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• Nescience, however, is compared to the disease called jaundice, which is caused by bilious secretions. Attacked by jaundice, the tongue of a diseased person cannot palatably relish sugar candy  + (14:34:14, 14 May 2017)
• Rather, a person with jaundice considers something sweet to taste very bitter  + (14:37:23, 14 May 2017)
• If one with great care and attention takes to Krsna consciousness, chanting the holy name and hearing Krsna's transcendental pastimes, his ignorance will be destroyed and his tongue enabled to taste the sweetness of the transcendental nature of Krsna  + (14:44:28, 14 May 2017)
• Such a recovery of spiritual health is possible only by the regular cultivation of Krsna consciousness  + (14:47:12, 14 May 2017)
• This healthy condition is lost when the living entity forgets Krsna due to being attracted by the external features of Krsna's maya energy. This world of maya is called durasraya, which means false or bad shelter  + (14:55:29, 14 May 2017)
• In the material world everyone is trying to become happy, and although their material attempts are baffled in every way, due to their nescience they cannot understand their mistakes  + (15:02:03, 14 May 2017)
• People try to rectify one mistake by making another mistake. This is the way of the struggle for existence in the material world. If one in this condition is advised to take to Krsna consciousness and be happy, he does not accept such instructions  + (15:06:38, 14 May 2017)
• They began to draw lines on the ground with their toes, and with their tears they washed the black ointment from their eyes onto their breasts, which were covered with red kunkuma powder. This is an instance of anxiety in ecstatic love  + (15:43:24, 14 May 2017)
• A friends of Krsna informed Him, "My dear killer of the demon Mura, Your kind & gentle mother is very anxious because You have not returned home, & with great difficulty she has passed the evening constantly sitting on the corridor platform of Your home"  + (16:00:36, 14 May 2017)
• A friend of Krsna informed Him, "It is certainly astonishing how You could forget Your mother while You are off somewhere engaged in Your playful activities!" This is another instance of deep anxiety in ecstatic love"  + (16:04:05, 14 May 2017)
• When Mother Yasoda was very anxiously waiting for Krsna to return from Mathura, Maharaj Nanda gave her this solace  + (16:07:08, 14 May 2017)
• Nanda said, "My dear Yasoda, please don't be worried. Please dry your beautiful lotus-like face. There is no need for you to breathe so hotly. I will go immediately with Akrura to the palace of Kamsa and get your son back for you"  + (16:10:59, 14 May 2017)
• Here is an instance of anxiety in ecstatic love caused by Krsna's awkward position  + (16:13:57, 14 May 2017)
• A devotee states that though in some of the eighteen Puranas the process of glorifying Lord Visnu is not mentioned, and the glorifying of some demigod is offered, such glorification must be continued for millions of years  + (16:17:16, 14 May 2017)
• For when one studies the Puranas very scrutinizingly, he can see that, ultimately, Lord Visnu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is an instance of ecstatic love developed out of thoughtfulness  + (16:20:00, 14 May 2017)
• There is an account of Rukminidevi's writing a letter to Krsna requesting Him to kidnap her before her marriage to another person. At that time the specific attachment of Rukmini for Krsna was expressed by Rukmini as follows  + (16:22:51, 14 May 2017)
• Rukminidevi said, "My dear Lord Krsna, Your transcendental glories are chanted by great sages who are free from material contamination, and in exchange for such glorification You are so kind that You freely distribute Yourself to such devotees"  + (16:25:58, 14 May 2017)
• One can elevate oneself simply by Your grace, so also by Your direction alone one may be lost to all benedictions under the influence of eternal time. Therefore I (Rukmini) have selected You as my husband, brushing aside personalities like Brahma & Indra  + (16:30:34, 14 May 2017)
• Rukmini enhanced her love for Krsna simply by thinking of Him. This is an instance of thoughtfulness in ecstatic love  + (16:35:57, 14 May 2017)
• When a person is fully satisfied due to attaining knowledge, transcending all distress, or achieving his desired goal of life in transcendental devotional service to God - at that time his state of endurance or steady mind is called dhrti  + (16:38:44, 14 May 2017)
• At this (dhrti) stage one is not perturbed by any amount of loss, nor does anything appear to be unachieved by him  + (16:40:53, 14 May 2017)
• According to the opinion of Bhartrhari, the learned scholar, when a person is elevated to this state of endurance, he thinks as follows  + (16:42:43, 14 May 2017)
• When a person is elevated to this state of endurance, he thinks as follows: "I do not wish to be a highly posted government servant. I shall be satisfied even if I have to eat food collected by begging"  + (16:48:54, 14 May 2017)
• In the state of endurance: "I shall prefer to remain naked, without proper dress of garments. I shall prefer to lie down on the ground without any matress. And despite all these disadvantages, I shall refuse to serve anyone, not even the government"  + (16:52:16, 14 May 2017)
• In other words, when one is in ecstatic love with the Personality of Godhead, he can endure any kind of disadvantages calculated under the material concept of life  + (16:58:32, 14 May 2017)

• Nanda Maharaj, the father of Krsna, used to think: "In my pasturing ground the goddess of fortune is personally present, and I possess more than ten hundred, thousand cows which loiter here and there"  + (17:00:58, 14 May 2017)

• Nanda said, "And above all, I have a son like Krsna, who is such a powerful, wonderful worker. Therefore, even though I am a householder, I am feeling so satisfied!" This is an instance of mental endurance resulting from the absence of all distress  + (17:04:35, 14 May 2017)
• This Krsna consciousness movement is being spread all over the world just to remedy this gross ignorance. People in general are misled by blind leaders  + (22:00:34, 14 May 2017)
• The leaders of human society - the politicians, philosophers and scientists - are blind because they are not Krsna conscious  + (22:03:44, 14 May 2017)
• Those miscreants who are grossly foolish, lowest among mankind, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, and who partake of the atheistic nature of demons, do not surrender unto Me  + (22:10:23, 14 May 2017)
• Such people (the miscreants) never surrender to Krsna, and they oppose the endeavor of those who wish to take Krsna's shelter. When such atheists become leaders of society, the entire atmosphere is surcharged with nescience  + (22:14:50, 14 May 2017)
• In such a condition, people do not become very enthusiastic to receive this Krsna consciousness movement, just as a diseased person suffering from jaundice does not relish the taste of sugar candy  + (22:19:13, 14 May 2017)
• However, one must know that for jaundice, sugar candy is the only specific medicine  + (22:22:32, 14 May 2017)
• In the present confused state of humanity, Krsna consciousness, the chanting of the holy name of the Lord - Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare - is the only remedy for setting the world aright  + (22:29:00, 14 May 2017)
• Although Krsna consciousness may not be very palatable for a diseased person, Srila Rupa Gosvami nonetheless advises that if one wants to be cured of the material disease, he must take to it with great care and attention  + (22:35:38, 14 May 2017)
• One begins his treatment by chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra because by chanting this holy name of the Lord a person in the material condition will be relieved from all misconceptions  + (22:39:14, 14 May 2017)
• The real disease is in the heart. If the mind is cleansed, however, if consciousness is cleansed, a person cannot be harmed by the material disease  + (22:44:04, 14 May 2017)
• To cleanse the mind and heart from all misconceptions, one should take to this chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra  + (22:47:16, 14 May 2017)
• This is both easy and beneficial. By chanting the holy name of the Lord, one is immediately freed from the blazing fire of material existence  + (22:50:40, 14 May 2017)
• There are three stages in chanting the holy name of the Lord - the offensive stage, the stage of lessening offenses, and the pure stage. When a neophyte takes to the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra, he generally commits many offenses  + (22:55:55, 14 May 2017)
• There are ten basic offenses, and if the devotee avoids these, he can glimpse the next stage, which is situated between offensive chanting and pure chanting  + (23:00:48, 14 May 2017)
• When one attains the pure stage, he is immediately liberated. This is called bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam  + (23:03:50, 14 May 2017)
• The conclusion is that in order to get freed from the material disease, one must take to the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra  + (23:07:15, 14 May 2017)
• Sometimes offering blessings, sometimes ordering Him, sometimes gazing at Him, sometimes maintaining and sometimes giving Him good instructions not to become a thief  + (23:08:51, 14 May 2017)
• An important point to be observed in this connection is that the childish propensity of stealing is there even in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore this propensity is not artificial  + (23:11:51, 14 May 2017)
• One must begin with faith, and when this faith is increased by chanting, a person can become a member of the Society  + (23:14:05, 14 May 2017)
• Sukadeva Gosvami tells King Pariksit, "My dear King, as soon as the elderly gopis saw their sons coming, there was an inexpressible sign of parental love, and all of them became absorbed in affection"  + (23:16:12, 14 May 2017)
• We are sending sankirtana parties all over the world, and they are experiencing that even in the remotest part of the world, where there is no knowledge of Krsna, the Hare Krsna maha-mantra attracts thousands of men to our camp  + (23:18:50, 14 May 2017)
• Sukadeva Gosvami said, "At first they were planning to chastise their sons for stealing butter, but as soon as the sons came before their eyes, they lost all of their angry attitudes and became overwhelmed with affection"  + (23:21:22, 14 May 2017)
• In some areas, people begin to imitate the devotees by shaving their heads and chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, only a few days after hearing the mantra  + (23:23:01, 14 May 2017)
• Sukadeva Gosvami said, "They began to embrace their sons and smell their heads. While doing this, they became almost mad after their children"  + (23:25:10, 14 May 2017)