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• Men absorbed in desire and lust are called asuras, and they are always chasing after women and money  + (17:04:23, 7 December 2021)
• For the sake of women and money the asuras exploit every source of economic development. As a result of this asuric civilization, the entire human society becomes like a stormy sea, with no trace of peace and prosperity  + (17:07:33, 7 December 2021)
• Asuric leaders of society never retire from such lustful undertakings unless killed by the laws of nature. For them there is no question of retirement or of cultivating the human spirit  + (17:23:43, 7 December 2021)
• According to the varnasrama principle, it is compulsory that one retire after the age of fifty, without considering other circumstances  + (17:34:41, 7 December 2021)
• Retirement must be compulsory, so that foolish old men will no longer disturb the peaceful progress of spiritual culture  + (17:46:24, 7 December 2021)
• After the rainy season, the farmers begin to rebuild the partitioning walls of the paddy fields so that the water will be conserved, just as yogis try to use their conserved energy for self-realization  + (18:02:33, 7 December 2021)
• The living being is the marginal energy of the Absolute Personality of Godhead, and he can spend his conserved energy either externally or internally  + (04:34:17, 8 December 2021)
• When spent internally, the energy is identified with the internal energy of the Personality of Godhead, but the same conserved energy, when spent for His external energy, is identified with that external energy  + (05:01:45, 8 December 2021)
• All energies - internal, external, and marginal - are emanations from Him, the Supreme, and they act differently to prove diversity in unity. The unity is the Lord, and the energies represent diversity  + (05:06:23, 8 December 2021)
• The Lord is so powerful that He can do anything and everything merely by His sweet will alone. As mentioned above, everything is done by His energies in a natural way, with full knowledge and complete perfection  + (05:13:44, 8 December 2021)
• Everything is done by His (God's) energies in a natural way, with full knowledge and complete perfection. That is the information we have from the Vedic literatures  + (05:22:03, 8 December 2021)
• The internal energy and the marginal energy are of the same superior quality, but the external energy is inferior in quality. That is the information we have from Bhagavad-gita  + (05:24:39, 8 December 2021)
• Because the living entity is classified as marginal energy and is of the same quality as the internal energy, it is quite natural for him to cooperate with the internal energy  + (05:27:14, 8 December 2021)
• When the living entity prefers to cooperate with the external energy, he is put into difficulty. By the process called pratyahara (diversion), yoga diverts our energies from the external to the internal  + (05:31:02, 8 December 2021)
• The energy of our senses is meant to be diverted, not stopped. The senses are to be purified, so that they serve the Lord instead of disturbing His settled harmony. The entire cosmic harmony is a settled fact by the will of the Supreme  + (05:35:52, 8 December 2021)
• We must find the supreme will in every action of the cosmic situation. That is the instruction of Isopanisad  + (05:39:20, 8 December 2021)
• The human life is an opportunity to understand this cosmic harmony, and therefore our conserved energy, which is likened to the conserved water in the paddy field, must be used for this purpose only  + (05:43:56, 8 December 2021)
• As there is no chance of rain from the sky in autumn, we shall not immediately have a chance to get a human body again if we spend our conserved energy for sense enjoyment  + (05:47:23, 8 December 2021)
• The senses have their utility for the service of the Lord, and if properly engaged they can reach the highest perfection by being directly engaged in the service of the Lord in His personal presence  + (05:52:56, 8 December 2021)
• In the autumn there is a gulf of difference between the day and the night. During the day the extreme heat of the sun is unbearable, but at night the moonlight is extremely soothing and refreshing  + (06:12:05, 8 December 2021)
• Lord Sri Krsna is soothing for both the gopis and the mundane man in illusion, who accepts the body as the soul  + (06:14:26, 8 December 2021)
• As long as the living being, under illusion, accepts the body or the mind as the soul, he will always be unhappy, like a man in the burning heat of autumn  + (08:25:30, 8 December 2021)
• When the same living being (who is unhappy) becomes a devotee of Lord Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, he at once lives a soothing life, as if under the cooling rays of the moon in autumn  + (08:35:42, 8 December 2021)
• Lord Sri Krsna is so merciful that He descends to reclaim suffering humanity and preaches Bhagavad-gita with the intense desire that all living beings give up all of their engagements and take shelter of His lotus feet  + (08:40:35, 8 December 2021)
• The example of the damsels of Vrajabhumi Vrndavana (the gopis) is given because these eternal consorts of God terribly suffered the separation of Lord Krsna when God was absent from their presence for His engagement in tending the cows in the forest  + (09:32:36, 8 December 2021)

• During the absence of Krsna, the entire day would appear to the gopis to be as unbearable as a hot day in autumn. The Lord so much appreciated this natural feeling of the gopis that He declared His inability to repay their intense love  + (09:39:35, 8 December 2021)

• Lord Caitanya recommended the feeling of the gopis as the highest mode of worship that can be rendered to the Lord  + (09:42:51, 8 December 2021)
• The conclusion is that the regular practice of bhakti-yoga will lead the devotee to the plane of intense love for God, & that is the single qualification by which the conditioned soul is allowed to reenter the eternal life of bliss in the kingdom of God  + (09:50:33, 8 December 2021)
• In the clear autumn sky the twinkling stars appear brighter and brighter, just like a transcendentalist clear vision of the purpose of the Vedas  + (09:55:44, 8 December 2021)
• It is said that the import of the Vedas becomes clear to one who is not only a sincere devotee of the Lord but also a sincere servitor of the spiritual master  + (10:00:10, 8 December 2021)
• The spiritual master knows the purpose of the Vedas, practices it personally, and teaches the disciple of the true light of the Vedas. The supreme spiritual master, Lord Sri Krsna, teaches us the import of the Vedas in the following verse of BG - 15.16  + (10:07:41, 8 December 2021)
• The Lord says that in the Vedas it is mentioned that there are two kinds of living beings, called the fallible and the infallible  + (10:10:36, 8 December 2021)
• Those living beings who are materially encaged are all fallible, whereas those who are not conditioned and who are eternally situated in the spiritual realm are called aksara, or infallible  + (10:16:14, 8 December 2021)
• The Lord then says - Besides these innumerable fallible and infallible living beings there is another, superior personality, known as the Paramatma. He pervades all the three worlds and exists as the supreme controller  + (10:22:17, 8 December 2021)
• Because I (Lord Sri Krsna) am transcendental to all of them, even those who are infallible, I am known in all the Vedas and histories (the Puranas, Mahabharata, Ramayana, etc.) as the Absolute Supreme Personality of Godhead - 15.17-18  + (10:27:47, 8 December 2021)
• He (Sri Krsna) has His eternal two-armed form as Syamasundara, with features exactly like those of a most beautiful young man, and that is the sum and substance of the Vedas concerning God  + (10:56:58, 8 December 2021)
• As long as the living entities are situated normally as His (Krsna's) servitors they are happy; otherwise they are always unhappy. That is the Vedic conclusion  + (11:02:30, 8 December 2021)
• In the clear sky of autumn, the beautiful moon among the beautiful stars becomes the cynosure of all eyes, just as Lord Sri Krsna is the central attraction in the Vrsni dynasty or in the family of Yadu  + (12:01:38, 8 December 2021)
• The Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, appeared in the family of Yadu, and since then the Yadu dynasty has been luminous like the moon in autumn  + (12:04:12, 8 December 2021)
• The appearance and disappearance of the Lord are similar to the appearance and disappearance of the sun. The sun is first seen on the eastern horizon, but that does not mean that the sun is the son of that side  + (12:07:11, 8 December 2021)
• The sun is fixed in its own orbit, and it neither rises nor sets. But because we first see it on the eastern horizon we may say that the sun rises on that side  + (12:10:08, 8 December 2021)
• The appearance of Godhead in some particular family does not mean that He is limited by obligations to that family. He is fully independent and may appear and disappear. anywhere and everywhere, because He is all-pervading  + (12:14:33, 8 December 2021)
• Less intelligent persons cannot accommodate the appearance and disappearance of the Lord as an incarnation, but there is no sound reasoning to support such unbelievers  + (12:17:51, 8 December 2021)
• If God is all-pervading, like the power of electricity, He can manifest Himself at any place within His creation. When He is within we cannot see Him, but when He is without He is seen by everyone, although very few know Him as He is  + (12:23:23, 8 December 2021)
• Everyone sees the sun every day, but that does not mean that everyone knows what the sun actually is. Similarly, when Lord Sri Krsna was present five thousand years ago, very few could know what He was  + (12:28:41, 8 December 2021)
• Anyone who comes to know Him (Krsna) as He is becomes liberated at once, and while leaving this present body such a knower goes back to Godhead, never to return to this universe of manifold miseries  + (12:34:57, 8 December 2021)
• In Bhagavad-gita (4.9) the Lord confirms this as follows: My birth and activities are all transcendental. One who knows them in reality will not be conditioned by another material body, but will come back to My abode, where there is no birth and death  + (12:40:03, 8 December 2021)
• There are foolish persons who take Him (Krsna) to be an ordinary man, not knowing the essence of His transcendental features. In BG (9.11) the Lord affirms this: avajananti mam mudha, manusim tanum asritam, param bhavam ajananto, mama bhuta-mahesvaram  + (14:05:43, 8 December 2021)
• Fools deride Me (Krsna) when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be - Bhagavad-gita - 9.11  + (14:13:00, 8 December 2021)
• At night in autumn the atmosphere is pleasant because it is neither very hot nor very cold  + (14:16:49, 8 December 2021)
• There are two kinds of transcendental feelings for those engaged in the worship of the Lord. One is called sambhoga, and the other is called viraha. According to authorities in the disciplic line, viraha worship is more palatable than sambhoga worship  + (14:23:33, 8 December 2021)