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12:4112:41, 30 September 2022 diff hist +11,726‎ Relish Bhagavatam, the mature fruit of the desire tree of Vedic literatures. It emanated from the lips of Sri Sukadeva. Therefore this fruit has become more tasteful, although its nectarean juice was already relishable for all, including liberated souls ‎No edit summary
12:4012:40, 30 September 2022 diff hist +11,841‎ O expert and thoughtful men, relish Srimad-Bhagavatam, the mature fruit of the desire tree of Vedic literatures. It emanated from the lips of Sri Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary current
12:4012:40, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,407‎ In this world, there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge. Such knowledge is the mature fruit of all mysticism. And one who has achieved this enjoys the self within himself in due course of time. BG 4.38 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
12:4012:40, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,383‎ In this world, there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge. Such knowledge is the mature fruit of all mysticism ‎No edit summary current
12:4012:40, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,183‎ In the Vedas and Upanisads there are only indirect hints to all this. Nothing is directly explained there, and therefore Srimad-Bhagavatam is the mature fruit of all the Vedic trees of literatures ‎No edit summary current
12:4012:40, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,334‎ Ignorance is the cause of our bondage, and knowledge is the cause of our liberation. This knowledge is the mature fruit of devotional service. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:3912:39, 30 September 2022 diff hist +5,179‎ As explained in the beginning of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, it is the mature fruit of Vedic knowledge and is superior subject matter, above the three kandas, namely karma, jnana and upasana ‎No edit summary
12:3912:39, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,767‎ Actually, the explanation of this mantra and of practically all the mantras of the Vedic hymns is summarized in the Vedanta-sutra and properly explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam. Srimad-Bhagavatam is the mature fruit of the Vedic tree of wisdom ‎No edit summary
12:3512:35, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,574‎ Rascals take shelter of man-made scriptures and try to compete with Lord Krsna. That is the greatest difficulty one encounters when trying to promote spiritual consciousness in human society ‎No edit summary current
12:3512:35, 30 September 2022 diff hist −13‎ If somehow or other one is promoted to that stage of KC, what is the result? "Upon gaining this, he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty." - Bg. 6.22 ‎No edit summary current
12:3512:35, 30 September 2022 diff hist +8,617‎ Established thus, one never departs from the truth, and upon gaining this he thinks there is no greater gain. Being situated in such a position, one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. BG 6.20-23 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 30 September 2022 diff hist +8,272‎ Being situated in such a position (trance, or samadhi), one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 30 September 2022 diff hist +27,020‎ Being situated in such a position (boundless transcendental happiness), one is never shaken, even in the midst of greatest difficulty. This indeed is actual freedom from all miseries arising from material contact - Bg. 6.20-23 ‎No edit summary current
12:2512:25, 30 September 2022 diff hist −13‎ The Krsna consciousness movement introduced by Lord Caitanya is extremely important because one who takes to it becomes eternal, being freed from birth, death and old age ‎No edit summary
12:2512:25, 30 September 2022 diff hist +9,169‎ Our New York city temple is an extremely important center and the standard of purity in Krsna Consciousness must be maintained there by all means ‎No edit summary current
12:2412:24, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,338‎ In our movement, the guru-kula plays an extremely important part in our activities because right from childhood the boys at the guru-kula are instructed about Krsna consciousness. Thus they become steady within the cores of their hearts ‎No edit summary current
12:2412:24, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,970‎ Hundreds and thousands of animals are killed in slaughterhouses, and no one cares about them, but the killing of even one human being is taken very seriously. Why? Because the human form of body is extremely important in executing the mission of life ‎No edit summary current
12:1112:11, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,525‎ The Raksasas act independently, as they like, going even so far as to kidnap the goddess of fortune. This policy of Ravana's is extremely dangerous for the materialist; indeed, it brings ruin to the materialistic civilization ‎No edit summary current
12:1112:11, 30 September 2022 diff hist −13‎ There are many kinds of offenses, but the offense known as nama-aparadha, an offense at the lotus feet of the holy name, is extremely dangerous. The Lord (Caitanya) therefore warned everyone not to see the face of the offender ‎No edit summary current
12:1012:10, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,672‎ Mayavada philosophy is extremely dangerous, especially for a devotee. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has therefore strictly forbidden us to associate with Mayavadi philosophers ‎No edit summary current
12:1012:10, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,642‎ Householder life in this Kali-yuga is extremely dangerous unless both the wife and husband take to Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
12:1012:10, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,727‎ Durvasa Muni was a very learned brahmana equipped with mystic power, but because he was not a gentleman, he did not know how to use his power. He was therefore extremely dangerous ‎No edit summary current
12:0912:09, 30 September 2022 diff hist +1,931‎ A civilization that has become godless because of material advancement in opulence is extremely dangerous ‎No edit summary current
12:0612:06, 30 September 2022 diff hist +5,955‎ That foolish person is killed just like this monkey. The monkey's business was not to imitate the sawman, but he wanted to imitate. The result was that he was killed. So that is not expertness ‎No edit summary current
12:0512:05, 30 September 2022 diff hist +8,692‎ Sometimes by carrying one another on the shoulders, and sometimes by exhibiting their expertness at whirling logs ‎No edit summary current
12:0512:05, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,576‎ It requires some expert brain, how to play gamble. So that expertness, that part of expert endeavor, is Krsna ‎No edit summary current
12:0412:04, 30 September 2022 diff hist +6,588‎ Expertness is you just try to do which is easily performed by you. You don't accept anything heavy task because Krsna does not want that you have to do this heavy task. Whatever you know, you just apply it. You dovetail it in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
12:0012:00, 30 September 2022 diff hist +5,519‎ Yamunacarya said: Since I have been engaged in the transcendental loving service of Krsna, realizing ever-new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure, I spit at the thought, and my lips curl with distaste ‎No edit summary current
12:0012:00, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,479‎ Sri Yamunacarya, a great devotee in KC, said: Since I have been engaged in the transcendental loving service of Krsna, realizing ever-new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure, I spit at the thought, and my lips curl with distaste. BG 1972 p ‎No edit summary
11:5911:59, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,800‎ Since I have been engaged in the transcendental loving service of Krsna, realizing ever-new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure, I spit at the thought, and my lips curl with distaste - Yamunacarya ‎No edit summary current
11:5911:59, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,929‎ In reference to the low-grade happiness of sex life, Yamunacarya says: "Since I have been engaged in the loving service of Krsna, realizing ever-new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure, I spit at the thought, and my lips curl with distaste" ‎No edit summary current
11:5911:59, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,268‎ Because Vidura was one of the descendants of that family, naturally he engaged in spreading wide the ever-new glories of the Lord. Maitreya felt happy to have such glorious company as Vidura ‎No edit summary current
11:5011:50, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,968‎ Perfection is attained when one hears the pastimes and activities of the Lord from a bona fide source ‎No edit summary current
11:5011:50, 30 September 2022 diff hist +30‎ If you try to understand Krsna as far as possible through the reliable sources, through the bona fide sources, then your Vedic study is going on in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
11:4311:43, 30 September 2022 diff hist −12‎ The yogis, those who are real yogis, not bogus yogis, real yogi, they wants to meditate upon the Supersoul ‎No edit summary current
11:4311:43, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,822‎ They (bogus yogis) have got some nasty ideas, they manufacture different types of religion. Religion is one. That is eternal. God is one. That is eternal. Take anything, like gold. Gold is gold, always gold ‎No edit summary current
11:4311:43, 30 September 2022 diff hist +6,536‎ Material enjoyment, as encouraged by bogus yogis, has nothing to do with the transcendental realization of spiritual happiness ‎No edit summary current
11:4211:42, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,354‎ Bogus Yogis they are cheating the public, but at the same time your countrymen also want to be cheated. They are cheating the public by words of extravagancy, saying that anyone can meditate even he is a drunkard ‎No edit summary current
11:3811:38, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,049‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "The gopis entered the arena of the rasa dance in ecstasy, but after hearing Krsna's words of negligence and detachment, they understood that He was going to renounce them. Thus they began to chastise Him in anger" ‎No edit summary current
11:0411:04, 30 September 2022 diff hist +1,954‎ Lord Krsna, the enemy of Kamsa, took Srimati Radharani within His heart, for He desired to dance with Her. Thus He left the arena of the rasa dance and the company of all the other beautiful damsels of Vraja ‎No edit summary current
11:0411:04, 30 September 2022 diff hist +1,542‎ Here in the arena of the rasa dance, I remember Krsna, who is always fond of joking and performing pastimes ‎No edit summary current
10:1810:18, 30 September 2022 diff hist +2,549‎ Your son will be the head of all the perfected souls. He will be approved by the acaryas expert in disseminating real knowledge, and among the people He will be celebrated by the name Kapila. As the son of Devahuti, He will increase your fame ‎No edit summary
10:1710:17, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,980‎ When there is a scarcity of grain, the government should follow the methods prescribed in the sastra and approved by the acaryas; thus there will be a sufficient production of grains, and food scarcity and famine can be checked ‎No edit summary current
10:1710:17, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,915‎ There are professional Bhagavata reciters who abruptly go to the rasa-lila chapters of SB, as if other portions of SB were useless. This kind of discrimination & abrupt adoption of the rasa-lila pastimes of the Lord is not approved by the acaryas ‎No edit summary
10:1710:17, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,278‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu warned all His followers not to become independent or impudent. Unfortunately, after the disappearance of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, many apa-sampradayas (so-called followers) invented many ways not approved by the acaryas ‎No edit summary current
07:0407:04, 30 September 2022 diff hist +6,338‎ Yudhisthira said, "This does not mean that You (Krsna) are partial to the Krsna conscious person and indifferent to the non-Krsna conscious person. You are equal to everyone; that is Your declaration" ‎No edit summary current
07:0307:03, 30 September 2022 diff hist +23‎ When we speak of non-Krsna, or desire which has no connection with Krsna, this does not mean that anything exists without Krsna. Actually there cannot be anything "non-Krsna" because everything is a product of the energy of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
07:0307:03, 30 September 2022 diff hist +4,837‎ When we speak of desires not connected with Krsna, or "non-Krsna," this does not mean that anything exists without Krsna. Actually there cannot be anything non-Krsna because everything is a product of the energy of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
07:0307:03, 30 September 2022 diff hist +46,881‎ When consciousness is purely centered on Krsna (Krsna consciousness), it is pure, and when consciousness is centered on something other than Krsna, or when it is directed to sense gratification, it may be called non-Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
07:0207:02, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,020‎ The mystery of this knowledge (In a sense, there is nothing but Sri Krsna, and yet nothing is Sri Krsna save & except His primeval personality) culminates in personal attachment to the Lord, with a resulting effect of detachment from anything - non-Krsna ‎No edit summary current
07:0107:01, 30 September 2022 diff hist +8,173‎ The idea is that they (demoniac human beings) do not know how to expend their energy for right causes, being unaware of the benefit of Krsna consciousness. Actually, there are two classes of men - one is Krsna conscious, the other is non-Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
07:0107:01, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,138‎ There are nine alternative transcendental means of attaining the stage (of personal attachment to Krsna, with a resulting effect of detachment from anything "non-Krsna"): (8) fraternizing with the Lord, and (9) sacrificing everything for Him ‎No edit summary current
07:0107:01, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,132‎ There are nine alternative transcendental means of attaining the stage (of personal attachment to Krsna, with a resulting effect of detachment from anything "non-Krsna"): (5) worshiping, (6) praying, (7) assisting ‎No edit summary current
07:0007:00, 30 September 2022 diff hist +3,268‎ There are nine alternative transcendental means of attaining the stage (of personal attachment to Krsna, with a resulting effect of detachment from anything "non-Krsna"): (1) hearing, (2) chanting, (3) remembering, (4) serving the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
07:0007:00, 30 September 2022 diff hist +46,906‎ It is in the polluted state that the conception of non-Krsna comes. In the pure state, however, there is nothing but Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current

15:4115:41, 28 September 2022 diff hist +1,797‎ When the great personality Prahlada Maharaja saw that the Supreme Lord was sitting there, surrounded and worshiped by His intimate associates like Sunanda, he was overwhelmed with tears of jubilation ‎No edit summary
15:4115:41, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,894‎ The ruler Bhadrasrava and his intimate associates utter the following prayer: We offer our respectful obeisances unto the SPG, the reservoir of all religious principles, who cleanses the heart of the conditioned soul in this material world ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 28 September 2022 diff hist +5,925‎ The events of the rest (after twenty-four years) of Caitanya Mahaprabhu's forty-eight years were recorded in the diary of Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, another (like Murari Gupta) of His intimate associates ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 28 September 2022 diff hist +6,213‎ These intimate associates (Sri Ramananda Raya and Sri Svarupa Damodara Gosvami) of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu helped the Lord very much in the pastimes in which He felt like Radharani ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 28 September 2022 diff hist +2,072‎ Before His personal appearance, the Lord causes some of His devotees to appear as His mother, father and intimate associates. He then appears later as if He were taking birth and growing from a baby to a child and gradually into a youth ‎No edit summary current
14:2614:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,444‎ Without intelligence one cannot understand the direct activities of the senses, nor can he understand dreaming or the cessation of all gross and subtle activities ‎No edit summary current
14:2614:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,571‎ Without intelligence, nobody can understand Krsna philosophy. Dull-headed, poor fund of knowledge, they cannot understand Krsna ‎No edit summary current
14:2614:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,896‎ The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without intelligence? ‎No edit summary current
11:2811:28, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,031‎ The potent words of such realized souls (saints and sages) penetrate the heart, thereby eradicating all misgivings accumulated through years of undesirable association ‎No edit summary current
11:2711:27, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,240‎ The first degradation is undesirable association, the first degradation; then no more respect for scriptural injunction, second degradation ‎No edit summary current
11:2611:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +11,820‎ It so happens sometimes that one surrenders himself unto the service of the Lord by some temporary sentiment, and in the long run, due to so many other reasons, he falls down from the path of service by undesirable association ‎No edit summary current
11:2611:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +9,647‎ By self-control one can be free from false hopes, and money can be saved by avoiding undesirable association ‎No edit summary current
11:2611:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,765‎ Association with a devotee, the mercy of Krsna, and the nature of devotional service help one to give up all undesirable association and gradually attain elevation to the platform of love of Godhead ‎No edit summary
11:2611:26, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,756‎ An intelligent man should give up such undesirable association and should always mix with saintly persons. When he is in association with saintly persons, all his doubts about the spiritual expansion of life are eradicated ‎No edit summary current
11:1911:19, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,089‎ To insult a chaste woman means to bring about disaster in the duration of life. Duhsasana, a brother of Duryodhana, insulted Draupadi, an ideal chaste lady, and therefore the miscreants died untimely ‎No edit summary current
11:1911:19, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,086‎ Gandhari was an ideal chaste lady, a life companion of her husband, and therefore when she saw her husband burning in the fire of mystic yoga along with his cottage of leaves, she despaired ‎No edit summary current
11:1911:19, 28 September 2022 diff hist +12,595‎ Gandhari: The ideal chaste lady in the history of the world. She was the daughter of Maharaja Subala, the King of Gandhara (now Kandahar in Kabul), and in her maiden state she worshiped Lord Siva ‎No edit summary current
11:1711:17, 28 September 2022 diff hist +21,672‎ Krsna says, "Yes, it (heat) is My energy." So my knowledge is perfect. Because I take the version of the greatest scientist, I am the greatest scientist ‎No edit summary current
11:1711:17, 28 September 2022 diff hist +9‎ I may be a fool personally, but because I take knowledge from the greatest scientist (Krsna), I am the greatest scientist. I have no difficulty ‎No edit summary current
11:1711:17, 28 September 2022 diff hist +2,238‎ I am transcendental, beyond both the fallible and the infallible, and because I am the greatest, I am celebrated both in the world and in the Vedas as that Supreme Person. BG 15.18 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
11:1611:16, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,585‎ Because I am transcendental, beyond both the fallible and the infallible, and because I am the greatest, I am celebrated both in the world and in the Vedas as that Supreme Person ‎No edit summary current
11:1011:10, 28 September 2022 diff hist −15‎ We have prescribed in our Society that all our students must chant at least sixteen rounds daily. Such chanting must be offenseless in order to be of high quality ‎No edit summary current
11:1011:10, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,431‎ I am always pleased and looking forward to seeing more beautiful pictures in our books. In India we make life members simply from the high quality and appearance of our books with illustrations. Our society is unrivalled in this respect ‎No edit summary current
11:1011:10, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,241‎ In India we make life members simply from the high quality and appearance of our books with illustrations. Our society is unrivalled in this respect and this is your credit who are working so selflessly to illustrate my books ‎No edit summary current
11:0911:09, 28 September 2022 diff hist +7,609‎ High quality devotee ‎No edit summary current
11:0911:09, 28 September 2022 diff hist +4,867‎ Because the queens accepted the high quality of devotional service, namely administering the Lord all comforts, the Lord played the part of a faithful and complete husband ‎No edit summary current
11:0711:07, 28 September 2022 diff hist −13‎ A devotee acts completely under the direction of the Supreme Lord. Thus his actions may not appear to be of a very high quality to the common man, but the devotee has no responsibility ‎No edit summary current
09:0609:06, 28 September 2022 diff hist −13‎ The social construction of the world has changed so much that there is no possibility of one's practicing celibacy from the beginning of student life. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
09:0509:05, 28 September 2022 diff hist +6,306‎ The complete social construction is the body of the Lord, and all the parts of the body, namely the brahmanas, the ksatriyas, the vaisyas and the sudras, are meant to serve the Lord's whole body conjointly ‎No edit summary current
09:0409:04, 28 September 2022 diff hist +5,985‎ Indirectly it is said that the whole Vedic social construction of human society is so made that everyone acts as a part and parcel of the complete body of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
06:2906:29, 28 September 2022 diff hist +2,989‎ The blue lotuses are friends of the sun-god, and though they all live together, the blue lotuses plunder the cakravakas. The red lotuses, however, blossom at night and are therefore strangers or enemies to the cakravakas ‎No edit summary
06:2706:27, 28 September 2022 diff hist +3,348‎ This saffron cloth is unfit for a Vaisnava to wear; therefore I (Sanatana Gosvami) have no use for it. I shall give it to a stranger ‎No edit summary

12:5512:55, 26 September 2022 diff hist +5,767‎ Without understanding the intricacies of Krsna, the SP of God, and without knowing His uncommon spiritual opulences, the innocent cowherd boys & men of Vrndavana began to discuss the wonderful activities of Krsna, which surpass the activities of all men ‎No edit summary current
12:5412:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,836‎ Whereas Krsna, the Absolute Truth, the SPG, is full of transcendental bliss, possesses all six spiritual opulences in full, and is the master of the material energy, the small conditioned soul, who is always unhappy, is the servant of the material energy ‎No edit summary
12:5412:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +5,824‎ What is the use of the material body, which automatically leaves its owner at the end of life? & what is the use of all one's family members, who are actually plunderers taking away money that is useful for the service of the Lord in spiritual opulence? ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,728‎ Krsna said to Uddhava, "Even if they are offered the four kinds of spiritual opulences, they will refuse to accept them. So what to speak of their desiring anything within the material world" ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,858‎ Everything about the Supreme Personality of Godhead is spiritual, including His body, opulence and paraphernalia. Mayavada philosophy, however, covering His spiritual opulence, advocates the theory of impersonalism ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,657‎ According to direct understanding, the Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has all spiritual opulences. No one can be equal to or greater than Him ‎No edit summary current
12:5112:51, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,934‎ Nondevotees, because of their meager knowledge and speculative habits, cannot understand the real nature of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
12:5012:50, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,984‎ Impersonalists who depend upon the strength of their poor fund of knowledge and morbid speculative habits cannot penetrate to the mysterious region of transcendence where the Supreme Truth is a transcendental person ‎No edit summary current
12:5012:50, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,185‎ For a neophyte devotee there are two kinds of persons whose association is undesirable: (2) unbelievers who do not serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead but serve their senses and their mental whims in terms of their speculative habits ‎No edit summary current
12:4812:48, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,134‎ As there are schools and colleges to train students to become chemical engineers, lawyers or specialists in many other departments of knowledge, there must be schools and colleges to train students to become brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas, sudras ‎No edit summary current
12:4812:48, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,204‎ As there are schools & colleges to train students to become chemical engineers, lawyers or specialists in many other departments of knowledge, there must be schools and colleges to train students to become brahmacaris, grhasthas, vanaprasthas & sannyasis ‎No edit summary current
10:1110:11, 26 September 2022 diff hist +10,858‎ The conditioned soul is very proud of becoming the husband of even one wife, but the Lord laughs at this; the intelligent man can know who is the real husband. Factually, the Lord is the husband of all the women in His creation ‎No edit summary current
10:1010:10, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,203‎ The chaste and very beautiful Sukanya could not distinguish her husband from the two Asvini-kumaras, for they were equally beautiful. Not understanding who her real husband was, she took shelter of the Asvini-kumaras ‎No edit summary current
10:1010:10, 26 September 2022 diff hist +13,917‎ Krsna is the real husband of all living entities, who are described as prakrti (female), not purusa (male) ‎No edit summary current
10:1010:10, 26 September 2022 diff hist +5,742‎ Krsna is the real husband not only of the gopis, but of every living entity. Everyone should perfectly understand that Krsna is the real husband of all living entities, who are described in the Bhagavad-gita as prakrti (female), not purusa (male) ‎No edit summary current
10:0910:09, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,744‎ King Vena replied: You are not at all experienced. It is very much regrettable that you are maintaining something which is not religious and are accepting it as religious. Indeed, I think you are giving up your real husband, who maintains you ‎No edit summary current
10:0910:09, 26 September 2022 diff hist +6,094‎ Factually the only real husband of all women is Krsna, the supreme husband. Because the gopis were liberated souls, they understood this fact. Therefore they rejected their material husbands and accepted Krsna as their real husband ‎No edit summary current
08:5408:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +4,488‎ The determined faith (in Supreme Lord) is called drdha-vrata, & it is the beginning of bhakti-yoga or transcendental loving service. That is the verdict of all scriptures. This Seventh Chapter of the Gita is the substance of that conviction. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary current
08:5408:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,945‎ Without being qualified, one cannot become a brahmana or medical practitioner, and that is the verdict of all scriptures and social orders ‎No edit summary current
07:4107:41, 26 September 2022 diff hist +39‎ No one is equal to or greater than Him, and that is the verdict of all scriptures ‎No edit summary current
07:4107:41, 26 September 2022 diff hist +5,339‎ If one is serious about escaping maya's influence and returning home, back to Godhead, one must associate with a sadhu (devotee). That is the verdict of all scriptures ‎No edit summary current
07:4107:41, 26 September 2022 diff hist +5,013‎ Determined faith is called drdha-vrata, and it is the beginning of bhakti-yoga, or transcendental loving service. That is the verdict of all scriptures ‎No edit summary current
05:1705:17, 26 September 2022 diff hist −9‎ We are all under authority, yet we say that we don't want authority. This is called maya, illusion. We do, however, have a certain independence - we can choose to be under the authority of our senses or the authority of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
05:1705:17, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,658‎ Guru refers to one who gives proper direction under the authority of the Vedic injunctions and according to the examples of the lives of great personalities. The best way to mold one's life is to follow in the footsteps of the authorized personalities ‎No edit summary
04:5604:56, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,363‎ When the yogi is controlled by the mind, he falls down into the material condition. One should be very careful of the mind, just as a husband should be careful of an unchaste wife ‎No edit summary current
04:5504:55, 26 September 2022 diff hist +12,479‎ The purpose is that our mind is like that, pumscali, unchaste wife. Not that everyone is unchaste. We have got many example, the character of woman ‎No edit summary current
04:5504:55, 26 September 2022 diff hist +2,152‎ My dear Uddhava, that man is certainly most miserable who takes care of a cow that gives no milk, an unchaste wife, a body totally dependent on others, useless children or wealth not utilized for the right purpose ‎No edit summary current
04:5504:55, 26 September 2022 diff hist +1,898‎ My dear gentle wife, because you have worshiped me with great devotion, considering me a representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, I shall reward you by fulfilling your desires, which are unobtainable for an unchaste wife ‎No edit summary current
04:5404:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +8,097‎ Lord Krsna said, "Actually, one cannot be happy without executing his proper prescribed duty. One who does not, therefore, properly discharge his prescribed duties is compared to an unchaste wife" ‎No edit summary current
04:5404:54, 26 September 2022 diff hist +3,727‎ An uncontrolled mind and an unchaste wife are the same. An unchaste wife can kill her husband at any time, and an uncontrolled mind, followed by lust, anger, greed, madness, envy and illusion, can certainly kill the yogi ‎No edit summary current
04:4204:42, 26 September 2022 diff hist +1,798‎ I shall try to teach the local boys in the way of performing Sankirtana in a circle ‎No edit summary current

14:4914:49, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,952‎ This Krsna consciousness movement is a self-purification movement. The method is vibration of transcendental sound. This Hare Krsna, this sound, is not material sound. It is descended from the spiritual world ‎No edit summary
14:4914:49, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,674‎ One should attempt to write for self-purification. It may be published or it may not be published, but that does not matter ‎No edit summary current
14:4814:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,385‎ No one can count the unlimited followers of Nityananda Prabhu. I have mentioned some of them just for my self-purification ‎No edit summary current
14:4814:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,859‎ It is by the mercy of all these Vaisnavas and gurus that I attempt to write about the pastimes and qualities of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Whether I know it or know not, it is for self-purification that I write this book ‎No edit summary current
14:4814:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,576‎ If we want peace and prosperity in the world, we should take lessons from this verse; every state and every home must endeavor to advance the cause of 1) brahminical culture for self-purification ‎No edit summary current
14:4714:47, 24 September 2022 diff hist +81,252‎ By this process of karma-yoga, one gradually attains self-purification, then transcendental knowledge, next perfect meditation, and ultimately transcendental service to the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
12:2812:28, 24 September 2022 diff hist +20,025‎ Unfortunately, at the present moment, the word guru refers to someone who can give bodily medicine ‎No edit summary current
12:2812:28, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,808‎ The word guru refers to the spiritual master who initiates his disciple into advancement in the science of Krsna, or Krsna consciousness, as stated by Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura - sri-bhagavan-mantropadesake gurav ity arthah ‎No edit summary current
12:2712:27, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,658‎ The word guru refers to ‎No edit summary current
12:2712:27, 24 September 2022 diff hist +20,203‎ The word guru means "heavy," heavy with knowledge. And what is that knowledge? Tad-vijnana. That heaviness is brahma-nistha - attachment to Brahman and to Para-brahman, Bhagavan. That is the guru's qualification ‎No edit summary current
12:2612:26, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,183‎ The word guru may be translated as "heavy," or "the supreme" ‎No edit summary current
12:2512:25, 24 September 2022 diff hist +9,651‎ The word guru is equally applicable to the vartma-pradarsaka-guru, siksa-guru and diksa-guru. Unless we accept the principle enunciated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, this Krsna consciousness movement cannot spread all over the world ‎No edit summary current
12:2412:24, 24 September 2022 diff hist +27‎ The word guru-prasada indicates that the spiritual master is very merciful in bestowing the boon of devotional service upon the disciple. That is the best possible gift the spiritual master has to offer ‎No edit summary current
12:2312:23, 24 September 2022 diff hist +9‎ There is specific mention of the word gurum, which indicates the Supreme Personality as caitya-guru ‎No edit summary current
12:2012:20, 24 September 2022 diff hist +6,915‎ From all angles of vision the word guru is especially meant for the bona fide representative of Krsna and no one else ‎No edit summary current
11:2111:21, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,664‎ One should always be careful to keep his body clean by bathing, brushing teeth, changing clothes, etc. As far as internal cleanliness is concerned, one should always remember the holy names of God and chant Hare Krsna (maha-mantra). BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
11:1811:18, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,198‎ You have manifested all these transcendental truths in my heart. This is exactly the way Narayana educated Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary current
11:1811:18, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,759‎ There is a variety of transcendental truths - the truth about Krsna, the truth about Radharani, the truth about Their loving affairs, the truth about transcendental humors, and the truth about the Lord's pastimes ‎No edit summary current
11:1711:17, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,059‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has personally preached the transcendental truths and mellows of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Srimad-Bhagavatam and the Supreme Personality of Godhead are identical, for Srimad-Bhagavatam is the sound incarnation of Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary
10:5110:51, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,083‎ The ideal husband-and-wife relationship is very nicely described in this statement. Kardama Muni gave Devahuti all sorts of comforts in his duty as a husband, but he was not at all attached to his wife ‎No edit summary current
10:5110:51, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,210‎ Siva is very peaceful and very great devotee and most powerful at the same time. So that is the ideal husband ‎No edit summary current
10:5010:50, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,074‎ No ideal husbands and wives ‎No edit summary current
10:5010:50, 24 September 2022 diff hist +7,303‎ Lord Krsna and His queens remained together as husband and wife, and Krsna, as an ideal husband, treated them in such a way that at every moment there was an increase of transcendental bliss in their smiling exchanges, talking and mixing ‎No edit summary current
10:4910:49, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,243‎ In Hindu society, unmarried girls are still taught to worship Lord Siva with the idea that they may get husbands like him. Lord Siva is the ideal husband, not in the sense of riches or sense gratification, but because he is the greatest of all devotees ‎No edit summary current
10:4910:49, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,601‎ Ideal husband-and-wife relationship ‎No edit summary current
10:4810:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,919‎ As Lord Ramacandra is the ideal husband (eka-patni-vrata), mother Sita is the ideal wife. Such a combination makes family life very happy. Yad yad acarati sresthas tat tad evetaro janah: whatever example a great man sets, common people follow ‎No edit summary current
10:4810:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +8‎ As an ideal husband, Lord Jagannatha remained fifteen days in a secluded place with His wife, the supreme goddess of fortune. Nonetheless, the Lord wanted to come out of seclusion to give happiness to His devotees ‎No edit summary current
10:4810:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,039‎ An ideal husband and wife are generally called Laksmi-Narayana to compare them to the Lord and the goddess of fortune, for it is significant that Laksmi-Narayana are forever happy as husband and wife ‎No edit summary current
10:2510:25, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,098‎ Its limbs were so beautiful that they increased the beauty of the ornaments worn on different parts of His body ‎No edit summary current
10:2510:25, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,019‎ In His early pastimes He appears as a householder with a golden complexion. His limbs are beautiful, and His body, smeared with the pulp of sandalwood, seems like molten gold ‎No edit summary current
10:2410:24, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,888‎ His (Lord Visnu's) arms stretched down to His knees, and all His beautiful limbs were smeared with sandalwood and decorated with glittering ornaments. He wore yellow clothes, and by either side stood His energies Bhumi and Nila ‎No edit summary current
10:2310:23, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,614‎ Bali Maharaja, jubilant at seeing Lord Vamanadeva, whose beautiful limbs contributed equally to the beauty of His entire body, offered Him a seat with great satisfaction ‎No edit summary current
10:1210:12, 24 September 2022 diff hist +9,591‎ The man who worships the Lord, the Lord Himself who is worshiped, the cause for which the Lord is worshiped, the source of supply, the place where such worship is done, etc. - everything is benefited by such an action ‎No edit summary current
10:1210:12, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,705‎ The Lord supplies the necessities of all living entities. These necessities come from the earth, and thus the earth is the source of supply ‎No edit summary current
10:1210:12, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,557‎ The example given here (in SB 10.4.19) is that pots and dolls are produced from the earth, and when broken or destroyed they mingle with their original ingredients. In any case, the source of supply remains the same ‎No edit summary
10:1110:11, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,033‎ Pasturing ground for the cows - the grass is produced by rains, and the animals, they eat the grass, and they produce milk. You require milk. So everything, the main source of supply is the rainfall from the sky ‎No edit summary current
10:1110:11, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,310‎ A son's duty is not only to make the father the source of supply for all his needs, but also, when he is grown up, to render service unto him. That is the law of creation beginning from the time of Brahma ‎No edit summary current
10:0310:03, 24 September 2022 diff hist −14‎ The silkworm wraps itself in a cocoon made of its own saliva, until he is in a prison from which he cannot escape. In the same way, a materialistic householder's entanglement becomes so tight that he cannot come out of the cocoon of family attraction ‎No edit summary current
10:0310:03, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,688‎ The influence of the modes of nature is very strong. The living entity entangled in different types of fruitive activity is like a silkworm trapped in a cocoon. Getting free is very difficult unless he is helped by the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,478‎ The attached householder is like a silkworm, which weaves a cocoon in which it becomes imprisoned, unable to get out. Simply for the satisfaction of two important senses - the genitals and the tongue - one is bound by material conditions ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 24 September 2022 diff hist −14‎ Now Prahlada Maharaja makes a further statement about the complications of material life. He compares the attached householder to the silkworm ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,181‎ If we do not act in Krsna consciousness we shall be entangled, like silkworms in cocoons. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, appears in order to teach us how to work so that we will not be entangled in this material world ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,808‎ He (the foolish embodied living entity, inept at controlling his senses and mind) is like a silkworm that uses its own saliva to create a cocoon and then becomes trapped in it, with no possibility of getting out ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,761‎ A living being is entrapped by his fruitive activities, exactly like a silkworm trapped in its own cocoon. Foolish persons are generally encaged by their fruitive actions (karma) because of a strong desire to enjoy this material world ‎No edit summary current
09:0409:04, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,645‎ In the Twentieth Chapter the Lord's meeting with Sanatana Gosvami is described. The Lord described the personal features of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in depth ‎No edit summary
09:0409:04, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,293‎ A challenging spirit before the spiritual master should be avoided if one is at all interested in learning the Vedic instructions in depth ‎No edit summary
09:0409:04, 24 September 2022 diff hist +39,069‎ There is but one way to perceive things in the depth of darkness. Only if somebody brings a light into the darkness is it truly possible to see things as they are. Similarly, the light of knowledge is kindled by our preceptors ‎No edit summary current
09:0309:03, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,906‎ O Maharaja Pariksit, subduer of enemies, this Revata constructed a kingdom known as Kusasthali in the depths of the ocean. There he lived and ruled such tracts of land as Anarta, etc. He had one hundred very nice sons, of whom the eldest was Kakudmi ‎No edit summary current
09:0309:03, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,093‎ The impression (of a previous life) is there in the stockpile of the mind, and it suddenly expresses itself. It is like fermentation taking place in the depths of water, which sometimes manifests itself in bubbles on the water's surface ‎No edit summary current
08:5908:59, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,866‎ The wrongdoer is misled by bad associates and by ill advice, which is against the established principles of the Lord's order, and thus he becomes subject to punishment ‎No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 24 September 2022 diff hist +6,877‎ The King of Kalinga was a friend of Rukmi and gave him the ill advice to play chess with Balarama and thus defeat Him in a bet. Among ksatriya kings, gambling on chess was not uncommon ‎No edit summary
08:5808:58, 24 September 2022 diff hist +7,637‎ In spite of this divine voice (voice from sky), Rukmi insisted that Balarama had lost, and by his persistence it appeared that he had death upon his head. Falsely puffed up by the ill advice of his friend, he did not give much importance to the oracle ‎No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,914‎ Falsely puffed up by the ill advice of his friend, Rukmi did not give much importance to the oracle, and he began to criticize Balaramaji ‎No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,902‎ Duryodhana was bereft of his fortune and duration of life because of the intricacy of ill advice given by Karna, Duhsasana and Saubala ‎No edit summary current
08:5208:52, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,852‎ The atmosphere is already polluted with corruption of all description, and everyone knows it well. There are so many unwanted literatures full of materialistic ideas of sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
08:5208:52, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,207‎ One should reject all ideas of religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and liberation and fully engage in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
08:5208:52, 24 September 2022 diff hist +6,506‎ Mucukunda continued, "I wanted to be the master of the whole world, and as I became puffed up with ideas of sense gratification, my bodily concept of life became stronger and stronger" ‎No edit summary current
08:5108:51, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,343‎ Mind is the center of all the activities of the senses, and thus the mind is the reservoir of all ideas of sense gratification; and, as a result, the mind and the senses become the repositories of lust. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

13:4313:43, 17 September 2022 diff hist +6,148‎ We have got already fifteen branches as follows: New York City; Boston; San Francisco; Vancouver, B.C.; Canada; Honolulu, Hawaii; New Vrindaban, an ideal Krishna Consciousness community; and London, England; and Berlin, Germany ‎No edit summary current
13:4313:43, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,904‎ The ideal Krishna Conscious community ‎No edit summary current
13:4213:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,117‎ Our ideal Vedic community will attract everyone on its own merit ‎No edit summary current
13:4213:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +7,740‎ Living as an ideal community ‎No edit summary current
13:4213:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,916‎ I am going in a few days to San Francisco to speak at the San Francisco State University there on the topic of "Krsna Consciousness: The Best Alternative Life Style, the Ideal Community, the New Social Order" ‎No edit summary current
13:4113:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +2,515‎ Go on developing New Vrindaban into an ideal community, and I shall be pleased to see the new additions when I come there ‎No edit summary current
13:4113:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +2,019‎ Be very serious to develop New Vrindaban nicely so that we can show the world how the ideal God-conscious community is working ‎No edit summary current
13:4113:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,073‎ Before I came to your country, I was thinking to establish an ideal Vedic community ‎No edit summary current
13:3613:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +2,439‎ There is no hindrance of your being a householder so far as distributing books are concerned. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu had many householder disciples who would preach Krishna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current
13:3613:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,076‎ I am especially proud how my householder disciples are preaching Lord Caitanya's Mission. This is a new thing in the history of the Sankirtana Movement ‎No edit summary current
13:3513:35, 17 September 2022 diff hist +35‎ All the temples of Vrndavana were certainly started by the Six Gosvamis. Later the worship in the temples was entrusted to some householder disciples of the Gosvamis, and since then the hereditary title of gosvami has been used ‎No edit summary
13:1013:10, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,950‎ You have learned the life of a Sannyasi now it is my desire that you apply for some concrete results in this new field. If you do it, it will be a very great service to the Movement & humanity at large & I will be very pleased with this work ‎No edit summary current
13:1013:10, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,293‎ You are by managing the temple as a president you are doing a very great service to humanity. So please continue in this way and make it nicer and nicer ‎No edit summary current
13:0913:09, 17 September 2022 diff hist +5,076‎ Yes, if you can inject this Krishna Consciousness to the young children, it will be a great service to the humanity and to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
13:0813:08, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,964‎ The spreading of this Sankirtana Movement is the best service to the greater humanity and all living entities in general because it revives the divine nature of the soul in Krsna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current
13:0713:07, 17 September 2022 diff hist +2,261‎ The spell of Maya is very strong, and to save a living entity from such clutches is the greatest service to the humanity ‎No edit summary current
13:0613:06, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,853‎ Simply your sincerity of service is required and He will dictate from within you how to make your thesis. It will be a great service to the humanity, especially to the Western world ‎No edit summary current
13:0613:06, 17 September 2022 diff hist −24‎ Our married couples are rendering the greatest service to humanity, their countrymen, and to their parents, of that kindly be assured by me. Do not worry for anything in this connection ‎No edit summary current
13:0513:05, 17 September 2022 diff hist +5,339‎ Our married couples are rendering the greatest service to humanity, their countrymen, and to their parents, of that kindly be assured by me ‎No edit summary current
12:5812:58, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,605‎ Now each one of us has got a great responsibility to spread this movement as far as possible and that is the greatest service to the suffering humanity ‎No edit summary current
12:5712:57, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,551‎ Murari Gupta could treat both bodily and spiritual disease because he was a physician by profession and a great devotee of the Lord in terms of spiritual advancement. This is an example of service to humanity ‎No edit summary current
12:5512:55, 17 September 2022 diff hist +8,125‎ I request you, all English boys and girls present here, now you become greater than your forefathers by taking this Krsna consciousness. That will make you more powerful, spiritually powerful. You can render service to the humanity ‎No edit summary current
12:5412:54, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,154‎ In our books we have scientifically covered demons & if these books are introduced in the schools & colleges, so many beautiful souls will be saved. Your are doing a great service to humanity to introduce our books to the people in general ‎No edit summary current
12:5412:54, 17 September 2022 diff hist +8,075‎ If you (David Lawrence) take that process and allow this Krsna consciousness among the students, oh, it will be great service to the humanity. As a teacher, you will give the greatest service ‎No edit summary current
12:5412:54, 17 September 2022 diff hist +9,473‎ As soon as he hears "Krsna," oh, he advances immediately one step. So this is the nicest and the great service to the humanity. Chant Hare Krsna. And then they'll be profited ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 17 September 2022 diff hist +10,663‎ All great men or great personalities who have appeared on this earth and rendered great service to the humanity, they are still remembered ‎No edit summary current
12:3912:39, 17 September 2022 diff hist +6,879‎ This tattva of Lord Caitanya's is shared by all four sampradayas of the Vaisnava school (all accepting eternal servitude to the Lord even after salvation), and there is no authorized Vaisnava acarya who may think of the Lord and himself as one ‎No edit summary
12:3912:39, 17 September 2022 diff hist +11,003‎ The great acaryas of the four Vaisnava communities (sampradayas) - namely, Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu Svami and Nimbarka - have also written commentaries on the Vedanta-sutra by following the principles of Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
12:3812:38, 17 September 2022 diff hist +6,710‎ The examples of Brahma and Lord Siva are specifically cited here because Brahmaji, Lord Siva, Srimati Laksmiji and the four Kumaras (Sanaka, Sanatana, etc.) are leaders of the four desireless Vaisnava sampradayas. They are all freed from all pretensions ‎No edit summary
12:3812:38, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,006‎ They (the Kumaras) have their sampradaya (disciplic succession), and even to date the sampradaya is being maintained and is known as the Nimbarka-sampradaya. Out of the four sampradayas of the Vaisnava acaryas, the Nimbarka-sampradaya is one ‎No edit summary current
12:3712:37, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,730‎ There are four Vaisnava sampradayas (systems) of disciplic succession. One sampradaya comes from Lord Brahma, one from the goddess of fortune, one from Sanat-kumara, and one from Lord Siva. These four systems of disciplic succession are still going on ‎No edit summary current
12:3712:37, 17 September 2022 diff hist +8,981‎ Nonviolence can be practiced only when we follow in the footsteps of great acaryas. Therefore, according to our Vaisnava philosophy, we have to follow the great acaryas of the four sampradayas, or disciplic successions ‎No edit summary current
12:3612:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +6,181‎ Leaders of the four desireless Vaisnava sampradayas ‎No edit summary current
12:3512:35, 17 September 2022 diff hist +2,672‎ In the philosophy section there should be a class dealing with all the Vaisnava philosophies (the four sampradayas). Music class can be based on the Sama Veda. In the Political Science class Maharaja Prthu's life may also be studied ‎No edit summary current
12:3412:34, 17 September 2022 diff hist +6,533‎ Brahmaji, Lord Siva, Srimati Laksmiji and the four Kumaras (Sanaka, Sanatana, etc.) are leaders of the four desireless Vaisnava sampradayas ‎No edit summary
12:3412:34, 17 September 2022 diff hist +25,826‎ All the great acaryas of the four Vaisnava sampradayas have made commentaries on the Vedanta-sutra, but the so-called devotees known as prakrta-sahajiya carefully avoid the study of Vedanta-sutra ‎No edit summary current
11:5311:53, 17 September 2022 diff hist +2,944‎ Yasoda pleased her son Krsna without understanding His Godhood (but when Krsna appeared as the son of Devaki and Vasudeva, Vasudeva worshiped his son as Lord Visnu). This is the difference between Krsna as the son of Yasoda and as the son of Devaki ‎No edit summary current
11:5311:53, 17 September 2022 diff hist +6,492‎ With the knowledge of the Godhood of Krsna, Yasodamayi would have lost the temper of her love for Krsna as a natural mother ‎No edit summary current
11:5211:52, 17 September 2022 diff hist +21‎ When an incarnation gives up the understanding of His Godhood and plays the part of a servitor, He enjoys a greater taste of transcendental mellows than when He plays the part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
11:5211:52, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,794‎ All these acts are transcendental and certainly prove without any doubt His Godhood ‎No edit summary current
11:4811:48, 17 September 2022 diff hist +1,668‎ Vrtrasura said, "O most abominable one, when I pierce your stonelike heart with my trident, I shall be freed from my debt to my brother" ‎No edit summary current
11:4811:48, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,644‎ The son of a brahmana must undergo celibacy (brahmacarya) to clear his debts to the saintly persons, he must perform ritualistic ceremonies to clear his debts to the demigods, and he must beget children to become free from his debts to his father ‎No edit summary current
11:4811:48, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,084‎ Prajapati Daksa said: My sons were not at all freed from their three debts. Indeed, they did not properly consider their obligations ‎No edit summary current
11:4711:47, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,812‎ Everyone is indebted to the demigods, to living entities in general, to his family, to the pitas and so on, but if one fully surrenders to Krsna, Mukunda, who can give one liberation, even if one performs no yajnas, one is freed from all debts ‎No edit summary current

15:5415:54, 11 September 2022 diff hist +2,771‎ When your mind is no longer disturbed by the flowery language of the Vedas, and when it remains fixed in the trance of self-realization, then you will have attained the Divine consciousness. BG 2.53 - 1972 ‎No edit summary
15:5315:53, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,208‎ The Vedic performances are meant for those whose intelligence has been dulled by the flowery language of the Vedas, which describe fruitive activities intended to elevate one to the higher planets ‎No edit summary current
15:5315:53, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,101‎ The less intelligent class of men (avipascitah), attracted by the flowery language of the Vedas, engage in fruitive activities to become materially benefited. Thus they continue life after life, in different bodily forms, to search very, very hard ‎No edit summary current
15:5315:53, 11 September 2022 diff hist +2,699‎ In Bhagavad-gita, it is said that this flowery language of the Vedas mostly attracts persons who identify with the body. To them such happiness as that of the heavenly kingdom is everything ‎No edit summary current
15:5215:52, 11 September 2022 diff hist −5‎ A Krsna conscious person, or unflinching devotee of the Lord, should not be disturbed by the flowery language of the Vedas nor be engaged in fruitive activities for promotion to the heavenly kingdom. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
14:4414:44, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,192‎ The Vedic wisdom forbids us to be attracted by false beauty. But because we are now in the darkness of ignorance, the Vedic civilization allows very restricted mixing of woman and man ‎No edit summary current
14:4414:44, 11 September 2022 diff hist +3,167‎ The real beauty is Krsna and Radha. One who is attracted by the beauty of Radha and Krsna cannot be attracted by the false beauty of this material world. That is the difference between a demon and a godly person or devotee ‎No edit summary
14:4314:43, 11 September 2022 diff hist +2,669‎ The mentality of the demons in being enamored by the false beauty of this material world is expressed herein. The demoniac can pay any price for the skin beauty of this material world ‎No edit summary current
14:4214:42, 11 September 2022 diff hist +3,070‎ Decorate the Deity as nicely as possible with nice flowers and dress. You will forget all other false beauty ‎No edit summary current
14:2214:22, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,415‎ The welcome addresses were full of facts and figures, and those who presented such addresses were sufficiently rewarded ‎No edit summary current
14:2214:22, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,926‎ 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
14:2114:21, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,993‎ Sukadeva Gosvami wants to present the truths of creation not as a metaphysical theory of philosophical speculation but as the actual facts and figures of the subject since he would be dictated to by God exactly in the same manner as Brahmaji was inspired ‎No edit summary current
14:2014:20, 11 September 2022 diff hist +2,086‎ I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) have already given a synopsis of all the facts and figures of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's last pastimes, and I have a desire to describe them elaborately ‎No edit summary current
13:0913:09, 11 September 2022 diff hist +2,601‎ What then is the value of all this advancement of knowledge (philanthropy, internationalism, science, philosophy) if the basic principle is ignorance? Unless a person comes to Krsna consciousness, all of his activities are defeated ‎No edit summary current
13:0913:09, 11 September 2022 diff hist +2,916‎ There are many traditionally pious activities in human society, such as altruism, philanthropy, nationalism, internationalism, charity, sacrifice, penance, and even meditation in trance ‎No edit summary current
13:0913:09, 11 September 2022 diff hist +2,884‎ In our ignorance we may create nationalism, philanthropy, internationalism, science, philosophy and so many other things. The basic principle behind all these is ignorance ‎No edit summary current
13:0813:08, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,640‎ Anyone who misunderstands this perishable body to be the self and who works for it in the name of sociology, politics, philanthropy, altruism, nationalism or internationalism, under the false plea of the bodily conception of life, is certainly a fool ‎No edit summary current
12:4212:42, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,343‎ A person who does not disturb or cause painful action in the mind of any living entity, who treats everyone just like a loving father does his children, whose heart is so pure, certainly very soon becomes favored by the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
12:4212:42, 11 September 2022 diff hist +3,129‎ Krishna has given me many obedient and loving children, even though I am in a foreign country. That is my happiness ‎No edit summary current
12:2412:24, 11 September 2022 diff hist +1,991‎ Those who are known as the impersonalist Vedantists regard You as the impersonal Brahman. Others, known as the Mimamsaka philosophers, regard You as religion ‎No edit summary current
12:2312:23, 11 September 2022 diff hist +1,946‎ The Mimamsaka philosophers conclude that if there is a God, He is subject to our fruitive activities. Similarly, the Sankhya philosophers, who analyze the cosmic manifestation, say that the cause of the cosmos is material nature ‎No edit summary current
12:2312:23, 11 September 2022 diff hist +7,073‎ The Mimamsaka philosophers, following the principles of Jaimini, stress fruitive activity and say that if there is a God, He must be under the laws of fruitive activity ‎No edit summary current
12:2312:23, 11 September 2022 diff hist +3,810‎ The conclusion of the Mimamsaka philosophers that pious activities will lead one to the Absolute Truth is not valid ‎No edit summary current
12:2312:23, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,083‎ The conclusion of the Mimamsaka philosophers is not actually the truth which can lead one to real understanding ‎No edit summary current
12:2312:23, 11 September 2022 diff hist +15‎ There are different types of philosophers - mimamsakas, atheists, astronomers, sexualists and so many other classifications of mental speculators ‎No edit summary current
12:2212:22, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,861‎ Such philosophers (the Mimamsaka philosophers) do not accept the Vedic principle of bhakti-yoga. Instead, they give stress to following one's prescribed duty ‎No edit summary current
12:2212:22, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,380‎ One class of philosophers, known as Mimamsakas, represented by sages such as Jaimini, have concluded that everyone should engage in pious activities or prescribed duties and that such activities will lead one to the highest perfection ‎No edit summary current
12:2212:22, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,907‎ In India there are many parties of philosophers, such as the dvaita-vadis, advaita-vadis, vaisesikas, mimamsakas, Mayavadis and svabhava-vadis, and each of them opposes the others ‎No edit summary current
12:2112:21, 11 September 2022 diff hist +7,027‎ According to these philosophers (the Mimamsaka philosophers), there is no need to become a devotee of God. If one strictly follows moral principles, one will be recognized by the Lord, who will give the desired reward ‎No edit summary current
11:4411:44, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,083‎ When natural feelings of love for Krsna become fully manifest, a devotee can neglect conventional social rules and regulations ‎No edit summary current

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