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• Srimad-Bhagavatam can give the accurate direction for self-realization in eternal relation with the Personality of Godhead by devotional service in transcendental love  + (14:17:14, 29 January 2019)
• They (human beings) have no sense of the responsibility of human life. This human form of life is a chance to get out of the clutches of illusory matter. The Vedas are meant for going back to Godhead, going back home  + (14:30:44, 29 January 2019)
• To revolve in the cycle of transmigration in a series of lives numbering 8,400,000 is an imprisoned life for the condemned conditioned souls  + (14:33:58, 29 January 2019)
• The human form of life is a chance to get out of this imprisoned life, and as such the only occupation of the human being is to reestablish his lost relationship with God  + (14:36:00, 29 January 2019)
• One should never be encouraged in making a plan for sense enjoyment in the name of religious functions. Such diversion of the human energy results in a misguided civilization  + (14:49:06, 29 January 2019)
• Srila Vyasadeva is the authority in Vedic explanations in the Mahabharata, etc  + (05:09:32, 30 January 2019)
• Vyasadeva's encouragement in sense enjoyment in some form or other is a great barrier for spiritual advancement because the people in general will not agree to renounce material activities which hold them in material bondage  + (05:12:40, 30 January 2019)
• At a certain stage of human civilization when such material activities in the name of religion were too much rampant, the Lord incarnated Himself as Buddha and decried the authority of the Vedas in order to stop animal sacrifice in the name of religion  + (05:18:10, 30 January 2019)
• The flesh-eaters still continue to perform animal sacrifice before some demigod or goddess in the name of religion because in some of the Vedic literatures such regulated sacrifices are recommended  + (05:20:42, 30 January 2019)
• They (animal sacrifices) are so recommended to discourage flesh-eating, but gradually the purpose of such religious activities is forgotten, and the slaughterhouse becomes prominent  + (05:24:59, 30 January 2019)
• This is (slaughterhouse becomes prominent) because foolish materialistic men do not care to listen to others who are actually in a position to explain the Vedic rites  + (05:27:31, 30 January 2019)
• In histories like the Mahabharata, of course, there are topics on transcendental subjects along with material topics. The Bhagavad-gita is there in the Mahabharata  + (05:35:02, 30 January 2019)
• When the creation is again set up, this mahat-tattva is again let loose  + (10:23:23, 30 January 2019)
• Primarily this mahat-tattva is divided into sixteen parts, namely the five gross material elements & the eleven working instruments or senses. It is like the cloud in the clear sky  + (11:05:48, 30 January 2019)
• A patient suffering from a particular type of malady is almost always inclined to accept eatables which are forbidden for him  + (14:29:02, 30 January 2019)
• In the Bhagavad-gita it is also said that a man attached to fruitive work should not be discouraged from his occupation, for gradually he may be elevated to the position of self-realization  + (14:33:07, 30 January 2019)
• This (a man attached to fruitive work shouldn't be discouraged from his occupation) is sometimes applicable for those who're only dry empiric philosophers without spiritual realization. But those who're in the devotional line need not be always so advised  + (14:44:54, 30 January 2019)
• In the Bhagavad-gita it is clearly stated that out of many hundreds and thousands of men only one person deserves to enter into transcendental realization  + (15:05:52, 30 January 2019)
• Out of many thousands of such transcendentally realized persons, only a few can understand the theological science specifically dealing with God as a person  + (15:08:23, 30 January 2019)
• Sri Vyasadeva is advised by Narada to describe the science of God directly by relating His transcendental activities  + (15:10:34, 30 January 2019)
• Vyasadeva is himself a personality expert in this science, and he is unattached to material enjoyment. Therefore he is the right person to describe it, and Sukadeva Gosvami, the son of Vyasadeva, is the right person to receive it  + (15:12:31, 30 January 2019)
• The literature is the factual literary incarnation of the Lord. So the laymen can hear the narration of the activities of the Lord. Thereby they are able to associate with the Lord and thus gradually become purified from material diseases  + (15:39:33, 30 January 2019)
• The expert devotees also can discover novel ways and means to convert the nondevotees in terms of particular time and circumstance  + (15:41:18, 30 January 2019)
• Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His subsequent followers exhibited expert dexterity in this connection. By following the same method, one can bring the materialistic men of this age of quarrel into order for peaceful life and transcendental realization  + (15:46:00, 30 January 2019)
• As far as the duties of mankind are concerned, there are innumerable duties  + (15:48:16, 30 January 2019)

• Every man is duty-bound not only to his parents, family members, society, country, humanity, other living beings, the demigods, etc., but also to the great philosophers, poets, scientists, etc  + (15:50:33, 30 January 2019)

• It is enjoined in the scriptures that one can relinquish all such duties and surrender unto the service of the Lord  + (15:52:45, 30 January 2019)
• If one does so and becomes successful in the discharge of his devotional service unto the Lord, it is well and good  + (05:12:28, 31 January 2019)
• There are so many instances of this in the histories. Bharata Maharaja was obliged to take his birth as a stag due to his intimate attachment to a stag. He thought of this stag when he died  + (05:16:28, 31 January 2019)
• In the next birth he (Bharata Maharaja) became a stag, although he did not forget the incident of his previous birth  + (05:20:52, 31 January 2019)
• Citraketu also fell down due to his offenses at the feet of Siva. But in spite of all this, the stress is given here (in the Srimad-Bhagavatam) to surrendering unto the lotus feet of the Lord, even if there is a chance of falling down  + (05:26:59, 31 January 2019)
• One will never forget the lotus feet of the Lord even though one falls down from the prescribed duties of devotional service  + (05:30:00, 31 January 2019)
• Once engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, one will continue the service in all circumstances  + (05:31:46, 31 January 2019)
• Ajamila in his early life was a devotee, but in his youth he fell down. Still he was saved by the Lord at the end  + (05:35:05, 31 January 2019)
• Every man everywhere is trying to obtain the greatest amount of sense enjoyment by various endeavors  + (05:37:06, 31 January 2019)
• Some men are busy engaged in trade, industry, economic development, political supremacy, etc., and some of them are engaged in fruitive work to become happy in the next life by attaining higher planets  + (05:48:21, 31 January 2019)
• It is said that on the moon the inhabitants are fit for greater sense enjoyment by drinking soma-rasa & the Pitrloka is obtained by good charitable work. So there are various programs for sense enjoyment, either during this life or in the life after death  + (05:50:39, 31 January 2019)
• By the law of the Supreme, different places are meant for different grades of living beings according to the work they have performed  + (05:09:53, 2 February 2019)
• By good work only, as prescribed in the scriptures, can one obtain birth in a good family, opulence, good education and good bodily features. We see also that even in this life one obtains a good education or money by good work  + (05:12:24, 2 February 2019)
• In our next birth we get such desirable positions only by good work. Otherwise, it would not so happen that two persons born in the same place at the same time are seen differently placed according to previous work  + (05:14:48, 2 February 2019)
• He (philosophically inclined person) should try to get into the permanent life of bliss and knowledge where he will not be forced to come back again to the miserable material world, either in this or that planet  + (05:25:09, 2 February 2019)
• Miseries and mixed happiness are two features of material life, and they are obtained in Brahmaloka and in other lokas also. They are obtained in the life of the demigods and also in the life of the dogs and hogs  + (05:27:02, 2 February 2019)
• The miseries and mixed happiness of all living beings are only of different degree and quality, but no one is free from the miseries of birth, death, old age and disease  + (05:29:10, 2 February 2019)
• One should only endeavor to go back to Godhead. That should be the mission of everyone's life  + (05:36:17, 2 February 2019)
• A devotee of the Lord automatically becomes uninterested in the enchantment of material existence because he is rasa-graha, or one who has tasted the sweetness of the lotus feet of Lord Krsna  + (05:38:42, 2 February 2019)
• There are certainly many instances where devotees of the Lord have fallen down due to uncongenial association, just like fruitive workers, who are always prone to degradation  + (05:41:10, 2 February 2019)
• Even though he (devotee of the Lord) falls down, he is never to be considered the same as a fallen karmi. A karmi suffers the result of his own fruitive reactions, whereas a devotee is reformed by chastisement directed by the Lord Himself  + (05:43:40, 2 February 2019)
• The sufferings of an orphan and the sufferings of a beloved child of a king are not one and the same  + (11:34:14, 2 February 2019)
• A devotee of the Lord, due to wrong association, sometimes imitates the fruitive workers. The fruitive workers want to lord it over the material world  + (11:37:40, 2 February 2019)
• A neophyte devotee foolishly thinks of accumulating some material power in exchange for devotional service. Such foolish devotees are sometimes put into difficulty by the Lord Himself  + (11:40:30, 2 February 2019)
• As a special favor, God may remove all material paraphernalia. By such action, the bewildered devotee is forsaken by all friends and relatives, and so he comes to his senses again by the mercy of the Lord and is set right to execute his devotional service  + (11:43:37, 2 February 2019)