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22 April 2025

• 17:5717:57, 22 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ People are very much accustomed to see rasa-lila in Vrndavana. Maybe they are advanced, but the test is whether he has given up his lusty desire. That is the test. If he has given up, then, after seeing rasa-lila, he should not have returned to home ‎No edit summary current
• 17:5717:57, 22 April 2025 diff hist −22‎ It is very difficult to give up lust and the desires for low activities until one is in the line of devotional service to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 17:5717:57, 22 April 2025 diff hist +10‎ If we are entangled with rajas-tamas, then our perpetual desire for lusty sense enjoyment and greediness will not stop. But if we give up these two qualities, the remainder quality means goodness, that sattve, you will get, at least, peace of mind ‎No edit summary current
• 17:5617:56, 22 April 2025 diff hist −1‎ To have a satisfied mind, one must give up his heart disease of lusty desires. This can be done only when one is Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
• 17:5617:56, 22 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ To go to the forest and live there with the animals, meditating upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the only means by which to give up lusty desires. Unless one gives up such desires, one's mind cannot be freed from material contamination ‎No edit summary current
• 17:5517:55, 22 April 2025 diff hist −20‎ O my Lord, there is no limit to the unwanted orders of lusty desires. Although I have rendered these desires so much service, they have not shown any mercy to me. I have not been ashamed to serve them, nor have I even desired to give them up ‎No edit summary current
• 17:5517:55, 22 April 2025 diff hist −21‎ O my Lord, there is no limit to the unwanted orders of lusty desires. Although I have rendered these desires so much service, they have not shown any mercy to me. I have not been ashamed to serve them, nor have I even desired to give them up ‎No edit summary
• 17:5517:55, 22 April 2025 diff hist +10‎ O my Lord, there is no limit to the unwanted orders of lusty desires. Although I have rendered these desires so much service, they have not shown any mercy to me. I have not been ashamed to serve them, nor have I even desired to give them up ‎No edit summary
• 17:5417:54, 22 April 2025 diff hist −22‎ If one becomes Krsna conscious, then he can give up this heart disease; otherwise this disease of lusty desires will continue, and one cannot have peace in his mind ‎No edit summary current
• 17:5417:54, 22 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ By the practice of bhakti-yoga, one should give up his lusty desires ‎No edit summary current
• 17:5417:54, 22 April 2025 diff hist +10‎ By making plans with determination, one should give up lusty desires for sense gratification. Similarly, by giving up envy one should conquer anger, by discussing the disadvantages of accumulating wealth one should give up greed ‎No edit summary current

16 April 2025

• 17:3217:32, 16 April 2025 diff hist +8‎ A person who in this life becomes falsely proud, thinking "I am great," and who thus fails to show proper respect to one more elevated than he by birth, austerity, education, behavior, caste or spiritual order, is like a dead man even in this lifetime ‎No edit summary current
• 17:3117:31, 16 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ As soon as the wife becomes proud of her parentage, her pride creates great misunderstanding between the husband and wife, and their nuptial life is ruined ‎No edit summary current
• 17:3017:30, 16 April 2025 diff hist +28‎ As soon as one becomes proud of his birth as the son of a brahmana and neglects to acquire the qualifications of a real brahmana he at once becomes degraded and falls from the path of self-realization. Thus his life's mission as a human being is defeated ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2917:29, 16 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ When Vena ascended to the throne, he became all-powerful with eight kinds of opulences. Consequently he became too proud. By virtue of his false prestige, he considered himself to be greater than anyone. Thus he began to insult great personalities ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2817:28, 16 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ The gopis became proud of their great fortune. To subdue their sense of superiority and show them special favor, Kesava, the subduer of even Lord Brahma and Lord Siva, disappeared from the rasa dance ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2817:28, 16 April 2025 diff hist +8‎ King Vena was not practiced in yoga, but he became very proud of his royal position nonetheless. Because he was not very considerate, he began to misuse his power and insult great personalities ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2817:28, 16 April 2025 diff hist +8‎ Hiranyakasipu was so dishonest that by the strength of his power & austerity, he took away our powers. Thus he became very proud of his mystic strength. Now, because this rogue has been killed by Your nails, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2817:28, 16 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ Hiranyakasipu received from me the benediction that he would not be killed by any living being within my creation. With this assurance & with strength derived from austerities & mystic power, he became excessively proud ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2717:27, 16 April 2025 diff hist +8‎ Because of Ravana's material power, he became very proud and puffed up so that he dared kidnap the wife of Lord Ramacandra. In this way he was ruined. To get material benedictions from Lord Siva is not difficult, but actually these are not benedictions ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2717:27, 16 April 2025 diff hist +6‎ With the progression of the age of Kali, people are becoming very proud, and attached to women and intoxication ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2717:27, 16 April 2025 diff hist +8‎ When one possesses more wealth than necessary, he certainly becomes very proud. This is the situation of men in modern civilization ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2617:26, 16 April 2025 diff hist +9‎ When one becomes too proud of his position, influenced by the mode of passion, he gives up the right path and accepts the wrong one ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2617:26, 16 April 2025 diff hist +9‎ When a man becomes too proud of his material possessions, he can perform any disastrous act, and therefore Daksa acted out of false prestige. That is described in this chapter ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2617:26, 16 April 2025 diff hist +9‎ When a man becomes too proud of his material position, he tries to enjoy his senses in an unrestricted way, being influenced by the modes of passion and ignorance ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2617:26, 16 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ When a living entity becomes proud of being an independent isvara, or god, that is his foolishness. Such foolishness is described in the following verse - SB 6.12.11 ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2617:26, 16 April 2025 diff hist −12‎ When a devotee becomes a little proud, the Supreme Lord sometimes exhibits His supreme power to dissipate the devotee's misunderstanding. After being amply harassed by Lord Visnu's potency, Lord Siva resumed his normal, unagitated condition ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2517:25, 16 April 2025 diff hist −13‎ We sometimes see a beloved wife becoming proud of her position and then frustrated due to some neglect. She then gives up caring for her appearance, accepts dirty clothes and morosely sits on the ground and draws lines with her nails ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2517:25, 16 April 2025 diff hist +28‎ We have become very proud of our education, but we tell material nature, "Thank you very much for kicking me. Now please continue." Thus deluded, we think that we have even conquered material nature. But how is this so ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2517:25, 16 April 2025 diff hist +9‎ We do not become proud to have very scientific accurate knowledge by speculation. We are not such people. We are taught by the parampara system that we are humble servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and what our master says, we accept it ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2417:24, 16 April 2025 diff hist +28‎ To protect the brahmana, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu advised him to chant the Hare Krsna mantra incessantly. By doing so, he would never become unnecessarily proud ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2417:24, 16 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ This is a sign (not to become proud despite having great opulence and power) of the wonderful character of great personalities ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2417:24, 16 April 2025 diff hist +28‎ Thinking like this, Srimati Radharani considered Herself Krsna's most beloved gopi. She had become proud and had left the rasa-lila with Krsna. In the deep forest She said, "My dear Krsna, I cannot walk any more. You can take Me wherever You like" ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2317:23, 16 April 2025 diff hist +9‎ The reception given to the King (Prthu) was full of opulence, yet he did not become proud ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2317:23, 16 April 2025 diff hist +3‎ There were many other kings on earth who had become very proud of three kinds of possessions - wealth, education and followers - and they were constantly agitating the earth by movements of military strength ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2217:22, 16 April 2025 diff hist −16‎ There have been many instances in which demons, after achieving material opulences, have become extremely proud, so much so that they have transgressed the laws and regulations given in the authoritative sastras. Hiranyakasipu acted in this way ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2217:22, 16 April 2025 diff hist +4‎ That is my point. Why you become falsely proud that you have done so advancement that you don't care for God, don't care for the original manufacturer? That is your fault ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2217:22, 16 April 2025 diff hist +28‎ Rukmi said, "This cowherd boy (Krsna) has become proud of His tricky way of fighting with ksatriyas, today I shall teach Him a good lesson. Because He had the impudence to kidnap my sister, I, with my sharp arrows, shall teach Him good lessons indeed" ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2117:21, 16 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ Raktaka thought, "I know that I must be very careful not to become overly proud that I am one of the servitors and devotees of the Lord (Krsna)" ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2117:21, 16 April 2025 diff hist +8‎ Princes offered prayers to Krsna, "Under the influence of Your illusory energy, such a foolish so-called ruler or king becomes falsely proud of his position, just like a foolish person who considers a mirage in the desert a reservoir of water" ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2117:21, 16 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ One who takes birth in a pious family or in a brahminical family often becomes very puffed up and proud, thinking, - I am a brahmana; I am a pious man ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2117:21, 16 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ One weaver at Mathura addressed Krsna in this way: "My dear Krsna, I have become so proud of Your causeless mercy upon me that I do not even count upon the mercy of the Lord of Vaikuntha, which is sought after by many great sages in deep meditation" ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2017:20, 16 April 2025 diff hist +28‎ One should not become falsely proud. One must be respectful toward a person more elevated than he by birth, education, behavior, caste or spiritual order ‎No edit summary current
• 17:2017:20, 16 April 2025 diff hist −16‎ My dear King, the entire world is covered with the sharp points of kusa grass, and on the strength of this you have become proud because you have killed various types of animals in sacrifices ‎No edit summary current
• 17:1917:19, 16 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ Jaga (Jagadananda Pandita) is only a new boy, but he has become so proud that he thinks himself competent to advise a person like you ‎No edit summary current
• 17:1917:19, 16 April 2025 diff hist +28‎ I become very much proud of nonsense rascal disciples like you. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu represented Himself as a nonsense rascal to understand Vedanta philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 17:1817:18, 16 April 2025 diff hist +9‎ I am not becoming proud, but because I have got little taste for it, therefore I am preaching all over the world. I don't say I am perfect. I have got little taste of krsna-bhakti ‎No edit summary current
• 17:1617:16, 16 April 2025 diff hist −12‎ I am a servant of Krsna. That is very nice. So one become... One has got the tendency to become proud. So if one is proud to become a cats and dog or a tiger or a so-called big man of this material world, that is for his bondage ‎No edit summary current
• 17:1617:16, 16 April 2025 diff hist −11‎ If you become proud that "I am minister," or "I am this big dog or big . . ." that is for nibandhaya, your bondage; you will continue material life ‎No edit summary current
• 17:1517:15, 16 April 2025 diff hist +43‎ If you become proud by becoming the most confidential servant of Krsna, the same pride is for your liberation ‎No edit summary current