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20 September 2022
- 10:3510:35, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,606 Having nothing more to do with the material world, finally say, "I have become Narayana." Then they (impersonalist sannyasis) come to the stage of daridra-narayana - poor Narayana No edit summary current
- 10:3410:34, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,554 They (impersonalist sannyasis) become Narayana, but for want of anything better to do, for want of variegatedness, they take up material humanitarian activities No edit summary current
- 10:3410:34, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,800 Although they (impersonalist sannyasis) consider their wives mithya (false), they return. "You have already left. Why do you come back again?" the wives ask. This means that these so-called sannyasis have nothing to do No edit summary current
- 10:3210:32, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,712 We may build a nice spaceship and send it off into space, and the astronauts may go up there and fly in the impersonal sky, but eventually they will become tired and pray to God, - Please let us return to land No edit summary current
- 10:3210:32, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,434 Russian astronauts were simply missing Moscow while they were traveling in space. This impersonal traveling is actually very agitating No edit summary current
- 10:3110:31, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,427 Impersonal realization of the Absolute Truth cannot be permanent because one wants variety. A falldown is inevitable No edit summary current
- 10:3110:31, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,690 When one gentleman read my book Easy Journey to Other planets, he became very enthusiastic about going to other planets. "Oh, yes," I said, "we can go with this book." "Yes," the gentleman said, - then I shall come back No edit summary current
- 10:2910:29, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,629 The living entities are Brahman; Krsna is Para-brahman. Krsna is enjoying perpetual ananda, and, being part and parcel of Krsna, we also want ananda No edit summary current
- 10:2810:28, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,232 Ananda cannot be impersonal or void; ananda entails variety No edit summary current
- 10:2810:28, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,720 No one is simply interested in drinking milk and eating sugar, but with milk and sugar we can make a variety of foods - pera, barfi, ksira, rabri, dahi, and so on. There are hundreds of preparations. In any case, variety is required for enjoyment No edit summary current
- 10:2710:27, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,584 The last word of tattva jnana is to understand Krsna, who is full of variety. Kapiladeva is tattva-margagra-darsanam. He is an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 10:2710:27, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,621 He (Kapiladeva) will explain to His mother what tattva is, how one can approach the tattva jnana, and how one can actually enjoy tattva jnana. This is not simply dry speculation No edit summary current
- 10:2610:26, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,544 This Krsna consciousness philosophy includes spiritual variety. People sometimes misunderstand this variety to be material, and they hanker for nirvisesa, nirakara, void No edit summary current
- 10:2510:25, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,516 Our philosophy is not void; it is full of variety and transcendental bliss. This will later be specifically enunciated by Lord Kapiladeva No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,603 Our vision is of the same mountain, but due to our different positions we see haze, greenery or variegatedness. In the final stage, there are varieties - trees, animals, men, houses, and so on No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,808 The Absolute Truth is not without variety. Just as there is material variety, there is spiritual variety. Because the Mayavadi philosophers are seeing the Absolute Truth from a distance, they think that the Absolute Truth has no variety No edit summary current
- 10:2010:20, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,557 They (Mayavadi philosophers) consider variety to be material, but this is a misunderstanding. The Absolute Truth is described as variegated in Brahma-samhita - 5.29 No edit summary current
- 10:2010:20, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,679 There are Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual world, and there are devotees who are all liberated. These devotees are aksara, which means they do not fall down into the material world. They remain in the spiritual world of the Vaikunthas No edit summary current
- 10:1910:19, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,485 They (aksara) are also persons like us, but they are eternal persons, complete with full knowledge and bliss. That is the difference between them and us. That is tattva jnana No edit summary current
- 10:1810:18, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,671 Unless we understand the variegatedness of the Absolute Truth, there is a chance that we will fall down. It is not sufficient simply to stick to the indefinite, impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth No edit summary current
- 10:1810:18, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,719 Because the impersonalists are not allowed to enter the Vaikuntha planets, they simply remain in the Brahman effulgence. Thus they fall down again into material variety No edit summary
- 10:1710:17, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,693 We have seen many impersonalist sannyasis who first of all give up the world as false (brahma satyam jagan mithya). They consider themselves Brahman (aham brahmasmi), consider the world false - jagat is mithya No edit summary current
- 10:1610:16, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,801 Looking at a mountain from a distance, we may see a hazy cloud, and if we come nearer, we may see something green. If we actually climb the mountain, we will find many houses, trees and animals No edit summary current
- 10:1410:14, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,640 Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are not different. They are simply different aspects of the complete Godhead No edit summary current
- 10:1210:12, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,720 The words tattva-marga-darsanam are elucidated elsewhere in Srimad-Bhagavatam: brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate (SB 1.2.11). The Absolute Truth is understood differently according to the position of the student No edit summary current
- 10:0310:03, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,445 Bhakti is obtainable for a liberated person; it is not for the conditioned soul. How is this possible No edit summary current
- 10:0210:02, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,754 We must engage in the nine processes of devotional service, the first of which is hearing (sravana). Then, under the direction of the spiritual master and the sastras, one can immediately become a liberated person No edit summary current
- 10:0210:02, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,828 One doesn't have to endeavor separately to become liberated if he immediately engages in devotional service. One must have a firm conviction that he is engaged in Krsna's service and is free from all material contamination. This is imperative No edit summary current
- 09:5209:52, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,757 Like Arjuna, Devahuti was aware that she was before her spiritual master, as indicated in the following verse. Indeed, Lord Brahma had informed her that her son was a powerful incarnation No edit summary current
- 09:5109:51, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,400 The ultimate goal of the Absolute Truth is Krsna consciousness, devotional service. The liberated stage is not final No edit summary current
- 09:5009:50, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,526 If we simply understand that we are not the body, that we are spirit soul, our knowledge is insufficient. We must also act as Brahman; then our position will be fixed No edit summary current
- 09:4809:48, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,718 On the bank of the Bindu-sarovara Lake, Kapiladeva personally expounded Sankhya philosophy to His mother, Devahuti, just as Krsna personally expounded the knowledge of Bhagavad-gita to His friend Arjuna No edit summary current
- 09:4709:47, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,492 Lord Brahma is a jiva-tattva, a living being like us. If we become spiritually powerful, we can also have the post of Lord Brahma No edit summary current
- 09:4509:45, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,531 Sankaracarya, the Mayavadi impersonalist philosopher, accepts Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead - sa bhagavan svayam krsnah No edit summary current
- 09:4409:44, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,733 All the acaryas - Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu Svami, Nimbarka and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu - also accept Krsna as the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
- 09:3509:35, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,777 Kapiladeva is an incarnation of Krsna, and He gave instructions to His mother, Devahuti. We must distinguish between the two Kapilas. One Kapila is this Bhagavan Kapila, and the other Kapila is the atheist Kapila No edit summary current
- 09:3409:34, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,755 Bhagavan Kapila is also known as Devahuti-putra Kapila. Both Kapilas expounded Sankhya philosophy, but the atheist Kapila expounded it without understanding, perception or realization of God No edit summary current
- 09:3209:32, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,528 Kapiladeva was anxious that His mother not feel the absence of His father, and He was ready to take the best care of her and give her knowledge No edit summary current
- 09:2909:29, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,745 Women are inferior to men, and Vedic civilization is so perfect that men are given full charge of the women. It is therefore said: matuh priya-cikirsaya. The son is always ready to see that the mother is not unhappy No edit summary current
- 09:2109:21, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,651 Mahabharata is called the fifth Veda. The four preceding Vedas are the Sama, Yajur, Rg and Atharva. The essence of Vedic knowledge, Bhagavad-gita, is given within the Mahabharata No edit summary current
18 September 2022
- 09:0909:09, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,406 Because women are supposed to be less intelligent, they should be given knowledge, and they should also follow this knowledge No edit summary current
- 09:0809:08, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,816 They should follow their father's instructions, their husband's instructions and the instructions of their grown, scholarly sons like Kapiladeva. In this way, their lives can be perfect. In all cases, women should always remain dependent No edit summary current
- 09:0709:07, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,912 Tasmin bindusare 'vatsid bhagavan kapilah kila. It is noteworthy that in this verse Kapiladeva is referred to as Bhagavan, which indicates that He possesses all wealth, fame, knowledge, beauty, strength and renunciation No edit summary current
- 09:0609:06, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,886 These six opulences are fully represented in Krsna; therefore Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam (SB 1.3.28)), and others are accepted as His expansions, or incarnations - visnu-tattva No edit summary
- 09:0509:05, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,674 In Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, Rupa Gosvami has analyzed the characteristics of Bhagavan. The first Bhagavan is Sri Krsna Himself, but some of His opulences are also bestowed upon Lord Brahma No edit summary current
- 08:5608:56, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,497 Devahuti was given to her grown son, Kapiladeva, and Kapiladeva was fully aware that He had to take care of His mother No edit summary current
- 08:5608:56, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,513 It is the duty of the father to protect his daughter until she attains puberty and is married to a suitable young man. The husband then takes care of the wife No edit summary current
- 08:5508:55, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,871 Generally a man should marry at around twenty-five years of age, and a girl should marry no later than sixteen. If this is the case, when the man is fifty years old, his eldest son should be around twenty-five, old enough to take charge of the mother No edit summary current
- 08:5408:54, 18 September 2022 diff hist +12,039 Kapiladeva was about twenty-five years old and was quite able to take charge of His mother, Devahuti. He knew that because His father left His mother in His charge, He should take care of her and always please her. Matuh priya-cikirsaya No edit summary current
- 08:5308:53, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,761 Kapiladeva was not irresponsible, but was always ready to please His mother. Kapiladeva was a brahmacari, and His mother took lessons from Him. That is the prerogative of the male No edit summary current