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1 May 2021

• 08:3008:30, 1 May 2021 diff hist −14‎ Sudras and women who are chaste and sincerely interested in understanding the Absolute Truth are qualified to be initiated with the pancaratrika-mantras ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:3008:30, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7‎ Such a relationship (gosvamis who professionally create some disciples who do not care for them) is condemned by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, who calls such spiritual masters and disciples a society of cheaters and cheated ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:3008:30, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21‎ Such a person (spiritual master who accepts disciples from all over the world) is called an acarya because he knows the principles of devotional service, he behaves in that way himself, and he teaches his disciples to follow in his footsteps ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:2908:29, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7‎ Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura said that the position of a Vaisnava can be tested by seeing how good a touchstone he is - that is, by seeing how many Vaisnavas he has made during his life ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:2908:29, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura introduced the system of giving the sacred thread to a bona fide Vaisnava, and we are following in his footsteps ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:2808:28, 1 May 2021 diff hist −49‎ Some slokas or prayers should also be chanted. By chanting, one immediately becomes auspicious and transcendental to the infection of material qualities. Actually one has to chant and remember Lord Krsna twenty-four hours daily ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
• 08:2308:23, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21‎ One should simply understand that Krsna, the son of Nanda Maharaja in Vrndavana, the friend of the cowherd boys and lover of the gopis, is actually the original Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is attained by spontaneous love ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:2308:23, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7‎ One must love the spiritual master with unflinching faith, and one must be very steady and fixed ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:2308:23, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7‎ One has to gargle (acamana) and brush his teeth (danta-dhavana). He should do this either with twigs or a toothbrush - whatever is available. This will purify the mouth. Then one should take his bath ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:2208:22, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7‎ On that platform (visuddha-sattva) one can then understand, aradhyo bhagavan vrajesa-tanayas tad-dhama vrndavanam: “The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the son of Nanda Maharaja, is to be worshiped along with His transcendental abode, Vrndavana” ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:1808:18, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21‎ Krsna is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, and He is expanded as Balarama, Sankarsana, Aniruddha, Pradyumna and Vasudeva ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
• 08:1808:18, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21‎ Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the origin of all other Personalities of Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:1808:18, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7‎ Kanistha-adhikari devotees cannot turn others into Vaisnavas, but a madhyama-adhikari Vaisnava can do so by preaching ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:1708:17, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7‎ It is Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s wish that everyone should become a Vaisnava and guru ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:1608:16, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21‎ In India there are many so-called gurus, and they are limited to a certain district or a province. They do not even travel about India, yet they declare themselves to be jagad-guru, the guru of the whole world. Such cheating gurus should not be accepted ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:1508:15, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7‎ If we are intelligent enough, we shall engage in the loving service of the Lord. Then our lives will be successful, and we shall not have to suffer like the hunter life after life ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:1508:15, 1 May 2021 diff hist −14‎ If one is sincerely eager to chant the Hare Krsna mantra or diksa-mantra, one is qualified to be initiated according to the pancaratrika process ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:1508:15, 1 May 2021 diff hist −14‎ If one actually wants to serve Krsna, it doesn’t matter whether one is a sudra, vaisya or even a woman ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
• 08:1508:15, 1 May 2021 diff hist −49‎ If by chance one gets a sad-guru, it doesn’t matter whether one is in the temple or the forest. If the sad-guru, the bona fide spiritual master, agrees, one can be initiated immediately, without waiting for a suitable time or place ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:1308:13, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7‎ He (disciple) should be interested only in understanding the science of God, and he should be ready to consider all points in this matter. He should no longer think, “I am this body,” or, “This thing belongs to me” ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
• 08:1108:11, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7‎ Everyone has a chance to become purified by associating with this Krsna consciousness movement and strictly following the rules and regulations ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
• 08:1008:10, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21‎ Even though a person is born in a brahminical family and is very expert in performing sacrifices, he cannot be accepted as a guru if he is not a strict Vaisnava ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:0808:08, 1 May 2021 diff hist −35‎ Demigods are also living entities and parts and parcels of Krsna. Therefore in one sense one worships Krsna when one worships the demigods, but not in the proper way ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
• 08:0808:08, 1 May 2021 diff hist −42‎ Demigod worship is meant for unintelligent men because the benefits derived from demigod worship are all material, temporary and retractable ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
• 08:0608:06, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7‎ By killing animals, not only will we be bereft of the human form but we will have to take an animal form and somehow or other be killed by the same type of animal we have killed. This is the law of nature ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:0408:04, 1 May 2021 diff hist −70‎ Balitvat krsna-mantranam samskarapeksanam na hi: “The Krsna mantra is so strong that there is no question of sodhana.” (Hari-bhakti-vilasa 1.235) As far as diksa is concerned, one should consult Madhya-lila 15.108 ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:0308:03, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21‎ As long as the living entity is within this material world, in the condition of illusion, he cannot understand the activities of the inconceivable energies of the Lord ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:0208:02, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21‎ Although His (Krsna's) expansions are also called the Supreme Personality of Godhead, They are attained only by the execution of regulative devotional service ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:0008:00, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21‎ A person who worships the demigods and gives up Lord Vasudeva is like a man who gives up the protection of his mother for the shelter of a witch ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:0008:00, 1 May 2021 diff hist +5,601‎ A common brain in the conditioned state cannot conceive of how He (the Supreme Personality of Godhead) is the master of both manifest and potential powers, and how contradictory potencies can abide in Him ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections

29 April 2021

• 15:4515:45, 29 April 2021 diff hist +278,321‎ N File:VaniSkin Menu ‎ Vanibot #0040: Publishes menu editor's changes into Vanipedia

16 April 2021

• 09:1409:14, 16 April 2021 diff hist +3‎ In the Bhakti-sandarbha (265), Srila Jiva Gosvami writes: namaikam yasya vaci smarana-patha-gatam ity-adau deha-dravinadi-nimittaka-‘pasanda’-sabdena ca dasa aparadha laksyante, pasanda-mayatvat tesam ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
• 09:0309:03, 16 April 2021 diff hist +3‎ Because of the winds of the sea, sometimes the sand would form dunes. Such sand dunes are called cataka parvata. Instead of seeing these sand dunes simply as hills of sand, the Lord (Caitanya) would take them to be Govardhana Hill ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
• 09:0209:02, 16 April 2021 diff hist +3‎ As stated in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 6.41): The unsuccessful yogi, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
• 08:4108:41, 16 April 2021 diff hist −7‎ Without being trained, one cannot be sukrti, auspicious ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:4008:40, 16 April 2021 diff hist +4,744‎ When the King of heaven, Indra, surrendered to Krsna after Krsna had raised Govardhana Hill, Lord Indra stated that above the planetary systems wherein human beings reside is the sky, where birds fly ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
• 08:3908:39, 16 April 2021 diff hist −14‎ When one is fully absorbed in the thought that one is not different from the Supreme Absolute Truth, one is said to be a worshiper of the impersonal Brahman ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:3808:38, 16 April 2021 diff hist −7‎ We want to create pure devotees so that other people will benefit by their association. In this way the number of pure devotees increases ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
• 08:3508:35, 16 April 2021 diff hist −7‎ To make a show of devotional service will not help one. One must be a pure devotee following the devotional process; then one can convert others to devotional service ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:3508:35, 16 April 2021 diff hist −7‎ Those who claim to be devotees but do not engage in Krsna’s service to elevate all living creatures to Krsna consciousness are to be considered kanistha-adhikaris (people in the lowest stage of devotional service) ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:3308:33, 16 April 2021 diff hist −7‎ These so-called philanthropists, politicians and philosophers have no knowledge because they do not know that there is life after death. Understanding that there is life after death is the beginning of spiritual knowledge ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:3208:32, 16 April 2021 diff hist −42‎ The space occupied by Goloka Vrndavana-dhama is called mahakasa, or “the greatest sky of all” ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:3108:31, 16 April 2021 diff hist −21‎ The planets up to Brahmaloka are part of the material world (Devi-dhama). Because the material world is under the control of Devi, Durga, it is called Devi-dhama ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:3108:31, 16 April 2021 diff hist +3,985‎ The acarya’s duty is to accept the essence of devotional service. There may be a little change here and there as far as yukta-vairagya (proper renunciation) is concerned ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:2908:29, 16 April 2021 diff hist −49‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami has refuted this argument about the hair incarnation, and his refutation is supported by Sri Baladeva Vidyabhusana’s commentaries ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:2708:27, 16 April 2021 diff hist +6,822‎ Sanatana Gosvami wrote his Vaisnava smrti, Hari-bhakti-vilasa, which was specifically meant for India ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
• 08:2708:27, 16 April 2021 diff hist +4,376‎ Sanatana Gosvami was enjoined to establish the Vrndavana method of temple worship and install Deities in temples (Sri Sanatana Gosvami established the Madana-mohana temple, and Rupa Gosvami established the Govindaji temple) ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
• 08:2608:26, 16 April 2021 diff hist +4,154‎ Sanatana Gosvami was enjoined to enunciate the behavior of a Vaisnava (as Srila Sanatana Gosvami did in the Hari-bhakti-vilasa) ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
• 08:2608:26, 16 April 2021 diff hist +4,475‎ Sanatana Gosvami was enjoined (1) to broadcast the revealed scriptures on devotional service and establish the conclusions of devotional service, (2) to reestablish lost places of pilgrimage like Vrndavana and Radha-kunda ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
• 08:2608:26, 16 April 2021 diff hist +4,174‎ Sanatana Gosvami was empowered to establish the cult of Vaisnavism ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections