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08:1608:16, 28 November 2024 diff hist +8‎ When we are freed from the bad elements of life, then we become fixed up in our Krsna consciousness. Nistha. Then rucis - taste. Nistha, rucis, then asaktis - attachment; then bhava - ecstasy. Then the next stage is love of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
08:1608:16, 28 November 2024 diff hist +8‎ To become fixed in devotional service one has to become completely cleansed from the contamination of the material modes of nature. For work in devotional service the first item is adau gurv-asrayam ‎No edit summary
08:1608:16, 28 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ To become fixed, become sannyasi, the other three processes are there: to become brahmacari, to become grhastha, to become vanaprastha, stage by stage. But if one is able, he can take sannyasa ‎No edit summary current
08:1608:16, 28 November 2024 diff hist +28‎ Those whose intelligence has become fixed by perfect execution of mystic yoga can see that all these elements result from the actions of Your external energy. They can also see Your transcendental form as Supersoul in the background of everything ‎No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 28 November 2024 diff hist −11‎ Pravrtti-marga or nivrtti-marga, so we have to become fixed about these things. We cannot be deviant ‎No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 28 November 2024 diff hist −11‎ One must hear these scriptures (Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam) repeatedly from reliable sources in order to become fixed in serious devotional service. Through engagement in such devotional service, one becomes freed from the contamination of maya ‎No edit summary
08:1508:15, 28 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ One can become fixed in one's prescribed duty by faithful aural reception of Vedic instructions and assimilation of the essence of Vedic knowledge by devotional service to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 28 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ Now that I have become fixed in the Absolute Truth, henceforward I shall not identify myself with the body. I shall give up false conceptions of "I" and "mine" and fix my mind on the lotus feet of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 28 November 2024 diff hist +8‎ Nobody dies if he does not smoke or drink. Nobody dies. So artificially we learn it, so by good association we can give it up. So when we are purified out of all the bad habits, then we become fixed up in spiritual knowledge ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist −11‎ Maharaja Prthu's activities in devotional service enabled him to become fixed and steady in the discharge of devotional activities without having to take recourse to karma, jnana or yoga ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +28‎ I am very happy to hear that the temple is improving more and more under your expert guidance. Now go on with our program and try to increase your attraction of KCM to the public and recruit local men more and more to become fixed up devotees of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +28‎ If we become fixed up in this resolution, that "Whatever we have heard from my guru, the representative of Krsna, I must execute. I do not care for my personal convenience or inconvenience. This is my life and soul," then your life is perfect ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +8‎ By counteracting with pious activities, when one is completely freed from the resultant action of sinful life, such persons without any doubt, without any hesitation become fixed up in KC and takes Krsna as the life and soul. So this is very difficult ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist −11‎ Upon becoming fixed in his attachment to the SPG by the grace of the spiritual master and by awakening knowledge and detachment, the living entity, situated within the heart of the body, burns up his material surroundings exactly as fire ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +6‎ This is the duty of GBC, to see that all of our members are becoming fixed in Krishna's service ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +6‎ It is only by abandoning all material gains and becoming fixed in Krsna consciousness, devotional service to the Lord, that one can actually achieve the perfection of life ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist −13‎ By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain to the transcendental nature, which is like My own nature. Thus established, one is not born at the time of creation nor disturbed at the time of dissolution. BG 14.2 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +28‎ You write to say that this Hare Krishna Movement is perfect in all respects. And it is a fact that "Sankirtana will keep you happy and the books will keep you convinced", so make your program in that way and become fixed up in Krishna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current

08:5908:59, 27 November 2024 diff hist +12‎ Vaisnavas are generally known as gosvamis. In Vrndavana, this is the title by which the director of each temple is known. One who wants to become a perfect devotee of Krsna must become a gosvami ‎No edit summary current
08:5908:59, 27 November 2024 diff hist +11‎ One who can keep himself steady and resist the attraction of material nature is certainly a hero and deserves to be called a gosvami. Unless one is master of the senses, he cannot become a gosvami ‎No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 27 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ One has to become a gosvami and control his senses. One should not simply use his senses for sense gratification; rather, the senses should be employed just as much as required for maintaining body and soul together ‎No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 27 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ Go means "the senses," and svami means "the master." Unless one controls his senses and mind, one cannot become a gosvami ‎No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 27 November 2024 diff hist +12‎ A devotee who has attained the title of gosvami but is not born of a brahmana father or of a gosvami in the family of Nityananda or Advaita Prabhu should not be artificially puffed up by thinking that he has become a gosvami ‎No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 27 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami were previously ministers directly in charge of the government of Nawab Hussain Shah, and they were also householders, but later they became gosvamis ‎No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 27 November 2024 diff hist +12‎ Rupa and Sanatana were made the prime ministers of spreading sankirtana movement, the Caitanya cult. We are sitting in Rupa Gosvami's place. Officially, they become Muhammadan, but by the grace of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, they became Gosvami ‎No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 27 November 2024 diff hist +11‎ One must be master of the senses. That is defined by Rupa Gosvami, Rupa Gosvami. When they were ministers they were not gosvami. But when they become disciples of Lord Caitanya, Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami, & was trained by Him, they became gosvami ‎No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 27 November 2024 diff hist +12‎ How they (Six Gosvamis) became gosvami or svami? Because they are not affected by these (sleeping, eating, sex and defense) demands. That is gosvami; that is svami. Svami means master. Gosvami means master of the senses ‎No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 27 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ Both the brothers, Rupa Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami, they became gosvamis. And other gosvamis, Gopala Bhatta Gosvami, Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami, they became their assistants ‎No edit summary current
08:5608:56, 27 November 2024 diff hist +11‎ Unfortunately the go-dasas are claiming to be gosvamis. That is the cause of falldown of Indian Vedic civilization. One has to become gosvami. Gosvami means refuse to follow the dictation of the senses ‎No edit summary current
08:5608:56, 27 November 2024 diff hist +11‎ That grhamedhi, grhastha - appearing like the same. But grhastha means no dictation of the sense. Then you become gosvami ‎No edit summary current
08:5608:56, 27 November 2024 diff hist +32‎ If I am servant of the senses, how I can become gosvami, how I can become svami? That is false, hypocrisy ‎No edit summary
08:5608:56, 27 November 2024 diff hist +32‎ Go means senses. So unless you become gosvami, your life is spoiled. Gosvami. You cannot be dictated by the senses. You have to dictate to the senses ‎No edit summary current
08:5608:56, 27 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ Sri Rupa Gosvami presented himself as an ordinary grhastha and minister in government service but became a gosvami when he was actually elevated by the instruction of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
08:5108:51, 27 November 2024 diff hist +4‎ I was ordered by my spiritual master to do this work, so on his order I came in 1965. That is the beginning of this. I came alone with no help, no money. Somehow or other (laughs) I started... My attraction is this chanting. That's all ‎No edit summary current
08:5008:50, 27 November 2024 diff hist −13‎ Then, without help from others, one will find material enjoyment detestful. Those whose minds are changed by others do not become as renounced as those who have personal experience ‎No edit summary current
08:5008:50, 27 November 2024 diff hist −13‎ Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: Hearing these enigmatic words of Narada Muni, the Haryasvas considered them with their natural intelligence, without help from others ‎No edit summary current
08:4908:49, 27 November 2024 diff hist −13‎ Prahlada Maharaja has hinted: hitvatma-patam grham andha-kupam vanam gato yad dharim asrayeta (SB 7.5.5). Family life is considered a blind well (andha-kupam) into which a person falls and dies without help ‎No edit summary current
08:4908:49, 27 November 2024 diff hist +5‎ One should be allowed to remain in so-called material enjoyment while simultaneously advancing in knowledge to experience the misery of this false material happiness. Then, without help from others, one will find material enjoyment detestful ‎No edit summary current
08:4908:49, 27 November 2024 diff hist −13‎ At the end of life, when one has to go back home, back to Godhead, everyone has to take care of himself without help rendered by another ‎No edit summary

07:2207:22, 20 November 2024 diff hist +11‎ When they become absorbed in thoughts of material enjoyment, Lord Brahma and Lord Siva, as well as other demigods and demons, undergo severe penances and austerities to receive my (Laksmidevi) benedictions ‎No edit summary current

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