User contributions for Deepali
1 July 2024
- 10:2310:23, 1 July 2024 diff hist −5 The use of the word manisaya is very appropriate, for it indicates that since both Narada Muni and Lord Brahma are authorized to give instruction, Priyavrata should neglect neither of them but should use his intelligence to follow the advice of both No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 1 July 2024 diff hist +19 The demigods prayed - Ajnana-bhidapamarjanam - by Your (Krsna's) appearance the speculative knowledge of ignorance will be vanquished, and the real, experienced knowledge of authorities like Lord Brahma will be established No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 1 July 2024 diff hist +19 Sri Sukadeva Gosvami is referring to the highest Vedic authority, Lord Brahma, who is the qualitative incarnation of Godhead. The Vedas were taught to Brahmaji in the beginning of the material creation No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 1 July 2024 diff hist −4 Lord Brahma is one of these self-realized authorities - svayambhur naradah sambhuh kumarah kapilo manuh - SB 6.3.20 No edit summary current
- 10:1910:19, 1 July 2024 diff hist +19 I have described the authorities. Brahma is authority, Lord Siva is authority, and Kapila is authority, Kumara, four Kumaras and Manu is authority. Similarly, Prahlada Maharaja is authority. Janaka Maharaja is authority. The twelve authorities No edit summary
- 10:1910:19, 1 July 2024 diff hist −40 Brahmaji is the highest authority in Vedic wisdom, and his assertion in this connection is therefore the supreme information No edit summary current
- 10:1810:18, 1 July 2024 diff hist −40 As the decision of the supreme court of a state is final, similarly the judgment of Brahmaji, the supreme authority in the universe, is final in the Vedic process of acquiring knowledge No edit summary current
- 10:1610:16, 1 July 2024 diff hist +17 This is Prahlada Maharaja. He is one of the authorities of Krsna consciousness. There are twelve authorities mentioned in the sastras: svayambhur naradah sambhuh kumarah kapilo manuh prahlado janako bhismo balir vaiyasakir vayam No edit summary
- 10:1610:16, 1 July 2024 diff hist +17 Out of the twelve authorities, first is Lord Brahma; the next, Narada; the next, Lord Siva; then next, the Kumaras; then Kapiladeva; then Manu, Vaivasvata Manu; then Prahlada Maharaja; then Janaka Maharaja; then Bhismadeva; then Bali Maharaja No edit summary
- 10:1610:16, 1 July 2024 diff hist +17 Ordinarily there are twelve great devotees of the Lord, namely Brahma, Narada, Siva, Kumara, Kapila, Manu, Prahlada, Bhisma, Janaka, Sukadeva Gosvami, Bali Maharaja and Yamaraja No edit summary
- 10:1510:15, 1 July 2024 diff hist +17 Of the twelve authorized devotees - Lord Brahma, Narada, Lord Siva, Kapila, Manu and so on - Prahlada Maharaja is understood to be the best example No edit summary
- 10:1410:14, 1 July 2024 diff hist +17 Lord Siva is also great devotee. Out of twelve great authorities, Lord Siva is one. Lord Siva, Lord Brahma and Narada. Svayambhur naradah sambhuh (SB 6.3.20). Svayambhuh means Lord Brahma No edit summary
16 June 2024
- 14:4414:44, 16 June 2024 diff hist +10 Since there were not very many living entities in the beginning, Visnu entrusted Brahma with the business of creation, and Brahma in his turn created many hundreds and thousands of demigods and great sages to continue with the creation No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 16 June 2024 diff hist −12 Lord Brahma, being completely pure, could see the original form of the Lord as Visnu, having many thousands of faces and forms. This process is called self-realization No edit summary current
- 14:4114:41, 16 June 2024 diff hist +10 I am very much pleased by your (Brahma's) description of Me (Visnu) in terms of My transcendental qualities, which appear mundane to the mundaners. I grant you all benedictions in your desire to glorify all the planets by your activities No edit summary
- 14:3814:38, 16 June 2024 diff hist 0 Brahma can approach the Supreme Lord Visnu, not by seeing Him directly but by standing on the shore of the ocean of milk No edit summary current
- 14:3814:38, 16 June 2024 diff hist −9 Brahma can approach the Supreme Lord Visnu, not by seeing Him directly but by standing on the shore of the ocean of milk No edit summary
- 14:3714:37, 16 June 2024 diff hist +10 Another name for Lord Brahma is Svayambhu because he was born from a lotus flower emanating from the navel of Lord Visnu. Since he was not born of a father and mother, he is therefore called Svayambhu No edit summary
- 14:3314:33, 16 June 2024 diff hist −9 Both Lord Brahma and Visnu had already known that such events would occur in the sacrificial arena of Daksa, and knowing beforehand, they did not go to the sacrifice No edit summary current
- 14:3014:30, 16 June 2024 diff hist +156 N Category:Visnu and Brahma Created page with "Category:Visnu Category:Brahma Category:God - Umbrella Category Category:Brahma - Umbrella Category Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes" current
- 14:2914:29, 16 June 2024 diff hist +10 There was nothing besides the two of them, namely the Personality of Maha-Visnu and Brahma himself, born of the bodily part of the Lord No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 16 June 2024 diff hist +21 In Brahma the opulence of creative power is invested, and in King Prthu the power for maintaining the living entities is invested. Similarly, in Parasurama the power for killing evil elements is invested No edit summary
- 14:2514:25, 16 June 2024 diff hist +17 Even the descriptions of Krsna in Srimad-Bhagavatam are sometimes misunderstood by less intelligent men with a poor fund of knowledge. Therefore, the best course by which to know Him is to engage oneself in pure devotional activities No edit summary current
- 14:2314:23, 16 June 2024 diff hist +26 All these features of Dhruva Maharaja's bodily expression (his agitation in awe and respect after seeing God) indicate that upon seeing the Lord face to face he developed the eight kinds of transcendental ecstasy in his body No edit summary current
- 14:2214:22, 16 June 2024 diff hist −20 The advancement of knowledge, austerity, Vedic study, sacrifice, the chanting of hymns, and charity is found in the transcendental descriptions of the qualities of the Lord, who is defined in choice poetry. (SB 1.5.22) This is the perfection of life No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 14:0714:07, 16 June 2024 diff hist −8 Sometimes less intelligent men ask whether one has to approach a guru to be instructed in devotional service for spiritual advancement No edit summary current
- 14:0614:06, 16 June 2024 diff hist −8 The answer (men ask whether one has to approach a guru to be instructed in devotional service for spiritual advancement) is given here (in SB 8.16.23) - indeed, not only here, but also in Bhagavad-gita, where Arjuna accepted Krsna as his guru - BG 2.7 No edit summary current
- 14:0514:05, 16 June 2024 diff hist +14 I am glad to learn that your program is to do some work independently, and at the same time to do work for our Krishna Consciousness Movement. This formula I have already accepted, and I have given you permission according to your leaning No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 14:0214:02, 16 June 2024 diff hist +13 Because the inquiries (from Vidura to Maitreya) concerned the Lord, they were perfectly befitting a devotee. A devotee has no taste for hearing anything mundane. There are many topics of mundane warfare, but a devotee is not inclined to hear them No edit summary Tag: Reverted
- 14:0214:02, 16 June 2024 diff hist +13 After hearing this, Vidura inquired from Maitreya: My dear master, how is it that the three deities Brahma, Visnu and Siva, who are the creator, maintainer and destroyer of the whole creation, became the offspring of the wife of Atri Muni? No edit summary
- 14:0114:01, 16 June 2024 diff hist +13 Like Vidura, an inquisitive conditioned soul must approach a bona fide spiritual master like Maitreya and by intelligent inquiries must try to know everything about 2) yoga - the linking process of spiritual realization No edit summary Tag: Reverted
- 13:5913:59, 16 June 2024 diff hist +24 The other two prabhus (Sri Nityananda Prabhu and Sri Advaita Prabhu) engage in His (Caitanya's) transcendental loving service to teach ordinary living entities that every one of us is subordinate to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:5813:58, 16 June 2024 diff hist +17 All of them (Nityananda, Advaita, Gadadhara) are engaged in the transcendental service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:5713:57, 16 June 2024 diff hist +2 The yoga process is practiced in order to discover and see this localized form of Visnu, and not for any other purpose. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:5713:57, 16 June 2024 diff hist −6 We have support from very high circle. Scholar, priest, even father, mother, parent. Many old gentlemen come to congratulate me, "Swamiji, it is our great fortune that you have come to this country" No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:5513:55, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8 He (Sri Madhusudana Mullik) also arranged for the worship of a Deity named Sri Radhakanta. His son Balaicanda Mullik established Gaura-Nitai Deities there in the Bengali year 1312 - A.D. 1905 No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:5213:52, 16 June 2024 diff hist +2 These devotees (who are engaged in the devotional service) are also divided into three categories: the associates, those perfected in devotional service, and those newly engaged in devotional service No edit summary current
- 13:5213:52, 16 June 2024 diff hist +9 Actually, the Lord does not give up His body, which is eternal, but as He can change His body from the form of Visnu to that of an ordinary human child, He can change His body to any form He likes. This does not mean that He gives up His body No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:5013:50, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8 After Visvarupa was killed, his father, Tvasta, performed ritualistic ceremonies to kill Indra. He offered oblations in the sacrificial fire, saying, "O enemy of Indra, flourish to kill your enemy without delay" No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:5013:50, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8 King Indra replied: When I killed Visvarupa, I received extensive sinful reactions, but I was favored by the women, land, trees and water, and therefore I was able to divide the sin among them No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:4913:49, 16 June 2024 diff hist +8 Devaki was so afraid of Kamsa that she could not believe that Kamsa would be unable to kill Lord Visnu, who was personally present. Out of motherly affection, therefore, she requested the Supreme Personality of Godhead to disappear No edit summary Tag: Manual revert
- 13:4913:49, 16 June 2024 diff hist −10 Devaki was overwhelmed with both jubilation and lamentation. She was joyful, for she could understand that Lord Visnu had taken shelter within her womb, but at the same time she was sorry that as soon as her child would come out, Kamsa would kill Him No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:4813:48, 16 June 2024 diff hist +24 Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Srila Rupa Gosvami Prabhupada and of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami, by whose inspiration I have been engaged in the matter of compiling this summary study of Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:4813:48, 16 June 2024 diff hist +24 Knowing myself to be an old man and almost an invalid because of rheumatism, I have already translated the essence of all literatures, the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, as a summary study in English No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:4813:48, 16 June 2024 diff hist +24 It is the purpose of this book, Teachings of Lord Caitanya, to transmit the essence of that (transcendental) vibration in an easily readable summary study No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:4713:47, 16 June 2024 diff hist +24 I (Prabhupada) have presented a summary study, and the summary study has come to 407 pages. If we would have elaborately described each and every verse, then it would have come to at least thousand pages No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 13:4713:47, 16 June 2024 diff hist +22 I support Sri Jayapataka Swami's/ Mr. Gordon John Erdman's application for naturalization and I can vouch for his good character and loyalty No edit summary current
- 13:4613:46, 16 June 2024 diff hist +22 I of course supported our case that Ginsberg is a great friend of our society and we advise everyone to chant Hare Krishna, and I believe he also does so No edit summary current
- 13:4613:46, 16 June 2024 diff hist +22 I completely support your idea about the preaching method. We are not lacking in philosophy - by the grace of Krishna we have got ample stock to answer anybody's intricate philosophical questions No edit summary current
- 13:4613:46, 16 June 2024 diff hist +22 You want to serve Krishna with all your energies and intelligence, so I have got all support and approval of this scheme, but until you have got some income, how can I advise you to give up your present job, especially when you are a family man No edit summary