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• The point is, a perfect devotee does not make any discrimination. Whatever is offered to Krsna is nectar. That's all  + (06:24:30, 30 April 2022)
• Krsna accepts anything from a devotee. "Whatever is offered to Me by My devotee," He accepts. The same thing for a devotee. Don't you see the point  + (06:36:46, 30 April 2022)
• A perfect devotee does not make any discrimination. But if I am not a perfect devotee and I have discrimination, why shall I imitate the perfect devotee? It may not be possible for me to digest everything because I am not a perfect devotee  + (07:07:14, 30 April 2022)
• A devotee should not be a foolish man. It is said: krsna ye bhaje se bada catura. So a devotee knows his position, and he is intelligent enough to deal with others accordingly  + (07:25:04, 30 April 2022)
• Good karma means what is prescribed in the Vedas. Specifically, it is prescribed that one should perform yajna. Yajna means actions for the satisfaction of Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead  + (07:44:23, 30 April 2022)
• Good karma means performance of the yajnas as they are prescribed in the Vedic literatures. And the purpose of this yajna is to satisfy the Supreme Lord. A good, law-abiding citizen is one whose actions satisfy the government  + (08:17:04, 30 April 2022)
• Good karma is to satisfy Lord Visnu, the Supreme Lord. Unfortunately, modern civilization does not know what the Supreme Personality of Godhead is, what to speak of satisfying Him. people do not know  + (09:26:20, 30 April 2022)
• They (people) are simply busy with material activities. Therefore all of them are performing only bad karma and therefore suffering. They are blind men leading other blind men. And both are then suffering by bad karma. That is very easy to understand  + (10:38:58, 30 April 2022)
• If you do something criminal, you will suffer. If you do something benevolent for the state, for the people, then you are recognized; you are sometimes given a title. This is good and bad karma  + (10:43:54, 30 April 2022)
• Good karma means you enjoy some material happiness; bad karma means you suffer from material distress. By good karma you get birth in a good family; you get riches, good money. Then you become a learned scholar; you become beautiful also  + (11:14:44, 30 April 2022)
• He (a person who does not very aware of God) is an animal. The animal does not know what is good. A person who does not know what is God, or one who does not try to understand what is God - he is an animal  + (12:06:29, 30 April 2022)
• The animals are with four legs, and that animal is with two legs. And Darwin's theory is they are monkeys. So anyone who does not know God, or does not try to understand God, is nothing but an animal  + (12:11:56, 30 April 2022)
• The animal is very innocent. If you cut its throat, it won't protest. So innocence is not a very good qualification. The animals are all innocent. Therefore you get the chance to cut their throats. So to become innocent is not a very good qualification  + (12:19:42, 30 April 2022)
• Our proposition is that one must be very, very intelligent, and then he can understand Krsna. To become an innocent, ignorant simpleton is not a very good qualification. Simplicity is all right, but one should not be unintelligent  + (13:34:21, 30 April 2022)
• Intelligence means... One who knows what he is, what is this world, what is God, what are the interrelations - he is intelligent  + (13:39:41, 30 April 2022)
• The animal does not know what he is. He thinks that he is the body. Similarly, anyone who does not know what he is, he is not intelligent  + (13:47:44, 30 April 2022)
• To become honest is also good karma. How to become a good man is described in the Bhagavad-gita very elaborately (BG 16.5): So if you become qualified with the daivi sampad (transcendental qualities), then, vimoksaya - you will be liberated  + (14:01:56, 30 April 2022)
• Nibandhayasuri - if you are qualified with the demoniac qualifications, then you will be more and more entangled. Unfortunately the modern civilization does not know what is liberation and what is entanglement. They are so much ignorant; they do not know  + (14:10:14, 30 April 2022)
• If I ask you what you mean by liberation, can you answer? And if I ask you what you mean by entanglement, can you answer? These words are there in the Vedic literature - liberation and entanglement  + (14:27:52, 30 April 2022)
• At the present moment, people do not even know what is liberation and what is entanglement. They are so ignorant and foolish, and still they are proud of their advancement in knowledge  + (14:40:12, 30 April 2022)
• Can you answer what is liberation? You are a professor, teacher, but if I ask you, can you explain what is liberation  + (14:53:39, 30 April 2022)
• If you do not know what is liberation, then how fast or slow liberation? There is no question of liberation. It is neither fast nor slow. You should first know what is liberation  + (15:13:29, 30 April 2022)
• If you do not know where the train is going, then what is the use of asking, understanding, whether it is going fast or slow? You do not know your destination. What is liberation? I am asking. You daily ask me. I am asking you  + (15:22:03, 30 April 2022)
• Liberation is described in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. The exact Sanskrit word for liberation is mukti. So that is defined in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (2.10.6): muktir hitvanyatha rupam svarupena vyavasthitih  + (15:45:41, 30 April 2022)
• One should stop doing all nonsense, and he must be situated in his original position. But this is also more embarrassing because nobody knows his original position and how to act properly  + (16:19:53, 30 April 2022)

• Because people are generally acting differently, because they do not know what is proper - the modern population is so much ignorant about their life - it is a very awkward position. They do not know  + (16:26:50, 30 April 2022)

• If one does not know what is honesty, how can he be honest? But if you know what is honesty, then you can be honest. What is honesty? First of all explain  + (21:07:18, 30 April 2022)
• A thief is feeling, "I must steal to provide for my children. It is right." Does it mean that he is honest  + (21:18:10, 30 April 2022)
• Everyone thinks - The butcher thinks, "It is my life. I must cut the throat of the animals daily." Just like that - what is that hunter? And Narada Muni met him? Yes, Mrgari  + (21:24:16, 30 April 2022)
• Narada asked him (Mrgari), "Why are you killing in this way?" And he said, "Oh, it is my business. My father taught it." So he was honestly doing that  + (21:34:44, 30 April 2022)
• A feeling of honesty depends on culture. A thief's culture is different. He thinks stealing is honest  + (21:43:47, 30 April 2022)
• Real honesty is that you should not encroach upon another's property. This is honesty. For instance, this is my table. If you want to take it away while going, is that honesty  + (21:50:49, 30 April 2022)
• The simple definition of honesty is that you should not encroach upon another's rights. That is honesty  + (21:53:57, 30 April 2022)
• Because the mode of goodness means knowledge. So if you know, "This table does not belong to me; it belongs to Swamiji," you will not try to take it away. Therefore, one must know - be thoroughly well conversant - then he can be honest  + (22:01:43, 30 April 2022)
• God wishes everyone to be honest. Why should God think otherwise  + (22:06:17, 30 April 2022)
• Following without knowing - that is absurd. You must know the order of God. And if you follow that, then that is honesty  + (22:11:05, 30 April 2022)
• God is the supreme proprietor, the supreme enjoyer, and He is the supreme friend. That is the statement of the Bhagavad-gita  + (06:47:40, 1 May 2022)
• If anyone knows these three things, then he is in full knowledge. These three things only: that God is the proprietor of everything, God is friend of everyone, and God is the enjoyer of everything  + (07:14:20, 1 May 2022)
• Everyone knows that in the body, the stomach is the enjoyer. Not the hands, legs, eyes, ears. These are there simply to help the stomach  + (07:58:14, 1 May 2022)
• Eyes - the vulture goes seven miles up to see where there is food for the stomach. Is it not? Then the wings fly there, and the jaws catch the food  + (08:18:44, 1 May 2022)
• As in this body the stomach is the enjoyer, the central figure of the whole cosmic manifestation, material or spiritual, is Krsna, God. He is the enjoyer. We can understand this just by considering our own bodies  + (08:46:44, 1 May 2022)
• The body is also a creation. The body has the same mechanical nature you will find in the whole universe. The same mechanical arrangement will be found anywhere you go, even in animals  + (10:55:19, 1 May 2022)
• In the human body or in the cosmic manifestation - almost the same mechanism. So you can understand very easily that in this body - any body, your body - the stomach is the enjoyer  + (11:06:52, 1 May 2022)
• There is a central enjoyer. And the stomach is the friend also. Because if you cannot digest food, you see, then all other limbs of the body become weak. Therefore the stomach is the friend  + (11:12:57, 1 May 2022)
• It (stomach) is digesting and distributing the energy to all the limbs of the body. Is it not  + (11:25:40, 1 May 2022)
• The central stomach of the whole creation is God, or Krsna. He is the enjoyer, He is the friend, and, as the supreme proprietor, He is maintaining everyone  + (11:53:50, 1 May 2022)
• Just as a king can maintain the whole country's citizens because he is the proprietor. Without being the proprietor, how can one become everyone's friend? So these things have to be understood  + (12:05:38, 1 May 2022)
• Krsna is the enjoyer, Krsna is the proprietor, and Krsna is the friend. If you know these three things, then your knowledge is full; you do not require to understand anything more  + (12:14:48, 1 May 2022)
• If you simply understand Krsna by these three formulas (Krsna is the enjoyer, Krsna is the proprietor, and Krsna is the friend), then your knowledge is complete  + (12:25:58, 1 May 2022)
• People will not agree. "Why should Krsna be the proprietor? Hitler should be the proprietor. Nixon ..." That is going on. Therefore you are in trouble  + (12:58:45, 1 May 2022)
• If you understand these three things (Krsna is the enjoyer, proprietor, and friend) only, then your knowledge is complete. But you will not accept  + (13:26:37, 1 May 2022)