +8,240‎ N She (the wife of the brahmana) said, "I know that Lord Krsna is the ideal personality of Vedic culture. He is always in favor of brahminical culture and is very kind to the qualified brahmanas" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"I know that Lord Kṛṣṇa is the ideal personality of Vedic culture. He is always in favor of brahminical culture and is ve..."
• 10:1310:13, 28 March 2017 diff hist +9,141‎ N She (the wife of the brahmana) said, "My dear lord, I know that Lord Krsna, the husband of the goddess of fortune, is your personal friend. You are also a devotee of Lord Krsna, and He is always ready to help His devotee" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|""My dear lord, I know that Lord Kṛṣṇa, the husband of the goddess of fortune, is your personal friend. You are also a de..."
• 09:5809:58, 28 March 2017 diff hist +9,024‎ N She (the brahmana's wife) trembled due to her weak health, and although she did not like to dictate to her husband, she spoke as follows ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"She trembled due to her weak health, and although she did not like to dictate to her husband, she spoke as follows"}} {{notes|..."
• 09:4909:49, 28 March 2017 diff hist +9,531‎ N The brahmana, therefore, did not exert himself for more material happiness; instead, he used his time for advancement of Krsna consciousness. Externally he appeared very poor because he had no rich clothes and could not provide rich clothes for his wife ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The brāhmaṇa, therefore, did not exert himself for more material happiness; instead, he used his time for advancement of K..."
• 08:2208:22, 28 March 2017 diff hist +9,107‎ N The amount of happiness and distress is already predestined for every living entity. No one can increase or decrease the happiness of the materialistic way of life ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The amount of happiness and distress is already predestined for every living entity. No one can increase or decrease the happi..."