User contributions for Samruddhi

6 November 2023

• 16:2316:23, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ At the entrance to Jagannatha Puri is a bridge with eighteen arches called Atharanala - Athara means eighteen ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1916:19, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ Asadhu, or demon, means persons who deny the authority of God. They are called demons ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1816:18, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As you inquire what is svami, svami means master. And master, what does it mean? Master of the senses. Generally people are driven by the dictation of the senses. So if you can control your senses, then you become a svami ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1716:17, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As we understand from Brahma-samhita, advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam (BS 5.33). Ananta means "innumerable ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1516:15, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As stated in this verse, sadrso 'sti sivah pantha. Para-brahman is Krsna, and brahma-siddhaye means understanding our relationship with Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1316:13, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As stated in Srinivasacarya's prayer to the six Gosvamis (Sad-gosvamy-astaka): sankhya-purvaka-nama-gana-natibhih kalavasani-krtau. The word sankhya-purvaka means "maintaining a numerical strength ‎No edit summary current
• 16:1116:11, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura explains, the word nirapeksa means not being affected by anything material and remaining fixed in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 16:0916:09, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As soon as we speak of karma, there must be somebody else to judge. And that judgment is said, daiva netrena. Daiva means divine supervision ‎No edit summary current
• 16:0016:00, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As described in the beginning of the Vedanta-sutra, the Supreme Person is the origin of all qualities. He is generally called nirguna. Nirguna means "whose qualities are beyond estimation." Guna means "quality," and nir means "beyond estimation" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5715:57, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ As a sincere friend of Krsna, one should preach this philosophy, requesting everyone to surrender unto Krsna. Atma-nivedanam means offering Krsna everything, including one's body, mind, intelligence and whatever one may possess ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5215:52, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ Arthadam means you can derive the greatest value in this life. Arthadam. Artha means money, and paramartha means spiritual consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5015:50, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ Arcanam means worshiping Lord Visnu as one does in the temple, and vandanam means offering respectful obeisances. Man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru (BG 18.65). Vandanam means namaskuru - offering obeisances or offering prayers ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4515:45, 6 November 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anyone who is well-versed in bhagavat-tattva-vijnanam, he can become guru. Not others. And in many places this is confirmed, that sat-karma-nipuno vipro. A brahmana, very well expert in his business. Brahmana's business means sat-karma, 6 kinds of karma ‎No edit summary current

3 October 2023

• 06:4406:44, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Apaurusa means "not spoken by any person materially created." It is stated in the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam, tene brahma hrda ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4306:43, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Any living entity who is within this material world, they have come here with that two principles - iccha, dvesa. Iccha means they want to be happy with material enjoyment and "What is God? I am God." These two things ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anukulyena krsnanusilanam means when you have accepted the bona fide spiritual master, you should work in such a way that your spiritual master is pleased with you. Then your path is very clear ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anu means "following", and anu also means "always." So one must always follow the disciplic succession and not hear from any stray professional reciter, whether a Mayavadi or an ordinary man ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3906:39, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Antardhana means that these living creatures can be perceived to be present, but they cannot be seen by vision ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3406:34, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anagha, O sinless one, means that unless one is free from all sinful reactions, it is very difficult to understand Krsna. One has to become free from all contamination, all sinful activities; then he can understand. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 3 October 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ahimsa, nonviolence, means that one should not do anything which will put others into misery or confusion. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

28 September 2023

• 12:0112:01, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Another word in this verse (SB 3.25.29), bhagavad-banah, is very significant. Banah means arrow ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0012:00, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Another medha means killing. So one who keeps himself in household life, he kills himself. Killing ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5711:57, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Another feature of the devotee is nirihaya, simple living. Niriha means "gentle," "meek" or "simple ‎No edit summary
• 11:5311:53, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anna means "food." After this one lives in the consciousness of being alive. If one can continue his life without being attacked or destroyed, one thinks himself happy ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5011:50, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Aniketanah means "without lodging." He (a sannyasi) should not have his own house, but should depend completely on the Supreme Lord for his food and lodging. He should travel ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4811:48, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anartha means things which are not wanted. We are accustomed to so many things, rascal things, which is not at all wanted. But we have been accustomed. By bad association ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4711:47, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anartha means meaningless. No artha. Artha means meaning. So if we want to stop this anartha, misconception of life, then we have to take to bhakti-yoga ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4511:45, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ananya-cetah, without any deviation from this path of Krsna consciousness and devotional service in submission, if anyone thinks always of Krsna . . . Krsna says, tasyaham sulabhah. Sulabha means - I am very easily available for him ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4411:44, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anantam means unlimited. You are searching after happiness, but this is limited. Even if you enjoy sex life, that is also limited for a few moments. But anantam. That is... You will enjoy it eternally ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ananta indicates that there is nothing which is not covered by the influence and energy of the Supreme Lord, and devesa means that He is the controller of all demigods and is above them all. He is the center of the whole universe. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4011:40, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ananda means the reservoir of all pleasure. The impersonalists are seeking to merge into the Brahman effulgence of eternity and knowledge, but the major portion of the absolute pleasure which is in Krsna is avoided by them ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ananda means blissfulness, joyfulness. There cannot be any joyfulness in this body. There are three kinds of miserable condition of material life: adhyatmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika. So either these three or one or two is always there ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3611:36, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Anadir adir govindah. Go means senses, go means cow, and go means land. He is the proprietor of all land, He is the proprietor of all cows, and He is the creator of all senses ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3111:31, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ An Aryan means advanced, advanced in knowledge, and one who is advanced in knowledge, he is advanced civilized ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2811:28, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Although Krsna is the Supreme Lord and is unborn and unchangeable, He appears in His original transcendental nature. The word prakrti means - nature ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2611:26, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Although God is equally disposed to everyone, He is especially inclined to His devotees. Sat means the Absolute Truth. And persons who are servitors of the Absolute Truth are called satvatas ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1811:18, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Akincana means one who has nothing to give materially ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1711:17, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Akhanditam means not exactly "fragmented" but "constitutionally always infinitesimal." No one can separate the molecular parts of the sunshine from the sun, but at the same time the molecular part of the sunshine is not as expansive as the sun itself ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1511:15, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Akartrtvat means not doing anything for sense gratification. When one does something at his own risk, there is a sense of proprietorship and a reaction, but when one does everything for Krsna, there is no proprietorship over the activities ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1011:10, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ahimsa means not being violent. There are eighteen processes for attaining knowledge and perfection, and by his vow, Kardama Muni adopted all the principles of self-realization ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0811:08, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Ahankara means the point where the pure soul touches matter. That junction is called ahankara. Ahankara is still finer than intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0611:06, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Agra means "first," and puja means "worship." This Agra-puja is similar to the election of a president ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0311:03, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Advaita Acarya especially intended to teach the conditioned souls about devotional service. The word acarya means "teacher." The special function of such a teacher is to make people Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0111:01, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Adhyatmika means pertaining to the body and mind. "I have got headache today. I have got some pain here in the back. My mind is not very much settled up today. I cannot talk with you." ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5910:59, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Adhoksaja means beyond the perception of the senses ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5510:55, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ Actually, married couples should be paramahamsas. Paramahamsa means the topmost stage of sannyasi. Paramahamsa. A sannyasi has got four stages: kuticaka, bahudaka, parivrajakacarya and paramahamsa ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4910:49, 28 September 2023 diff hist +2‎ According to Vedic scripture, nirvana means cessation of the materialistic way of life. Atmanam means realization of the Supersoul within the heart. Ultimately, the highest perfection is realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 10:4910:49, 28 September 2023 diff hist +36‎ According to Vedic scripture, nirvana means cessation of the materialistic way of life. Atmanam means realization of the Supersoul within the heart. Ultimately, the highest perfection is realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 10:4510:45, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ According to the impersonalists, there are no transcendental qualities in the impersonal Brahman; therefore we should understand that brahmani means "in the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4210:42, 28 September 2023 diff hist +20‎ According to Sri Jiva Gosvami, nidhanam means the transcendental abode of the Lord. Ni means the highest, and dhanam means opulence ‎No edit summary current