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29 July 2022

• 08:3008:30, 29 July 2022 diff hist +1,555‎ According to Vedic astronomical calculations, the rotation of the sun consists of sixty dandas, and it is divided into thirty-six hundred palas ‎No edit summary
• 08:3008:30, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,840‎ According to Vedic astronomical calculations, there are thirteen months. The thirteenth month is called adhi-masa or mala-masa and is added every third year ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,661‎ According to Vedic astronomical calculations, day and night are each divided into thirty ghatikas (twenty-four minutes), instead of twelve hours ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 29 July 2022 diff hist −9‎ According to solar astronomical calculations, each year extends six days beyond the calendar year, and according to lunar calculations, each year is six days shorter. Therefore, there is a difference of twelve days between the solar and lunar years ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,589‎ According to astronomical calculations, the time in which he (Nanda Maharaj) took a bath was considered demoniac ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,278‎ Even if modern scientists do not accept the other factual presentations of Srimad-Bhagavatam, how can they deny the perfect astronomical calculations that existed long before they could imagine such things ‎No edit summary
• 08:2608:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,800‎ We have to accept the calculations of the Vedic literature. These Vedic calculations are steady; the astronomical calculations made long ago and recorded in the Vedic literature are correct even now ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,769‎ The time factor is divided into many fractions of moments, hours, months, years, periods, seasons, etc. All the divisions in this verse (SB 3.21.18) are determined according to the astronomical calculations of Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,620‎ The technical terms used in the astronomical calculations given by the Jyotir Veda are difficult to translate into English ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +2,352‎ The present reign is that of Vaivasvata Manu. According to astronomical calculations, we are now in the twenty-eighth yuga of Vaivasvata Manu. Each Manu lives for seventy-one yugas, and fourteen such Manus rule in one day of Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary
• 08:2608:26, 29 July 2022 diff hist +1,281‎ According to astronomical calculations, a lava is one eleventh of a second ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2408:24, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,033‎ There is always a difference of opinion between a smarta-brahmana and a Vaisnava gosvami. There are even smarta opinions and Vaisnava gosvami opinions available in astrological and astronomical calculations ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5307:53, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,959‎ Astronomical calculations of stellar influences upon a living being are not suppositions, but are factual, as confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current

28 July 2022

• 08:5708:57, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,192‎ Yamunacarya says, Since I have become attracted by the beauty of Radha and Krsna, when there is attraction for a woman or a memory of sex life with a woman, I at once spit on it, and my face turns in disgust ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,435‎ When we are attracted by Madana-mohana and the beauty of Krsna and His consorts, then the shackles of conditioned life, namely the beauty of a material woman, cannot attract us ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,400‎ When one is attracted by the transcendental beauty of Radha and Krsna, he is no longer attracted by material feminine beauty. That is the special significance of Radha-Krsna worship ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,679‎ The unmarried girls of Vrndavana were already attracted by the beauty of Krsna. They were, however, engaged in the worship of goddess Durga in the beginning of the Hemanta season (just prior to the winter season) ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 28 July 2022 diff hist +25,502‎ The mind of Sukadeva Gosvami was attracted by the transcendental pastimes of Lord Krsna, and the minds of the damsels of Vrndavana were attracted by His personal beauty ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,735‎ The minds of the Narayanas are attracted by the beauty of Krsna's body. In addition, the goddesses of fortune, who are the wives of the Narayanas & are the women described in the Vedas as most chaste, are also attracted by the wonderful Krsna's beauty ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 28 July 2022 diff hist +46,165‎ The Bhuma-purusa was also attracted by the beauty of Krsna, and He concocted this pastime just as a pretext to see Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,698‎ The damsels of Vraja, the gopis, being attracted by the beauty of Krsna, simply wanted to embrace Him and His arms, which are like serpents. Thus the gopis ultimately tasted the nectar of the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary
• 08:5408:54, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,851‎ The beauty of Krsna is fully manifested in Vrndavana. As sixteen-years boy and playing flute, the beauty was so attractive that even Vasudeva Himself became attracted by the beauty ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5408:54, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,081‎ They (Gopis) were perplexed because on one hand they were attracted by the beauty of Krsna, and on the other they needed Krsna to drive away the demon of such attraction ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5408:54, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,529‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami remarks in this connection that one who is actually attracted by the beauty of the lotus feet of Sri Krsna or His service, and whose heart, by such attraction, is always full with transcendental bliss ‎No edit summary
• 08:5408:54, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,338‎ One who is actually attracted by the beauty of the lotus feet of Sri Krsna or His service, and whose heart will naturally never aspire after the liberation which is so valuable to the impersonalists ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5308:53, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,194‎ Instead of being attracted by material beauty, if one is accustomed to be attracted by the beauty of Radharani and Krsna, then the statement of Bhagavad-gita, param drstva nivartate (BG 2.59), holds true ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5208:52, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,723‎ Emperor Bharata was so attracted by the beauty of the lotus feet of Krsna that even in his youthful life he gave up all kinds of attachments to family, children, friends, kingdom, etc., as though they were untouchable stools ‎No edit summary
• 08:5208:52, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,961‎ Another gopi said, "We are also attracted by Your (Krsna's) speaking and by the beauty of Your face and eyes. Please, therefore, satisfy us by Your nectarean kisses" ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5108:51, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,210‎ All the gopis were by nature very much attracted to Krsna's beauty, and when they heard the vibration of His flute, they became apparently lustful to satisfy the senses of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,603‎ To save a surrendered soul from repeated birth and death, the Lord purifies him of contamination by offering him a little distress. This cannot be understood by a nondevotee, but a devotee can see this because he is vipascit, or learned ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,833‎ One of His disciples who accepted sannyasa was one day forcibly dragged by his wife. My Guru Maharaja lamented with tears in His eyes saying that He could not save the soul ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,795‎ The devotees, concerned only with rescuing the fallen souls from this material world, apparently take birth in different places in the material world just to save the conditioned souls ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,696‎ Because a Vaisnava fully takes shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he personally has no problems, but because he is compassionate toward the fallen, conditioned souls, he is always thinking of plans to save them from their hellish life ‎No edit summary
• 08:2908:29, 28 July 2022 diff hist +7,805‎ Sometimes the conditioned soul tries to save himself from inexorable time and thus takes shelter of some bogus savior ‎No edit summary
• 08:2908:29, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,503‎ Try to save the soul who is put into this body and embarrassed. That is real service. This is Krsna consciousness movement ‎No edit summary
• 07:2107:21, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,169‎ This creation of friends and enemies is a result of one's bodily conception of life ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2107:21, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,520‎ The talks of Bhagavad-gita are not for any particular person, society, or community, but they are for all, and friends or enemies are equally entitled to hear them. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2007:20, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,657‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is equal to everyone. He has no enemies and no friends. Everyone is enjoying the fruitive reactions of his own work, and the Lord, within everyone's heart, is observing and giving everyone the desired result ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,163‎ The conditioned soul has friends and enemies. He is affected by the good qualities and the faults of his position. The Supreme Lord, however, is always transcendental. Because He is the isvara, the supreme controller, He is not affected by duality ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 28 July 2022 diff hist +6,468‎ Stated in the Bhagavad-gita, the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, is equal to everyone. He has no friends and no enemies. But He is inclined to a devotee who renders Him service with devotional love ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 28 July 2022 diff hist +4,769‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was the Supreme Personality of Godhead playing the part of a very great, advanced devotee. On the maha-bhagavata platform, the devotee makes no distinction between friends and enemies ‎No edit summary
• 07:1907:19, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,256‎ Sometimes conditioned souls exchange money, but in due course of time, enmity arises because of cheating. Although there may be a tiny profit, the conditioned souls cease to be friends and become enemies ‎No edit summary
• 07:1907:19, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,055‎ Prahlada Maharaja continued: My dear father, please give up your demoniac mentality. Do not discriminate in your heart between enemies and friends; make your mind equipoised toward everyone ‎No edit summary
• 07:1807:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,266‎ Politics involves accepting one group of men as enemies and another group as friends. Everything in politics is based on this philosophy, and the entire world, especially at the present, is engrossed in it ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,731‎ Our creation of friends and enemies within this material world is something like dreaming at night ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,684‎ One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equiposed in honor & dishonor, heat & cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from contamination, always silent and satisfied with anything, is very dear to Me. BG 12.18-19 - 1972 ‎No edit summary
• 07:1807:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,732‎ One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from contaminating association ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +2,145‎ One who is equal to friends and enemies, who is equipoised in honor and dishonor, heat and cold, happiness and distress, fame and infamy, who is always free from attachment to material things such a person is very dear to Me ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 28 July 2022 diff hist +5,406‎ Krsna said, "My dear friends, you know that Lord Balarama and I left Vrndavana just to please Our relatives and family members. Thus We were long engaged in fighting with Our enemies and were obliged to forget you, who were so much attached to Me" ‎No edit summary
• 07:1707:17, 28 July 2022 diff hist +3,128‎ In this material world, which advances like a river that carries away the living entity, all people become friends, relatives and enemies in due course of time ‎No edit summary current