Category:Family Life of a Devotee of God
Pages in category "Family Life of a Devotee of God"
The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
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- If a special devotee is meant for preaching but does not give up his family life or material opulences to take to the service of the Lord, the Lord surely takes away his material opulences and establishes him in devotional service
- It doesn't matter, either he is in family life or he's in sannyasi life, if he's a devotee, then his life is successful
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- Kardama Muni was to leave his family life to completely engage in the service of the Lord
- King Anga, although a pious devotee, got an unfortunate wife like Sunitha and later on a bad child like Vena. But the result was that he got complete freedom from the entanglement of family life and left home to go back to Godhead
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- Maharaja Ambarisa was undoubtedly liberated in any condition, but as an ideal king he accepted the vanaprastha order of retirement from family life
- Maharaja Ambarisa, in his family life, was certainly a pure devotee, complete in every respect, because his mind and all his senses were engaged in devotional service - sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayor vacamsi vaikuntha-gunanuvarnane - SB 9.4.18
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- So many great devotees have had to undergo difficulties, and the great example among women was Queen Kunti whose family life was perpetual danger, but because she always thought of Krsna she was saved
- Srila Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami began their spiritual lives at a very old age, that is, after they retired from their occupations and family lives. Yet they presented many valuable literatures for the advancement of spiritual life