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• Kardama Muni attained success, and the Lord, being pleased with him, showed him His form, which is not imaginary  + (17:47:30, 28 July 2020)
• The light of the sun and the moon are actually different from the sun and moon themselves, although they are always connected  + (17:50:21, 28 July 2020)
• Those who know that Lord Visnu is the origin of everything, who are conversant with the process of creation and who understand that Visnu, or Krsna, is the most worshipable object of all living entities, engage themselves in Visnu worship as Vaisnavas  + (17:50:39, 28 July 2020)
• The light of the moon spread throughout the sky appears to be impersonal, but the moon planet, as it is, is personal, and the living entities on the moon planet are also personal  + (17:54:55, 28 July 2020)
• The Vedic hymns also confirm this: om tad visnoh paramam padam. The goal of life is to understand Visnu. The Bhagavatam also confirms this elsewhere  + (17:57:47, 28 July 2020)
• Sabdam brahma: the forms of the Lord are clearly indicated in the Vedic literature. Kardama Muni did not discover any imaginary form of God, as alleged by rascals; he actually saw the eternal, blissful and transcendental form of the Lord  + (17:59:57, 28 July 2020)
• Foolish people, not knowing that Visnu is the supreme worshipable object, create so many worshipable objects in this material world, and therefore they fall down  + (18:01:01, 28 July 2020)
• One should not accept the reflection of the moon on the water as actual and misunderstand the whole situation through monistic philosophy. The quivering quality of the moon is also variable. When the water is standing still, there is no quivering  + (18:03:28, 28 July 2020)
• A more settled conditioned soul quivers less, but due to material connection the quivering quality is more or less present everywhere  + (18:10:02, 28 July 2020)
• The descriptions in verses 9-11 (SB 3.21) of the Lord in His transcendental, eternal form are understood to be descriptions from the authoritative Vedic version. These descriptions are certainly not the imagination of Kardama Muni  + (18:11:11, 28 July 2020)
• The decorations of the Lord are beyond material conception, as admitted even by impersonalists like Sankaracarya: Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has nothing to do with the material creation  + (18:14:46, 28 July 2020)
• The quivering quality of material existence, which comes from identification with matter or from thinking oneself, under the material influence of philosophical speculation, to be God, can be eradicated by devotional service to the Lord  + (18:21:08, 28 July 2020)
• The varieties of the transcendental Lord - His body, His form, His dress, His instruction, His words - are not manufactured by the material energy, but are all confirmed in the Vedic literature  + (18:23:03, 28 July 2020)
• Although Hiranyakasipu and Hiranyaksa, formerly Jaya and Vijaya, became asuras, the demigods of this material world could not control them, and therefore Lord Brahma said that neither he nor all the demigods could counteract the disturbance they created  + (18:23:35, 28 July 2020)
• They (Hiranyakasipu and Hiranyaksa) came within the material world by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and He alone could counteract such disturbances  + (18:25:54, 28 July 2020)
• By performance of yoga Kardama Muni actually saw the Supreme Lord as He is. There was no point in seeing an imagined form of God after practicing yoga for ten thousand years  + (18:27:49, 28 July 2020)
• Although Jaya and Vijaya assumed the bodies of asuras, they remained more powerful than anyone, thus proving that the Supreme Personality of Godhead desired to fight because the fighting spirit is also within Him  + (18:34:04, 28 July 2020)
• Revives (devotional service to God) one's normal condition of spiritual existence, even in this life, and frees one from the material winds which cause one to quiver. Only knowledge in devotional service can elevate one towards the path of liberation  + (18:35:44, 28 July 2020)
• He (the Supreme Personality of Godhead) is the original in everything, but when He desires to fight He must fight with a devotee  + (18:37:19, 28 July 2020)
• The development of knowledge for the purpose of knowing everything, without rendering devotional service, is considered fruitless labor, and one cannot get the desired result by such labor of love  + (18:44:02, 28 July 2020)
• Therefore by His (The Lord) desire only were Jaya and Vijaya cursed by the Kumaras  + (18:44:09, 28 July 2020)
• Lord Vasudeva is pleased by devotional service only, and thus His mercy is realized by association with pure devotees of the Lord  + (18:48:04, 28 July 2020)
• Pure devotees of the Lord are transcendental to all material desires, including the desire for the results of fruitive activities and philosophical speculation  + (18:53:20, 28 July 2020)
• If one wants to acquire the mercy of the Lord, he has to associate with pure devotees. Such association alone can, by degrees, release one from the quivering elements  + (18:57:56, 28 July 2020)
• Brahma showed the demigods that the situation created by the darkness, for which they were disturbed, was the desire of the Supreme Lord  + (18:58:38, 28 July 2020)

• He (Brahma) wanted to show that even though these two attendants were coming in the forms of demons, they were very powerful, greater than the demigods, who could not control them  + (19:01:57, 28 July 2020)

• The quivering of the living entity is due to the senses. Since the entire material existence is meant for sense gratification, the senses are the medium of material activities, and they cause the quivering of the steady soul  + (19:02:38, 28 July 2020)
• No one can surpass the acts of the Supreme Lord. The demigods were also advised not to try to counteract this incident, because it was ordered by the Lord  + (19:07:22, 28 July 2020)
• When something is arranged by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one should not be disturbed by it, even if it appears to be a reverse according to one's calculations  + (19:14:57, 28 July 2020)
• He (Haridasa Thakura) was a great devotee who came into this material world to execute the will of the Lord by preaching the Lord's glories  + (19:21:15, 28 July 2020)
• The Pandavas, who were direct friends of Krsna, lost their kingdom, their wife was insulted, and they had to undergo many severe tribulations  + (19:31:19, 28 July 2020)
• Seeing all these reverses affect devotees, one should not be disturbed; one should simply understand that in these matters there must be some plan of the Supreme Personality of Godhead  + (19:34:38, 28 July 2020)
• The Bhagavatam's conclusion is that a devotee is never disturbed by such reverses. He accepts even reverse conditions as the grace of the Lord  + (19:41:13, 28 July 2020)
• One who continues to serve the Lord even in reverse conditions is assured that he will go back to Godhead, back to the Vaikuntha planets  + (19:43:27, 28 July 2020)
• Lord Brahma assured the demigods that there was no use in talking about how the disturbing situation of darkness was taking place, since the actual fact was that it was ordered by the Supreme Lord  + (19:49:50, 28 July 2020)
• Brahma knew this because he was a great devotee; it was possible for him to understand the plan of the Lord  + (19:52:10, 28 July 2020)
• These senses are to be detached from all such material activities. According to the impersonalists the senses are stopped from work by merging the soul in the Supersoul Brahman  + (08:13:08, 29 July 2020)
• The devotees do not stop the material senses from acting, but they engage their transcendental senses in the service of the Transcendence, the Supreme Personality of Godhead  + (08:22:40, 29 July 2020)
• The activities of the senses in the material field are to be stopped by cultivation of knowledge, and, if possible, they can be engaged in the service of the Lord  + (08:33:03, 29 July 2020)
• We have to treat the senses to cure them of the material disease, not stop them from acting, as suggested by the impersonalist. In Bhagavad-gita it is said that one ceases all material activities only when satisfied by contact with a better engagement  + (08:43:19, 29 July 2020)
• Five thousand years ago Lord Krsna recommended yoga practice to Arjuna, but Arjuna frankly expressed his inability to follow the stringent rules and regulations of the yoga system  + (09:10:43, 29 July 2020)
• Continued meditation is called samadhi, and the object of this meditation is the four-handed Narayana, with bodily decorations as described in this chapter of Srimad-Bhagavatam  + (09:15:34, 29 July 2020)
• By meditation one can understand that God is seated within one's heart. Even if one does not know it, God is seated within the heart of everyone  + (09:19:51, 29 July 2020)
• Not only is He (God) seated in the heart of the human being, but He is also within the hearts of cats and dogs. Bhagavad-gita certifies this fact by the declaration of the Lord, isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese - BG 18.61  + (09:25:04, 29 July 2020)
• The feature of the Lord by which He is present everywhere is called Paramatma. Atma means the individual soul, and Paramatma means the individual Supersoul; both atma and Paramatma are individual persons  + (09:31:17, 29 July 2020)
• The difference between atma and Paramatma is that the atma, or the soul, is present only in a particular body, whereas the Paramatma is present everywhere. In this connection, the example of the sun is very nice  + (09:35:33, 29 July 2020)
• An individual person may be situated in one place, but the sun, even though a similar individual entity, is present on the head of every individual person. In Bhagavad-gita this is explained  + (09:38:13, 29 July 2020)
• The Lord, or the Supersoul, can expand Himself into millions of different forms, whereas the individual soul cannot do so  + (09:42:06, 29 July 2020)
• The Supersoul, being seated in everyone's heart, can witness everyone's activities - past, present and future. In the Upanisads the Supersoul is described as being seated with the individual soul as friend and witness  + (09:45:33, 29 July 2020)
• As a friend, the Lord is always anxious to get back His friend, the individual soul, and bring him back home, back to Godhead. As a witness He is the bestower of all benedictions, and He endows each individual with the result of his actions  + (09:49:56, 29 July 2020)
• The Lord instructs His friend, the individual soul, who is also His son, to give up all other engagements and simply surrender unto Him for perpetual bliss and an eternal life full of knowledge  + (09:54:07, 29 July 2020)