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• From the teachings of Caitanya to Sanatana we learn: A person who is expert in understanding the conclusion of the revealed scriptures and who fully surrenders to the cause of God is actually able to deliver others from the clutches of material existence  + (01:35:31, 28 March 2021)
• This (CC Adi 3.111) text from Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 3.9.11) is a prayer by Lord Brahma to the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna for His blessings in the work of creation  + (01:42:52, 28 March 2021)
• Rupa Gosvami, in his Upadesamrta (3), advises that to make rapid advancement in the cult of devotional service one should be very active & should persevere in executing the duties specified in the revealed scriptures and confirmed by the spiritual master  + (01:44:36, 28 March 2021)
• Knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead can be understood from the descriptions of the Vedic scriptures  + (01:46:18, 28 March 2021)
• Srila Rupa Gosvami, in his Upadesamrta (3): Accepting the path of liberated souls and the association of pure devotees enriches such activities - as executing the duties specified in the revealed scriptures  + (01:51:20, 28 March 2021)
• The Brahma-samhita (Bs 5.38) describes that in the abode of Lord Krsna, which is made of cintamani (touchstone), the Lord, acting as a cowherd boy, is served by hundreds and thousands of goddesses of fortune  + (01:53:09, 28 March 2021)
• Imitation devotees, who wish to advertise themselves as elevated Vaisnavas and who therefore imitate the previous acaryas but do not follow them in principle, are condemned in the words of Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 2.3.24) as stone-hearted  + (01:58:50, 28 March 2021)
• The word sruta in sruteksita-pathah refers to the Vedas, and iksita indicates that the way to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead is by proper study of the Vedic scriptures  + (01:59:45, 28 March 2021)
• Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura has commented on stone-hearted condition as follows: bahir asru-pulakayoh sator api yad dhrdayam na vikriyeta tad asma-saram iti kanisthadhikarinam eva asru-pulakadi-mattve ’pi asma-sara-hrdayataya nindaisa  + (02:03:14, 28 March 2021)
• One cannot imagine something about God or His form. Such imagination is not accepted by those who are serious about enlightenment. Here (in CC Adi 3.111) Brahma says that one can know Krsna through the path of properly understanding the Vedic texts  + (02:05:46, 28 March 2021)
• Those who shed tears by practice but whose hearts have not changed are to be known as stone-hearted devotees of the lowest grade. Their imitation crying, induced by artificial practice, is always condemned  + (02:08:05, 28 March 2021)
• The desired change of heart referred to above is visible in the reluctance to do anything not congenial to the devotional way. To create such a change of heart, conclusive discussion about Sri Krsna and His potencies is absolutely necessary  + (02:13:09, 28 March 2021)
• Unless a devotee actually develops transcendental love for the Lord, it is not possible for him to think always of the Lord within his heart. Such constant thought of the Lord is the sublime perfection of the yogic process  + (02:13:56, 28 March 2021)
• False devotees may think that simply shedding tears will lead one to the transcendental plane, even if one has not had a factual change in heart, but such a practice is useless if there is no transcendental realization  + (02:17:10, 28 March 2021)
• The Bhagavad-gita confirms in the Sixth Chapter (47), stating that anyone absorbed in such thought (of Krsna) is the best of all yogis. Such transcendental absorption is known as samadhi  + (02:19:59, 28 March 2021)
• False devotees, lacking the conclusion of transcendental knowledge, think that artificially shedding tears will deliver them  + (02:21:22, 28 March 2021)
• A pure devotee who is always thinking of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the person qualified to see the Lord  + (02:26:22, 28 March 2021)
• Other false devotees think that studying books of the previous acaryas is unadvisable, like studying dry empiric philosophies  + (02:28:41, 28 March 2021)
• One cannot speak of Urugaya (the Lord, who is glorified by sublime prayers) unless one is transcendentally elevated. The Lord has innumerable forms, as the Brahma-samhita confirms - advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam - Bs 5.33  + (02:31:59, 28 March 2021)
• Srila Jiva Gosvami, following the previous acaryas, has inculcated the conclusions of the scriptures in the six theses called the Sat-sandarbhas  + (02:32:30, 28 March 2021)
• False devotees who have very little knowledge of such conclusions (artificially shedding tears will deliver them) fail to achieve pure devotion for want of zeal in accepting the favorable directions for devotional service given by self-realized devotees  + (02:38:30, 28 March 2021)
• Those who are Krsna conscious actually have full knowledge of the essence of Vedanta philosophy, for they study the real commentary on the Vedanta philosophy, Srimad-Bhagavatam, and follow the actual words of the SPG as found in Bhagavad-gita As It Is  + (02:39:07, 28 March 2021)
• Lord Krsna is especially pleasing to such devotees, in whose hearts He is always present because of their highly elevated transcendental love  + (02:40:30, 28 March 2021)
• After understanding the Bhagavata philosophy, or bhagavata-dharma, they (those who are Krsna conscious) become fully spiritually conscious or Krsna conscious, and therefore their chanting and dancing is not material but is on the spiritual platform  + (02:43:59, 28 March 2021)
• False devotees are like impersonalists, who also consider devotional service no better than ordinary fruitive actions  + (02:44:52, 28 March 2021)

• Although everyone admires the ecstatic chanting and dancing of the devotees, who are therefore popularly known as “the Hare Krsna people,” Mayavadis cannot appreciate these activities because of their poor fund of knowledge  + (02:48:20, 28 March 2021)

• One can know the glories of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu only by reaching, in knowledge, a conclusive decision about Sri Krsna, strengthened by bona fide study of the conclusions of the acaryas  + (02:54:19, 28 March 2021)
• Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu did not talk with the Mayavadi philosophers when He first visited Varanasi, but He returned there from Mathura to convince them of the real purport of Vedanta  + (02:55:32, 28 March 2021)
• By our material calculation we see a difference between the name and the substance, but in the spiritual world the Absolute is always absolute: the name, form, qualities and pastimes of the Absolute are all as good as the Absolute Himself  + (03:05:11, 28 March 2021)
• One is understood to be an eternal servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead if he considers himself an eternal servant of the holy name and in this spirit distributes the holy name to the world  + (03:11:40, 28 March 2021)
• Lord Caitanya stayed at the house of Candrasekhara, a clerk, although a sannyasi is not supposed to reside in a sudra’s house  + (03:15:20, 28 March 2021)
• Five hundred years ago, it was the system that persons who were born in the families of brahmanas were accepted as brahmanas & all those who took birth in other families - even the higher castes, namely, the ksatriyas and vaisyas - were considered sudras  + (03:18:28, 28 March 2021)
• To associate with the holy name and chant the holy name is to associate with the Personality of Godhead directly. In the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu it is clearly said, sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam eva sphuraty adah - Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.2.234  + (03:22:49, 28 March 2021)
• Although Sri Candrasekhara was a clerk from a kayastha family in upper India, he was considered a sudra  + (03:25:55, 28 March 2021)
• The holy name becomes manifest when one engages in the service of the holy name. This service in a submissive attitude begins with one’s tongue  + (03:29:13, 28 March 2021)
• Five hundred years ago, vaisyas, especially those of the suvarna-vanik community, were accepted as sudras in Bengal, and even the vaidyas, who were generally physicians, were also considered sudras  + (03:30:39, 28 March 2021)
• Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, did not accept this artificial principle, which was introduced in society by self-interested men, and later the kayasthas, vaidyas and vaniks all began to accept the sacred thread, despite objections from the so-called brahmanas  + (03:34:18, 28 March 2021)
• Sevonmukhe hi jihvadau: One must engage his tongue in the service of the holy name. Our Krsna consciousness movement is based on this principle. We try to engage all the members of the Krsna consciousness movement in the service of the holy name  + (03:35:39, 28 March 2021)
• Before the time of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the suvarna-vanik class was condemned by Ballal Sena, who was then the King of Bengal, due to a personal grudge  + (03:38:40, 28 March 2021)
• In Bengal the suvarna-vanik class are always very rich, for they are bankers and dealers in gold and silver  + (03:40:27, 28 March 2021)
• Since the holy name and Krsna are nondifferent, the members of the Krsna consciousness movement not only chant the holy name of the Lord offenselessly, but also do not allow their tongues to eat anything that is not first offered to the SP of Godhead  + (03:41:43, 28 March 2021)
• Ballal Sena used to borrow money from a suvarna-vanik banker. Ballal Sena's bankruptcy later obliged the suvarna-vanik banker to stop advancing money to him & Ballal Sena became angry & condemned the entire suvarna-vanik society as belonging to the sudra  + (03:46:08, 28 March 2021)
• The Supreme Lord declares: If one offers Me (Krsna) with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I will accept it - BG 9.26  + (03:46:37, 28 March 2021)
• He (Ballal Sena) tried to induce the brahmanas not to accept the suvarna-vaniks as followers of the instructions of the Vedas under the brahminical directions  + (03:52:48, 28 March 2021)
• Although some brahmanas approved of Ballal Sena’s actions, others did not. Thus the brahmanas also became divided amongst themselves, and those who supported the suvarna-vanik class were rejected from the brahmana community  + (03:55:26, 28 March 2021)
• At the present day the same biases (of caste system) are still being followed  + (03:58:54, 28 March 2021)
• The ISKCON has many temples all over the world, & in each & every temple the Lord is offered these foods. On the basis of His demands, the devotees chant the holy name of the Lord offenselessly and never eat anything that is not first offered to the Lord  + (03:59:31, 28 March 2021)
• The functions of the tongue in devotional service are to chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra and eat prasadam that is offered to the Lord  + (04:03:58, 28 March 2021)
• These slokas (SB 7.5.30 and SB 7.5.32) are to be discussed. Their purport is that one cannot obtain krsna-bhakti, or the devotional service of the Lord, by official execution of the Vedic rituals. One has to approach a pure devotee  + (04:11:02, 28 March 2021)
• Accepting disciples born in brahmana families, they (Thakura Raghunandana Acarya, Thakura Krsnadasa, Navani Hoda and Rasikananda-deva (a disciple of Syamananda Prabhu)) are bona fide spiritual masters who have the facility to worship the salagrama-sila  + (04:11:43, 28 March 2021)
• Narottama dasa Thakura sings, chadiya vaisnava-seva nistara payeche keba: Who has been elevated without rendering service to a pure Vaisnava?  + (04:14:59, 28 March 2021)