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20 May 2023
- 16:5216:52, 20 May 2023 diff hist −4 From all points of view, if we make an analytical study of the Vedic literatures, we will find that the ultimate summit of knowledge is to surrender unto Krsna No edit summary current
10 February 2023
- 15:0815:08, 10 February 2023 diff hist +25,201 From Srimad-Bhagavatam we understand that when Krsna departed from this world, Arjuna was overwhelmed with sorrow, but when he began to remember the instructions of Bhagavad-gita, he became pacified No edit summary current
- 15:0315:03, 10 February 2023 diff hist +18,000 From Krsna the disciplic succession is coming down, but "in course of time the disciplic succession was broken." Arjuna is therefore made the new disciple No edit summary current
24 December 2022
- 17:0317:03, 24 December 2022 diff hist 0 For those who do not want to understand Krsna as He is but want to understand by dint of their own imperfect vision, Krsna, God, remains unknown No edit summary current
- 17:0117:01, 24 December 2022 diff hist −4 For one whose mind is unbridled, - Krsna further says, "self-realization is difficult work." - Bg. 6.36 No edit summary current
- 17:0017:00, 24 December 2022 diff hist +36,251 For one who wants to be liberated from this material bondage, the reactions of both good works and bad works are detrimental. In this material world we are attached to performing good works if we are situated in the modes of goodness No edit summary current
- 16:5816:58, 24 December 2022 diff hist −4 For one who is too entangled in material life, it takes a little more time to come to the standard point, but even such a materially engrossed man is raised to the spiritual platform very quickly No edit summary current
- 16:5716:57, 24 December 2022 diff hist +10,294 For one who has conquered the mind, the Supersoul is already reached, for he has attained tranquility - Bg. 6.7 No edit summary current
- 16:4716:47, 24 December 2022 diff hist +13,836 For him (one who takes to the ascending process), the subject matter will remain elusive and inconceivable. But that subject matter is given in Bhagavad-gita: ananya-cetah No edit summary current
- 16:4516:45, 24 December 2022 diff hist 0 Feeling separation from Krsna, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu would throw Himself into the sea. Sometimes He would leave His room in the dead of night and disappear. No one would know where He had gone, but all the while He was searching after Krsna No edit summary current
- 14:3614:36, 24 December 2022 diff hist 0 Family life is not condemned. But if a man forgets his spiritual identity and simply becomes entangled in material affairs, then he is lost. His life's mission is lost No edit summary current
23 December 2022
- 17:0017:00, 23 December 2022 diff hist −4 Ahankara means the point where the pure soul touches matter. That junction is called ahankara. Ahankara is still finer than intelligence No edit summary
- 16:5916:59, 23 December 2022 diff hist −4 After staying in Vrndavana for some time, they (old and young brahmanas) finally returned home, and the old man informed his eldest son that his young sister was to be married to the poor brahmana youth No edit summary current
- 16:5816:58, 23 December 2022 diff hist +20,985 After some time, the brahmana youth became very anxious. "He has promised to marry his daughter to me, and he made that promise before the Deity. Now he is not coming to fulfill it." He then went to see the old man to remind him of his promise No edit summary current
- 16:5616:56, 23 December 2022 diff hist −4 After fire or electricity the air is still finer; and after air, the sky, ether, is finer still. Beyond ether, the mind is still finer; and beyond the mind, intelligence is still finer No edit summary current
- 16:5516:55, 23 December 2022 diff hist +18,233 After World War I an armistice was signed, and there was a short period of peace, but World War II soon came, and now that that is over they are making preparations for World War III. This is the function of time (kala) in the material world No edit summary current
- 16:5416:54, 23 December 2022 diff hist +6,350 Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam adyam purana-purusam nava-yauvanam ca. He (Krsna) is the oldest person because He has created everything, but He will never look old. You will never see Krsna's picture as old man. These are the definition of God No edit summary current
- 16:5316:53, 23 December 2022 diff hist −4 Adjustments are periodically required, and from age to age the Supreme Lord or His representative come to make adjustments in the direction of civilization. Thus Sri Krsna descends many times to establish or rejuvenate many different religions No edit summary current
- 16:5116:51, 23 December 2022 diff hist −4 Actually we have no idea how powerful we are as spiritual sparks. Instead we are very much satisfied staying on this earth and sending up a few spaceships, thinking that we have become greatly advanced in material science No edit summary current
- 16:5016:50, 23 December 2022 diff hist 0 According to the Vedic system, one has to forcibly give up family life at the age of fifty. One must go. There is no alternative No edit summary current
- 16:4916:49, 23 December 2022 diff hist +4,902 According to our human society, the youthful life begins at sixteen years. So Krsna is like that. He'll look always sixteen to twenty years old, not more than that. We have never seen Krsna has become old No edit summary current
- 16:4716:47, 23 December 2022 diff hist +11,091 According to Vedic culture, we are interested in sex only for begetting children, that's all. Not to study the psychology of sex life. There is already natural psychology for that No edit summary
- 16:4616:46, 23 December 2022 diff hist 0 According to Brahma-samhita there are two ways of acquiring knowledge - the ascending process and the descending process No edit summary current
- 16:4516:45, 23 December 2022 diff hist −4 A transcendentalist should always try to concentrate his mind on the Supreme Self; he should live alone in a secluded place and should always carefully control his mind. - Bg. 6.10 No edit summary current
- 16:4216:42, 23 December 2022 diff hist −4 A third reason for His coming is to establish real religion (dharma-samsthapanarthaya). Thus Sri Krsna's purpose for coming is threefold: He protects His devotees, vanquishes the demonic, and establishes the real religion of the living entity No edit summary current
- 16:4116:41, 23 December 2022 diff hist −4 A science student has to study theoretical scientific conceptions as well as applied science. Theoretical knowledge alone will not help. One has to be able to also apply this knowledge No edit summary current
21 December 2022
- 15:5615:56, 21 December 2022 diff hist +18,129 A sadhu is not the friend of a particular society, community or country but is a friend of all - not only of human beings, but of animals and lower forms of life No edit summary current
- 15:5315:53, 21 December 2022 diff hist +15,107 A person who is trained in Krsna consciousness from childhood naturally becomes disinclined toward the material way of life, and at the age of fifty he gives it up No edit summary current
- 15:5015:50, 21 December 2022 diff hist −4 A person can only be satisfied when there is jnana and vijnana side by side No edit summary current
14 November 2022
- 13:1013:10, 14 November 2022 diff hist 0 A part of the spiritual pleasure experienced in the Vaikunthas is the pleasure of dancing. There are also young girls and young boys there. Indeed, there is no such thing as old age, or disease, or death, or the pains of birth No edit summary current
- 13:0213:02, 14 November 2022 diff hist 0 A man who is too materialistic will cheat anyone, kill anyone, beg, borrow, or steal - anything to bring money. He knows that his buildings, his family, his wife and children cannot continue to exist perpetually No edit summary current
- 13:0013:00, 14 November 2022 diff hist +2,766 A man in sex life is not neglected by us. The only thing we want, that sex life can be allowed only in married couples No edit summary current
- 12:5812:58, 14 November 2022 diff hist +7,363 A little elevated from status of sense gratification, one is engaged in mental speculation for the purpose of getting out of the material clutches No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 14 November 2022 diff hist 0 A fish that is taken out of the water cannot be happy by any arrangement on land. He must be supplied with water. In the same way, the minute sac-cid-ananda living entity cannot be really happy through any amount of planning in this material universe No edit summary current