User contributions for VrajendraKumar

22 July 2022

• 05:1005:10, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,708‎ You should be assured that "Because I'm following strictly the direction of my spiritual master and sastras, certainly I shall meet Krsna" ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1005:10, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,461‎ Sometimes the mind is compared to a maddened elephant. Without following the direction of a spiritual master one cannot control the mind and the senses ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1005:10, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,452‎ Rupa mentions, Obeying the orders of the spiritual master with faith and devotion, 4) following in the footsteps of great acaryas (teachers) under the direction of the spiritual master, 5) inquiring from the spiritual master how to advance in KC ‎No edit summary
• 05:0905:09, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,122‎ Lord Caitanya's order is to become a spiritual master under the direction of Him by following the regulative principles, chanting daily at least sixteen rounds of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, & preaching the cult of Krsna consciousness all over the world ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0905:09, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,675‎ I understand you are now at the Bhaktivedanta Manor assisting Mukunda in strictly following the parampara and encouraging all the devotees in that direction ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0905:09, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,428‎ Ecstatic love of Godhead can be potently invoked simply by following the rules and regulations of devotional service as they are prescribed in scriptures, under the direction of a bona fide spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0805:08, 22 July 2022 diff hist +37‎ Duties on the spiritual platform and duties on the material platform may be different, but the principle of following the authorized direction is always good for the performer. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +8,875‎ The Lord says in the Bhagavad-gita, "The asuras' view of this cosmic manifestation is that the whole creation is false. The asuras think that the mere interaction of matter is the source of the creation and that there is no controller or God" ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,404‎ The demoniac conclude that the world is phantasmagoria. There is no cause, no effect, no controller, no purpose: everything is unreal. They say that this cosmic manifestation arises due to chance material actions and reactions. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,026‎ These (demoniac) speculators are envious of the existence of the Lord. Jagad ahur anisvaram: their conclusion is that the entire cosmic manifestation has no controller, but is just working naturally ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2‎ There is no supreme controller other than Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,557‎ So how we can think that there is no control, there is no government, everything has come out of its own course? There is controller, and He is called Isvara. Isvara means God. There is management of God. It is very commonsense understanding ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 22 July 2022 diff hist −20‎ Sometimes the tables turn, and we find that the dog controls the master. This happens because actually no one is the controller, and everyone is controlled. Unfortunately we are forgetful of this situation, and this forgetfulness is called maya ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,781‎ Our message is that here in this material world, there are many controllers, many governors, many isvaras, but nobody is the supreme isvara. Supreme isvara means He has no controller over Him ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,137‎ One thinks that there is no God or controller and that one is independent and can do anything. This is the material condition, and when one awakens from this ignorance, he is called liberated ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5404:54, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,459‎ Asatyam apratistham te jagad ahur anisvaram (BG 16.8). The Raksasas are unaware that the Supreme Lord is the ruler of the creation. They think that everything has come about by chance or accident and that there is no ruler, king or controller ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4304:43, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,079‎ The personified Vedas continued, "When elevated to the human form of life, they identify with a particular class of men, or a particular nation or race or so-called religion, forgetting their real identity as eternal servants of Your Lordship" ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4304:43, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,436‎ There was a great hard struggle for some time, but it has turned out successfully, and it is now correctly and practically established that devotional service is not restricted to a particular class of men ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,284‎ Teachings of Christ, teaching of Buddha, they are meant for a particular type of men. Generally it is meant for everyone, but specifically for a particular type of men ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,019‎ Such recommendations (association of women by marriage and flesh-eating by sacrifices) in the Vedic literature are meant for a particular class of men, and not for all ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,239‎ On the whole, meat-eating is not completely forbidden; a particular class of men is allowed to eat meat according to various circumstances and injunctions. As far as eating beef is concerned, however, it is strictly prohibited to everyone ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist −20‎ From this (CC Antya 3.50) statement by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu we can clearly understand that the word yavana does not refer only to a particular class of men ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4104:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,889‎ Brahmanism is not a system meant to create a monopoly for a particular class of men. Everyone should be educated so as to become a brahmana. At least there must be an opportunity to allow everyone to attain the destination of life ‎No edit summary
• 04:4104:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,496‎ Bombay is the best city in India, and people are also very advanced, enlightened. So let us combine together and develop this institution for the whole human society. That is our ambition. It is not for any sect or any creed or any particular class of men ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4104:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +30‎ When it is said that Narayana, the Supreme Being, is situated in everyone's heart, this does not mean that everyone has become Narayana or that a particular poor man has become Narayana. Such a conclusion is rejected herein - SB 7.14.18 ‎No edit summary
• 04:4104:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,293‎ The word yavana means - meat-eater. Anyone from a meat-eating community is called a yavana. One who does not strictly observe the Vedic regulative principles is called a mleccha. These words do not refer to any particular man ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4004:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist −11‎ The tendency of a particular man toward work is determined by the modes of material nature which he has acquired. Such symptoms of life, according to different modes of material nature, are described in the Eighteenth Chapter of this book. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4004:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,206‎ The real fact is that a bona fide spiritual master knows the nature of a particular man and what sort of duties he can perform in Krsna consciousness, and he instructs him in that way. He instructs him through the ear, not privately, but publicly ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4004:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6‎ The by-products of the body, namely children, are also different individual souls; and, owing to the body, they appear as children of a particular man. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 04:4004:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,105‎ The by-products of the body, namely children, are also different individual souls; and, owing to the body, they appear as children of a particular man ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3904:39, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,354‎ There are different departments of activity in Krsna consciousness, and a spiritual master, knowing the particular ability of a particular man, trains him in such a way that by his tendency to act he becomes perfect ‎No edit summary
• 04:3904:39, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,356‎ Propaganda by false glorification of an unqualified person cannot bring about any good, either for the particular man or for the society ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3904:39, 22 July 2022 diff hist +8,122‎ Everyone has to take sannyasa. It is not that a particular man, simply Caitanya Mahaprabhu has to take sannyasa. No. That is obligation. You must ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3804:38, 22 July 2022 diff hist +11,126‎ Buddhir buddhimatam asmi tejas tejasvinam aham. One who is very influential, that influence is Krsna. That influence, that particular influence of a particular man, that is also Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,452‎ We recruit devotees with great difficulty. So they must be well-treated. New men may not always behave so nicely but we must be tolerant ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,546‎ I started this movement just in this way. It is not very difficult. The important thing is that you behave nicely, chant all your rounds and follow strictly the regulative principles. Example is better than precept ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,734‎ Krsna continued, "Because I was trained in a village in My childhood, I am not well acquainted with the etiquette of urban life. I do not know the way to please a wife with nice words and behavior" ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,442‎ A very nice example of this obligatory behavior was manifested when Sudama Vipra went to Krsna's palace ‎No edit summary current
• 04:1404:14, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,989‎ All our members, the members of the Krsna consciousness society, should be ideal. At least people may see that "Here is a class of men - ideal character, ideal behavior, spiritual advanced, and very frugal and very nice" ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1602:16, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,756‎ As devotees propagate the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, the general population of the entire world gets the opportunity to understand the glories of the holy name ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1502:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,335‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was always anxious to deliver the fallen souls because their fallen condition gave Him great unhappiness. That is the platform on which one can propagate the mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary
• 02:1502:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,569‎ I have to propagate this mission, Krsna consciousness, so I am not so much attached to the rules and regulations, but I am attached to the preaching work ‎No edit summary current
• 02:1402:14, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,425‎ I am going to America on the mission of propagating my publication Srimad Bhagwatam and I am taking with me 200 sets X 3 volumes of books depending solely on the goodwill of Srila Prabhupada ‎No edit summary
• 01:4201:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +8,920‎ Without any training there is a natural attraction due to the sex impulse. This is a material example, but the devotee is praying that he may develop a similar spontaneous attachment for the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 01:4201:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,628‎ The word ksatra-bandhu refers to the so-called administrators or persons promoted to the post of the administrator without proper training by culture and tradition ‎No edit summary current
• 01:4201:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,035‎ Persons promoted to the post of the administrator without proper training by culture and tradition ‎No edit summary current
• 01:4201:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +20,060‎ No one should be eager to understand the conjugal love of Krsna without undergoing disciplinary training under the six Gosvamis of Vrndavana ‎No edit summary current
• 01:4101:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,741‎ In the so-called people's government there is no trained ksatriya king; as soon as someone strong accumulates votes, he becomes the minister or president, without training from the learned brahmanas expert in the sastras ‎No edit summary current
• 01:4101:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,279‎ Here we are having sense pleasure artificially through this body. Before leaving this body, if we practice to stop sense pleasure as much as possible... There is training, of course. Without training, nothing can be done ‎No edit summary current
• 01:4001:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,785‎ Gradually the democratic government is becoming unfit for the needs of the people, and therefore some parties are trying to elect a dictator. A dictatorship is the same as a monarchy, but without a trained leader ‎No edit summary current