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15:0915:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,389‎ Real self-realization by means of controlling the senses is explained herein (in SB 3.31.19). One should try to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead and one's own self also ‎No edit summary
15:0815:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,369‎ Philosophy means to seek after the right knowledge of one's own self, or the knowledge of self-realization ‎No edit summary current
15:0815:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,948‎ One may then ask why the Lord exhibited His anger. The point is that one should be ready to tolerate all insults to one's own self, but when Krsna or His pure devotee is blasphemed, a genuine devotee becomes angry & acts like fire against the offenders ‎No edit summary
15:0715:07, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,191‎ Material knowledge means ignorance of the knowledge of one's own self ‎No edit summary current
15:0715:07, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,990‎ It is in one's own self-interest to execute prescribed devotional service, and anyone who neglects this process neglects his own self-interest ‎No edit summary current
15:0715:07, 6 September 2022 diff hist +6,625‎ By causing pain to one's own self due to self-envy and by causing pain to others, one arouses Your anger and practices irreligion ‎No edit summary current
15:0715:07, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,856‎ Attaining scientific knowledge of the Personality of Godhead means seeing one's own self simultaneously. As far as the identity of the living being as spirit self is concerned, there are a number of speculations and misgivings ‎No edit summary current
15:0615:06, 6 September 2022 diff hist +6,451‎ Any religious system but the process of bhagavata-dharma-service as an eternal servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead - is a system of envy of one's own self and of others ‎No edit summary current
15:0515:05, 6 September 2022 diff hist +28‎ Actually it is all illegal, for to work for one's self-interest is both unlawful and destructive. Even the cultivation of spiritual realization for one's own self-interest is unlawful and destructive ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,026‎ Unless one practices devotional service himself, he cannot teach it to others. This conclusion is indeed confirmed throughout the Gita and Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,772‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has said that in order to preach, one must live a practical life and show people how to do things. Apani acari' bhakti sikhaimu sabare. One cannot teach others unless he behaves the same way himself ‎No edit summary current
12:3312:33, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,254‎ One should not become father or mother if he cannot do so. In this way, no friend, no relatives, no father, no..., if one cannot teach his other party how to save from the clutches of death ‎No edit summary
12:3312:33, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4‎ A leader cannot teach the public to stop smoking if he himself smokes. Lord Caitanya said that a teacher should behave properly even before he begins teaching. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:2012:20, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,374‎ The senses are certainly products of the mode of passion in false ego, and therefore philosophical speculative knowledge and fruitive activities are predominantly products of the mode of passion ‎No edit summary current
12:2012:20, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,848‎ The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kunti, and because of this one is bound to material fruitive activities. BG 14.7 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
12:1912:19, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,757‎ The best among the fools who are thus deluded are those who engage in altruistic activities under the spell of the material mode of passion ‎No edit summary
12:1912:19, 6 September 2022 diff hist +6,375‎ They (contaminated persons) cannot understand that the Vedas deal with activities of the material modes of nature - goodness, passion and ignorance ‎No edit summary current
12:1912:19, 6 September 2022 diff hist +7,601‎ In the Bhagavad-gita it is clearly explained that there are three kinds of activities according to the different modes of nature: the activities of goodness, the activities of passion, the activities of ignorance ‎No edit summary current
12:1912:19, 6 September 2022 diff hist +23‎ Intelligence in the mode of passion is always working perversely. It accepts religions which are not actually religions and rejects actual religion. All views and activities are misguided. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:1812:18, 6 September 2022 diff hist +81,339‎ If these modes (goodness, passion, or ignorance) were not acting, then we would not have observed in the phenomenal world different varieties of activities. These different varieties of activities are conditioned by the different modes of nature ‎No edit summary current
12:1812:18, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,596‎ If by rising early in the morning one can advance his transcendental Krsna consciousness, one should not desist out of fear or because such activities are considered troublesome. Such renunciation is in the mode of passion. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:1812:18, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,624‎ By pious activities in the mode of goodness one is purified; therefore the sages, who are free from all illusion, are situated in happiness. Similarly, activities in the mode of passion are simply miserable. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:1812:18, 6 September 2022 diff hist +1,630‎ Because of his past pious activities mixed with devotional service, the first-class living entity is influenced by the mode of passion within his mind ‎No edit summary current
12:1712:17, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,092‎ At first there is transformation of the modes of goodness and passion, and later - due to the mode of ignorance-matter, its knowledge, and different activities of material knowledge come into play ‎No edit summary current
12:1712:17, 6 September 2022 diff hist +1,982‎ Any person who is always desirous of fruitive results in religious or economic activities, whose only desire is sense gratification, and whose mind, life and senses are thus engaged, is in the mode of passion. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:1712:17, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,249‎ Afterwards the mode of passion, being generated in due course by material activities of different varieties, becomes prominent, and the living entities are thus involved more and more in ignorance ‎No edit summary
12:1612:16, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,042‎ Activities performed only for the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord are pure and are not contaminated by the modes of material nature. All other activities are contaminated by the modes of ignorance and passion, as well as goodness ‎No edit summary current
12:1612:16, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,990‎ According to their previous activities in the modes of goodness, passion or ignorance, they (who do not follow rules and regulations of the scriptures out of laziness or indolence) acquire a nature which is of a specific quality. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +6,707‎ When the purusa and prakrti, male and female, enjoy, they enjoy, they get the same pleasure, but one is purusa; one is prakrti. Similarly, Krsna is purusa, and we are prakrti. If we enjoy with Krsna, then the ananda, sac-cid-ananda, is there ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,508‎ Tvam adyah purusah. Purusa means enjoyer. God is not female. Sometimes they worship a female as God, like Durga, Kali, and so many others. But God is purusa. Everyone is prakrti. Prakrti means female. Everyone knows it ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,679‎ The Lord provides everyone with his quota. Actually, however, every living entity is prakrti, or female, and Krsna is the only husband ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,817‎ The attraction between man and woman is the cause of bondage for both. Actually both belong to the para prakrti, the superior energy of the Lord, but both are actually prakrti - female ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,371‎ If one wants to continue his association with prakrti, the female energy of Krsna, and be separated from Krsna by the illusion that he is able to enjoy prakrti, he must continue in his conditional life ‎No edit summary current
09:0809:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,461‎ Krishna is the only male & all others being energies of Krishna, they're prakrti, or female. Please don't try to understand this male & female in the material sense. In other words, our perfection of life will be actually realizing that we're all females ‎No edit summary current
09:0809:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +77,788‎ Prakrti is always under control, whether inferior or superior. Prakrti is female, and she is controlled by the Lord just as the activities of a wife are controlled by the husband. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
09:0809:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +1,471‎ One day Vallabha Bhatta said to Advaita Acarya, "Every living entity is female (prakrti) and considers Krsna her husband (pati)" ‎No edit summary current

14:5414:54, 3 September 2022 diff hist +4,751‎ The only self-purifying process mentioned (in SB 3.6.34) is to worship the Lord under the recognized method - under the guidance of the bona fide spiritual master. That is the natural way of purification, and no other method is recommended as bona fide ‎No edit summary
14:5414:54, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5,971‎ The ultimate conclusion is that one must surrender to the principles of bhakti-yoga, for then one will gradually attain liberation. No other method of liberation from the material struggle is at all possible ‎No edit summary current
14:5314:53, 3 September 2022 diff hist +9‎ To cleanse the heart so that one may become sober and wise in this age of Kali, there is no value to any method other than the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. Prahlada Maharaja has confirmed this process in previous verses - SB 7.9.39 ‎No edit summary
14:5314:53, 3 September 2022 diff hist +4,056‎ If you want to chant Hare Krsna mantra, there is no impediment in the world. You can, walking on the street, you can chant Hare Krsna. That will keep you purified. No other method ‎No edit summary current
14:5214:52, 3 September 2022 diff hist +9‎ If one wants to understand Bhagavad-gita, he cannot take help from other methods. He must understand it as prescribed in Bhagavad-gita itself, by understanding it as Arjuna understood it ‎No edit summary
14:5214:52, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5,827‎ By bhakti-yoga one can completely avoid the tendency for sinful life; other methods are not very feasible. Therefore the Vedic literature concludes that devotional service is more important than the methods of karma-kanda and jnana-kanda ‎No edit summary current
14:4214:42, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,643‎ When Lord Krsna was a child, He was nursed by a woman named Ambika, who had a younger sister named Kilimbika. During the time of Lord Caitanya’s incarnation, the same Kilimbika used to eat the remnants of food left by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary
14:4214:42, 3 September 2022 diff hist +8,229‎ When a devotee distributes prasada, remnants of food offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in order to maintain our spirit of devotional service we must accept this prasada as the Lord's grace received through the pure devotees ‎No edit summary current
14:4214:42, 3 September 2022 diff hist +4,445‎ When 1) the eyes are engaged in seeing the beautiful form of the Lord, the tongue engaged in tasting prasada, or remnants of foodstuff offered to the Lord then only can the transcendental senses become satiated and eternally free from material engagement ‎No edit summary
14:4114:41, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,595‎ Whatever You have, though it be a palmful of rice, please eat it and get up. Don't show Your madness and strew the remnants of food here and there ‎No edit summary current
14:4114:41, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,814‎ We are taking vegetables not as vegetarian. We are taking as Krsna prasadam, remnants of foodstuff offered to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
14:4014:40, 3 September 2022 diff hist +8,013‎ We are servant; we take the remnants of foodstuff left by Krsna. We are neither vegetarian nor nonvegetarian. We are prasad-ian ‎No edit summary current
14:4014:40, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5,216‎ Visvanatha Cakravarti has described the ritualistic performers to be like crows because crows delight in eating the remnants of food which has been thrown into the dustbin. All the brahmanas who were present for the sacrifice were also condemned by Sati ‎No edit summary current
14:4014:40, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,669‎ Today your mind has become fit to take shelter of the lotus feet of Krsna because, surpassing the Vedic regulative principles, you have eaten the remnants of food offered to the Lord ‎No edit summary current

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