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27 August 2022

• 15:1115:11, 27 August 2022 diff hist +2,000‎ One day Balarama Acarya requested Haridasa Thakura with great humility to come to the assembly of the Majumadaras, Hiranya and Govardhana. Thus Balarama Acarya went there with Haridasa Thakura ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 27 August 2022 diff hist +4,111‎ Murari Gupta, the twenty-first branch of the tree of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, was a storehouse of love of Godhead. His great humility and meekness melted the heart of Lord Caitanya ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,645‎ In great humility, considering Himself a conditioned soul of the material world, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu again expressed His desire to be endowed with service to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,727‎ In great humility, both brothers took bunches of straw between their teeth and, each binding a cloth around his neck, fell down like rods before the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,434‎ In great haste Paramananda Puri Gosani went before Him and with great humility persuaded Him to sit down in His room ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,334‎ He offered his obeisances to Pradyumna Misra with all respect and then, with great humility, spoke as follows ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 27 August 2022 diff hist +5,567‎ He (Vidyadhara, the serpent) offered obeisances to Lord Krsna and stood before Him with great humility. Krsna then asked the demigod, "You appear to be a very nice demigod and to be favored by the goddess of fortune" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 27 August 2022 diff hist +26,105‎ He (Prakasananda Sarasvati) was the chief amongst the impersonalist sannyasis, and he addressed Lord Caitanya with great humility, asking Him to come and sit amongst them ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 27 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ Haridasa Thakura, out of his great humility, did not want to violate these existing rules - that only brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras can enter the temple of Jagannatha Puri ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0815:08, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,476‎ From a distance, the brothers Rupa Gosvami and Sri Vallabha fell on the ground and offered obeisances to Vallabha Bhatta with great humility ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0815:08, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,751‎ Being encouraged by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's words, Gadadhara Pandita became absorbed in ecstatic love. Immediately clasping the lotus feet of the Lord, he began to speak with great humility ‎No edit summary
• 15:0815:08, 27 August 2022 diff hist +5,483‎ At that time, however, Vasudeva, the father of Lord Krsna and the most celebrated of all pious men, approached the sages and with great humility offered his respects by falling down at their feet ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,565‎ Approaching him with great humility, Vallabha Bhatta said, "I have taken shelter of you, my dear sir. Kindly be merciful to me and save my life" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 27 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ Although personally called by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu to take prasadam with Them, still, out of great humility, Haridasa Thakura submitted - I shall take the prasadam outside of the house ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 27 August 2022 diff hist +2,811‎ Although Bali Maharaja was actually following the path of his grandfather (Prahlada Maharaja), because of his great humility he thought that he was not ‎No edit summary
• 15:0715:07, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,893‎ After stopping the kirtana, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is a great example of humility, offered prayers unto the feet of Prakasananda Sarasvati. At this, Prakasananda Sarasvati immediately came forward and clasped the Lord's lotus feet ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,545‎ After receiving the Lord's causeless mercy, the two brothers folded their hands and in great humility offered the following prayers unto the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0215:02, 27 August 2022 diff hist +10,955‎ You won't find Krsna is morose and sitting or crying. (laughter) Even if He is killing some demon, very laughingly, as easy job. You see? So either He is killing or dancing, He is happy ‎No edit summary
• 15:0215:02, 27 August 2022 diff hist +4,573‎ Whatever Krsna consciousness movement is going forward, it is due to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's magnanimous compassion for the poor people suffering in this Kali-yuga. Otherwise, to become Krsna conscious is not very easy job, is not easy job ‎No edit summary
• 15:0215:02, 27 August 2022 diff hist +10,055‎ To understand Krsna is not easy job. But Krsna in the form of Caitanya Mahaprabhu is so compassionate, not only He's giving Himself, Krsna, but He's giving krsna-prema, love of Krsna. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's avatara. Daya. Maha-vadanyavatara ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0115:01, 27 August 2022 diff hist +9,641‎ To understand God, to understand Krsna, is not very easy job; very, very difficult job. Therefore we don't find anyone is interested in Krsna. Anywhere you go, all over the world, you make a statistic: nobody is interested in Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 27 August 2022 diff hist +4,583‎ To become a spiritual master is not easy job. One must be very learned scholar and must have full realization of the self and everything ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4614:46, 27 August 2022 diff hist +5,461‎ Such performances (Rajasuya sacrifice) required hundreds of millions of dollars, and it was not an easy job for a petty king ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4514:45, 27 August 2022 diff hist +23,247‎ Out of many thousands who are liberated, only one or two may understand what and who Krsna is. So understanding Krsna is not such an easy job ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4214:42, 27 August 2022 diff hist +11,375‎ Narayana-parayana is not very easy job. Muktanam api siddhanam kotisv api maha-mune. But this is the special mercy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, that He is compassionate. Seeing the fallen souls of this age, He is distributing krsna-prema so cheaply ‎No edit summary
• 13:4213:42, 27 August 2022 diff hist +5,209‎ Sweet is intoxication. Perhaps you know, all. The liquor is made from sugar. Sugar is fermented with acid, sulphuric acid, and then it is distilled. That is liquor. Therefore too much sweet eating is prohibited ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4113:41, 27 August 2022 diff hist +4,724‎ Sri Rupa Gosvami also warns that too much eating and too much endeavor (atyaharah prayasas ca NOI 2) are against the principles by which one can advance in spiritual life ‎No edit summary
• 13:4113:41, 27 August 2022 diff hist +5,341‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami has advised that atyahara, too much eating, is an impediment to advancement in spiritual life ‎No edit summary
• 13:4113:41, 27 August 2022 diff hist +3,507‎ Regulation of diet and sleep is recommended herein (BG 6.16) for the yogis. Too much eating means eating more than is required to keep the body and soul together. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 13:4113:41, 27 August 2022 diff hist +4,012‎ Everything should be regulated in devotional service. Just like eating. Eating is necessary to remain fit, but too much eating means disease and too little eating means starving. One must adjust things properly, that is the program of Krsna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 27 August 2022 diff hist +6,743‎ Especially for devotee, too much eating is very, very bad ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 27 August 2022 diff hist +3,619‎ Eating should be minimized. Too much eating leads to too much sleeping, and then sex desire. So, management should be done very carefully to see that there is not easy-going, lazy attitude which will only end in fall down ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 27 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ A neophyte devotee should neither eat too much nor collect more money than necessary. Eating too much or collecting too much is called atyahara. For such atyahara one must endeavor very much. This is called prayasa ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 27 August 2022 diff hist −28‎ We should always remember the maxim that one man's food is another man's poison. We should not, therefore, reject the stories and histories of the Puranas as imaginary ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 27 August 2022 diff hist +3,729‎ It is said that "one man's food is another man's poison." Because they have become disgusted with this material world, sometimes our devotees appear to have foolishly disregarded everything ‎No edit summary

25 August 2022

• 15:1915:19, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,044‎ The Bhagavad-gita religion is not Hindu religion or Christian religion or Mohammedan religion. It is the real religion, between the soul and God. The reciprocation, the exchange of dealings between the Supreme and the subordinate ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1915:19, 25 August 2022 diff hist +3,661‎ Religion means to find out the supreme controller who is forcing everything. That is religion. That is stated in the dictionary. Religion is not some sentiment, some ritualistic ceremony. No. This inquiry about the supreme controller ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1915:19, 25 August 2022 diff hist +7,937‎ Religion means the law which is given by God, and if you follow, then your life is successful. This is religion. Religion is not that concocted, you manufacture some religion. That is not religion ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 25 August 2022 diff hist +2,706‎ Religion is not manufactured, but it is given by God. That is our point ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 25 August 2022 diff hist +2,660‎ Our religion is not a part time transcendental recreation. We live in God ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8,211‎ If there is no conception of God, there is no direction of God, that is not religion. Religion is not a kind of blind faith. Religion is factual ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,275‎ Hold classes at least five hours. As in the schools and colleges there are regular classes, forty-five minutes' class, then five or ten minutes' recess, again forty-five minutes' class, in this way, so we have got enough subject matter to study ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,263‎ As soon as you get time, read. I do that. Reading, writing, or chanting. But when there is no other way, you sleep little. Not to enjoy sleep, but because it is not possible to continue, all right, sleep 1, 2, 3, 4, or five hours. Not more than that ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,389‎ To be more clear, we may understand that the various feelings of happiness derived from discharging devotional service may be termed the "mellows" of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 25 August 2022 diff hist +4,160‎ The householder's lif it is said, yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaṁ hi tuccham: (SB 7.9.45) the householder's life is based on sense gratification, and therefoe is based on sense gratification, and therefore the happiness derived from it is very meager ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8,892‎ The happiness in the Lord is also identical with the Lord on account of absolute knowledge. So the happiness derived from the Lord may be measured by the Lord, but the happiness increases again, and the Lord measures it again ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,319‎ The happiness derived from merging in the impersonal Brahman and the happiness derived from the eight perfections of mystic yoga (anima, laghima, prapti and so on) do not give any pleasure to the devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 25 August 2022 diff hist +4,446‎ The conditioned soul is sometimes attracted to the little happiness derived from sense gratification. Thus he has illicit sex or steals another's property. At such a time he may be arrested by the government or chastised by the woman's husband ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,952‎ The 4 progressive realizations of religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and liberation, all combined together, cannot compare, any more than a straw could, to the happiness derived from hearing about the transcendental activities of God ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 25 August 2022 diff hist +13‎ Srimati Radharani and the gopis are not interested in their personal happiness derived from association with Krsna. Rather, they become happy by seeing one another associate with Krsna ‎No edit summary