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16 October 2020
- 02:1502:15, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28 In Kali-yuga the pakhandis are very prominent. However, Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has tried to kill all these pakhandis by introducing His sankirtana movement Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:1402:14, 16 October 2020 diff hist −7 If one attains Vaikunthaloka, he attains the highest perfection of life and the end of the evolutionary process Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:1302:13, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21 If a person wants to return home, back to Godhead, or wants to become a pure devotee (akama), 1) he is recommended to take to the path of devotional service and hear and chant of Lord Visnu or of His devotee Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:1302:13, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21 If a devotee is able to continue on the brahma-bhuta platform, he enters the spiritual sky automatically after death and returns to Godhead Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:1202:12, 16 October 2020 diff hist −42 He (the living entity) is sometimes called prakrti, or jiva, for he is situated in the marginal potency. When the living entity is covered with the three modes of material nature, he is called jiva-samjnita Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:1202:12, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21 He (the devotee of God) has no need to practice any other type of yoga in order to approach the brahma-bhuta stage - SB 4.30.20 Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:1002:10, 16 October 2020 diff hist −7 Even if one goes to the highest planet, Brahmaloka, he has to return to the miseries of birth and death Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
- 02:0902:09, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28 Devotional service is called kirtana-yajna, and by practicing the sankirtana-yajna, one is very easily elevated to the planet where the Supreme Lord resides Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
- 02:0802:08, 16 October 2020 diff hist +8,239 Complete surrender is desired by Krsna, as He indicates in the last chapter of Bhagavad-gita (BG 18.66): sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja. The word saksat, meaning "directly," is very significant Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:0802:08, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21 Cheating sannyasis and yogis have existed since the time of Prthu Maharaja's sacrifice. This cheating was very foolishly introduced by King Indra. In some ages such cheating is very prominent, and in other ages not so prominent Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
- 02:0802:08, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28 Caitanya Mahaprabhu, although Krsna Himself, taught us how to approach Krsna as a devotee. It is said, apani acari' bhakti sikhainu sabare Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:0702:07, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21 By reading and hearing the narrations of the life and character of Prthu Maharaja, one naturally becomes a devotee, and as soon as one becomes a devotee, his material desires automatically become fulfilled Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:0602:06, 16 October 2020 diff hist +7,981 Being above both the ksara and aksara, Lord Krsna, Vasudeva, is described in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.18) as Purusottama Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:0402:04, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28 As long as one is too much absorbed in the bodily conception of life, he becomes interested in many different processes of self-realization, such as the mystic yoga system or the system utilizing the speculative empiric methods Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:0402:04, 16 October 2020 diff hist +6,022 As indicated in Bhagavad-gita (BG 8.16), one does not escape material miseries even if he is elevated to Brahmaloka. Similarly, one is not very safe even if he is promoted to Sivaloka, because the planet of Sivaloka is marginal Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
- 02:0202:02, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28 A type of pseudo-sannyasa was introduced by Indra when he tried to hide himself from the attack of Vijitasva, the great son of King Prthu Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:0102:01, 16 October 2020 diff hist +4,517 A mahatma or paramahamsa is very rare to find Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:0102:01, 16 October 2020 diff hist +6,022 A devotee who is fully in Krsna consciousness, who is not attracted by any other loka, or planet, including Brahmaloka and Sivaloka, is immediately transferred to Krsnaloka (mam eti). That is the highest perfection of life and of the evolutionary process Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
- 02:0102:01, 16 October 2020 diff hist +7,925 A devotee of Lord Siva is not dear to Lord Siva, but a devotee of Lord Krsna is very dear to Lord Siva Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 02:0002:00, 16 October 2020 diff hist +4,166 A devotee's knowledge of the impersonal Brahman is automatically revealed, and he is not interested in merging into the impersonal Brahman Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
- 02:0002:00, 16 October 2020 diff hist +7,681 A Vaisnava, or worshiper of Lord Visnu, gradually becomes poorer in material possessions because God does not trick His devotees into becoming materially entangled by possessions. Visnu gives His devotees intelligence from within, as Bhagavad-gita says Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
2 October 2020
- 02:0902:09, 2 October 2020 diff hist +3 These descriptions are in the Vedic literature. Whenever we find that a demigod occupies a position apparently more elevated than that of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it is just to draw the devotee's attention to that particular demigod Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 02:0802:08, 2 October 2020 diff hist +3 Tax revenues should be distributed to the citizens in times of need, during emergencies such as famine or flood. Tax revenues should never be distributed amongst governmental servants in the form of high salaries and various other allowances Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 02:0502:05, 2 October 2020 diff hist +3 It is stated in the Bhagavad-gita that if one wants to worship a particular demigod, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is sitting in everyone's heart, gives one greater attachment for that demigod so that one may be elevated to the demigod's abode Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 02:0502:05, 2 October 2020 diff hist +3 It is stated here (in SB 4.4.32) that many thousands of demigods named Rbhus became manifested because of the oblations offered in the fire and the chanting of the hymns from the Yajur Veda Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 02:0402:04, 2 October 2020 diff hist +3 In Kali-yuga, the position of the citizens is very horrible because taxes are exacted in so many forms and are spent for the personal comforts of the administrators Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
1 October 2020
- 04:5404:54, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21 Without the father's seed, no mother can give birth to a child. Therefore the living beings in different varieties of forms and positions within the innumerable universes are all born of the seeds of the Almighty Father, the Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:5404:54, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21 Without personal service, one would go on speculating like the impersonalists and dry speculators life after life and would be unable to reach the final conclusion Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:5404:54, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21 Without a Vedic reference, the creation appears to be a product of material nature. This conclusion comes from a poor fund of knowledge Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:5304:53, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21 Why the external energy acts in this way may be considered as follows, as analyzed by great commentators like Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura and Srila Jiva Gosvami Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
- 04:5304:53, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21 Whenever there is a need of material creation, the transcendental Personality of Godhead accepts forms in the material world for creation, maintenance and destruction Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:5204:52, 1 October 2020 diff hist +4,868 Whenever the Lord incarnates, He does so in His full internal potency (atma-maya), and less intelligent persons mistake Him to be one of the material creations Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:5204:52, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28 When we rightly take the direction of the Supersoul, our life becomes successful. He is directing from within and from without Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:5204:52, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21 When there is some disease in the eyes, the eyes may be cured to see properly. Plucking out the eyes is no treatment Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:5104:51, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28 When the tide comes over the river, it overwhelms the flowing of the river, and the river itself becomes overflooded, and the waves from the sea become more prominent than the waves from the river Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:5104:51, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21 When the living entity within the heart becomes enlightened with full spiritual knowledge and detached from the material world, he 1) burns up his material covering of the five elements - earth, water, fire, air and sky Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:5004:50, 1 October 2020 diff hist −63 When the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, who carries in His hands a conchshell, wheel, club and lotus flower, is worshiped, certainly all other demigods are worshiped automatically because Hari, the Personality of Godhead, is all-pervading Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:5004:50, 1 October 2020 diff hist −63 When the Lord throws His transcendental glance over the material nature, then only can the material nature act, as a father contacts the mother, who is then able to conceive a child Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:4904:49, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21 When one is sincere in his devotional service, the Lord obliges the devotee to give up his material development and completely surrender unto Him Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:4904:49, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28 When one is devoid of distinctions, there is no longer a difference between matter and spirit. At that time, the spirit is the only predominating factor. As long as one is covered by material desires, he thinks himself the master or the enjoyer Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:4804:48, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21 When living entities are viewed in the bodily concept of life, one appears to be different from another Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:4804:48, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21 When he (the living entity) wants to get out of service under material bondage, he next desires to become one with the Lord. This is another illusion Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:4804:48, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28 When a devotee is in a calamitous condition he takes it as a benediction of the Supreme Lord and takes responsibility himself for his past misdeeds. In such a condition, he offers still more devotional service and is not disturbed Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:4704:47, 1 October 2020 diff hist +5,562 Whatever a person may be in the estimation of the social order of things, if a person tries to reciprocate a feeling of love towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead and is satisfied with the blessings of the Lord Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:4604:46, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28 What the pure devotees worship from the very beginning are eternal forms of the Lord existing in the Vaikuntha planets Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:4604:46, 1 October 2020 diff hist −84 What is the comparison of thousands of prajapatis to one devotee of the Lord Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:4604:46, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28 We think ourselves created by material nature exactly as we think ourselves experiencing so many things in a dream. The spirit soul is always transcendental. There is no question of becoming materially covered Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:4504:45, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21 We should not forget that the potencies of the Almighty Lord are always the same and do not decrease because the Lord assumes the form of a lower animal Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:4404:44, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28 Vaisnavas should not try to kill by any action of the body or mind, but should try to revive the Krsna consciousness of others out of compassion for them Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:4304:43, 1 October 2020 diff hist +7,190 Upadhi means designation. Neither I am Indian nor American nor cat nor dog. But as soon as I get a particular type of body, I think that I am cat, I am dog, I am Indian, I am America, I am black, I am white. This is our position Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections