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• Only those who are akincana-gocaram, who are not materially puffed up, can see the Supreme Personality of Godhead; others are bewildered and cannot even think of the Absolute Truth  + (17:30:25, 10 September 2020)
• He (an highly advanced maha-bhagavata devotee) sees everyone as part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead  + (17:38:41, 10 September 2020)
• The monists and the great mystics know the Supreme Personality of Godhead as one. This oneness is not the misunderstanding that a living entity is equal in every respect to the Supreme Personality of Godhead  + (17:42:19, 10 September 2020)
• Monism is based on pure knowledge as described and confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.17): priyo hi jnanino 'tyartham aham sa ca mama priyah  + (17:46:21, 10 September 2020)
• The bhakti-yoga system is the topmost yoga system, and in this system the chanting of the holy name of the Lord is the foremost performance of devotional service  + (17:50:41, 10 September 2020)
• By chanting the holy name one can attain the perfection of nirvana, or liberation from material existence, and so increase one's blissful life of spiritual existence as described by Lord Caitanya - anandambudhi-vardhanam  + (17:59:39, 10 September 2020)
• When one is situated in that position, he no longer has any interest in material opulence or even a royal throne and sovereignty over the whole planet. This situation is called viraktir anyatra syat. It is the result of devotional service  + (18:10:12, 10 September 2020)
• The more one makes advancement in devotional service, the more one becomes detached from material opulence and material activity. This is the spiritual nature, full of bliss  + (18:16:31, 10 September 2020)
• This is also described in Bhagavad-gita (BG 2.59). Param drstva nivartate: one ceases to take part in material enjoyment upon tasting superior, blissful life in spiritual existence  + (18:20:06, 10 September 2020)
• The perfection of mystic yoga is possible when one is continuously in connection with the Supreme Personality of Godhead by discharging devotional service. A devotee is always thinking of the Supreme Person at every step of his life  + (18:27:34, 10 September 2020)
• For all practical purposes, the whole world is full of nondevotees, and so one kind of very advanced devotee is called bhajananandi. Those who are gosthy-anandi, however, preach to increase the number of devotees  + (18:44:05, 10 September 2020)
• Those who are gosthy-anandi preach to increase the number of devotees. But even such preachers also avoid opposing elements who are unfavorably disposed towards spiritual life  + (18:51:10, 10 September 2020)
• In modern days, wherever there is monarchy, sometimes the ministers and elderly members of the family select one member from the royal family to occupy the throne in preference to another  + (19:07:34, 10 September 2020)
• Vatsara's wife is mentioned here (in SB 4.13.12) as ista, which means "worshipable." In other words, it appears that Vatsara's wife had all good qualities; for example, she was always very faithful and obedient and affectionate to her husband  + (19:18:21, 10 September 2020)
• She (Vatsara's wife) had all good qualities for managing household affairs. If both the husband and wife are endowed with good qualities and live peacefully, then nice children take birth, and thus the whole family is happy and prosperous  + (19:28:20, 10 September 2020)
• As a result of this severe punishment (the king would immediately chop off the hands of a thief) there were practically no theft cases within the kingdom. Even if someone left something on the street, no one would touch it  + (19:46:25, 10 September 2020)
• In the so-called democracy, wherever there is a theft case the police come and take note of the case, but generally the thief is never caught, nor is any punishment offered to him  + (19:54:02, 10 September 2020)
• As a result of incapable government, at the present moment thieves, rogues and cheaters are very prominent all over the world  + (19:59:11, 10 September 2020)
• By the grace of Lord Krsna, the sages and Lord Manu reminded Dhruva Maharaja that he should not continue this material conception of "I" and "mine." Simply by devotional service unto the Lord his illusion could be eradicated without difficulty  + (04:58:41, 11 September 2020)
• Dhruva Maharaja was a liberated soul, and actually he was not angry with anyone. But because he was the ruler, it was his duty to become angry for some time in order to keep law and order in the state  + (05:04:33, 11 September 2020)
• His brother, Uttama, was without fault, yet he was killed by one of the Yaksas. It was the duty of Dhruva Maharaja to kill the offender (life for life) because Dhruva was the king  + (05:08:16, 11 September 2020)
• When the challenge came, Dhruva Maharaja fought vehemently and punished the Yaksas sufficiently. But anger is such that if one increases it, it increases unlimitedly  + (05:11:12, 11 September 2020)
• In order that Dhruva Maharaja's kingly anger not exceed the limit, Manu was kind enough to check his grandson. Dhruva Maharaja could understand the purpose of his grandfather, and he immediately stopped the fighting  + (05:14:04, 11 September 2020)
• The words srutena bhuyasa, "by constantly hearing," are very important in this verse. By constantly hearing about devotional service, one can check the force of anger, which is detrimental to the process of devotional service  + (05:22:13, 11 September 2020)
• Srila Pariksit Maharaja said that the constant hearing of the pastimes of the Lord is the panacea for all material diseases  + (05:26:20, 11 September 2020)

• Dhruva Maharaja's becoming angry with the miscreants was quite appropriate. There is a short story in this connection about a snake who became a devotee upon instruction by Narada, who instructed him not to bite anymore  + (05:32:20, 11 September 2020)

• Since ordinarily a snake's business is to fatally bite other living entities, as a devotee he was forbidden to do so. Unfortunately, people took advantage of this nonviolence on the part of the snake, especially the children, who threw stones at him  + (05:38:55, 11 September 2020)
• He (snake) did not bite anyone because it was the instruction of his spiritual master. After a while, when the snake met his spiritual master, Narada, he complained  + (05:55:53, 11 September 2020)
• When the snake met his spiritual master, Narada, he complained, "I have given up the bad habit of biting innocent living entities, but they are mistreating me by throwing stones at me"  + (06:00:02, 11 September 2020)
• Narada Muni instructed him (snake), "Don't bite, but do not forget to expand your hood as if you were going to bite. Then they will go away."  + (06:03:41, 11 September 2020)
• The demonic are always present, and they find fault even in saintly persons. But a saintly person never becomes angry, even if there is very great provocation  + (06:19:53, 11 September 2020)
• Lord Manu stated that Dhruva Maharaja had been offensive to Lord Siva and his brother Kuvera because the Yaksas belonged to Kuvera's family. They were not ordinary persons. As such, they have been described as punya janan, pious men  + (06:24:16, 11 September 2020)
• Somehow or other the mind of Kuvera had been agitated, and Dhruva Maharaja was advised to pacify him  + (06:28:00, 11 September 2020)
• In our common dealings we should maintain friendship with everyone and certainly with such exalted demigods as Kuvera. Our behavior should be such that no one should become angry and thereby commit a wrong to individuals, families or society  + (06:32:33, 11 September 2020)
• When the master of the treasury addressed him as sinless, Dhruva Maharaja, considering himself responsible for killing so many Yaksas, might have thought himself otherwise  + (06:44:29, 11 September 2020)
• Kuvera assured him (Dhruva Maharaja) that factually he had not killed any of the Yaksas; therefore, he was not at all sinful. He did his duty as a king, as it is ordered by the laws of nature  + (06:48:50, 11 September 2020)
• Kuvera told Dhurva Maharaja: "He (Uttama) died or was killed in due course of time by the laws of nature. Eternal time, one of the features of the Lord, is ultimately responsible for annihilation and generation. You are not responsible for such actions"  + (06:53:42, 11 September 2020)
• The conception of "I" and "you," aham tvam, as separate from each other, is due to our forgetfulness of our eternal relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead  + (06:59:01, 11 September 2020)
• The hand is the hand & the leg is the leg, but when both of them engage in the service of the whole body, there is no such distinction as "hands" & "legs," for all of them belong to the whole body & all the parts working together constitute the whole body  + (07:06:52, 11 September 2020)
• When the living entities are in Krsna consciousness, there is no such distinction as "I" and "you" because everyone is engaged in the service of the Lord  + (07:11:53, 11 September 2020)
• Since the Lord is absolute, the services are also absolute; even though the hand is working one way and the leg is working in another way, since the purpose is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they are all one  + (07:15:39, 11 September 2020)
• Real knowledge is that hand is hand, leg is leg, body is body, and yet all together they are one  + (07:18:18, 11 September 2020)
• Here the word vigraham, "having specific form," is very significant, for it indicates that the Absolute Truth is ultimately the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is explained in the Brahma-samhita  + (07:25:27, 11 September 2020)
• Sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah: (BS 5.1) He (God) has form, but His form is different from any kind of material form  + (07:28:55, 11 September 2020)
• The living entities are the marginal energy of the supreme form. As such, they are not different from the supreme form, but at the same time they are not equal to the supreme form  + (07:56:27, 11 September 2020)
• Dhruva Maharaja is advised herewith to render service unto the supreme form. That will include service to other individual forms  + (07:58:55, 11 September 2020)
• A tree has a form, and when water is poured on the root of the tree, the other forms - the leaves, twigs, flowers and fruits - are automatically watered  + (08:01:31, 11 September 2020)
• The Mayavada conception that because the Absolute Truth is everything He must be formless is rejected here. Rather, it is confirmed that the Absolute Truth has form, and yet He is all-pervading. Nothing is independent of Him  + (08:05:51, 11 September 2020)
• In continuation of the previous verse, it is specifically mentioned here (SB 4.12.6) that Dhruva Maharaja should engage himself in devotional service  + (08:11:34, 11 September 2020)
• Devotional service cannot be rendered to the impersonal Brahman feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Whenever the word bhajasva appears, meaning "engage yourself in devotional service," there must be the servant, service and the served  + (08:16:22, 11 September 2020)
• The Supreme Personality of Godhead is served, the mode of activities to please Him is called service, and one who renders such service is called the servant  + (08:19:19, 11 September 2020)