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03:5603:56, 14 December 2024 diff hist +46‎ If I am servant of the senses, how I can become gosvami, how I can become svami? That is false, hypocrisy ‎No edit summary current
03:5603:56, 14 December 2024 diff hist +46‎ If I am following the dictation of my senses, then I am not the master of the senses; I am the servant of the senses ‎No edit summary current
03:5603:56, 14 December 2024 diff hist +46‎ Gosvami does not mean go-dasa. Go means senses, and dasa means servant. If we keep the title gosvami and become servant of the senses, it is cheating ‎No edit summary current
03:5603:56, 14 December 2024 diff hist +46‎ Everyone wants sense gratification, to be servant of the senses. If the senses want "Do this," he will do it. And our Movement is that we shall not hear the dictation of the senses, we shall do what Krsna says. That is just opposite ‎No edit summary current
03:5603:56, 14 December 2024 diff hist +46‎ Everyone is servant of the senses. Everyone is acting being dictated by the senses: "Oh, it is very nice. Let me see." The eyes dictate what we see ‎No edit summary current
03:5603:56, 14 December 2024 diff hist +25‎ Everyone becomes a servant of the senses just beginning from the tongue. They cannot control the tongue. They eat anything and everything. Therefore they cannot control others senses also ‎No edit summary current
03:5603:56, 14 December 2024 diff hist +46‎ Being illusioned by the conditions of the external energy, one falsely thinks himself to be the served, but actually he is not served; he is servant of the senses like lust, desire, anger, avarice, pride, madness and intolerance ‎No edit summary current
03:5503:55, 14 December 2024 diff hist +46‎ Because we have forgotten our real master, real master, the Supreme Lord, by illusory energy we have been put to be servant of the senses. Instead of becoming servant of the Supreme, we have become the servant of the senses ‎No edit summary current
03:5503:55, 14 December 2024 diff hist +46‎ At the present moment, in the materialistic concept of life, everyone is servant of the senses. Everyone acts by the dictation of the senses; therefore they can be called, in other words, as godasa, servant of the senses ‎No edit summary current
03:5503:55, 14 December 2024 diff hist +46‎ At that time (when the living being realizes he is the servant of the senses) he begs for the service of the Lord and thus becomes happy without being illusioned by so-called material happiness ‎No edit summary current
03:5503:55, 14 December 2024 diff hist +46‎ Adanta means unbridled, uncontrolled. Go means indriya or senses. Materialistic persons, they cannot control their senses. They are servant of the senses, godasa. Go means indriya, and dasa means servant ‎No edit summary current
03:5503:55, 14 December 2024 diff hist +46‎ Actually the whole world is serving the senses, servant of the senses. Godasa. But if we engage the senses in the service of Krsna, then we shall no longer remain the servant of the senses. We shall be the master of the senses ‎No edit summary

07:1907:19, 11 December 2024 diff hist −13‎ They (those who are addicted to sex life) cannot improve any material condition, not to speak of becoming famous ‎No edit summary current
07:1907:19, 11 December 2024 diff hist +9‎ We should be satisfied with our pictures hanging in our different temples. But we may not sacrifice our valuable time for becoming famous artists so that pictures may be sold like hotcakes ‎No edit summary current
07:1807:18, 11 December 2024 diff hist −11‎ This disciple (he was a dead body floating in the Ganges, and after Thakura Saranga dasa touched it with his feet, this immediately brought the body to life) later became famous as Thakura Murari, and his name is always associated with that of Sri Saranga ‎No edit summary current
07:1807:18, 11 December 2024 diff hist +9‎ The sun-god became angry, and with his virulent rays he melted the plane. This enraged Lord Siva. Lord Siva then attacked the sun-god, who fled away and at last fell down at Kasi (Varanasi), and the place became famous as Lolarka ‎No edit summary current
07:1807:18, 11 December 2024 diff hist +9‎ The demon Maya Danava constructed Tripura for the demons, who became very powerful and defeated the demigods. Because of this defeat, Lord Rudra, Siva, dismantled Tripura; thus he became famous as Tripurari ‎No edit summary current
07:1807:18, 11 December 2024 diff hist +9‎ Narada was simply a maidservant's son, but he got the opportunity to serve exalted brahmanas & Vaisnavas, & thus in his next life he not only became liberated, but became famous as the supreme spiritual master of the entire Vaisnava disciplic succession ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist −11‎ Kunti addresses Lord Krsna as vrsni-rsabha, the child of the dynasty of Vrsni. It was because Krsna appeared in the Vrsni dynasty that this dynasty became famous, just as Malaysia & the Malaya Hills became famous because of the sandalwood that grows there ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist −11‎ Knowing that she was pregnant, the co-wives of the wife of Bahuka conspired to give her poison with her food, but it did not act. Instead, the son was born along with the poison. Therefore he became famous as Sagara ("one who is born with poison") ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist −11‎ Kapila is considered an incarnation of Krsna, and His philosophy is mentioned in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Later on another Kapila became famous, but his philosophy was atheistic. Thus there is a gulf of difference between them. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ He (Silhana Misra) wrote a book named Santi-sataka, and later, by the mercy of Lord Krsna and the Vaisnavas, he became a great devotee. Thus he became famous as Bilvamangala Thakura Gosvami ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist +9‎ Generally men who have wealth and opulence are famous, but Bali Maharaja became famous for all time by being deprived of all his possessions. This is the special mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead toward His devotees ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ Caitanya says, "On account of Madhavendra Puri, Lord Gopinatha stole the pot of sweet rice. Thus He became famous as Ksira-cora (the thief who stole the sweet rice)" ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist −11‎ By the blessings of Krsna, Yogamaya was able to achieve the reputation of being the daughter of mother Yasoda, who also became famous by the blessings of Krsna. Yasoda means "one who gives fame" ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist −11‎ Before him (Bharata) the land was known as Ilavati-varsa, but just after the coronation of Bharata, the son of Rsabha, this land became famous as Bharata-varsa ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist −11‎ Although still fully equipped with transcendental knowledge and practical application of that knowledge in life, he appeared as a demon at the fire sacrifice performed by Tvasta, and thus he became famous as Vrtrasura ‎No edit summary current
06:5606:56, 11 December 2024 diff hist −10‎ Without Krsna, all the supplementary literatures like the Puranas and Mahabharata are simply stories or historical facts. But with Krsna they become transcendental, and when we hear of them we at once become transcendentally related with the Lord ‎No edit summary current
06:5606:56, 11 December 2024 diff hist +11‎ The Vedic literatures contain many narrations of the Lord's pastimes, including the Battle of Kuruksetra and historical facts relating to the life and precepts of devotees like Prahlada Maharaja, Dhruva Maharaja and Ambarisa Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
06:5606:56, 11 December 2024 diff hist −10‎ The Puranas and Mahabharata were made from related historical facts which explained the teaching of the four Vedas. There is no point in doubting the authority of the Puranas and Mahabharata as parts and parcels of the Vedas ‎No edit summary current
06:5606:56, 11 December 2024 diff hist +11‎ The Mayavadis accept the description of the pastimes of the Lord as stories, but actually they are not stories; they are historical facts ‎No edit summary current
06:5506:55, 11 December 2024 diff hist +11‎ The history of Battle of Kuruksetra where this Bhagavad-gita was spoken, that is a historical fact ‎No edit summary current
06:5506:55, 11 December 2024 diff hist −10‎ The four divisions of the original sources of knowledge (the Vedas) were made separately. But the historical facts and authentic stories mentioned in the Puranas are called the fifth Veda ‎No edit summary current
06:5306:53, 11 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ The difficulty is that such literatures (Puranas), when discussed by professional men, appear to be mundane literature like histories or epics because there are so many historical facts and figures ‎No edit summary current
06:5306:53, 11 December 2024 diff hist +8‎ They are said to be apauruseya. No one can trace out the history of the Vedas. Of course, modern human civilization has no chronological history of the world or the universe, and it cannot present actual historical facts older than three thousand years ‎No edit summary current
06:5306:53, 11 December 2024 diff hist −10‎ 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
06:5306:53, 11 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam is the cream of all the Vedas, and it contains all historical facts of all times in relation with Sri Krsna. It is factually the essence of all histories ‎No edit summary current
06:5206:52, 11 December 2024 diff hist −10‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam is also a Purana, but the special significance of this Purana is that the activities of the Lord are central and not just supplementary historical facts ‎No edit summary current
06:5206:52, 11 December 2024 diff hist +11‎ Some of them (stories in the Puranas) refer to real historical facts. One should be interested, however, in the real purport of the story ‎No edit summary current
06:5206:52, 11 December 2024 diff hist +11‎ Simply by knowing by historical fact that Krsna is born in such-and-such date, in such-and-such place, in such-and-such family, activity . . . but no. One has to learn that in tattvatah, in truth. Then he becomes free from this bodily entanglement ‎No edit summary current
06:5206:52, 11 December 2024 diff hist −10‎ Men with a poor fund of knowledge do not know that different planets are not equal in all respects and that therefore some of the historical facts derived from other planets do not correspond with the experience of this planet ‎No edit summary current
06:4906:49, 11 December 2024 diff hist −10‎ In the Srimad-Bhagavatam historical facts selected from the histories of different planets have been depicted. It is therefore accepted by all the spiritual authorities as the Maha-Purana ‎No edit summary current
06:4806:48, 11 December 2024 diff hist −10‎ Historical facts, being instructive for ordinary men, were assorted without chronological reference. They happen on different planets, nay, in different universes & thus the description of the narrations is sometimes measured by three dimensions ‎No edit summary current
06:4806:48, 11 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ Formerly, O King, when Maharaja Yudhisthira was performing the Rajasuya sacrifice, the great sage Narada, responding to his inquiry, recited historical facts showing how the Supreme Personality of Godhead is always impartial, even when killing demons ‎No edit summary current
06:4706:47, 11 December 2024 diff hist +11‎ By His symptoms, by the historical fact, by the evidence of the Vedas, He is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, when Krsna is speaking, the very words are used, sri bhagavan uvaca ‎No edit summary current
06:4706:47, 11 December 2024 diff hist −10‎ Buddhist religion from India was practically banished. So these are historical facts. The real fact is that as soon as the natural sequence of living entities is jeopardized, at that time, non-religious principle, unnatural life, becomes prominent ‎No edit summary
06:4706:47, 11 December 2024 diff hist −10‎ Brahma has knowledge of those historical facts (the histories of the universe), and therefore all the puranas are histories. As originally composed by Brahma, they are part of the Vedas and are called the fifth Veda ‎No edit summary current
06:4606:46, 11 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ At least to have a guarantee that our next life is going to be human life, everyone should take to Krsna consciousness. From mundane profit point of view. There is a story, Savitri-Satyavan. It is not a story. It is historical fact ‎No edit summary current
06:4606:46, 11 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ Any historical fact old or new which has a connection with the activities of the Lord is to be understood as a transcendental narration of the Lord ‎No edit summary current

08:3508:35, 6 December 2024 diff hist +27‎ Brahma said to Narada, "Whatever I have spoken to you about the Bhagavatam was explained to me by the Lord & I am advising you to expand these topics nicely so that people may easily understand the mysterious bhakti-yoga by transcendental loving service" ‎No edit summary current

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