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• Although the goddess of fortune is always a constant companion of the Supreme Lord, the Lord is more inclined to His devotees  + (06:02:10, 1 December 2020)
• Devotional service is so great that when it is offered even by those born in low families, the Lord accepts it as being more valuable than the service offered by the goddess of fortune  + (06:04:53, 1 December 2020)
• Lord Brahma, King Indra and the other demigods living in the upper planetary systems are situated in a different spirit of consciousness  + (06:08:46, 1 December 2020)
• They (Lord Brahma, King Indra and the other demigods) are sometimes troubled by demons, but a devotee, even if situated in the lower planets, enjoys life in Krsna consciousness under any circumstances  + (06:13:23, 1 December 2020)
• Paratah svatah karmatah: as he (the devotee) acts himself, as he is instructed by others or as he performs his material activities, he enjoys life in every respect  + (06:16:38, 1 December 2020)
• For our manufacturing enterprises, we require so many raw materials like metal, sulphur, mercury, manganese and so many essentials - all of which are supplied by the agents of the Lord  + (14:02:47, 1 December 2020)
• There is always rivalry between a king and his citizens  + (14:07:49, 1 December 2020)
• Our life is dependent on supplies from the Lord. we should make proper use of them to keep ourselves fit and healthy for the purpose of self-realization, leading to the ultimate goal of life, namely, liberation from the material struggle for existence  + (14:11:44, 1 December 2020)
• This aim of life is attained by performance of yajnas  + (14:16:02, 1 December 2020)
• If the citizen is not pacified, the king should then offer him some lucrative post as a governor or minister-any post that draws a high salary - so that he may be agreeable  + (14:18:01, 1 December 2020)
• If we forget the purpose of human life and simply take supplies from the agents of the Lord for sense gratification and become more and more entangled in material existence, which is not the purpose of creation, certainly we become thieves  + (14:22:08, 1 December 2020)
• If the enemy still goes on agitating the public, the king should try to create dissension in the enemy's camp, but if he still continues, the king should employ argumentum ad baculum - severe punishment - by putting him in jail  + (14:23:07, 1 December 2020)
• The teachers appointed by Hiranyakasipu taught Prahlada Maharaja how to be a diplomat so that he could rule over the citizens very nicely  + (14:28:37, 1 December 2020)
• A society of thieves can never be happy, for they have no aim in life  + (14:28:37, 1 December 2020)
• The gross materialist thieves have no ultimate goal of life. They are simply directed to sense gratification; nor do they have knowledge of how to perform yajnas  + (14:30:41, 1 December 2020)
• Lord Caitanya inaugurated the easiest performance of yajna, namely the sankirtana-yajna, which can be performed by anyone in the world who accepts the principles of Krsna consciousness  + (14:34:41, 1 December 2020)
• Hiranyakasipu inquires from his son what he has learned from his guru  + (14:38:12, 1 December 2020)
• Hiranyakasipu planned to kill the inhabitants of earth so that yajna would stop and the demigods, being disturbed, would die automatically when Lord Visnu, the yajnesvara, was killed. These were the demoniac plans of Hiranyakasipu  + (14:39:59, 1 December 2020)
• Since Visnu is the central point of brahminical culture, Hiranyakasipu's plan was to kill Visnu, for if Visnu were killed, naturally the brahminical culture would also be lost  + (14:45:22, 1 December 2020)
• Sanda and Amarka, the sons of Sukracarya in the seminal disciplic succession, were the gurus appointed by his father, but his other guru was the exalted Narada Muni, who had instructed Prahlada when Prahlada was within the womb of his mother  + (14:45:47, 1 December 2020)
• Prahlada Maharaja responded to the inquiry of his father with the instructions he had received from his spiritual master, Narada  + (14:52:50, 1 December 2020)
• With brahminical culture lost, yajna would no longer be performed, and for want of yajna the regular distribution of rainfall would cease. Thus there would be disturbances all over the world, and naturally the demigods would be defeated  + (14:55:41, 1 December 2020)
• There was again a difference of opinion because Prahlada Maharaja wanted to relate the best thing he had learned from his spiritual master, whereas Hiranyakasipu expected to hear about the politics and diplomacy Prahlada had learned from Sanda and Amarka  + (14:59:30, 1 December 2020)
• From this verse (SB 7.2.11) we get a clear indication of how human society is disturbed when the Vedic Aryan civilization is killed and the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies performed by the brahmanas are stopped  + (15:01:31, 1 December 2020)
• Now the dissension between the father and son became increasingly intense as Prahlada Maharaja began to say what he had learned from his guru Narada Muni  + (15:05:18, 1 December 2020)

• Because the population of the modern world consists mostly of sudras, the brahminical culture is now lost and is extremely difficult to reestablish in a proper way  + (15:06:05, 1 December 2020)

• Lord Caitanya has recommended the chanting of the holy name of the Lord, which will revive brahminical culture very easily  + (15:07:29, 1 December 2020)
• When Prahlada Maharaja was asked by his father to say something from whatever he had learned, he considered that what he had learned from his spiritual master was the best of all teachings  + (15:14:13, 1 December 2020)
• Because of the increment in demoniac population, people have lost brahminical culture. Nor is there a ksatriya government  + (15:16:02, 1 December 2020)
• The government is a democracy in which any sudra can be voted into taking up the governmental reigns and capture the power to rule  + (15:17:36, 1 December 2020)
• The government will adopt the policies of dasyus, or plunderers. Thus there will be no instructions from the brahmanas, and even if there are brahminical instructions, there will be no ksatriya rulers who can follow them  + (15:21:43, 1 December 2020)
• What he (Prahlada) had learned about diplomacy from his material teachers, Sanda and Amarka, was useless. Bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra ca (SB 11.2.42). This is the symptom of pure devotional service  + (15:22:28, 1 December 2020)
• Aside from Satya-yuga, even formerly, in the days when demons were flourishing, Hiranyakasipu planned to destroy the brahminical culture and the ksatriya government and thus create chaos all over the world  + (15:27:08, 1 December 2020)
• In Kali-yuga, which is full of sudras and demons, the brahminical culture is lost and can be revived only by the chanting of the maha-mantra  + (15:30:24, 1 December 2020)
• A pure devotee is interested only in devotional service, not in material affairs. To execute devotional service, one should always engage in hearing and chanting about Krsna, or Lord Visnu. The process of temple worship is called arcana  + (15:36:10, 1 December 2020)
• The demons think that Hari, Lord Visnu, exists because of the brahmanas and yajna, but factually Hari is the cause of everything including the brahmanas and yajna  + (15:42:18, 1 December 2020)
• The picture of a proper human civilization is indirectly described here (in SB 7.2.12). In a perfect human civilization there must be a class of men fully trained as perfect brahmanas  + (15:52:10, 1 December 2020)
• There must be ksatriyas to rule the country very nicely according to the injunctions of the sastras, and there must be vaisyas who can protect the cows  + (15:53:31, 1 December 2020)
• Pumsarpita visnau. The word pumsa means - by all living entities  + (15:57:02, 1 December 2020)
• The word gavah (SB 7.2.12) indicates that cows should be given protection  + (15:58:46, 1 December 2020)
• Because the Vedic civilization is lost, cows are not protected, but instead indiscriminately killed in slaughterhouses. Such are the acts of demons. Therefore this is a demoniac civilization  + (16:00:34, 1 December 2020)
• As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.32), striyo vaisyas tatha sudras te 'pi yanti param gatim: although women, vaisyas and sudras are considered less intelligent, they also can become devotees and return home, back to Godhead  + (16:11:19, 1 December 2020)
• After performing sacrifices, sometimes a person engaged in fruitive activity customarily offers the results to Visnu. But it is said, bhagavaty addha: one must directly offer everything to Visnu. This is called sannyasa - not merely nyasa  + (16:23:44, 1 December 2020)
• A tridandi-sannyasi carries three dandas, signifying kaya-mano-vakya-body, mind and words. All of these should be offered to Visnu, and then one can begin devotional service  + (16:38:54, 1 December 2020)
• Fruitive workers first perform some pious activities and then formally or officially offer the results to Visnu  + (16:48:43, 1 December 2020)
• The real devotee first offers his surrender to Krsna with his body, mind and words and then uses his body, mind and words for the service of Krsna as Krsna desires  + (16:54:43, 1 December 2020)
• Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura gives the following explanation in his Tathya. The word sravana refers to giving aural reception to the holy name and descriptions of the Lord's form, qualities, entourage and pastimes as explained in SB, BG etc  + (17:04:08, 1 December 2020)
• Trees are cut for the publication of demoniac propaganda, nonsensical literature, huge quantities of newspapers and many other paper products. This is a sign of a demoniac civilization  + (17:04:38, 1 December 2020)
• After aurally receiving such messages (the holy name and descriptions of the Lord's form, qualities, entourage and pastimes), one should memorize these vibrations and repeat them - kirtanam  + (17:11:53, 1 December 2020)
• The cutting of trees is prohibited unless necessary for the service of Lord Visnu  + (17:12:16, 1 December 2020)
• Work done as a sacrifice for Lord Visnu must be performed, otherwise work binds one to this material world  + (17:16:04, 1 December 2020)