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• Another significant phrase in this verse (SB 3.29.15) is natihimsrena ("with minimum violence or sacrifice of life"). Even if a devotee has to commit violence, it should not be done beyond what is necessary  + (06:06:12, 25 August 2020)
• Sometimes the question is put before us: "You ask us not to eat meat but you are eating vegetables. Do you think that is not violence?"  + (06:11:37, 25 August 2020)
• In the Caitanya-caritamrta Lord Caitanya instructs Rupa Gosvami that the living entities wander in life after life, undergoing the miserable conditions of material existence  + (08:07:11, 25 August 2020)
• When one is very anxious to get free from the material entanglement, he gets enlightenment through a spiritual master and Krsna  + (08:11:59, 25 August 2020)
• Krsna as the Supersoul is seated within the heart of the living entity, and when the living entity is serious, the Lord directs him to take shelter of His representative, a bona fide spiritual master  + (08:19:53, 25 August 2020)
• Directed from within and guided externally by the spiritual master, one attains the path of Krsna consciousness, which is the way out of the material clutches  + (08:24:00, 25 August 2020)
• There is no possibility of one's being situated in his own position unless he is blessed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead  + (08:29:33, 25 August 2020)
• Unless he (the living entity) is enlightened with the supreme knowledge, one has to undergo the severe penalties of the hard struggle for existence in the material nature  + (08:34:17, 25 August 2020)
• The spiritual master is the mercy manifestation of the Supreme Person  + (08:37:37, 25 August 2020)
• The conditioned soul has to take direct instruction from the spiritual master, and thus he gradually becomes enlightened to the path of Krsna consciousness  + (08:41:58, 25 August 2020)
• The seed of Krsna consciousness is sown within the heart of the conditioned soul, and when one hears instruction from the spiritual master, the seed fructifies, and one's life is blessed  + (08:46:08, 25 August 2020)
• In spite of His (God's) being unlimited, He has subjected Himself to being known from the authoritative scriptures like the Vedic literatures. As it is said, sabda-mulatvat: He can be known through the sabda-brahma, or Vedic literature  + (09:05:53, 25 August 2020)
• Eating vegetables is violence, and vegetarians are also committing violence against other living entities because vegetables also have life  + (09:12:33, 25 August 2020)
• Why is the creation made? Since the Lord is the Supreme Personality of Godhead for all living entities, He created this material manifestation for those living entities who want to enjoy or lord it over material nature  + (09:12:40, 25 August 2020)
• As the Supreme Godhead, He arranges to fulfill their various desires. It is confirmed also in the Vedas, eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman: the supreme one supplies the necessities of the many living entities  + (09:17:43, 25 August 2020)
• Nondevotees are killing cows, goats and so many other animals for eating purposes, and a devotee, who is vegetarian, is also killing  + (09:20:16, 25 August 2020)
• Here (in SB 3.29.15), significantly, it is stated that every living entity has to live by killing another entity; that is the law of nature  + (09:23:56, 25 August 2020)
• Jivo jivasya jivanam: one living entity is the life for another living entity. But for a human being, that violence should be committed only as much as necessary  + (09:26:49, 25 August 2020)
• At the time of dissolution the Lord sometimes appears as a small baby lying on a leaf of a banyan tree, floating on the devastating water. Devahuti suggests, "Your lying down within the abdomen of a common woman like me is not so astonishing  + (09:27:19, 25 August 2020)
• A human being is not to eat anything which is not offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Yajna-sistasinah santah: one becomes freed from all sinful reactions by eating foodstuffs which are offered to Yajna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead  + (09:31:20, 25 August 2020)
• Devahuti suggests, "It is not very wonderful that You (God) can lie down in the abdomen of my body  + (09:32:33, 25 August 2020)
• A devotee eats only prasada, or foodstuffs offered to the Supreme Lord, and Krsna says that when a devotee offers Him foodstuffs from the vegetable kingdom, with devotion, He eats that  + (09:36:23, 25 August 2020)
• You teach us that those who are very fond of children within this material world and who enter into marriage to enjoy family life can have the Supreme Personality of Godhead as their child, the most wonderful thing is that the Lord Himself licks His toe  + (09:39:01, 25 August 2020)
• Arjuna engaged in the art of killing, and although killing is, of course, violence, he killed the enemy simply on Krsna's order. In the same way, if we commit violence as it is necessary, by the order of the Lord, that is called natihimsa  + (09:44:42, 25 August 2020)
• We cannot avoid violence, for we are put into a conditional life in which we have to commit violence, but we should not commit more violence than necessary or than ordered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead  + (09:47:41, 25 August 2020)

• Temple worship is one of the duties of a devotee. It is especially recommended for neophytes, but those who are advanced should not refrain from temple worship  + (10:09:07, 25 August 2020)

• A neophyte considers the arca-vigraha (the statue of the Lord) to be different from the original Personality of Godhead; he considers it a representation of the Supreme Lord in the form of a Deity  + (10:17:50, 25 August 2020)
• An advanced devotee accepts the Deity in the temple as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He does not see any difference between the original form of the Lord and the statue, or arca form of the Lord, in the temple  + (10:24:14, 25 August 2020)
• This is the vision of a devotee whose devotional service is in highest stage of bhava, or love of Godhead (He doesn't see difference between God's form and the statue in the temple) whereas a neophyte's worship in the temple is a matter of routine duty  + (10:30:33, 25 August 2020)
• Temple Deity worship is one of the functions of a devotee. He goes regularly to see the Deity nicely decorated, and with veneration and respect he touches the lotus feet of the Lord and presents offerings of worship, such as fruits, flowers and prayers  + (10:36:37, 25 August 2020)
• To advance in devotional service, a devotee should see other living entities as spiritual sparks, parts and parcels of the Supreme Lord. A devotee is to offer respect to every entity that has a relationship with the Lord  + (10:41:55, 25 August 2020)
• Because every living entity originally has a relationship with the Lord as part and parcel, a devotee should try to see all living entities on the same equal level of spiritual existence  + (10:46:29, 25 August 2020)
• The precarious condition of the living entity within the womb of his mother is described here - in SB 3.31.17  + (11:54:02, 25 August 2020)
• Counting the months until his (the child) release, he becomes greatly anxious to get out of the confinement  + (12:02:54, 25 August 2020)
• As stated in Bhagavad-gita, a pandita, one who is learned, sees equally a very learned brahmana, a sudra, a hog, a dog and a cow. He does not see the body, which is only an outward dress  + (12:07:22, 25 August 2020)
• He (a pandita) does not see the dress of a brahmana, or that of a cow or of a hog. He sees the spiritual spark, part and parcel of the Supreme Lord  + (12:11:30, 25 August 2020)
• The word krpana-dhih is significant in this (SB 3.31.17) verse. Dhi means intelligence, and krpana means miserly  + (12:14:13, 25 August 2020)
• If a devotee does not see every living entity as part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, he is considered prakrta-bhakta, a materialistic devotee  + (12:16:35, 25 August 2020)
• Conditional life is for persons who are of miserly intelligence or who do not properly utilize their intelligence  + (12:18:04, 25 August 2020)
• He (a materialistic devotee) is not completely situated on the spiritual platform; rather, he is in the lowest stage of devotion. He does, however, show all respect to the Deity  + (12:20:16, 25 August 2020)
• Although a devotee sees all living entities on the level of spiritual existence, he is not interested in associating with everyone  + (12:23:31, 25 August 2020)
• Simply because a tiger is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord does not mean that we embrace him because of his spiritual relationship with the Supreme Lord. We must associate only with persons who have developed Krsna consciousness  + (12:26:30, 25 August 2020)
• One has to utilize intelligence to get out of the cycle of birth and death. One who does not do so is a miser, just like a person who has immense wealth but does not utilize it, keeping it simply to see  + (12:29:34, 25 August 2020)
• We should befriend and offer special respect to persons who are developed in Krsna consciousness  + (12:29:44, 25 August 2020)
• A person who does not actually utilize his human intelligence to get out of the clutches of maya, the cycle of birth and death, is accepted as miserly  + (12:33:18, 25 August 2020)
• Other living entities are undoubtedly part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, but because their consciousness is still covered and not developed in Krsna consciousness, we should renounce their association  + (12:34:18, 25 August 2020)
• It is said by Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura that even if one is a Vaisnava, if he is not of good character his company should be avoided, although he may be offered the respect of a Vaisnava  + (12:37:14, 25 August 2020)
• The exact opposite of miserly is udara, very magnanimous. A brahmana is called udara because he utilizes his human intelligence for spiritual realization  + (12:40:50, 25 August 2020)
• Anyone who accepts Visnu as the Supreme Personality of Godhead is accepted as a Vaisnava, but a Vaisnava is expected to develop all the good qualities of the demigods  + (12:41:12, 25 August 2020)
• He (A brahmana) uses that intelligence to preach Krsna consciousness for the benefit of the public, and therefore he is magnanimous  + (12:55:07, 25 August 2020)
• As stated in Bhagavad-gita, intelligence and forgetfulness are both supplied by the Supersoul sitting with the individual soul within the body  + (13:01:26, 25 August 2020)