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5 March 2024
- 04:2104:21, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 Bhakti Yoga is the process for all the ages, but the method is different in each age. The rascal people have got some idea of Bhakti according to their whims. Some meditate on light, but real meditation means to concentrate on Krishna No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist +5 Two different methods for controlling the material senses are recommended in the Vedic scriptural wisdom No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 The followers of the Vedas have a different method of acquiring knowledge. They accept the statements of the Vedic literatures as authority in toto, as we have already discussed in Canto One No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist +8 The bhakti-yoga process is practiced by the devotees in different methods like hearing, chanting, remembering, serving the lotus feet of the Lord, worshiping, praying, rendering service in love, becoming friendly, and offering all that one may possess No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 These different methods for liberation are generally only a professional practice and means of livelihood for those who have not conquered their senses. Because such persons are falsely proud, these procedures may not be successful No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 These (the ten different methods of liberation) may be very attractive, but by following such methods, one cannot actually understand the real cause and effect and the original cause of everything (janmady asya yatah) - SB 1.1.1 No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist +8 There are nine different methods of cultivating devotional service such as hearing, chanting, remembering, etc, and all these processes are employed in the first stage of devotional service No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 There are many different methods for people who want this, but cultivation of Krsna consciousness is different. The particular word used by Srila Rupa Gosvami in this connection is anusilana, or cultivation by following the predecessor teachers (acaryas) No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 There are different methods of self-realization. But here (in SB 3.25.29) Devahuti especially refers to the bhakti-yoga system, which has already been primarily explained by the Lord No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 There are different methods how to get out of the suffering condition, karmi, jnani, yogi. But ultimate, very easy process is, if you become a devotee, if you become engaged in KC, then it is very easy. Then your prosperity, your auspicity, is guaranteed No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 There are different methods and prescribed duties recommended in these innumerable number of revealed scriptures No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist +8 Out of all the nine different methods, the first one, namely hearing, is the most important function in the process of bhakti-yoga. Without hearing sufficiently and properly, no one can make any progress by any of the methods of practice No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist +8 My dear Parvati, there are different methods of worship, and out of all such methods the worship of the Supreme Person is considered to be the highest. But even higher than the worship of the Lord is the worship of the Lord's devotees No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 Many so-called students of spiritual understanding follow the ten different methods known as mauna-vrata-sruta-tapo-'dhyayana-sva-dharma-vyakhya-raho japa-samadhayah No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 It is true that whatever relationship a particular devotee has with the Lord is the best for him; still, when we study all the different methods from a neutral position, we can understand that there are higher and lower degrees of love No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 In politics there are different methods of achieving success: first repression (dama), then compromise (sama), and then asking for a gift - dana No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 In other Puranas there are different methods set forth by which one can worship the demigods. But in the Bhagavatam only the Supreme Lord is mentioned No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 How the living entity comes into contact with material nature, how he is delivered by the Supreme Lord through the different methods of fruitive activities, cultivation of knowledge, and the discharge of devotional service are explained. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 Devotional service to Krsna is the chief function of the living entity. There are different methods for the liberation of the conditioned soul - karma, jnana, yoga and bhakti - but all are dependent on bhakti No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 5 March 2024 diff hist +31 Devotional service of the Lord begins by hearing about Him (Krsna). There are nine different methods in devotional service, of which hearing is the chief No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 Caitanya also described different methods for worshiping the Lord, which are the methods of the fivefold paraphernalia and fifty-fold paraphernalia No edit summary current
27 February 2024
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 You have to live within this body certain age. So if you change the body, new, that doesn't mean you prolong your life. That is not possible. It is the duration of life, that is considered No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 The Vedic civilization enjoins that after a certain age, following in the footsteps of Maharaja Bharata, one should cease to enjoy material opulences and should take the order of vanaprastha No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +30 The upakurvana-brahmacari, is a brahmacari who takes the vow of celibacy up to a certain age. For example, he may take the vow to remain celibate up to twenty-five years of age; then, with the permission of his spiritual master, he enters married life No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 There is a story Savitri-Satyavan. It is not a story. It is historical fact that one gentleman, he was a king's son, prince. His name was Satyavan. But he was to die at a certain age his horoscope said. But one girl Savitri, she fell in love with that boy No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Sannyasi should be always preaching. Parivrajakacarya. Four stages of sannyasa: kuticaka, bahudaka, parivrajaka, and paramahamsa. In the beginning... Because according to Vedic civilization everyone has to take sannyasa at a certain age No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 If one is at all interested in being freed from the bondage of repeated birth, death, old age and disease, after a certain age one must go to the forest. pancasordhvam vanam vrajet No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Forced separation cannot make anyone happy, but by mutual consent or by the Vedic arrangement one must separate from his family affairs at a certain age and fully depend on Krsna. This makes one's life successful No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Everyone should give up family connection at a certain age, after the age of 50. One should not remain in family life. That is Vedic culture No edit summary
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Because of this (if in the household life the husband becomes subordinate to the wife, involvement in materialistic life again becomes prominent), according to the Vedic system, after a certain age a man is recommended to abandon his family life No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Affection is the very hard knot for being bound up in this material world, this affection. Therefore the Vedic civilization is that the affection is to be cut off compulsory at a certain age, not that the affection should continue No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 According to the Vedic system, after a certain age a man is recommended to abandon his family life for the stages of vanaprastha and sannyasa No edit summary current
21 February 2024
- 15:4815:48, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 Many great kings left their princely standard of living and went to the forest to practice austerity according to Vedic culture, just to become purified No edit summary current
- 15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 Without being married, according to Vedic culture, no man or woman can mix very intimately. That is even in the ordinary dealings No edit summary current
- 15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 We offer them the sacred thread although they are born, according to Vedic culture, in the families of other than Brahmanas or even than the Sudras No edit summary current
- 15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist +13 We don’t accept any source of knowledge which is not authorized. So according to Vedic culture the Vedas are the authorities. Therefore among the learned circle even at the present age, if you can give evidence from the Vedas, then the truth is accepted No edit summary current
- 15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 The poverty-stricken condition is a kind of austerity. According to Vedic culture, therefore, the brahmanas, as a matter of routine, keep themselves in a poverty-stricken condition to save themselves from the false prestige of material opulence No edit summary current
- 15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 The first principle of austerity is brahmacarya, restricted sex life. The real meaning of brahmacarya is complete celibacy, and according to Vedic culture in the beginning of life one should strictly follow the regulations of brahmacarya No edit summary current
- 15:4615:46, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 So according to Vedic culture, if one woman has got son, she is not considered to be widow. Widow means one who hasn't got husband or husband is dead. So if the husband's representative is there, so, strictly speaking, she is not widow No edit summary current
- 15:4315:43, 21 February 2024 diff hist +1 According to Vedic culture, although polygamy is allowed, none of one’s wives should be ill-treated. In other words, one may take many wives only if he is able to satisfy all of them equally as an ideal householder; otherwise it is not allowed No edit summary
- 15:4215:42, 21 February 2024 diff hist +39 According to Vedic culture, although polygamy is allowed, none of one’s wives should be ill-treated. In other words, one may take many wives only if he is able to satisfy all of them equally as an ideal householder; otherwise it is not allowed No edit summary
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 It is quite clear that according to Vedic culture a woman who accepts a paramour or second husband in the presence of the husband she has married is certainly responsible for the degradation of her father's family and the family of her husband No edit summary current
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist +17 For spiritual advancement, according to Vedic culture, sex indulgence is always restricted No edit summary current
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 For a young girl to leave the care of husband, father, and go to another young boy, according to Vedic culture, it is the most abominable. So still, because, it was, the center was Krsna, it is accepted as the highest type of worship No edit summary current
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 Every person is actually Brahman, spirit soul. We are not actually the body. Awareness of aham brahmasmi ("I am Brahman") is actual self-realization. According to Vedic culture, one must understand that he is Brahman, not the body No edit summary current
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 Everyone has the propensity for sex life, but in demoniac civilization sex is enjoyed without restriction. According to Vedic culture, sex is enjoyed under Vedic instructions No edit summary current
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 Dharma means occupational duty. Just like according to Vedic culture, we are supposed to follow the varnasrama-dharma. It has become very ambiguous at the present moment, Hindu dharma. There is no such thing as Hindu dharma mentioned No edit summary current
- 15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 A Brahmin, according to Vedic culture, a Brahmin is considered . . . Brahmin means vidya-vinaya-sampanne. He is very gentle and very learned. That is the first qualification of Brahmin. Not by birth but by qualification No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10 According to Vedic culture one must give up association of woman which is known as renunciation or sannyasa No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40 According to Vedic culture one has to take leave of his family members just after his fiftieth year so that the balance of his life may be completely devoted in search of Krsna consciousness No edit summary current