User contributions for Amala Sundari

11 September 2022

• 11:4411:44, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,959‎ When an individual living entity surrenders to the Supreme Lord, Krsna, he can then develop natural transcendental love for Him. This surrendering process should be the primary concern of a human being ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4311:43, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,665‎ When an individual living entity surrenders to the Supreme Lord, Krsna, he can then develop natural transcendental love for Him ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,447‎ The devotees of Vrndavana are also spontaneous lovers. They are not required to strictly follow regulative principles because they are already naturally developed in transcendental love for Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 11 September 2022 diff hist +9,698‎ Krsna's family and friends never understood that Krsna is God. Their natural love for Krsna was so intense. Therefore Vrndavana life is so exalted ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 11 September 2022 diff hist +3,435‎ In Vrajabhumi, there are no regulative principles set forth for Krsna’s service. Rather, everything is carried out in spontaneous, natural love for Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 11 September 2022 diff hist +7,544‎ If you do not understand Krsna, if you do not increase your natural love for Krsna, then na mucyate deha-yogena tavat. There is no chance. They have no chance ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,118‎ Being cultured, educated, very active and religious means developing natural love for Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 11 September 2022 diff hist +9,445‎ You cannot imagine what my spiritual master said. Or even if you read some books, you cannot understand unless you understand it from me. This is called parampara system. You cannot jump over to the superior guru, neglecting the next acarya ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1310:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,647‎ Just like a critical student under a professor, he becomes a first-class professor, similarly, a person who is a very rigid student of bona fide acarya, he becomes next acarya ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1310:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,300‎ Just after his (Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura's) passing away, his leading secretaries made plans, without authority, to occupy the post of acarya, and they split into two factions over who the next acarya would be ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1210:12, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,942‎ Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, at the time of his departure, requested all his disciples to form a governing body and conduct missionary activities cooperatively. He did not instruct a particular man to become the next acarya ‎No edit summary
• 10:1210:12, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,531‎ Bhaktisiddhanta did not instruct a particular man to become the next acarya ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,708‎ If you are not ideal, then it will be useless to open center. You behave nicely, they will come, they will see, and they will learn. If you go to some school and the professors are rascals, then what you will learn? It is both, reciprocal ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 11 September 2022 diff hist +1,985‎ You should also describe the duties to be observed every month, and you should especially describe the observance of ceremonies like Janmastami, Rama-navami and Nrsimha-caturdasi ‎No edit summary
• 09:1509:15, 11 September 2022 diff hist +2,523‎ The Nrsimha temple (in Puri) is a nice temple just outside the Gundica temple. In this temple there is a great festival on the day of Nrsimha-caturdasi. There is also a Nrsimha temple at Navadvipa where the same festival is observed ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +40,880‎ One must follow the duties of the month and observe ceremonies like the birthday of the Lord, the three specific dates of fasting Ekadasi, Janmastami, Vamanadvadasi, Sri Ramanavami and Nrsimhacaturdasi ‎No edit summary
• 09:1309:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +39,550‎ Observing the various types of festivals, such as Sri Janmastami, Rama-navami and Nrsimha-caturdasi, is also included in the process of Deity worship. In other words, it is compulsory for householder devotees to observe these festivals ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 11 September 2022 diff hist +3,748‎ That one can transcend this material world does not imply that there is no transcendental variegatedness ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0309:03, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,917‎ Anything done without the satisfaction of Visnu, or Yajna, produces bondage, so here it is also prescribed by Kapila Muni that one can transcend material entanglement by acting in Krsna consciousness, which means seriously engaging in devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3808:38, 11 September 2022 diff hist −13‎ There is always competition amongst karmis, either in ordinary business affairs or in the performance of yajna. Lord Brahma's purpose was to end the competition between Lord Indra and Maharaja Prthu ‎No edit summary
• 08:3808:38, 11 September 2022 diff hist +2,583‎ There are many competitors in ordinary business affairs, and the karma-kanda chapters of the Vedas sometimes cause competition and envy amongst karmis ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3708:37, 11 September 2022 diff hist +1,818‎ Raghunatha dasa was inwardly completely renounced, even in family life, but he did not express his renunciation externally. Instead, he acted just like an ordinary businessman. Seeing this, his father and mother were satisfied ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3708:37, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,969‎ Process of concocting an incarnation of God has become an ordinary business, especially in Bengal. Any popular personality with a few traits of mystic powers will display some feat of jugglery and easily become an incarnation of Godhead by popular vote ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3708:37, 11 September 2022 diff hist +81,056‎ Although we may take so many precautions against these vices and sinful reactions, even in the course of ordinary business exchanges and ventures we have to commit so many sins ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,608‎ On both sides of every path (in Dvaraka) there were bushes, and at regular intervals there were large trees that shaded the avenues so that the sunshine would not bother the passersby ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,853‎ At the present moment if one man is attacked, the passersby will not care for it because they have lost their sympathy or mercifulness for others. Our neighbor may starve, but we don't care for it ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2108:21, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,993‎ As they rode from Vrndavana to Mathura, all the passersby along the way who saw Krsna and Balarama could not help but look at Them again and again ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1408:14, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,177‎ With sword in hand, intelligent men cut through the binding knots of reactionary work (karma) by remembering the Personality of Godhead. Therefore, who will not pay attention to His message ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1408:14, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,200‎ When Madhumangala, an intimate friend of Krsna, was dancing before Krsna in a joking manner, no one was paying attention to him ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1408:14, 11 September 2022 diff hist +2,855‎ Whatever you might write due to false pride, trying to surpass Sridhara Svami, would carry a contrary purport. Therefore no one would pay attention to it ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +7,720‎ The child became angry because He (Krsna) was hungry and His mother was not paying attention to Him. So He lifted His legs and began to kick His lotus feet just like an ordinary child ‎No edit summary
• 08:1308:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +3,277‎ One who has knowledge of the soul and how the soul transmigrates from one body to another does not pay attention to the body, which is nothing but a covering dress ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,260‎ If our temples cannot even be maintained then it is a great defect in our management of the society. Neither can I be expected to deal in these matters and also pay attention fully to the translating of my books ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +1,424‎ Did He or did He not pay attention while you offered Him obeisances? Kindly give evidence supporting your words ‎No edit summary
• 08:1308:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,423‎ Before that (war, pestilence, famine and so on), they (atheistic political leaders) pay no attention to God, not caring to know God or His will, but when kala appears, they say - God willing. Death is but another feature of the supreme kala, the SPG ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1208:12, 11 September 2022 diff hist +1,358‎ Although I (Caitanya) heard this, I did not pay it any attention, and in the morning I went to the place named Kanai Natasala ‎No edit summary

7 September 2022

• 11:5711:57, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,969‎ Utsaha, endeavor. "In this life I must fulfill my mission of Krsna consciousness." That is called utsaha. Dhairya. Don't be agitated because it is not giving result immediately. Just patiently go on working ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5611:56, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,549‎ The important thing now for GBC members is that they go on working. It is not important to hold a meeting for passing resolutions etc. The best time and place is Mayapur on Lord Caitanya's Appearance Day ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5611:56, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,227‎ There was a slight indication of heart attack but Krishna saved me. It was not very acute. So long Krishna will keep me fit I will go on working, so you devotees should pray to Krishna that I might go on serving Him up to the last point of my death ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5611:56, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,656‎ So long as Krishna will keep me fit I will go on working. So you devotees should pray to Krishna that I can go on giving Him service up to the last point of my death ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5611:56, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,228‎ I do not think there is immediate prospect for my retiring. Therefore, as long as Krishna desires, I must go on working, but I am trying to give more time to my writing works ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5511:55, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,492‎ It is so gratifying that you have already saved $600 for the improvement of the temple. So I am very much pleased. Go on working like this and Krishna will give you ample money - there is no scarcity ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5511:55, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,242‎ If you go on working for better standard of life, then you'll be attached to this work, and your mind will be absorbed in such work. And if the mind continues to be absorbed in working so hard ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5511:55, 7 September 2022 diff hist +6,146‎ If you become always engaged for sense gratification, go on working, working, working, then go to the restaurant, eat, drink and make your body agitated, then find out liquor and woman, what is this life? This is not life. This is animal life ‎No edit summary
• 11:4611:46, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,923‎ You have made me lose my sons once, and now you have again done the same inauspicious thing. Therefore you are a rascal who does not know how to behave toward others. You may travel all over the universe, but I curse you to have no residence anywhere ‎No edit summary
• 11:4611:46, 7 September 2022 diff hist +2,973‎ The learned Krsna conscious person may act in such a way that the ignorant person working for sense gratification may learn how to act and how to behave. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,034‎ They (the materialistic) have no idea how to behave toward one another. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4511:45, 7 September 2022 diff hist +2,309‎ Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya informed the King, "The Lord is very satisfied with you. By pointing you out, He was teaching His personal associates how to behave with mundane people" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4511:45, 7 September 2022 diff hist −15‎ It is not that He (Krsna) needed to do all these things to acquire material gain, but all of these acts were performed just to teach us how to behave in this material world ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4511:45, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,867‎ Gradually people were influenced by non-Vedic culture, and they lost sight of how to behave in connection with devotional service. Srila Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami very kindly preached the bhakti cult in western India ‎No edit summary