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- Sages have divided the energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead into three categories - namely, the spiritual energy, marginal energy and material energy. The material energy is considered to be the third-class energy + (07:01:10, 15 May 2017)
- Those living beings within the jurisdiction of the material energy sometimes engage themselves like dogs and hogs in working very hard simply for sense gratification + (07:05:42, 15 May 2017)
- However, in this life, or, after executing pious activities, in the next life, some karmis become strongly attracted to performing various kinds of sacrifices mentioned in the Vedas + (07:09:25, 15 May 2017)
- Thus on the strength of their pious merit, they are elevated to heavenly planets. Actually those who perform sacrifices strictly according to Vedic injunctions are elevated to the moon and planets above the moon + (07:13:19, 15 May 2017)
- After exhausting the results of their so-called pious activities, they again return to the earth, which is called martya-loka, the place of death + (07:16:49, 15 May 2017)
- Although such persons may be elevated to the heavenly planets by their pious activities and although they may enjoy life there for many thousands of years, they must return to this planet when the results of their pious activities are exhausted + (07:22:40, 15 May 2017)
- When Mother Yasoda, the Queen of Gokula, was going to see her son Krsna at Kuruksetra, one of her friends began to address her thus + (07:25:49, 15 May 2017)
- Yasoda's friend said, "My dear Queen, the milk flowing out of your breast-mountain has already whitened the River Ganges, and the tears from your eyes, mixed with black mascara, have already blackened the color of the Yamuna" + (07:30:07, 15 May 2017)
- Such people are called karmis, or gross materialists. Among the karmis are some vikarmis, people who act without the guidance of Vedic knowledge + (07:30:46, 15 May 2017)
- Yasoda's friend said, "As you are standing just between the two rivers, I think there is no need for your anxiety to see your son's face. Your parental affection has already been exhibited to Him by these two rivers" + (07:35:19, 15 May 2017)
- Those who act on the basis of Vedic knowledge perform sacrifices for the satisfaction of Lord Visnu and to receive benedictions from Him. In this way they are elevated to higher planetary systems + (07:37:23, 15 May 2017)
- The same friend of Mother Yasoda addressed Krsna as follows: "My dear Mukunda, if Mother Yasoda, the Queen of Gokula, is forced to stand on fire, but is allowed to see Your lotus face, then this fire will appear to her as the Himalayan Mountains + (07:39:36, 15 May 2017)
- Such karmis are superior to the vikarmis, for they are faithful to the directions of the Vedas and are certainly dear to Krsna + (07:40:55, 15 May 2017)
- Yasoda's friend said, "In the same way, if she is allowed to stay in the ocean of nectar, but is not allowed to see the lotus face of Your Grace, then even this ocean of nectar will appear to her as an ocean of arsenic poison" + (07:44:18, 15 May 2017)
- Bhagavad-Gita says, "In whatever way one surrenders unto Me, I reward him accordingly" + (07:44:39, 15 May 2017)
- Krsna is so kind that He fulfilled the desires of the karmis and jnanis, not to speak of the bhaktas + (07:47:40, 15 May 2017)
- Yasoda's friend said, "Let the anxiety of Mother Yasoda of Braja, always expecting to see the lotus face of Krsna, be glorified all over the universe" + (07:48:36, 15 May 2017)
- Although the karmis are sometimes elevated to higher planetary systems, as long as they remain attached to fruitive activities they must accept new material bodies after death + (07:51:29, 15 May 2017)
- A similar statement was given by Kuntidevi to Akrura: "My dear brother Akrura, my nephew Mukunda is long absent from us + (07:52:11, 15 May 2017)
- If one acts piously, he can attain a new body among the demigods in the higher planetary systems, or he may attain some other position in which he can enjoy a higher standard of material happiness + (07:54:51, 15 May 2017)
- On the other hand, those who are engaged in impious activities are degraded and take birth as animals, trees and plants + (07:57:59, 15 May 2017)
- Thus those fruitive actors who do not care for the Vedic directions (vikarmis) are not appreciated by learned saintly persons + (08:00:49, 15 May 2017)
- When all the gopis came out of their homes to meet Krsna in the Vrndavana forest, Krsna refused to accept them and asked them to go home, giving them some moral instruction + (09:38:54, 15 May 2017)
- Gopis began to speak as follows: "My dear Krsna, there is extreme distress in being out of Your presence, and there is extreme happiness simply in seeing You" + (09:41:24, 15 May 2017)
- Materialists who work hard like dogs and hogs simply for sense gratification are actually mad. They simply perform all kinds of abominable activities simply for sense gratification + (09:43:24, 15 May 2017)
- Gopis said, "We have all left our husbands, relatives, brothers and friends and have simply come to You, being captivated by the sound of Your (Krsna's) transcendental flute" + (09:44:03, 15 May 2017)
- Gopsi said, "O infallible one (Krsna), You had better know what is the reason for our coming here. In plain words, we are here simply because we have been captivated by the sweet sound of Your flute" + (09:46:32, 15 May 2017)
- Materialistic activities are not at all worthy of an intelligent man, for as a result of such activities, one gets a material body, which is full of misery + (09:47:02, 15 May 2017)
- Gopis said, "We are all beautiful girls, and You are so foolish that You are rejecting our association. We do not know anyone, other than Yourself, who would miss this opportunity to associate with young girls in the dead of night" + (09:49:31, 15 May 2017)
- This is another instance of indirect insults used against Krsna in ecstatic love + (09:50:49, 15 May 2017)
- Materialists foolishly make many plans to become happy in this material world. They do not stop to consider that they will live only for a certain number of years, out of which they must spend the major portion acquiring money for sense gratification + (09:53:27, 15 May 2017)
- In the Padyavali, one of the friends of Radharani once addressed Her thusly: "My dear friend, please do not be too puffed up because Krsna has decorated Your forehead with His own hand. It may be that Krsna is yet attracted by some other beautiful girl" + (09:54:05, 15 May 2017)
- Radharani's friend told her, "I see that the decoration on Your forehead is very nicely made, and so it appears that Krsna was not too disturbed in painting it. Otherwise, he could not have painted such exact lines!" + (09:56:31, 15 May 2017)
- Ultimately such activities end in death. Materialists do not consider that after giving up the body they may become embodied as lower animals, plants or trees + (09:56:52, 15 May 2017)
- This is an instance of indirect dishonor caused by Radha's good fortune + (09:57:41, 15 May 2017)
- In the Tenth Canto, 30th Chapter, 26th verse of Srimad-Bhagavatam there is the following statement: "When the gopis were searching after Krsna and Radha after the rasa dance, they thus began to speak amongst themselves" + (09:59:48, 15 May 2017)
- The materialists do not know that in the next life they will be degraded and that all their activities simply serve as parabhava, their defeat + (10:02:24, 15 May 2017)
- Gopis said, "We have seen the footprints of Krsna & Radha, & they are giving us great pain, because Krsna is everything to us. But that girl is so cunning that She has taken Him away alone and is enjoying His kissing without sharing Him with us" + (10:03:37, 15 May 2017)
- This is another instance of casting dishonorable words against Krsna and Radha, pouting over the good fortune of Srimati Radharani + (10:05:18, 15 May 2017)
- One should therefore be eager to understand the science of the soul (atma-tattva). Unless one comes to the platform of atma-tattva, by which one understands that the soul and not the body is oneself, one remains on the platform of ignorance + (10:06:26, 15 May 2017)
- Sometimes when the cowherd boys used to play in the forests of Vrndavana, Krsna would play on one side, and Balarama would play on another + (10:07:03, 15 May 2017)
- There would be competition and mock fighting between the two parties, and when Krsna's party was defeated by Balarama, the boys would say, "If Balarama's party remains victorious, then who in the world can be weaker than ourselves" + (10:09:38, 15 May 2017)
- Out of thousands and even millions of ignorant people who are wasting their time simply gratifying their senses, one may come to the platform of knowledge and understand higher values of life + (10:10:21, 15 May 2017)
- This is an instance of envy in ecstatic love + (10:10:45, 15 May 2017)
- The jnani knows that fruitive activities will bind him to material existence and cause him to transmigrate from one kind of body to another + (10:13:48, 15 May 2017)
- Rukmini addresses a letter to Krsna as follows: "My dear unconquerable Krsna, my marriage day is fixed for tomorrow. I request that You come to the city of Vidarbha without advertising Yourself" + (10:14:47, 15 May 2017)
- Rukmini wrote a letter to Krsna: "After You've entered the city, have Your soldiers and commanders suddenly surround and defeat all the strength of the King of Magadha and by thus adopting the methods of the demons, please kidnap and marry me" + (10:18:11, 15 May 2017)
- Thus a jnani is considered superior to a karmi because he at least refrains from the blind activities of sense enjoyment. This is the verdict of the Supreme Personality of Godhead + (10:19:41, 15 May 2017)
- According to the Vedic system there are eight kinds of marriages, out of which one is called raksasa-vivaha. Raksasa-vivaha refers to kidnapping a girl and marrying her by force and is considered to be a demonic method + (10:21:52, 15 May 2017)
- When Rukmini was going to be married to Sisupala by the choice of her elder brother, she wrote the above letter to Krsna requesting Him to kidnap her. This is an instance of impudence in ecstatic love for Krsna + (10:23:53, 15 May 2017)
- One of the gopis said, "May Krsna's sweet flute be washed away by the waves of the Yamuna, and let it fall into the ocean! The sweet sound of that flute is so impudent that it makes us lose all composure before our superiors" + (10:26:10, 15 May 2017)