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14 September 2022
- 13:2513:25, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,358 There are many types of yogis, but he who is devoted to Krsna is the topmost yogi. Sri Krsna is far above all yogic processes No edit summary current
- 13:2513:25, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,850 In India there are many yogis who display some magical feats. They can walk on water, make themselves very light or very heavy and so forth. But what is this compared to Krsna's yogic mystic powers? By His potencies, great planets are floating in space No edit summary
- 13:2313:23, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,556 Who can manage to float even a small stone in the air? Sometimes a yogi may show a little mystic power by manufacturing some gold, and we are so foolish that we accept him as God No edit summary current
- 13:2213:22, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,672 We forget that the real yogi, the Supreme Lord Himself, has created millions of gold mines and is floating them in space. Those who are Krsna conscious are not befooled by yogis who claim to be Bhagavan No edit summary current
- 13:2213:22, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,775 A Krsna conscious person wants only to serve the foremost yogi, Yogesvara (varimnah sarva-yoginam). Because we are trying to become His devotees, we accept the Supreme Lord, Yogesvara, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary
- 13:2013:20, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,645 It is due to one's work that one becomes a criminal and is therefore put in jail. It is not compulsory for everyone to go to jail. As living entities, we have our proper place in Vaikunthaloka No edit summary current
- 13:1813:18, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,515 Yas tv indragopam athavendram aho sva-karma (Bs. 5.54). From Lord Indra to indragopa, an insignificant insect, everyone is reaping the consequences of his karma. We are creating our own karma, our next body, in this life No edit summary current
- 13:1713:17, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,563 We come onto this planet to enjoy or suffer life for a few days - fifty or a hundred years - but Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, does not come for that purpose (na mam karmani limpanti) - BG 4.14 No edit summary
- 13:1613:16, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,635 There is a Bengali proverb: Dry cow dung is used for fuel, and it is said that when the dry cow dung is being burned, the soft cow dung is laughing, saying, - Oh, you are being burned, but I am safe No edit summary current
- 13:1513:15, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,421 It is further stated, na hy asya varsmanah: "No one is greater than Him." No one is greater than Bhagavan or equal to Him. Everyone is inferior No edit summary current
- 13:1413:14, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,363 According to Caitanya-caritamrta (CC Adi 5.142), ekale isvara krsna, ara saba bhrtya. There is only one master - Krsna. All others are subservient No edit summary current
- 13:1413:14, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,557 Beginning with Lord Brahma, Visnu, Mahesvara, Indra, Candra and all the demigods (there are thirty-three million demigods) and the middle and lower species. Everyone is bhrtya, or servant No edit summary current
- 13:1313:13, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,625 When Krsna orders, "My dear Mr. So-and-So, now please give up your place and leave,', one must go. Therefore everyone is a servant. This is the position of Lord Brahma and the ant as well No edit summary current
- 13:1113:11, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,385 When Dharmaraja asked Maharaja Yudhisthira what the most wonderful thing in the world was, Maharaja Yudhisthira replied: ahany ahani bhutani gacchantiha yamalayam. No edit summary
- 13:1013:10, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,315 Bhagavan, the Supreme Lord, is not in this (conditioned) position. It is therefore said: bhagavan atma-mayaya No edit summary current
- 13:0813:08, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,657 Every moment people are dying, but those who are living are thinking, 'My friend has died, but I shall live forever. - (Mahabharata, Vana-parva 313.116) Soft cow dung thinks the same way. This is typical of conditioned beings No edit summary current
- 13:0513:05, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,739 Real knowledge means knowing that however great one may be, the four principles of material life are present: birth, old age, disease and death. These exist in the highest planetary system (Brahmaloka) and in the lowest - Patalaloka No edit summary current
- 13:0413:04, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,391 Foolish people are unaware of the miserable conditions of material life. Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (13.9), janma-mrtyu jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam No edit summary current
- 13:0313:03, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,375 One cannot say, "My dear death, please give me some time to adjust." There is no adjustment; one must immediately get out No edit summary current
- 13:0213:02, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,579 Krsna states in Bhagavad-gita (10.34), mrtyuh sarva-haras caham: "I am all-devouring death." Krsna comes as death and plunders everything - bank balance, skyscrapers, wife, children and whatever No edit summary current
- 13:0113:01, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,627 Eventually everyone will dry up and be thrown in the fire. That is a fact. We may survive for a few years, but we cannot avoid death. In fact, it is said, - As sure as death No edit summary current
- 13:0013:00, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,329 What is the result of death? One loses everything - all honor, money, position and material life itself No edit summary current
- 12:5912:59, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,783 It (soft cow dung) does not know that when it dries out, it will be thrown into the fire too. We may laugh because President Nixon is in trouble, and we may think ourselves very safe because we have a big bank balance, but actually no one is safe No edit summary current
- 12:5812:58, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,314 Tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovidah. The word kovidah means "intelligent." An intelligent person should try to attain shelter at the lotus feet of Krsna No edit summary current
- 12:5712:57, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,261 Human life is actually meant for getting in touch with the lotus feet of Krsna. That should be our only business No edit summary current
- 12:5512:55, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,421 Within this one universe, there are fourteen planetary systems, and the living entities are wandering in different bodily forms on different planets No edit summary current
- 12:5412:54, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,669 Sometimes we may think we are very fortunate, just as President Nixon was thinking, "I am very fortunate. I have become the president of the United States." Then he soon realized that he was most unfortunate. Actually this is the situation for everyone No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,607 Throughout the world there are problems everywhere. One country has one type of problem, and another country has another. There is strife within governments themselves, and even presidents are fraught with problems No edit summary current
- 12:5212:52, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,678 The Krsna consciousness movement is an attempt to make people fortunate. In this age, everyone is unfortunate (manda-bhagyah), but now we are trying to reverse the situation No edit summary
- 12:5112:51, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,867 It was Caitanya Mahaprabhu who said to Rupa Gosvami - The living entity is wandering up & down, from one planet to another, & he is very fortunate if by the mercy of the spiritual master & Krsna Himself he can get the seed of devotional service to Krsna No edit summary current
- 12:4912:49, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,783 Everyone is thinking, "May my child live happily" or "May I get so much money." We do not ask or pray for catastrophes, yet they come without invitation. Similarly, whatever happiness is there for our enjoyment will also come without our asking for it No edit summary current
- 12:4712:47, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,658 Our actual endeavor should be to attain happiness; that is our real struggle for existence. According to the sastras: tal labhyate duhkhavat. The word duhkhavat indicates that although we do not want misery, misery comes anyway No edit summary current
- 12:4512:45, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,538 We should not worry about eating and sleeping, for the needs of the body are already arranged. We do not have to work independently to maintain the body No edit summary current
- 12:4412:44, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,790 According to karma, the living entity sometimes goes up & sometimes goes down. He wanders in this way, thinking how he can become materially happy & satisfy his senses. The sastras say that we should not do this, we should endeavor to understand Krsna No edit summary current
- 12:4312:43, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,289 The word upari indicates the higher planetary systems. There are seven higher planetary systems, and we are in the middle system, in Bhurloka No edit summary current
- 12:4012:40, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,789 In Bhagavad-gita, Krsna never says, "Do this or that, and I will then maintain you." Rather, He states that not only will He maintain us, but He will also protect us from the results of sin, from sinful karma (BG 18.66). All of this assurance is there No edit summary current
- 12:3712:37, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,584 In our Krsna consciousness movement, we have over a hundred centers, and Krsna is maintaining them all. None of our devotees are employed for independent incomes, yet they are all being maintained No edit summary current
- 12:3412:34, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,541 Those who are devotees of the Lord and have taken shelter at His lotus feet, leaving everything aside simply to render service unto Him, will certainly be cared for No edit summary current
- 06:2706:27, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,926 We cannot conceive how many living entities are being maintained by the Supreme Lord. All the great elephants, all the small ants, all the 8,400,000 species of life are maintained by Bhagavan. Why do we worry that He will not maintain us No edit summary current
- 06:2506:25, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,463 There is no limit to the jivas; no one can count them. The word ananta means that they are without limit. All these jivas, living entities, are being maintained by the Supreme One No edit summary current
- 06:2406:24, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,294 Nitya, bhagavan, is the singular, and nityanam are the plural jivas, or living beings. Nityo nityanam: we are many, but God is one No edit summary current
- 06:2306:23, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,333 The word bhaga means "opulence," and van means "one who possesses." All the opulences of the creation are present in Bhagavan No edit summary current
- 06:2006:20, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,389 In the previous verse (SB 3.25.1), the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Devahuti-putra Kapiladeva has been explained as bhagavan atma-mayaya No edit summary current
- 05:4705:47, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,679 If we hear about Krsna, we become purified. Hearing about Krsna means associating with Krsna. In this way we may perfect our lives No edit summary current
- 05:3205:32, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,495 We need only hear about Krsna. That's all. We have therefore opened all these centers of Krsna consciousness throughout the world No edit summary current
- 05:3205:32, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,660 It is our great fortune that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Krsna Himself, has appeared and given us a very easy process by which we can understand Krsna. What is that process No edit summary
- 05:3105:31, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,711 Understanding Krsna is therefore not so easy. As stated by Krsna, out of many thousands one person may become a siddha, a self-realized being. And out of many siddhas, one may be able to understand Krsna No edit summary current
13 September 2022
- 10:2210:22, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,523 Krsna comes at intervals or sends His representative, the pure devotee. Sometimes He comes personally, and sometimes He sends His incarnation No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,303 We have to accept a certain type of body because we are forced to do so, but this is not the case with Sri Krsna No edit summary
- 10:2110:21, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,749 Presently I may have a human form, but in the future I cannot demand a human form. We receive bodies in the next life according to karma, not will. One cannot demand to be a high-court judge unless one has been educated for the job No edit summary current