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1 December 2020
- 11:5811:58, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 There are two entities - the head and "I." They are not identical, although they appear to be one conglomeration Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:5711:57, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 There are two energies, namely the superior energy and inferior energy Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:5311:53, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The word susamahitah means "very attentive" or "fully fixed." The ability to fix the mind in this way is a result of yoga-siddhi, mystic perfection. As it is stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 12.13.1), dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena manasa pasyanti yam yoginah Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:5211:52, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The word maha-vrata-dharah indicates a brahmacari who has never fallen down. Lord Siva is counted among the best of yogis, yet he embraced his wife in the midst of great saintly persons Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:5111:51, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The wheel of material miseries is also a creation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but He is not under the control of the material energy. Rather, He is the controller of the material energy, whereas we, the living entities, are under its control Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:5111:51, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The ultimate result depends upon the will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In devotional service, therefore, the devotee completely depends upon the Lord and honestly performs his occupational duties Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4911:49, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The theory that the Lord's energies, being expansions of the Lord, are as good as the Lord is mistaken Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4811:48, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The sunshine is important because of the presence of the sun globe. It is not that the sun globe is important because of the all-pervasiveness of the sunshine. Forgetfulness and misunderstanding of this fact is called maya Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4811:48, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The spirit soul possesses the body and is within the body. This is the real analysis. The soul never mixes with the bodily elements Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4811:48, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The spirit soul is eternal, being freed from waste and change, which take place because of the material body Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4711:47, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The soul is eternal and ever existing, but the bodies accepted by the soul are changing Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4711:47, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The soul is eternal. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire: (BG 2.20) the soul is never vanquished, even when the body is destroyed Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4611:46, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The so-called scientists of the modern materialistic world are proud because they have created modern facilities like great airplanes, but the credit for creating the airplanes should go to the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4611:46, 1 December 2020 diff hist +5,609 The so-called material bodies of devotees who fully engage in the devotional service of the Lord, being constantly in the fire of spiritual life, have nothing to do with matter, but are spiritualized Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4511:45, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The seer and controller is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supreme Soul, by whose direction the individual soul can understand when he is awake, when he is sleeping, and when he is completely in trance Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4511:45, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The same transcendental sound (same as omkara) is Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. Abhinnatvan nama-naminoh: (CC Madhya 17.133) there is no difference between the holy name of God and God Himself Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4411:44, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The original cause for the material energy and spiritual energy is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4311:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The more one advances in spiritual consciousness, the more he can understand the elements of devotional service Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4311:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,396 The mind is the via medium in both dreams and wakefulness, and everything created by the mind in terms of sankalpa and vikalpa, acceptance and rejection, is called manodharma, or mental concoction Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4111:41, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The material world consists of three modes of material nature - sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna. By sattva-guna the Lord maintains the material world, by rajo-guna He creates it, and by tamo-guna He annihilates it Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4011:40, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The living force is the atma and Paramatma, and the body grows on the basis of that living force Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4011:40, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The living entity wastes his time in a futile attempt to gain material possessions for the comfort of one body after another Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3911:39, 1 December 2020 diff hist +9,644 The living entity tries to lord it over the material or physical elements, but both the physical elements and the spiritual spark are energies emanating from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore He says, aham vai sarva-bhutani: "I am everything" Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3811:38, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The living entities have the same qualities as the Lord, just as a drop of sea water is composed of the same chemicals as the great sea itself. Thus there is oneness in quality but a difference in quantity Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3811:38, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The living entities are smaller than the atom, but God is greater than the greatest. Our conception of greatness may be represented by the sky because we think of the sky as being unlimitedly big, but God is bigger than the sky Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3711:37, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The living entities are parts of the Lord, but they are not the Lord Himself. The living entities in this material world are not inconceivable, but the Lord is Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3511:35, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The injunctions or directions of the Lord are infallible, and their benefits are fully assured. According to His directions, which are explained in this verse (SB 7.7.30-31), the perfect form of religion is bhakti-yoga Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3411:34, 1 December 2020 diff hist +6,898 The individual exists in darkness when he thinks that he is the material body and that everything in relationship with the material body belongs to him. This is called aham mama (janasya moho 'yam aham mameti (SB 5.5.8)). This is illusion Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3211:32, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The highest perfection of this mutual conquering is exhibited by Krsna and the gopis. The gopis conquered Krsna, and Krsna conquered the gopis Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3211:32, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The heavenly planets, liberation and hell are nondifferent for a devotee, for he does not discriminate between different positions in the material world Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3111:31, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The greatest acarya, Krsna says in BG 2.13: "As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change" Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3011:30, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The fruits and flowers of a tree seasonally come and go, but the tree continues to stand. Similarly, the transmigrating soul accepts various bodies, which undergo six transformations, but the soul remains permanently the same Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2911:29, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The first body (of Marut) was one, and when it was cut into many pieces, many other living entities entered the new bodies Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2911:29, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The fallen, conditioned living entity, trapped by the external energy, loiters in the material world Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2911:29, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The fact is that the entire cosmic manifestation is an expansion of the Supreme Lord's energies, which are manifested in the physical elements and the living entities Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2711:27, 1 December 2020 diff hist +2,907 The duration of his life is inconceivable for an ordinary human being. The demigods are therefore sometimes called amara, which means "one who has no death." In this material world, however, everyone has to die Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2711:27, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,071 The devotees can always remember the form of Nrsimhadeva when they are in danger, and therefore the appearance of Nrsimhadeva was not at all inauspicious. The Lord's appearance is always worshipable and auspicious for all sane persons and devotees Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2611:26, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The demoniac father (Hiranyakasipu) considered Prahlada the most unfortunate because Prahlada would not be able to inherit his property Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2611:26, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The demigods' hearts, which are meant to be the abode of the Supreme Lord, are practically occupied by the demons Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2411:24, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The body is just like a machine, a car, in which the living entity is given a chance to sit and move according to his desire. The Lord is the original cause of the material body and the soul, which is expanded by His marginal energy Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 11:0811:08, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,203 The actual devotee does not desire even liberation, anyabhilasita-sunyam (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.11). The Lord, however, fulfills the desire of the devotee by awarding him opulence that will never be destroyed Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:0711:07, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The activities of bhakti, devotional service, are directly under the control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:0511:05, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The ability to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead or to see Him or talk with Him depends on one's advancement in devotional service, which is called bhakti Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:0411:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Vedic instructions say, tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet: (MU 1.2.12) to solve the problems of life, one must accept a spiritual master Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:0111:01, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is manifested by His different energies - the material energy, the spiritual energy and the marginal energy Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:5710:57, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul, is present in everyone's heart, and as the living entity desires, the Lord gives him facilities with which to work according to his ambitions in different grades of bodies Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:5610:56, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,584 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is actually the best friend of everyone. In a condition of distress or misery, one wants to seek shelter of a well-wishing friend. The well-wishing friend of the perfect order is Lord Sri Krsna Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:5510:55, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Supreme Lord is the ultimate actor, and the conditioned living entity should simply remember this original actor, Sri Krsna. As living entities, we are being carried away by the waves of prakrti, or nature, which works under the Lord's direction Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:5410:54, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Supreme Lord is the dearmost object of all living entities. Prahlada Maharaja therefore advised his class friends, the sons of the demons, to take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead again Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 10:5310:53, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Supreme Lord is realized in three different phases, as Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan, but Bhagavan is the ultimate realization. One who realizes Bhagavan - the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna - is the most perfect mahatma Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current