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2 September 2022

• 13:3613:36, 2 September 2022 diff hist +2,794‎ The path of bhakti is not at all difficult if we follow in the footsteps of previous acaryas and authorities, but those who are too materially contaminated by the modes of material nature cannot follow them ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3513:35, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,340‎ The Vedic process is to follow in the footsteps of great authorities, and that is the only process for knowing that which is beyond our imagination ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,473‎ It is not a valid principle that an unqualified man who is born in a brahmana family is a brahmana whereas a brahminically qualified person born in a non-brahmana family cannot be accepted ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 2 September 2022 diff hist +7,310‎ According to the Caitanya-bhagavata, this statement (Acyutananda was a class friend of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) is not at all valid ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 2 September 2022 diff hist +15,148‎ The idea is that any man may be given the chance to become a brahmana, but if he improperly uses the position of a brahmana without actual realization, then his elevation to the brahminical position is not valid ‎No edit summary
• 13:0313:03, 2 September 2022 diff hist +13,248‎ The Buddhists argue that the world is false, but this is not valid. The world is temporary, but it is not false. As long as we have the body, we must suffer the pleasures and pains of the body, even though we are not the body ‎No edit summary
• 13:0313:03, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4‎ They may take it as "new smrti," but smrti is smrti - it is not new. In any spiritual statement, you have to give references to sruti and smrti. Otherwise, it is not valid ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 2 September 2022 diff hist +12,486‎ There must be veda-pramana, sabda-pramana: evidence from the Vedas and from the explanatory Vedic literature. Otherwise, there is no evidence. Your statement is not valid: you cannot change the original sruti-smrti ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,701‎ Some propagandists say that regardless of what one does he will ultimately reach the supreme abode of the Personality of Godhead, but this is not valid ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,964‎ Since Brahma and the other creators are nothing but small portions of a portion of You, their partial power to create does not make them God (isvara). Their consciousness of themselves as separate Lords is therefore merely false prestige. It is not valid ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 2 September 2022 diff hist +7,920‎ Mistaking the rope for a snake does not mean that the rope or the snake is false, and therefore this example, used by the Mayavadis to illustrate the falsity of the material world, is not valid ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,622‎ It appears from the exchange of Daksa's head that the modern scientific theory that the brain substance is the cause of all intelligent work is not valid ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 2 September 2022 diff hist +6,096‎ The word avyakta, "unmanifested," in this verse indicates that the Absolute Truth cannot be manifested by any strain of so-called scientific advancement of knowledge. Transcendence is not the subject matter of direct experience ‎No edit summary
• 12:4612:46, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,581‎ Sensualists are never prepared for death. They simply want to live on and on and extend their life by so-called scientific advancement ‎No edit summary
• 12:3712:37, 2 September 2022 diff hist +6,808‎ By your so-called scientific advancement, you cannot increase or, I mean to say, stop nonproduction. That you cannot ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1812:18, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,852‎ We are not concerned with other religions or yogas in terms of competition or sectarian spirit. Actual spiritual knowledge is to take the authoritative statements from the scriptures and from the great acaryas, spiritual masters in disciplic succession ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1712:17, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,293‎ Sri Madhavendra Puri is one of the acaryas in the disciplic succession from Madhvacarya. Madhavendra Puri had two principal disciples, Isvara Puri and Sri Advaita Prabhu ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 2 September 2022 diff hist +52,051‎ Sri Madhavendra Puri, also known as Sri Madhava Puri is one of the acaryas in the disciplic succession from Madhvacarya ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 2 September 2022 diff hist +7,859‎ Srila Madhavendra Puri was one of the acaryas in the Tattvavada disciplic succession, and he established the ultimate goal of transcendentalism to be attainment of pure devotional service, love of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 2 September 2022 diff hist +49‎ One of the acaryas, known as Narahari Tirtha, who was in the disciplic succession of Madhvacarya, received these Deities (of Sita-Rama which were in the palace of last king of the Pandavas, Ksemakanta) from the King of Orissa ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,133‎ I have not done anything personally, very wonderful. I am simply serving my spiritual master and all the acaryas in the disciplic succession. If I have done anything of credit it is that I have not changed their teachings ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,699‎ It is very difficult to understand the secret of Krsna consciousness, but one who advances by the instruction of the previous acaryas and follows in the footsteps of his predecessors in the line of disciplic succession will have success. Others will not ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 2 September 2022 diff hist +8,584‎ It is said acaryavan puruso veda: one who follows the disciplic succession of acaryas knows things as they are - Chandogya Upanisad 6.14.2 ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 2 September 2022 diff hist +5,406‎ It is our movement only which strictly follows the principles of the Bhagavad-gita, under the guidance of the authorities or acaryas in disciplic succession from Lord Caitanya ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 2 September 2022 diff hist +41,487‎ In the disciplic succession of Gaudiya sampradaya, there are 2 great acaryas (Thakura Narottama & Syamananda Gosvami) who were not born in brahmana families but were accepted as spiritual masters by many brahmanas including Ganganarayana, Ramakrsna, etc ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,170‎ Doubtful persons have no status whatsoever in spiritual emancipation. One should therefore follow in the footsteps of great acaryas who are in the disciplic succession and thereby attain success. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 2 September 2022 diff hist +5,691‎ All the acaryas, they are not different from one another. Because they are coming in the disciplic succession from the original spiritual master and they have no different views, therefore, although they are many, they are one ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1312:13, 2 September 2022 diff hist +9,397‎ Acaryas in the disciplic succession of Lord Caitanya teach us that we shall try to place the message of Lord Caitanya very humbly to the people in general and that will make us successful in our service to the Lord ‎No edit summary

27 August 2022

• 15:1915:19, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,601‎ With great humility, Raghunatha dasa placed one hundred gold coins and about two tolas of gold before Raghava Pandita for all the other devotees ‎No edit summary
• 15:1915:19, 27 August 2022 diff hist +7,048‎ When King Mucukunda saw Krsna's magnificent features, he wondered about His identity, and with great humility he asked the Lord, "My dear Lord, may I inquire how it is that You happened to be in the cave of this mountain? Who are You" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,743‎ When he met Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the Bhattacarya fell down flat to offer Him respects. After offering various prayers to Him, he spoke of his previous bad disposition with great humility ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 27 August 2022 diff hist +3,038‎ Upon hearing her husband, who excelled in knowledge of all kinds of transcendental science, innocent Devahuti was very satisfied. Her smiling face shining with a slightly bashful glance, she spoke in a choked voice because of great humility and love ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,827‎ Thinking in this way, Vallabha Bhatta approached Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu the next morning, and in great humility, offering many prayers, he sought shelter and surrendered at the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 27 August 2022 diff hist +9,719‎ The wife of the brahmana again & again requested, in great humility and submission, that he go to Lord Krsna. The brahmana thought that there was no need to ask any material benefit from Sri Krsna, but he was induced by the repeated requests of his wife ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 27 August 2022 diff hist +5,332‎ The ocean deity immediately appeared before the Lord and offered Him all respectful obeisances with great humility ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,434‎ The next day, Paramananda Puri and other devotees approached Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu with great humility and submission ‎No edit summary
• 15:1615:16, 27 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ The Kumaras praised the characteristics of Maharaja Prthu and his great devotional attitude and humility ‎No edit summary
• 15:1615:16, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,705‎ The ecstatic symptoms of envy, great eagerness, humility, zeal and supplication all became manifest at once ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,772‎ The brahmana submitted his invitation with great humility, and he touched the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,825‎ The brahmanas from different places, such as Kanyakubja and South India, who were all strict followers of the Vedic religion, offered invitations to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu with great humility ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 27 August 2022 diff hist +3,621‎ The author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta says - I beg their pardon (who imitate some smarta-brahmana) with great humility, but I am submitting that I personally have no desire to add or subtract anything ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,428‎ Thereafter, with great submission and humility, Vallabha Bhatta invited Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to dine at his home ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 27 August 2022 diff hist +7,043‎ Thereafter, with great humility, the King (Nrga) offered each of them (the two brahmanas) 100,000 cows in exchange for the one cow that was causing the fight between them ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1315:13, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,689‎ Sri Sukadeva Gosvami continued: My dear King Pariksit, when Citraketu was cursed by Parvati, he descended from his airplane, bowed before her with great humility and pleased her completely ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1315:13, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,520‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "Ramananda Raya is a mine of great humility. Therefore he has attributed his own words to another's intelligence" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1315:13, 27 August 2022 diff hist +7,268‎ Sometimes there are many other symptoms, such as great anxiety, lamentation, frustration, being stunned, humility, restlessness, madness and illusion ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1215:12, 27 August 2022 diff hist +12,787‎ Sanatana fell at the feet of the Lord and with great humility asked about his own real identity. "I am born of a lower family," Sanatana said ‎No edit summary
• 15:1215:12, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,408‎ Ramananda Raya said, "My dear Lord, with Your permission I have already written a letter to the King with great humility" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 27 August 2022 diff hist +1,488‎ Raghunatha dasa’s father wrote a letter to Sivananda Sena, asking him with great humility, "Please return my son" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 27 August 2022 diff hist +28‎ Out of His great magnanimity and humility, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu presented Himself as a subordinate disciple of Prakasananda Sarasvati ‎No edit summary current