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12:2412:24, 26 June 2025 diff hist +4‎ One in the bodily conception worships his own body as Brahman, but when he comes in contact with a devotee, he gives up this mistaken idea and engages himself in the devotional service of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
12:1912:19, 26 June 2025 diff hist +22‎ One can see the reflection of the Supreme Lord in one's own senses, mind and body - in everything. With that correct vision, one can engage everything in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
12:1612:16, 26 June 2025 diff hist +31‎ One's own body and the bodies of his friends and relatives, as well as one's own riches and everything else one has, should be engaged for the benefit of others. This is the mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
12:1112:11, 26 June 2025 diff hist +431‎ Lord Krsna is Narayana, the father of Brahma, because Lord Krsna's plenary expansion Garbhodakasayi Visnu, after placing Himself on the Garbha Ocean, created Brahma from His own body ‎No edit summary current
12:0412:04, 26 June 2025 diff hist +4‎ Lamenting in grief for the death of her husband, the most chaste Renuka struck her own body with her hands and cried very loudly, "O Rama, my dear son Rama!" ‎No edit summary current
11:4311:43, 26 June 2025 diff hist +22‎ It would not have been difficult for Sati to punish her father but she thought that since she was his daughter, it was not proper for her to kill him. Thus she decided to give up her own body, which she had obtained from his & Daksa did not even check her ‎No edit summary current
11:4211:42, 26 June 2025 diff hist +188‎ In this connection (Krsna thought of making His own body disappear), Sukadeva Gosvami described how the Lord gave up His body. But this was not the destruction of Krsna's body; rather, it was the disappearance of the Supreme Lord by His personal energy ‎No edit summary current
11:1611:16, 26 June 2025 diff hist +4‎ In this condition (of garva) one utters prayers and does not reply to others' inquiries. Looking at one's own body, concealing one's desires and not heeding the words of others are symptoms visible in the ecstasy of garva ‎No edit summary current
11:1411:14, 26 June 2025 diff hist +4‎ In studying one's own body, one must ask himself whether his head is his soul, his fingers are his soul, his hand is his soul, and so on. In this way, one must gradually reject all the material elements & the combinations of material elements in the body ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 26 June 2025 diff hist +22‎ In Bhagavad-gita (3.8) it is said, sarira-yatrapi ca te na prasiddhyed akarmanah: "one cannot even maintain one's own body without work." Krsna never advised Arjuna, - I am your friend, and I shall do everything. You just sit down and smoke ganja ‎No edit summary current
10:3110:31, 26 June 2025 diff hist +4‎ If you keep yourself faced to the sunlight, you will never see the darkness, and as soon as you turn your back to the sun, then immediately you find in your front a huge shadow of your own body. This shadow is Maya ‎No edit summary current
10:2610:26, 26 June 2025 diff hist −14‎ If I ask you how many hairs you have got on your head, you do not know. Similarly, we have got this body. I am claiming my body, but I am not in full knowledge of my own body. And what to speak of knowing your body or other's body? ‎No edit summary current
10:2010:20, 26 June 2025 diff hist +22‎ If a limb of one's body is poisoned by disease, it must be amputated so that the rest of the body may live happily. Similarly, even one's own son, if unfavorable, must be rejected, although born of one's own body ‎No edit summary current
10:1610:16, 26 June 2025 diff hist +4‎ Here (in BG 15.8) the living entity is described as isvara, the controller of his own body. If he likes, he can change his body to a higher grade, and if he likes he can move to a lower class. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 26 June 2025 diff hist +22‎ For a devotee, all mundane activities, social and political, become unattractive, and in the mature state such a devotee becomes uninterested even in his own body, and what to speak of bodily relatives ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 26 June 2025 diff hist +4‎ Fallen into a pool of blood, stool and urine within the abdomen of his mother, his own body scorched by the mother's gastric fire, the embodied soul, anxious to get out, counts his months and prays ‎No edit summary current
09:3309:33, 26 June 2025 diff hist +20‎ Every part of our own body, such as the mouth, hands, thighs and legs, is meant to render service to the whole. That is their constitutional position. In subhuman life the living entities are not conscious of this constitutional position ‎No edit summary current
09:3209:32, 26 June 2025 diff hist +165‎ Even one's own son, if unfavorable, must be rejected, although born of one's own body ‎No edit summary current
06:3606:36, 26 June 2025 diff hist +22‎ By knowing this (the position of the Lord and how to approach His dhama) he (Maharaja Pariksit) could leave aside everything material, even his own body, without any difficulty of attachment ‎No edit summary current
06:3606:36, 26 June 2025 diff hist +22‎ Everyone is conscious of the pains and pleasures of the body in part or as a whole. This spreading of consciousness is limited within one's own body. The pains and pleasures of one body are unknown to another. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
06:3506:35, 26 June 2025 diff hist +4‎ Even one's own son, if unfavorable, must be rejected, although born of one's own body ‎No edit summary
06:3506:35, 26 June 2025 diff hist +4‎ Charitable personalities such as Hariscandra, Rantideva and Mudgala, who used to live only on grains picked up from the paddy field, and the great Maharaja Sibi, who saved the life of a pigeon by supplying flesh from his own body ‎No edit summary current
06:3506:35, 26 June 2025 diff hist −28‎ Caitanya said, "Even though I do not see the moonlike face of Krsna as He plays on His flute, and although there is no possibility of My meeting Him, still I take care of My own body. That is the way of lust. In this way, I maintain My flylike life" ‎No edit summary current
06:3406:34, 26 June 2025 diff hist +194‎ Caitanya said, "Even though I do not see the moonlike face of Krsna as He plays on His flute, and although there is no possibility of My meeting Him, still I take care of My own body. That is the way of lust. In this way, I maintain My flylike life" ‎No edit summary
05:5605:56, 26 June 2025 diff hist +22‎ Bewildered by false ego, strength, pride, lust and anger, the demon becomes envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated in his own body and in the bodies of others, and blasphemes against the real religion. BG 16.18 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
05:5605:56, 26 June 2025 diff hist +77‎ Because Krsna had increased the size of His body, the demon (Aghasura) extended his own body to a very large size. Nonetheless, his breathing stopped, he suffocated, and his eyes rolled here and there and popped out - SB 10.12.31 ‎No edit summary current
05:5405:54, 26 June 2025 diff hist +4‎ Bali Maharaja offered everything to the Lord - his wealth, his kingdom and even his own body - sarvatma-nivedane balih ‎No edit summary current
05:5405:54, 26 June 2025 diff hist +4‎ Bali Maharaja had already offered everything to Your Lordship. Without hesitation, he has offered his land, the planets and whatever else he earned by his pious activities, including even his own body ‎No edit summary current
05:5405:54, 26 June 2025 diff hist +22‎ A person who accepts his body as his self works very hard day and night for money to maintain his own body and the bodies of his wife and children. While working to maintain himself and his family, he may commit violence against other living entities ‎No edit summary current
05:3805:38, 26 June 2025 diff hist +22‎ A human being is different from other human beings and different from the animals. Even in his own body, there are different bodily limbs ‎No edit summary current
05:3705:37, 26 June 2025 diff hist 0‎ A common living being or soul can be all-pervading within his own limited body, but the supreme living being is all-pervading in all space and all time ‎No edit summary current
05:2505:25, 26 June 2025 diff hist +22‎ Avajananti mam mudha manusim tanum asritam: (BG 9.11) although He (God) comes in His own body, which never changes mudhas, the unintelligent, think that the impersonal Brahman has assumed a material body to come in the form of a person ‎No edit summary current
05:2305:23, 26 June 2025 diff hist +4‎ At last, in fear of his (Durvasa Muni's) life, he approached Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and ultimately the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He was so interested in his own body that he wanted to kill the body of a Vaisnava ‎No edit summary current
05:1105:11, 26 June 2025 diff hist +94‎ As in this body the stomach is the enjoyer, the central figure of the whole cosmic manifestation, material or spiritual, is Krsna, God. He is the enjoyer. We can understand this just by considering our own bodies ‎No edit summary current
05:0905:09, 26 June 2025 diff hist 0‎ According to Vedic civilization, there are four divisions of the society. Everywhere the same divisions are there all over the world. This is very natural. Just like we can study from our own body, there is head, there is arm, there is belly ‎No edit summary current

11:5111:51, 25 June 2025 diff hist +12‎ When one becomes frustrated with all kinds of material advancement, one desires the opposite type of liberation, which is called apunar-bhava, or no rebirth ‎No edit summary current
11:5111:51, 25 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ The word vimuktidat is also significant. There are different types of liberation, such as sayujya, salokya, sarupya, sarsti and samipya (CC Madhya 6.266), but vimukti means - special mukti ‎No edit summary current
11:2711:27, 25 June 2025 diff hist +33‎ The pure devotee refuses to accept all the five different types of liberation in order to be engaged in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
11:1011:10, 25 June 2025 diff hist +33‎ The devotee is already liberated. There is no need for him to aspire for different types of liberation. The pure devotee automatically achieves liberation, even without desiring it ‎No edit summary current
10:5810:58, 25 June 2025 diff hist +33‎ Sarupya means attaining a four-handed form exactly like that of the Lord, sarsti means attaining opulences like those of the Supreme Lord, and sayujya means merging into the Brahman effulgence of the Lord. These are the five types of liberation ‎No edit summary current
10:5810:58, 25 June 2025 diff hist +33‎ Of the five types of liberation, the first four (salokya, samipya, sarupya and sarsti) are not so undesirable because they can be avenues of service to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
10:2910:29, 25 June 2025 diff hist +33‎ Losing one's individuality is not the aim of bhakti-yoga or of the devotees of the Lord. There are five types of liberation, one of which is called sayujya-mukti, or being merged into the existence or body of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
10:2810:28, 25 June 2025 diff hist −12‎ A pure devotee of Lord Krsna rejects even these types of liberation (such as salokya, samipya, sarupya and sarsti); he aspires only to serve Krsna birth after birth ‎No edit summary current
10:2210:22, 25 June 2025 diff hist +9‎ A devotee has no particular interest in any types of liberation. He is satisfied simply by being engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
09:2109:21, 25 June 2025 diff hist +11‎ When the upper point of a hair is divided into one hundred parts and again each of such parts is further divided into one hundred parts, each such part is the measurement of the dimension of the spirit soul. (Svet. 5.9). BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
09:2009:20, 25 June 2025 diff hist +12‎ The upper portion, the tip of the hair, just like a point, you divide into hundred parts and take another one part and divide another hundred parts. That means one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair is the dimension of the spirit soul ‎No edit summary current
09:1209:12, 25 June 2025 diff hist +12‎ The spirit soul is so minute that it cannot even be seen by an enemy, to say nothing of being killed. As mentioned in the previous verse (BG 2.17), it is so small that no one can have any idea how to measure its dimension. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
09:1209:12, 25 June 2025 diff hist +12‎ The dimension of the spirit soul is very small. It is one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair. Everything is there. So such minute particle is so powerful that it is managing the body of the elephant and it is managing the body of the ant ‎No edit summary current
08:4508:45, 25 June 2025 diff hist +12‎ The dimension of the spirit soul is very minute and is given in the scriptures as kesagra - one ten thousandth the portion of the tip of a hair. We can hardly imagine a very small point divided into thousands of parts ‎No edit summary current
08:3608:36, 25 June 2025 diff hist −7‎ Our material eyes cannot see what is the dimension of the soul. But the soul is there within this body. And as soon as the soul departs, or takes another body according to the work the soul is doing here, there is superior superintendence ‎No edit summary current

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