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• Some of the brahmacaris are allowed to remain naisthika-brahmacari, without going home and accepting a wife  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• The Kumaras and Narada are known as naisthika-brahmacaris. Such brahmacaris are called vira-vrata because their vow of celibacy is as heroic as the vows of the ksatriyas  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• The conditioned souls, who have come to this material world for sense gratification, are allowed to enjoy their senses under certain regulative principles. If they violate these regulations, they are judged and punished by Yamaraja  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• The demigods are infatuated with the mode of goodness, the Prajapatis with the mode of passion, and the lord of ghosts with the mode of ignorance, but You (Ramacandra) are the master of all these qualities  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• The four Kumaras and Narada are naisthika-brahmacaris. Naisthika-brahmacari refers to one who never wastes his semen at any time  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• The worshipers of demigods are condemned both in Bhagavad-gita and in Srimad-Bhagavatam  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• They (Hiranyaksa and Hiranyakasipu) will kill poor, faultless living entities, torture women and enrage the great souls  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• Those who are impelled by lust and attachment, who are foolish and who torture the material elements of the body as well as the Supersoul dwelling within, are to be known as demons  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• Transcendental loving service to Krsna is the greatest achievement, superseding all other methods  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• Those who undergo severe austerities and penances not recommended in the scriptures, performing them out of pride and egoism, are to be known as demons  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• When a man is infatuated with the false prestige of opulence, he does not care for any moral instruction but indulges in wine, women and animal-killing. In such circumstances, a poverty-stricken man is often better situated  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• When all misgivings and personal deficiencies are removed, there is a standard faith in transcendental matter and the taste for it increases in greater proportion. This stage leads to attraction and after this there is bhava  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• Upon seeing Sudyumna's deplorable condition, Vasistha was very much aggrieved. Desiring for Sudyumna to regain his maleness, Vasistha again began to worship Lord Sankara (Siva)  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• Where there are women and meat, there must be liquor and sex indulgence. When these are prominent in society, by God's grace one can expect a change in the social order by the Lord Himself or by His bona fide representative  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• When the distressed, the inquisitive, the seekers of knowledge, and those who are in need of money are free from all material desires...  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• With a poor fund of knowledge, we cannot adjust to the idea of the personality of the Absolute Truth, and the personal activities of the Lord are deplored by the less intelligent impersonalists  + (July 25, 0012 ^JL)
• All these devotees are undoubtedly magnanimous souls, but he who is situated in knowledge of Me I consider to be just like My own self. Being engaged in My transcendental service, he is sure to attain Me, the highest and most perfect goal  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)
• Are all the chieftain sons of Lord Krsna, such as Susena, Carudesna, Samba the son of Jambavati, and Rsabha, along with their sons, all doing well?  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)
• Conjugal love for Krsna, either as gopi or as queen, is not limited only to women. Even men can develop such sentiments, as was evidenced by the sages of Dandakaranya  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)
• Descendants of Manu, or human beings, especially those who are situated in a well-to-do condition, must consider that whatever riches they have are gifts from the Supreme Personality of Godhead  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)
• Examples of this subordination are Sarana, Gada and Subhadra. They were all members of the Yadu dynasty, and they always used to think themselves protected by Krsna. Similarly, Krsna's sons, such as Pradyumna, Carudesna and Samba, felt the same way  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)
• Each of Krsna's 16,108 queens had ten sons. The sons of the first eight queens are listed  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)
• In the initiation into the Siva mantra there are mudrikastaka, in which it is sometimes recommended that one make his sitting place on the vagina and thus desire nirvana, or dissolution of existence  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)
• The children of these ladies (the queens of Dvaraka) are Pradyumna, Samba, Amba, etc: Ladies like Rukmini, Satyabhama and Jambavati were forcibly taken away by Him (Krsna) from their svayamvara ceremonies after He defeated many powerful kings  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)
• The living entity is blessed or damned with circumstances according to his past desire and activity. According to one's desires and activities, material nature places one in various residential quarters  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)
• The people of this age are of short duration of life, they are very slow in the matter of seriously understanding spiritual importance of life  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)
• This transcendental instrument (the vina) is identical with Lord Sri Krsna and Narada because all of them are of the same transcendental category  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)
• Together, Lord Siva's genitals and the vagina of goddess Durga are worshiped as the siva-linga. This is the origin of the material creation. Thus Lord Siva's position is between that of the living entity and that of the Supreme Lord  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)
• To become a religious person, to become economically very well-to-do, or to become a salvationist, desiring to merge into the existence, to become one with God, these things are not, I mean to say, very satisfactory to the Supreme Personality of Godhead  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)
• We are prepared to purchase the land at a rate of not more than Rs 1500/- per bigha. They (Indian locals) are under the impression that Americans will purchase at any price so don't be taken in. We can purchase any neighboring land at the above price  + (July 26, 0012 ^JL)

• Although Lord Balarama knew very well that by slight provocation people are prepared to fight with one another in the Age of Kali, He did not like the idea that the two great dynasties, the Kuru dynasty and the Yadu dynasty, would fight amongst themselves  + (July 27, 0012 ^JL)
• Austerity, charity and the performance of ritualistic ceremonies for counteracting sinful activities are recommended processes, but that by performing them one cannot remove the sinful desire-seed from the heart, as was the case with Ajamila in his youth  + (July 27, 0012 ^JL)
• Eight symptoms of a jivan mukta - 07 A further symptom (of a liberated person) is satya-kama, which indicates that all his desires are directed to the Supreme Truth, Krsna. He does not want anything else  + (July 27, 0012 ^JL)
• Exactly as a lamb cannot enjoy life in the presence of a lion, without our desire it is not even possible for the demigods in heaven, headed by King Indra, to find enjoyment in life, what to speak of ordinary human beings!  + (July 27, 0012 ^JL)
• It is said in the Upanisads that the Supreme Truth, the Absolute Personality of Godhead, is beyond the range of the thinking power of the greatest philosopher  + (July 27, 0012 ^JL)
• Residential quarters in a temple of Visnu, the Supreme Lord, are in Vaikuntha. It doesn’t matter where the temple is situated; the temple itself, wherever it may be, is Vaikuntha  + (July 27, 0012 ^JL)
• The eternally liberated living beings are in the Vaikuntha jagat, the spiritual world, and they never fall into the material world  + (July 27, 0012 ^JL)
• The language and tone used by Balarama are simply abusive, and due to the influence of this age it appears that the shoes befitting the feet want to rise to the top of the head, where the helmet is worn  + (July 27, 0012 ^JL)
• These words are very astonishing but quite befitting the Age of Kali; otherwise how could Balarama speak so vituperatively?  + (July 27, 0012 ^JL)
• When one comes to the Brahman platform, the platform of spiritual life, fully understanding that he is a spiritual soul, he is no longer affected by lamentation or hankering  + (July 27, 0012 ^JL)

• Because he (a mature student) was first trained in conquering his senses, he retires from household life and becomes vanaprastha as soon as the strong waves of youthful life are past and he reaches the verge of old age at fifty years or slightly more  + (July 28, 0012 ^JL)
• Especially at the present moment, misguided men are suffering in the darkness of materialism, and their so-called learning has enabled them to discover the atomic bomb. They are consequently on the verge of annihilation  + (July 28, 0012 ^JL)
• Mayavadis generally allege that the bhakti path is for women and illiterates. This is a groundless accusation. The bhakti path is followed by the most learned scholars, such as the Gosvamis, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Ramanujacarya  + (July 28, 0012 ^JL)
• The confectioner, who is always manufacturing sweetmeats, has very little desire to eat them; similarly, the Lord, by His pleasure potential powers, can produce innumerable spiritual beauties and not be the least attracted  + (July 28, 0012 ^JL)
• The person whose only desire is to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead may be situated in any condition in the material world, but he is to be understood as jivan-mukta  + (July 28, 0012 ^JL)
• They (Nalakuvara and Manigriva) used to drink a kind of liquor called Varuni. Accompanied by women singing after them, they would wander in that garden of flowers, their eyes always rolling in intoxication  + (July 28, 0012 ^JL)
• There is a common proverb that a confectioner is never attracted by sweetmeats  + (July 28, 0012 ^JL)
• Arjuna trees are still found in many forests, and their skin is used by cardiologists to prepare medicine for heart trouble. This means that even though they are trees, they are disturbed when skinned for medical science  + (July 29, 0012 ^JL)
• Every living entity, according to karma, his past desires and activities, gets a particular type of body, from that of Brahma to that of a microbe or germ in stool  + (July 29, 0012 ^JL)
• Each layer (of the universe) is ten times bigger than the previous one, and the final outside layer is covered by pradhana. Within this egg is the universal form of Lord Hari, of whose body the fourteen planetary systems are parts  + (July 29, 0012 ^JL)
• In this case, because Narada Muni desired that Nalakuvara and Manigriva see Vasudeva face to face, the Supreme Personality of Godhead wanted to fulfill the words of His very dear devotee Narada Muni  + (July 29, 0012 ^JL)
• One should desire to become like a dog in strictly following a devotee. Krsna is in the hand of a devotee  + (July 29, 0012 ^JL)
• The explanation of pradhana and prakrti is that pradhana is the subtle, undifferentiated sum total of all material elements. Although they are undifferentiated, one can understand that the total material elements are contained therein  + (July 29, 0012 ^JL)
• The five great elements are a gross representation of the false ego, which in turn represents the primal stage of false ego technically called the materialistic conception, or tamasa-buddhi, intelligence in ignorance  + (July 29, 0012 ^JL)
• The knees of the universal form are the planetary system of the name Sutala, and the two thighs are the Vitala and Atala planetary systems. The hips are Mahitala, and outer space is the depression of His navel  + (July 29, 0012 ^JL)
• These two young men, Nalakuvara and Manigriva, are by fortune the sons of the great demigod Kuvera, but because of false prestige and madness after drinking liquor, they are so fallen that they are naked but cannot understand that they are  + (July 29, 0012 ^JL)
• Those who engage in devotional service are unaffected by the results of their material activities. Otherwise, everyone, from the smallest microbe up to the King of heaven, Indra, is subject to the laws of karma  + (July 29, 0012 ^JL)
• Within this egglike universe is the universal form of the Lord as the virat-purusa. All the different planetary situations are parts of His body  + (July 29, 0012 ^JL)
• When the total material elements are manifested by the interaction of the three modes of material nature, the manifestation is called prakrti  + (July 29, 0012 ^JL)
• Although all three potencies - namely internal, external and marginal - are essentially one in the ultimate issue, they are different in action, like electric energy, which can produce both cold and heat under different conditions  + (July 30, 0012 ^JL)