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22 September 2022
- 08:4808:48, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,786 Krsna is not alone, but is always with His friends, either the gopis or the cowherd boys, or with His mother and father. We never find Krsna alone. He may be with Radharani or with His devotees No edit summary current
- 08:4708:47, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,541 He (Krsna) is like a king or president. When one says that the king or president is coming, it is understood that he is not coming alone. He comes with His secretaries, ministers and many others No edit summary current
- 08:4608:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,628 The word yoga means "connection," and atma means "soul" and sometimes "mind" or "body." The material body has nothing to do with the Supreme Being because the Supreme Being is completely spiritual. He has no material covering No edit summary current
- 08:4608:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,285 One who thinks that Krsna, the Supreme Being, has a material covering is himself covered by maya No edit summary current
- 08:4508:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,418 Krsna does not say that He comes as an ordinary living being. Rather, His advent is totally transcendental. Janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah - BG 4.9 No edit summary current
- 08:4408:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,388 We have to learn how Krsna takes His birth, which is not ordinary. If it were ordinary, why should we observe the Janmastami ceremony? His birth is divyam, divine No edit summary current
- 08:4108:41, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,500 Krsna is the original Supreme Being, the original spirit soul. We are simply minute parts and parcels of Krsna. If we connect with Krsna, we are illuminated just as Krsna is illuminated No edit summary current
- 08:4008:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,202 If we fall down from Krsna, our spiritual power and illumination are extinguished No edit summary current
- 08:4008:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,508 The word yoga means connecting or linking with that original source. Yoga is the Sanskrit word meaning "connection," and viyoga means - disconnection No edit summary current
- 08:3608:36, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,507 On one side there is happiness, and on the other side there is distress. Both happiness and distress are actually illusions. In summer, water is happiness, but in winter it is distress No edit summary current
- 08:3508:35, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,676 The water is the same, but at one time it brings happiness and at another time it brings distress. When a son is born, he brings happiness, but when he dies, he brings distress. In either case, the son is the same No edit summary current
- 08:3408:34, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,371 This material world is the world of duality, and we cannot understand happiness without distress or distress without happiness. This is therefore called the relative world No edit summary current
- 08:3308:33, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,663 Generally yoga is practiced to acquire some material profit. There are eight kinds of yogic perfection (siddhis): anima, laghima, prapti, isitva, vasitva, mahima, prakamya and kamavasayita No edit summary current
- 08:2808:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,238 Spiritual happiness is above these dualities, and that spiritual happiness is the perfection of yoga. Yoga adhyatmikah No edit summary current
- 08:2808:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,443 Yoga is the happiness of the soul, and the individual soul can be happy when it is with the Supersoul, the Supreme Soul No edit summary current
- 08:2708:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,312 Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13). There is the Supreme Soul, or the supreme living being, and there are many individual souls, individual beings No edit summary current
- 08:2708:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,324 We are many, but the principal living being is one, Krsna. He is the fire, and we are the sparks from that fire No edit summary current
- 08:2608:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,594 The sparks are illuminated when they are with the original fire, but if the sparks no longer associate with the original fire, they are extinguished. Similarly, our real happiness is in enjoying with the Supreme Being. Happiness is being in His company No edit summary current
- 08:2108:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,452 A real yogi can become smaller than the smallest, lighter than the lightest and bigger than the biggest. Whatever he wants he can produce immediately in his hand No edit summary current
- 08:2008:20, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,593 He (a real yogi) can even create a planet. These are some of the yoga-siddhis, but here it is stated that the supreme yoga system does not aim at material happiness or relief from distresses caused by material inconvenience No edit summary
- 08:1808:18, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,402 Everyone is trying to get out of material distress and gain some happiness. In any case, when something is material, there is only so-called happiness and so-called distress No edit summary current
- 08:1708:17, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,425 The attempt in this material world to maximize happiness and minimize distress is called the struggle for existence No edit summary current
- 08:1608:16, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,414 If you can get Krsna to smile upon you just once, your life's goal is fulfilled. Thus smiling, Kapiladeva began to enlighten His mother No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,559 When Kapiladeva or His representative sees someone a little interested, he becomes very glad and thanks him. When Kapiladeva saw His mother interested, He thanked her from within, not openly No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,370 Kapiladeva was very glad, and He began to speak. Kapiladeva was an incarnation of God and was a young boy; therefore His face was very beautiful No edit summary current
- 08:1408:14, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,317 When He answered this question, He became even more beautiful, and He smiled because He was pleased at His mother's question No edit summary current
- 08:1408:14, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,265 Krsna is also very beautiful, but when a devotee serves Him and comes to Him, He becomes even more beautiful No edit summary current
- 08:1308:13, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,602 When a devotee with all his heart and soul serves Krsna, dresses Him in nice garments and gives Him a flower, Krsna smiles No edit summary current
- 08:1108:11, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,891 When a student hears spiritual subjects attentively, the spiritual master becomes very happy. Kapiladeva was very happy to see His mother eager to understand spiritual subject matters. He therefore thanked His mother for her inquiry No edit summary current
- 08:1008:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,695 It is regrettable that in India, where these literatures are available, people are not interested. They are interested in Marxist literature but not Srimad-Bhagavatam, and this is India's misfortune No edit summary current
- 08:0908:09, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,451 If the mango is tasted by the parrot, it becomes doubly tasty. The word suka means parrot, and Sukadeva Gosvami spoke Srimad-Bhagavatam. It is therefore more relishable from his lips No edit summary
- 08:0408:04, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,391 Generally people are interested in things that give immediate pleasure. We want to taste something tasty to the tongue, regardless of whether it is edible or not No edit summary current
- 07:2907:29, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,530 People should not waste their time associating with crows; they should associate with swans. When garbage is thrown out, crows and dogs come to see what is there, but no sane man will go No edit summary current
- 07:2907:29, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,715 Those who are interested in trying to get pleasure out of this material world are actually chewing the chewed. Punah punas carvita-carvananam (SB 7.5.30). If one picks up a piece of sugarcane which has already been chewed, he is a fool No edit summary current
- 07:2807:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,549 We must know that the juice has already been taken out of that sugarcane. What will one get by chewing it? However, there are animals who are simply interested in chewing the chewed No edit summary current
- 07:2707:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,679 Material life means chewing the chewed. A father educates his son to earn a livelihood, get married and settle down, but he himself already knows that by doing this he has not become satisfied. Why, then, is he engaging his son in this same business No edit summary current
- 07:2707:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,232 A real father is one who does not allow his son to chew the chewed No edit summary current
- 07:2607:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,681 Pita na sa syaj janani na sa syat... na mocayed yah samupeta-mrtyum: one should not become a father or a mother unless one is able to save his children from the impending clutches of death. That is the duty of the father and mother. How can this be done No edit summary current
- 07:2607:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,350 A father and mother should educate their son in Krsna consciousness. Then he can be saved. They should educate the son in such a way that there is no pavarga No edit summary current
- 07:2507:25, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,663 If we do not go forward to liberation, we promote a civilization of cats and dogs. Eating, sleeping, mating, defending, fearing and dying are all experienced by cats and dogs, but human life is meant for another purpose No edit summary current
- 07:2407:24, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,449 Of course we have to maintain the body; it is not that we should neglect it. But we should not unnecessarily engage in the maintenance of the body No edit summary current
- 07:2407:24, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,593 From the Vedas we can receive education of all kinds. On a mango tree, there are ripened mangoes and green mangoes. The Srimad-Bhagavatam is the ripened mango of the desire tree of Vedic knowledge: nigama-kalpa-taror galitam phalam - SB 1.1.3 No edit summary
- 07:2107:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,474 One may ask, - How is it that in the modern age these Europeans and Americans of the Krsna consciousness movement do not take interest in newspapers No edit summary current
- 07:2107:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,653 Newspapers are very popular in the West. Each day the papers are published in three or four editions, and they are all selling. However, these American boys and girls who have come to Krsna consciousness have stopped reading newspapers No edit summary current
- 07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,725 They (American boys and girls) do not know what is happening from day to day, and it does not matter. All of this is a waste of time. It is better that they read literatures like Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita. Why waste one's valuable time No edit summary
- 07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,471 Kapiladeva was very glad that His mother was interested only in spiritual advancement. This material world is called pavarga, and to nullify it is called apavarga No edit summary current
- 07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,538 In this material world, people are laboring very hard simply to earn some money. This creates a hellish situation, and this is the way of material life No edit summary current
- 07:1707:17, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,323 The questions are raised by Devahuti, and the answers are given by Kapiladeva. That is apavarga-vardhanam No edit summary current
- 07:1607:16, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,541 As far as material maintenance is concerned, the sastras never stress it. Rather, they say that one's maintenance will come automatically No edit summary current
- 07:1307:13, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,506 Transcendentalists are not interested in worldly talks. Indeed, worldly talks are very disgusting to them, and they avoid the company of those who talk about nonsensical worldly affairs No edit summary current