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30 September 2022
- 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
28 September 2022
- 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
26 September 2022
- 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
24 September 2022
- 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
17 September 2022
- 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
11 September 2022
- 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
- 11:4411:44, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,959 When an individual living entity surrenders to the Supreme Lord, Krsna, he can then develop natural transcendental love for Him. This surrendering process should be the primary concern of a human being No edit summary current
- 11:4311:43, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,665 When an individual living entity surrenders to the Supreme Lord, Krsna, he can then develop natural transcendental love for Him No edit summary current
- 11:4211:42, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,447 The devotees of Vrndavana are also spontaneous lovers. They are not required to strictly follow regulative principles because they are already naturally developed in transcendental love for Krsna No edit summary current
- 11:4211:42, 11 September 2022 diff hist +9,698 Krsna's family and friends never understood that Krsna is God. Their natural love for Krsna was so intense. Therefore Vrndavana life is so exalted No edit summary current
- 11:4211:42, 11 September 2022 diff hist +3,435 In Vrajabhumi, there are no regulative principles set forth for Krsna’s service. Rather, everything is carried out in spontaneous, natural love for Krsna No edit summary current
- 11:4111:41, 11 September 2022 diff hist +7,544 If you do not understand Krsna, if you do not increase your natural love for Krsna, then na mucyate deha-yogena tavat. There is no chance. They have no chance No edit summary current
- 11:4111:41, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,118 Being cultured, educated, very active and religious means developing natural love for Krsna No edit summary current
- 10:1410:14, 11 September 2022 diff hist +9,445 You cannot imagine what my spiritual master said. Or even if you read some books, you cannot understand unless you understand it from me. This is called parampara system. You cannot jump over to the superior guru, neglecting the next acarya No edit summary current
- 10:1310:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,647 Just like a critical student under a professor, he becomes a first-class professor, similarly, a person who is a very rigid student of bona fide acarya, he becomes next acarya No edit summary current
- 10:1310:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,300 Just after his (Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura's) passing away, his leading secretaries made plans, without authority, to occupy the post of acarya, and they split into two factions over who the next acarya would be No edit summary current
- 10:1210:12, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,942 Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, at the time of his departure, requested all his disciples to form a governing body and conduct missionary activities cooperatively. He did not instruct a particular man to become the next acarya No edit summary
- 10:1210:12, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,531 Bhaktisiddhanta did not instruct a particular man to become the next acarya No edit summary current
- 09:2609:26, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,708 If you are not ideal, then it will be useless to open center. You behave nicely, they will come, they will see, and they will learn. If you go to some school and the professors are rascals, then what you will learn? It is both, reciprocal No edit summary current
- 09:1709:17, 11 September 2022 diff hist +1,985 You should also describe the duties to be observed every month, and you should especially describe the observance of ceremonies like Janmastami, Rama-navami and Nrsimha-caturdasi No edit summary
- 09:1509:15, 11 September 2022 diff hist +2,523 The Nrsimha temple (in Puri) is a nice temple just outside the Gundica temple. In this temple there is a great festival on the day of Nrsimha-caturdasi. There is also a Nrsimha temple at Navadvipa where the same festival is observed No edit summary current
- 09:1309:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +40,880 One must follow the duties of the month and observe ceremonies like the birthday of the Lord, the three specific dates of fasting Ekadasi, Janmastami, Vamanadvadasi, Sri Ramanavami and Nrsimhacaturdasi No edit summary
- 09:1309:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +39,550 Observing the various types of festivals, such as Sri Janmastami, Rama-navami and Nrsimha-caturdasi, is also included in the process of Deity worship. In other words, it is compulsory for householder devotees to observe these festivals No edit summary current
- 09:0609:06, 11 September 2022 diff hist +3,748 That one can transcend this material world does not imply that there is no transcendental variegatedness No edit summary current
- 09:0309:03, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,917 Anything done without the satisfaction of Visnu, or Yajna, produces bondage, so here it is also prescribed by Kapila Muni that one can transcend material entanglement by acting in Krsna consciousness, which means seriously engaging in devotional service No edit summary current
- 08:3808:38, 11 September 2022 diff hist −13 There is always competition amongst karmis, either in ordinary business affairs or in the performance of yajna. Lord Brahma's purpose was to end the competition between Lord Indra and Maharaja Prthu No edit summary current
- 08:3808:38, 11 September 2022 diff hist +2,583 There are many competitors in ordinary business affairs, and the karma-kanda chapters of the Vedas sometimes cause competition and envy amongst karmis No edit summary current
- 08:3708:37, 11 September 2022 diff hist +1,818 Raghunatha dasa was inwardly completely renounced, even in family life, but he did not express his renunciation externally. Instead, he acted just like an ordinary businessman. Seeing this, his father and mother were satisfied No edit summary current
- 08:3708:37, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,969 Process of concocting an incarnation of God has become an ordinary business, especially in Bengal. Any popular personality with a few traits of mystic powers will display some feat of jugglery and easily become an incarnation of Godhead by popular vote No edit summary current
- 08:3708:37, 11 September 2022 diff hist +81,056 Although we may take so many precautions against these vices and sinful reactions, even in the course of ordinary business exchanges and ventures we have to commit so many sins No edit summary current
- 08:2208:22, 11 September 2022 diff hist +6,608 On both sides of every path (in Dvaraka) there were bushes, and at regular intervals there were large trees that shaded the avenues so that the sunshine would not bother the passersby No edit summary current
- 08:2208:22, 11 September 2022 diff hist +5,853 At the present moment if one man is attacked, the passersby will not care for it because they have lost their sympathy or mercifulness for others. Our neighbor may starve, but we don't care for it No edit summary current
- 08:2108:21, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,993 As they rode from Vrndavana to Mathura, all the passersby along the way who saw Krsna and Balarama could not help but look at Them again and again No edit summary current
- 08:1408:14, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,177 With sword in hand, intelligent men cut through the binding knots of reactionary work (karma) by remembering the Personality of Godhead. Therefore, who will not pay attention to His message No edit summary current
- 08:1408:14, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,200 When Madhumangala, an intimate friend of Krsna, was dancing before Krsna in a joking manner, no one was paying attention to him No edit summary current
- 08:1408:14, 11 September 2022 diff hist +2,855 Whatever you might write due to false pride, trying to surpass Sridhara Svami, would carry a contrary purport. Therefore no one would pay attention to it No edit summary current
- 08:1308:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +7,720 The child became angry because He (Krsna) was hungry and His mother was not paying attention to Him. So He lifted His legs and began to kick His lotus feet just like an ordinary child No edit summary current
- 08:1308:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +3,277 One who has knowledge of the soul and how the soul transmigrates from one body to another does not pay attention to the body, which is nothing but a covering dress No edit summary current
- 08:1308:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,260 If our temples cannot even be maintained then it is a great defect in our management of the society. Neither can I be expected to deal in these matters and also pay attention fully to the translating of my books No edit summary current
- 08:1308:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +1,424 Did He or did He not pay attention while you offered Him obeisances? Kindly give evidence supporting your words No edit summary current
- 08:1308:13, 11 September 2022 diff hist +4,423 Before that (war, pestilence, famine and so on), they (atheistic political leaders) pay no attention to God, not caring to know God or His will, but when kala appears, they say - God willing. Death is but another feature of the supreme kala, the SPG No edit summary current
- 08:1208:12, 11 September 2022 diff hist +1,358 Although I heard this, I did not pay it any attention, and in the morning I went to the place named Kanai Natasala No edit summary current
7 September 2022
- 11:5711:57, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,969 Utsaha, endeavor. "In this life I must fulfill my mission of Krsna consciousness." That is called utsaha. Dhairya. Don't be agitated because it is not giving result immediately. Just patiently go on working No edit summary current
- 11:5611:56, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,549 The important thing now for GBC members is that they go on working. It is not important to hold a meeting for passing resolutions etc. The best time and place is Mayapur on Lord Caitanya's Appearance Day No edit summary current
- 11:5611:56, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,227 There was a slight indication of heart attack but Krishna saved me. It was not very acute. So long Krishna will keep me fit I will go on working, so you devotees should pray to Krishna that I might go on serving Him up to the last point of my death No edit summary current
- 11:5611:56, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,656 So long as Krishna will keep me fit I will go on working. So you devotees should pray to Krishna that I can go on giving Him service up to the last point of my death No edit summary current
- 11:5611:56, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,228 I do not think there is immediate prospect for my retiring. Therefore, as long as Krishna desires, I must go on working, but I am trying to give more time to my writing works No edit summary current
- 11:5511:55, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,492 It is so gratifying that you have already saved $600 for the improvement of the temple. So I am very much pleased. Go on working like this and Krishna will give you ample money - there is no scarcity No edit summary current
- 11:5511:55, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,242 If you go on working for better standard of life, then you'll be attached to this work, and your mind will be absorbed in such work. And if the mind continues to be absorbed in working so hard No edit summary current
- 11:5511:55, 7 September 2022 diff hist +6,146 If you become always engaged for sense gratification, go on working, working, working, then go to the restaurant, eat, drink and make your body agitated, then find out liquor and woman, what is this life? This is not life. This is animal life No edit summary current
- 11:4611:46, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,923 You have made me lose my sons once, and now you have again done the same inauspicious thing. Therefore you are a rascal who does not know how to behave toward others. You may travel all over the universe, but I curse you to have no residence anywhere No edit summary
- 11:4611:46, 7 September 2022 diff hist +2,973 The learned Krsna conscious person may act in such a way that the ignorant person working for sense gratification may learn how to act and how to behave. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:4611:46, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,034 They (the materialistic) have no idea how to behave toward one another. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:4511:45, 7 September 2022 diff hist +2,309 Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya informed the King, "The Lord is very satisfied with you. By pointing you out, He was teaching His personal associates how to behave with mundane people" No edit summary current
- 11:4511:45, 7 September 2022 diff hist −15 It is not that He (Krsna) needed to do all these things to acquire material gain, but all of these acts were performed just to teach us how to behave in this material world No edit summary current
- 11:4511:45, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,867 Gradually people were influenced by non-Vedic culture, and they lost sight of how to behave in connection with devotional service. Srila Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami very kindly preached the bhakti cult in western India No edit summary
- 11:4411:44, 7 September 2022 diff hist +7 As it is said in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 11.2.47): "A person who is very faithfully engaged in the worship of the Deity in the temple but does not know how to behave toward devotees or people in general is called a prakrta-bhakta, or kanistha-adhikari" No edit summary
- 11:0911:09, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,984 Your vivid description of the prearrangement of Rathayatra ceremony was so nice and elaborate that it has moved my heart. I thank you very much for grasping the momentum of Krishna Consciousness, by your advanced service attitude No edit summary current
- 11:0911:09, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,610 Vivid description of how the rays of the sun are distributed throughout the different planetary systems of the universe is very scientific No edit summary current
- 11:0911:09, 7 September 2022 diff hist +9,706 This place is also known as Viraja, because it is free from the influence of the three qualities of the material world. In the Mrtyunjaya-tantra, a Vedic scripture, there is a vivid description of this Karana Ocean, or Viraja No edit summary current
- 11:0911:09, 7 September 2022 diff hist +5,731 The asuras cannot recognize the existence of the Lord, although there are vivid descriptions of the Lord in the revealed scriptures, although the Lord incarnates and exhibits His uncommon strength and energy No edit summary current
- 11:0811:08, 7 September 2022 diff hist −13 There is a vivid description (in the Bhagavat-sandarbha) of the transcendental position known as suddha-sattva No edit summary current
- 11:0811:08, 7 September 2022 diff hist +2,030 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave Ramananda Raya a vivid description of His travels to the holy places and told him how He had acquired the two books named Krsna-karnamrta and Brahma-samhita. The Lord delivered the books to Ramananda Raya No edit summary current
- 11:0811:08, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,413 Srila Rupa Gosvami gives us a vivid description of Krsna as the reservoir of all pleasure in his Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu No edit summary
- 11:0611:06, 7 September 2022 diff hist −13 In the Hari-bhakti-vilasa (11.127-140) there is a vivid description of what is required in Deity worship. There are sixty-four items mentioned No edit summary current
- 11:0511:05, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,002 In the Gita Lord Krsna gives only a small hint of His personal abode (Goloka Vrndavana) which is the supermost planet in the spiritual kingdom. A vivid description is given in the Brahma-samhita. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 11:0511:05, 7 September 2022 diff hist +1,766 In the First Chapter I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) have given a synopsis of the last pastimes (antya-lila). Within this chapter is a vivid description of some of the pastimes of the Lord that took place toward the end of His life No edit summary current
- 11:0511:05, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,229 In the Dasama-skandha, the Tenth Canto, of Srimad-Bhagavatam, there is a vivid description of how the demons appear before Krsna in various wonderful forms. For instance, Bakasura appeared before Krsna and His cowherd boyfriends as a gigantic crane No edit summary
- 11:0511:05, 7 September 2022 diff hist +1,699 Being afraid of his book's becoming too voluminous, he left some places without vivid descriptions. I shall try to fill those places as far as possible No edit summary current
- 11:0511:05, 7 September 2022 diff hist +12 A vivid description of these raghavera jhali (of CC Adi 10.28) is to be found in Chapter Ten of the Antya-lila portion of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta No edit summary current
- 10:5010:50, 7 September 2022 diff hist +2,379 When a devotee is situated on the platform of santa-rasa, he desires neither elevation to the heavenly planets nor liberation. These are the results of karma and jnana, and the devotee considers them no better than hell No edit summary current
- 10:4910:49, 7 September 2022 diff hist +5,201 Sudama thought, "Aspiring for elevation to the heavenly planets, liberation, all kinds of material opulence, or perfection in the powers of mystic yoga, everyone throughout the universe worships the lotus feet of Lord Krsna" No edit summary current
- 10:4910:49, 7 September 2022 diff hist +6,794 Such devotees are not interested even in so-called liberation, and they certainly have no interest in material activities for elevation to the heavenly planets for sense gratification No edit summary
- 10:4810:48, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,658 Maharaja Nabhi is so desirous of having a son that he is worshiping You for a son, although You can offer him any exalted position, including elevation to the heavenly planets or liberation back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 10:4810:48, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,437 Krsna said, "They (the brahmanas) are now engaged in performing Vedic sacrifices known as Angirasa, for they desire elevation to the heavenly planets. All of you please go to them" No edit summary current
- 10:4810:48, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,118 King Barhisman was engaged in different types of sacrifice for elevation to the heavenly planets. People generally are attracted by these activities, and very rarely is a person attracted to devotional service, as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu confirms No edit summary current
- 10:4610:46, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,520 In the Vedas many sacrifices are recommended for elevation to the heavenly planets, especially the jyotistoma sacrifices. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 10:4510:45, 7 September 2022 diff hist +6,834 Inhabitants of Vrndavana never desired anything like elevation to the heavenly planets or merging into the effulgence of Brahman to become one with the Absolute Truth because of their great desire to love Krsna No edit summary current
- 10:4510:45, 7 September 2022 diff hist +6,936 If a fruitive worker thinks that Lord Krsna is an ordinary mortal, he does not attain the goal of his fruitive work - elevation to the heavenly planets No edit summary current
- 10:4410:44, 7 September 2022 diff hist +2,121 Elevation to the heavenly planets, liberation from material bondage, and condemnation to hell are all equal to the devotee. The devotee’s only desire is to be attached to the lotus feet of Krsna and to engage in His transcendental loving service No edit summary current
- 10:4410:44, 7 September 2022 diff hist −6 A pure devotee who has been trained in the practice of chanting and hearing the holy name of the Lord and His fame, qualities, form, paraphernalia and so on is never interested in elevation to the heavenly planets No edit summary current
- 10:4310:43, 7 September 2022 diff hist +2,897 A pure devotee is never interested in elevation to the heavenly planets, even though such places are extremely dear even to the demigods No edit summary current
- 10:4310:43, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,094 A person who is a devotee of Narayana is not afraid of a hellish condition, because he considers it the same as elevation to the heavenly planets or liberation. The devotees of Lord Narayana are accustomed to seeing all these things on the same level No edit summary current
- 10:4310:43, 7 September 2022 diff hist +13,251 A person who desires elevation to the heavenly planets worships various demigods, and material nature may be pleased to offer such devotees their desired positions No edit summary
- 10:4310:43, 7 September 2022 diff hist +5,139 After performing various sacrificial rituals for elevation to the heavenly planets, the karmis go there and enjoy themselves with the demigods to the extent that they have obtained the results of pious activities - Srimad-Bhagavatam 11.10.23 No edit summary current
- 09:1909:19, 7 September 2022 diff hist −11 We should not optimistically think, "Everyone is dying, but I shall live." Why will you live if everyone is dying? Your grandfather has died, your great-grandfather has died, other relatives of yours have died - why should you live? You will also die No edit summary current
- 09:1909:19, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,702 We are going three times, four times India. Who is dying? Everyone is dying natural death. This is all propaganda, to make their position secure. That's all. I have never seen anyone dying for starvation No edit summary current
- 09:1909:19, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,730 Here the most wonderful thing is that everyone is seeing that everyone is dying every moment, but the man seeing, he's thinking that he will live forever. This is the most wonderful thing No edit summary current
- 09:1809:18, 7 September 2022 diff hist −11 Everyone is dying, for no one can live here permanently, but one who dies after executing a life of tapasya is a brahmana, and one who dies like a cat or dog, without executing tapasya, is called a krpana No edit summary current
- 07:0907:09, 7 September 2022 diff hist +2,632 The sankirtana movement went on from one part of the town to another, as the Lord wandered everywhere performing kirtana. In this way He inundated the whole world by distributing love of Godhead No edit summary current
- 07:0907:09, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,419 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, although distributing love of Godhead unlimitedly, still remained the supreme owner of this transcendental opulence. His devotees, who learned it from Him, also had to distribute it munificently all over the world No edit summary current
- 07:0807:08, 7 September 2022 diff hist −13 Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes in his Anubhasya, The Sakha-nirnaya, verse 35 mentions Uddhava dasa as being greatly qualified in distributing love of Godhead to everyone No edit summary current
- 07:0807:08, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,164 Sometimes jealous persons criticize the Krsna consciousness movement because it engages equally both boys and girls in distributing love of Godhead No edit summary current
- 07:0807:08, 7 September 2022 diff hist −13 In distributing love of Godhead one should not consider whether the recipients are Europeans, Americans, Hindus, Muslims, etc. The Krsna consciousness movement should be spread wherever possible No edit summary current
- 07:0807:08, 7 September 2022 diff hist +2,899 In distributing love of Godhead, Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates did not consider who was a fit candidate and who was not, nor where such distribution should or should not take place No edit summary current
- 07:0807:08, 7 September 2022 diff hist +1,670 By the mercy of the Lord, all truths were revealed to Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya, and he could understand the importance of chanting the holy name and distributing love of Godhead everywhere No edit summary current
- 07:0707:07, 7 September 2022 diff hist −13 Both of them (Krsnadasa Brahmacari and Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) were expert in distributing love of Godhead to the fallen souls of this age No edit summary current
- 06:0606:06, 7 September 2022 diff hist +8,886 To understand what is actually religion is very difficult even if one is situated in the principles of morality and nonviolence. It is very confidential because as soon as one is conversant with the real principles of religion, he is at once liberated No edit summary current
- 06:0506:05, 7 September 2022 diff hist +5,047 If one is situated in KC, then that path is guaranteed for his elevation to the perfectional stage. If one does not take to this path of self-realization, then he is surely to be conducted by the influence of the modes of nature. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 06:0506:05, 7 September 2022 diff hist +5,454 If one is situated in an opulent position in spiritual advancement, his opulence never decreases. Therefore such a spiritual benediction is called bhuti or vibhuti. Krsna confirms this in Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
- 06:0506:05, 7 September 2022 diff hist +9 If one is situated firmly in KC, the greatest danger cannot disturb him. There are so many dangers in life because the material world is a place of danger. We tend to close our eyes to this, and because we are foolish we try to adjust to these dangers No edit summary current
- 06:0506:05, 7 September 2022 diff hist +10 Certainly this was astonishing. One cannot attain complete satisfaction even if one is situated in the greatest material opulence No edit summary current
6 September 2022
- 15:1015:10, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,316 When we come to spiritual activities, we find that these are also divided into two: namely, understanding of one's own self (or one's constitutional position), and the truth regarding the Supreme Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 15:1015:10, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,182 The actual interest of all living entities - indeed, the goal of life - is to return home, back to Godhead. This is the interest of one's own self, one's wife, one's children, one's disciples and one's friends, relatives, countrymen and all humanity No edit summary current
- 15:0915:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,588 Srimad-Bhagavatam gives the right knowledge of one's own self, and by hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam one can get free from material attachment and enter into the kingdom of fearlessness No edit summary
- 15:0915:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,036 Some of the philosophers, who deny all sorts of duality, declare that one's own self is responsible for his personal happiness and distress. Others say that superhuman powers are responsible, while yet others say that activity is responsible No edit summary current
- 15:0915:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,389 Real self-realization by means of controlling the senses is explained herein (in SB 3.31.19). One should try to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead and one's own self also No edit summary
- 15:0815:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,369 Philosophy means to seek after the right knowledge of one's own self, or the knowledge of self-realization No edit summary current
- 15:0815:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,948 One may then ask why the Lord exhibited His anger. The point is that one should be ready to tolerate all insults to one's own self, but when Krsna or His pure devotee is blasphemed, a genuine devotee becomes angry & acts like fire against the offenders No edit summary current
- 15:0715:07, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,191 Material knowledge means ignorance of the knowledge of one's own self No edit summary current
- 15:0715:07, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,990 It is in one's own self-interest to execute prescribed devotional service, and anyone who neglects this process neglects his own self-interest No edit summary current
- 15:0715:07, 6 September 2022 diff hist +6,625 By causing pain to one's own self due to self-envy and by causing pain to others, one arouses Your anger and practices irreligion No edit summary current
- 15:0715:07, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,856 Attaining scientific knowledge of the Personality of Godhead means seeing one's own self simultaneously. As far as the identity of the living being as spirit self is concerned, there are a number of speculations and misgivings No edit summary current
- 15:0615:06, 6 September 2022 diff hist +6,451 Any religious system but the process of bhagavata-dharma-service as an eternal servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead - is a system of envy of one's own self and of others No edit summary current
- 15:0515:05, 6 September 2022 diff hist +28 Actually it is all illegal, for to work for one's self-interest is both unlawful and destructive. Even the cultivation of spiritual realization for one's own self-interest is unlawful and destructive No edit summary current
- 12:3412:34, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,026 Unless one practices devotional service himself, he cannot teach it to others. This conclusion is indeed confirmed throughout the Gita and Bhagavatam No edit summary current
- 12:3412:34, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,772 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has said that in order to preach, one must live a practical life and show people how to do things. Apani acari' bhakti sikhaimu sabare. One cannot teach others unless he behaves the same way himself No edit summary current
- 12:3312:33, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,254 One should not become father or mother if he cannot do so. In this way, no friend, no relatives, no father, no..., if one cannot teach his other party how to save from the clutches of death No edit summary current
- 12:3312:33, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4 A leader cannot teach the public to stop smoking if he himself smokes. Lord Caitanya said that a teacher should behave properly even before he begins teaching. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 12:2012:20, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,374 The senses are certainly products of the mode of passion in false ego, and therefore philosophical speculative knowledge and fruitive activities are predominantly products of the mode of passion No edit summary current
- 12:2012:20, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,848 The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kunti, and because of this one is bound to material fruitive activities. BG 14.7 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 12:1912:19, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,757 The best among the fools who are thus deluded are those who engage in altruistic activities under the spell of the material mode of passion No edit summary current
- 12:1912:19, 6 September 2022 diff hist +6,375 They (contaminated persons) cannot understand that the Vedas deal with activities of the material modes of nature - goodness, passion and ignorance No edit summary current
- 12:1912:19, 6 September 2022 diff hist +7,601 In the Bhagavad-gita it is clearly explained that there are three kinds of activities according to the different modes of nature: the activities of goodness, the activities of passion, the activities of ignorance No edit summary current
- 12:1912:19, 6 September 2022 diff hist +23 Intelligence in the mode of passion is always working perversely. It accepts religions which are not actually religions and rejects actual religion. All views and activities are misguided. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 12:1812:18, 6 September 2022 diff hist +81,339 If these modes (goodness, passion, or ignorance) were not acting, then we would not have observed in the phenomenal world different varieties of activities. These different varieties of activities are conditioned by the different modes of nature No edit summary current
- 12:1812:18, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,596 If by rising early in the morning one can advance his transcendental Krsna consciousness, one should not desist out of fear or because such activities are considered troublesome. Such renunciation is in the mode of passion. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 12:1812:18, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,624 By pious activities in the mode of goodness one is purified; therefore the sages, who are free from all illusion, are situated in happiness. Similarly, activities in the mode of passion are simply miserable. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 12:1812:18, 6 September 2022 diff hist +1,630 Because of his past pious activities mixed with devotional service, the first-class living entity is influenced by the mode of passion within his mind No edit summary current
- 12:1712:17, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,092 At first there is transformation of the modes of goodness and passion, and later - due to the mode of ignorance-matter, its knowledge, and different activities of material knowledge come into play No edit summary current
- 12:1712:17, 6 September 2022 diff hist +1,982 Any person who is always desirous of fruitive results in religious or economic activities, whose only desire is sense gratification, and whose mind, life and senses are thus engaged, is in the mode of passion. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 12:1712:17, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,249 Afterwards the mode of passion, being generated in due course by material activities of different varieties, becomes prominent, and the living entities are thus involved more and more in ignorance No edit summary current
- 12:1612:16, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,042 Activities performed only for the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord are pure and are not contaminated by the modes of material nature. All other activities are contaminated by the modes of ignorance and passion, as well as goodness No edit summary current
- 12:1612:16, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,990 According to their previous activities in the modes of goodness, passion or ignorance, they (who do not follow rules and regulations of the scriptures out of laziness or indolence) acquire a nature which is of a specific quality. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +6,707 When the purusa and prakrti, male and female, enjoy, they enjoy, they get the same pleasure, but one is purusa; one is prakrti. Similarly, Krsna is purusa, and we are prakrti. If we enjoy with Krsna, then the ananda, sac-cid-ananda, is there No edit summary current
- 09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,508 Tvam adyah purusah. Purusa means enjoyer. God is not female. Sometimes they worship a female as God, like Durga, Kali, and so many others. But God is purusa. Everyone is prakrti. Prakrti means female. Everyone knows it No edit summary current
- 09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,679 The Lord provides everyone with his quota. Actually, however, every living entity is prakrti, or female, and Krsna is the only husband No edit summary current
- 09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,817 The attraction between man and woman is the cause of bondage for both. Actually both belong to the para prakrti, the superior energy of the Lord, but both are actually prakrti - female No edit summary current
- 09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,371 If one wants to continue his association with prakrti, the female energy of Krsna, and be separated from Krsna by the illusion that he is able to enjoy prakrti, he must continue in his conditional life No edit summary current
- 09:0809:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,461 Krishna is the only male & all others being energies of Krishna, they're prakrti, or female. Please don't try to understand this male & female in the material sense. In other words, our perfection of life will be actually realizing that we're all females No edit summary current
- 09:0809:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +77,788 Prakrti is always under control, whether inferior or superior. Prakrti is female, and she is controlled by the Lord just as the activities of a wife are controlled by the husband. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current
- 09:0809:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +1,471 One day Vallabha Bhatta said to Advaita Acarya, "Every living entity is female (prakrti) and considers Krsna her husband (pati)" No edit summary current
3 September 2022
- 14:5414:54, 3 September 2022 diff hist +4,751 The only self-purifying process mentioned (in SB 3.6.34) is to worship the Lord under the recognized method - under the guidance of the bona fide spiritual master. That is the natural way of purification, and no other method is recommended as bona fide No edit summary
- 14:5414:54, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5,971 The ultimate conclusion is that one must surrender to the principles of bhakti-yoga, for then one will gradually attain liberation. No other method of liberation from the material struggle is at all possible No edit summary current
- 14:5314:53, 3 September 2022 diff hist +9 To cleanse the heart so that one may become sober and wise in this age of Kali, there is no value to any method other than the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. Prahlada Maharaja has confirmed this process in previous verses - SB 7.9.39 No edit summary current
- 14:5314:53, 3 September 2022 diff hist +4,056 If you want to chant Hare Krsna mantra, there is no impediment in the world. You can, walking on the street, you can chant Hare Krsna. That will keep you purified. No other method No edit summary current
- 14:5214:52, 3 September 2022 diff hist +9 If one wants to understand Bhagavad-gita, he cannot take help from other methods. He must understand it as prescribed in Bhagavad-gita itself, by understanding it as Arjuna understood it No edit summary
- 14:5214:52, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5,827 By bhakti-yoga one can completely avoid the tendency for sinful life; other methods are not very feasible. Therefore the Vedic literature concludes that devotional service is more important than the methods of karma-kanda and jnana-kanda No edit summary current
- 14:4214:42, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,643 When Lord Krsna was a child, He was nursed by a woman named Ambika, who had a younger sister named Kilimbika. During the time of Lord Caitanya’s incarnation, the same Kilimbika used to eat the remnants of food left by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary
- 14:4214:42, 3 September 2022 diff hist +8,229 When a devotee distributes prasada, remnants of food offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in order to maintain our spirit of devotional service we must accept this prasada as the Lord's grace received through the pure devotees No edit summary current
- 14:4214:42, 3 September 2022 diff hist +4,445 When 1) the eyes are engaged in seeing the beautiful form of the Lord, the tongue engaged in tasting prasada, or remnants of foodstuff offered to the Lord then only can the transcendental senses become satiated and eternally free from material engagement No edit summary
- 14:4114:41, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,595 Whatever You have, though it be a palmful of rice, please eat it and get up. Don't show Your madness and strew the remnants of food here and there No edit summary current
- 14:4114:41, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,814 We are taking vegetables not as vegetarian. We are taking as Krsna prasadam, remnants of foodstuff offered to Krsna No edit summary current
- 14:4014:40, 3 September 2022 diff hist +8,013 We are servant; we take the remnants of foodstuff left by Krsna. We are neither vegetarian nor nonvegetarian. We are prasad-ian No edit summary current
- 14:4014:40, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5,216 Visvanatha Cakravarti has described the ritualistic performers to be like crows because crows delight in eating the remnants of food which has been thrown into the dustbin. All the brahmanas who were present for the sacrifice were also condemned by Sati No edit summary current
- 14:4014:40, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,669 Today your mind has become fit to take shelter of the lotus feet of Krsna because, surpassing the Vedic regulative principles, you have eaten the remnants of food offered to the Lord No edit summary current
- 14:3914:39, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,427 Those who are honoring prasadam, accepting the remnants of food offered to the Deity, must always remember that prasadam is not ordinary food. Prasadam is transcendental No edit summary current
- 14:3914:39, 3 September 2022 diff hist +8 This offering (to the forefathers) is performed by worship of Visnu, because eating the remnants of food offered to Visnu can deliver one from all kinds of sinful actions. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:3914:39, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5,895 The Vedic injunctions state that every living entity lives by eating the remnants of food offered to the Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:3814:38, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,571 The transcendental pastimes of Lord Caitanya have actually been relished by Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura. I am simply trying to chew the remnants of food left by him No edit summary
- 14:3814:38, 3 September 2022 diff hist +8 The tongue can be utilized to spread the message of Krsna and glorify the Lord or take prasada, the remnants of food offered to Krsna No edit summary current
- 14:3814:38, 3 September 2022 diff hist +30 The sixty-four regulative principles (of devotional service) are as follows: 40) To chant the Lord's name loudly in congregation. (41) To smell incense and flowers offered to the Deity. (42) To eat the remnants of food offered to the Deity No edit summary current
- 14:3814:38, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,545 The remnants of food offered to the Lord at Balagandi then arrived in great quantity, and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and all His devotees ate it No edit summary current
- 14:3814:38, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,674 The remnants of food offered to Lord Krsna are called maha-prasadam. After this same maha-prasadam has been taken by a devotee, the remnants are elevated to maha-maha-prasadam No edit summary current
- 14:3714:37, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,796 The remnants of food left by the spiritual master and similar paramahamsas, or pure Vaisnavas, are purifying. When an ordinary person touches such prasadam, his mind is purified, and his mind is raised to the status of a pure brahmana No edit summary current
- 14:3714:37, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,728 The remnants of food left by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu were taken by the whole family of Tapana Misra. When news spread that the Lord had come, Candrasekhara came to see Him No edit summary
- 14:3614:36, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,557 The remnants of food left by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu were later distributed among devotees who begged for them, and finally Govinda personally took the last remnants No edit summary
- 14:3614:36, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,537 The remnants of food left by a pure Vaisnava are called maha-maha-prasadam. This is completely spiritual and is identified with Lord Visnu. Such remnants are not ordinary No edit summary current
- 14:3514:35, 3 September 2022 diff hist +2,450 The Lord said again and again, "Only by great fortune may one come by a particle of the remnants of food offered to the Lord." The servants of the Jagannatha temple inquired, "What is the meaning of this" No edit summary
- 14:3514:35, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,566 The Lord collected whatever remnants of food were left by Lord Jagannatha. He also took remnants of the Lord's kadara ointment, sandalwood and ropes with Him No edit summary current
- 14:3514:35, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,605 The Lord again arranged for the residential quarters of all the devotees and thereafter called them to partake of the remnants of food offered to Lord Jagannatha No edit summary current
- 14:3514:35, 3 September 2022 diff hist +16,100 The function of the tongue is to taste and to vibrate. Therefore, by systematic regulation, the tongue should always be engaged in tasting the remnants of foodstuffs offered to Krsna and chanting Hare Krsna. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:3514:35, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,599 The dust of the feet of a devotee, the water that has washed the feet of a devotee, and the remnants of food left by a devotee are three very powerful substances No edit summary current
- 14:3414:34, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,652 The Bhattacarya informed all of them, "Please take your midday baths immediately. Today I shall offer you maha-prasadam, the remnants of food offered to Lord Jagannatha" No edit summary current
- 14:3414:34, 3 September 2022 diff hist +30 The bhakta, simply by engaging himself in the bhakti process, especially in chanting Hare Krsna, immediately develops control over the tongue by engaging it in chanting, and accepting the remnants of foodstuff offered to the Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:3414:34, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,827 They would mix these preparations with the remnants of food from Lord Jagannatha. When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu accepted the invitations, He went sometimes alone and sometimes with His associates No edit summary current
- 14:3414:34, 3 September 2022 diff hist +2,004 Then the Lord told Kasi Misra and the temple superintendent, "As for the remnants of food left by Jagannatha, let them be delivered to Vaninatha Raya's charge, for he can take care of all the Vaisnavas and distribute maha-prasadam to them" No edit summary current
- 14:3314:33, 3 September 2022 diff hist +12 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was greatly pleased to accept the food that he cooked, and Raghunatha Bhatta used to take the remnants of food left by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary
- 14:3314:33, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,657 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu then took all the remnants of food offered to Jagannatha, such as cakes and sweet rice, and distributed them to all the other devotees, calling them individually No edit summary current
- 14:3314:33, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,930 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu replied, "These are remnants of food that Krsna has eaten and thus turned to nectar with His lips. It surpasses heavenly nectar, and even such demigods as Lord Brahma find it difficult to obtain" No edit summary current
- 14:3314:33, 3 September 2022 diff hist +6,428 So far we are concerned, we are eating remnants of foodstuff which was offered to Krishna, so we are not afraid of anything No edit summary current
- 14:3214:32, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,809 Since we belong to this chain of disciplic succession from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, this edition of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta will contain nothing newly manufactured by our tiny brains, but only remnants of food originally eaten by the Lord Himself No edit summary
- 14:3014:30, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,539 Raghava Pandita, being very merciful toward Raghunatha dasa, offered him the dishes with the remnants of food left by the two brothers No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,492 Sadhucchistam is significant in this verse (SB 4.22.43). Prthu Maharaja got his kingdom from great saintly persons like Bhrgu and others just as one gets remnants of food. After the death of King Vena, the whole world was bereft of a popular ruler No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5,024 Remnants of food may be eaten only when they are part of a meal that was first offered to the Supreme Lord or first eaten by saintly persons, especially the spiritual master. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:0414:04, 3 September 2022 diff hist +2,734 Persons who are not very highly elevated in pious activities cannot believe in the remnants of food (prasadam) of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, nor in Govinda, the holy name of the Lord, nor in the Vaisnavas No edit summary current
- 14:0314:03, 3 September 2022 diff hist +30 One who refuses to accept prasadam, the remnants of food offered to Krsna, cannot become a devotee No edit summary current
- 14:0314:03, 3 September 2022 diff hist +30 One who is directly engaged in all these devotional activities (chanting Hare Krsna and eating the remnants of foodstuff offered to the Deity) is to be understood as having studied all Vedic literature. He has come to the conclusion perfectly. BG 1972 p No edit summary current
- 14:0314:03, 3 September 2022 diff hist +30 One should eat remnants of foodstuffs that are offered to Krsna. This is also the philosophy of Bhagavad-gita, wherein Krsna says: If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it. - BG 9.26 No edit summary current
- 14:0214:02, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,923 One should (17) circumambulate the temple, (18) recite various prayers, (19) chant softly, (20) chant congregationally, (21) smell the incense and flower garlands offered to the Deity, and (22) eat the remnants of food offered to the Deity No edit summary current
- 14:0214:02, 3 September 2022 diff hist +16,271 One need only chant Hare Krsna, accept the remnants of foodstuffs offered to Krsna, have some discussion on books like Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, and engage oneself in Deity worship. These four will make one happy. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 14:0214:02, 3 September 2022 diff hist +2,285 Nityananda Prabhu replied, "These are the remnants of food left by Lord Krsna. If You take them to be ordinary remnants, You have committed an offense" No edit summary current
- 14:0014:00, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,823 My friend, what do you eat to maintain your body? Because you are chewing betel, a pleasing scent is emanating from your mouth. This proves that you always eat the remnants of food offered to Visnu. Indeed, you must also be an expansion of Visnu's body No edit summary current
- 14:0014:00, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,184 My dear brahmana, you have carried out the order thoroughly because you are also as compassionate as the Lord. It is my duty, therefore, to offer you something, but all I possess are but remnants of food taken by great saintly persons No edit summary current
- 13:5913:59, 3 September 2022 diff hist +30 Lord Caitanya made this process (of reaching the highest perfection of knowledge) very easy: He asked people simply to chant Hare Krsna & to engage in the devotional service of God & eat the remnants of foodstuff offered to the Deity. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 13:5913:59, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5,216 Knowing Duryodhana's plan, Krsna came to the Pandavas and asked their wife Draupadi if there were any remnants of food which she could offer to Him No edit summary current
- 13:5813:58, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,582 Kalidasa was standing outside the door, expecting the remnants of food from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Knowing this, Mahaprabhu gave an indication to Govinda No edit summary
- 13:5713:57, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,678 Kalidasa was an uncle of Raghunatha dasa Gosvami. Throughout his entire life, even in his old age, he tried to eat the remnants of food left by Vaisnavas No edit summary current
- 13:5713:57, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,296 Kalidasa ate the remnants of food of as many Vaisnavas as there were in Bengal No edit summary current
- 13:5713:57, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,800 Kalidasa, one of the relative, uncle, of Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, he was also very great Vaisnava, maha-bhagavata. His business was to eat the remnants of foodstuff left by Vaisnava No edit summary current
- 13:4413:44, 3 September 2022 diff hist +4,482 I went to Jagannatha Puri in 1958 during some special function. I was taking Lord Jagannatha prasada very sumptuously. I am praying to Lord Jagannatha to take me there again at His will and honor His remnants of food No edit summary current
- 13:4413:44, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,881 It was a steady, long-standing rule that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu would lie down to rest after lunch and Govinda would come to massage His legs. Then Govinda would honor the remnants of food left by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary
- 13:4413:44, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,840 It is said that among all the devotees of the Personality of Godhead, Lord Siva is the greatest. Thus the remnants of foodstuff left by him are accepted by other devotees as maha-prasada, or great spiritual foodstuff No edit summary
- 13:4313:43, 3 September 2022 diff hist +9,338 It is known to everyone that one man's food is another man's poison. Human beings are expected to accept the remnants of food offered to Lord Sri Krsna, and the Lord accepts foodstuff from the categories of leaves, flowers, fruits, etc No edit summary current
- 13:4313:43, 3 September 2022 diff hist +8 It is best that one eat only the remnants of foodstuff offered to Krsna. A person in Krsna consciousness does not eat anything which is not first offered to Krsna. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 13:3913:39, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,359 In this way Kalidasa ate the remnants of food left by all the Vaisnavas residing in Bengal No edit summary current
- 13:3813:38, 3 September 2022 diff hist +4,731 In the Hare Krsna movement, the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, the dancing in ecstasy and the eating of the remnants of food offered to the Lord are very, very important No edit summary current
- 13:3813:38, 3 September 2022 diff hist +30 In order to become God conscious, one must follow some rules and regulations. Of course one has to eat, but the proposal is that one should eat remnants of foodstuffs that are offered to Krsna No edit summary current
- 13:3813:38, 3 September 2022 diff hist +6,292 In great sacrifices the injunction is that Narayana should be present as the supreme predominating Deity of the sacrifice and that after the sacrifice is performed the remnants of food should be distributed amongst the demigods No edit summary current
- 13:3813:38, 3 September 2022 diff hist +2,959 In ceremonies when brahmanas and Vaisnavas are sumptuously fed, the host partakes of the remnants of foodstuff after the guest has given permission No edit summary current
- 13:3713:37, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5,650 In Calcutta there are many butcher shops which keep a deity of the goddess Kali, and animal-eaters think it proper to purchase animal flesh from such shops in hope that they are eating the remnants of food offered to the goddess Kali No edit summary current
- 13:3713:37, 3 September 2022 diff hist +13,514 In Calcutta there are many butcher shops which keep a deity of the goddess Kali, and animal-eaters think it proper to purchase animal flesh from such shops in hope that they are eating the remnants of food offered to goddess Kali No edit summary current
- 13:3713:37, 3 September 2022 diff hist +81,239 If they are graciously offered the advantage of partaking of the remnants of foodstuffs offered to Visnu, gradually they will develop a transcendental sense of spirituality and rise to the same status as that of spiritually advanced personalities No edit summary
- 13:3613:36, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,387 He would beg remnants of food from such Vaisnavas, and if he did not receive any, he would hide No edit summary current
- 13:3513:35, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,746 He would also take gifts to the homes of Vaisnavas born in sudra families. Then he would hide and in this manner eat the remnants of food they threw away No edit summary current
- 13:3513:35, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,394 He also personally ate the remnants of food left by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Then the Lord again sent Govinda No edit summary
- 13:3213:32, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,582 Govinda saved some remnants of food left by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and kept them carefully. Later, one portion of these remnants was delivered to Haridasa Thakura No edit summary
2 September 2022
- 14:4014:40, 2 September 2022 diff hist +1,647 Govinda offered him a plate with the remnants of food left by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and Raghunatha dasa accepted the prasadam with great happiness No edit summary
- 14:4014:40, 2 September 2022 diff hist +1,716 Gopinatha Acarya has already come, bringing sufficient remnants of food to distribute to all the sannyasis, and sannyasis like Paramananda Puri and Brahmananda Bharati are waiting for You No edit summary current
- 14:4014:40, 2 September 2022 diff hist +2,619 Generally those who invited Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu for dinner used to offer Him the remnants of food that had first been offered to Lord Jagannatha No edit summary current
- 14:3914:39, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,323 Everyone has to work for maintenance of his body and soul together, & Krsna recommends herein (BG 9.27) that one should work for Him. Everyone has to eat something to live; therefore he should accept the remnants of foodstuffs offered to Krsna. BG 1972 p No edit summary
- 14:3914:39, 2 September 2022 diff hist +5,179 Even if one does not accept all the Vaisnava principles, but still takes the remnants of foodstuff offered to Krsna, or Krsna-prasadam, he will gradually become qualified to rise to the platform of a Vaisnava No edit summary current
- 14:3914:39, 2 September 2022 diff hist +2,550 Each and every house was ready to receive the Lord in a similar way, and thus each and every house on the roads and streets distributed such remnants of food to the citizens, and therefore the festival was successful No edit summary current
- 14:3814:38, 2 September 2022 diff hist +7,657 During our exile, Durvasa Muni, who eats with his ten thousand disciples, intrigued with our enemies to put us in dangerous trouble. At that time He (Lord Krsna), simply by accepting the remnants of food, saved us No edit summary current
- 14:3714:37, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,637 Distribution of prasada, or remnants of foodstuffs offered to the Lord, even to the ignorant masses of people and to animals, gives such living entities the chance for elevation to Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 14:3714:37, 2 September 2022 diff hist +8 Devotional service to the Lord is very simple: one should always engage in the service of the Lord, should eat the remnants of foodstuffs offered to the Deity. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:3714:37, 2 September 2022 diff hist +7,810 Deity of Krsna should be seen. That is the benefit of the eyes. The ears should be engaged hearing about Krsna. The tongue should be engaged for eating Krsna's remnants of foodstuff, prasadam No edit summary current
- 14:3614:36, 2 September 2022 diff hist +2,346 Crows have no independent life; they fully depend on the remnants of foodstuffs thrown by householders into the garbage tank No edit summary current
- 14:3614:36, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,603 By touching the remnants of food thrown by Nityananda Prabhu, Advaita Acarya immediately felt Himself purified of all smarta contamination No edit summary current
- 14:3514:35, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,459 By eating or touching such maha-prasadam (the remnants of food left by a pure Vaisnava), a brahmana is not degraded. There is no question of being polluted by touching the remnants of such food No edit summary current
- 14:3514:35, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,286 Brahmana-bhojana, feeding of the brahmanas, is also recommended, for when the brahmanas eat sumptuous remnants of food after yajna, this is another way that Lord Visnu Himself eats No edit summary current
- 14:3514:35, 2 September 2022 diff hist +2,045 Bhagavan Acarya cooked varieties of vegetables and other preparations dear to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He also obtained remnants of food from Lord Jagannatha and digestive aids such as ground ginger and also lime with salt No edit summary current
- 14:3514:35, 2 September 2022 diff hist +30 Bhagavad-gita says that if you take the remnants of foodstuff after offering sacrifice, you become freed from all contamination. Otherwise, one who cooks to eat personally without offering to Krsna is simply eating sinful reactions. This is our position No edit summary current
- 14:3414:34, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,571 Because the government in Kali-yuga is full of demons, the living conditions of devotees are always disturbed. Devotees cannot perform yajna, and thus they cannot partake of the remnants of food offered in yajna for the worship of Lord Visnu No edit summary current
- 14:3414:34, 2 September 2022 diff hist +1,561 Balabhadra Bhattacarya invited the two brothers to take lunch also. The remnants of food from the plate of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu were offered to them No edit summary
- 14:3414:34, 2 September 2022 diff hist +30 A pure Vaisnava, or a person on the paramahamsa stage, accepts the remnants of food as spiritual. He does not consider it to be material or sense gratificatory. He accepts maha-prasadam not as ordinary dhal and rice but as spiritual substance No edit summary current
- 14:3314:33, 2 September 2022 diff hist +30 A person, simply by offering regulative obeisances unto the Deity, simply by hearing the glories of the Lord, and simply by eating the remnants of foodstuffs offered to the Lord, realizes the Supreme Personality of Godhead very easily. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:3314:33, 2 September 2022 diff hist −10 A large quantity of the remnants of food from Lord Jagannatha was brought in for distribution. Ramacandra Puri ate sumptuously, and then he wanted to find faults in Jagadananda Pandita No edit summary current
- 14:3314:33, 2 September 2022 diff hist +14,402 As he (Narada) went on eating (the remnants of food of the great sages), he gradually became as purehearted as the sages, and he gradually developed the same taste. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:3214:32, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,757 Animal food is never recommended for human beings; instead, a human being is recommended to take prasada, remnants of food left by Krsna. Yajna-sistasinah santo mucyante sarva-kilbisaih (BG 3.13) No edit summary current
- 14:3214:32, 2 September 2022 diff hist +2,103 Among the ten kinds of purificatory processes, one is pum-savanam, in which the wife is offered some prasada, or remnants of foodstuff offered to Lord Visnu, so that after sexual intercourse with her husband she may conceive a child No edit summary current
- 14:3214:32, 2 September 2022 diff hist +30 Although the remnants of food left by Jagannatha were brought into the Bhattacarya’s house, they were kept separate from the preparations he had made at his home No edit summary current
- 14:3114:31, 2 September 2022 diff hist +2,180 Although He is the maintainer of the entire universe, once the Lord sat upon some rejected pots in the pit where the remnants of food were thrown, after the pots had been used for cooking No edit summary current
- 14:3114:31, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,622 Alas, how powerful are the hopes of a living being to continue his life. Verily, you (Dhrtarastra) are living just like a household dog and are eating remnants of food given by Bhima No edit summary current
- 14:3014:30, 2 September 2022 diff hist +1,602 After receiving the remnants of food left by Lord Nityananda Prabhu, Raghunatha dasa, who was greatly happy, ate some and distributed the rest among his own associates No edit summary current
- 14:3014:30, 2 September 2022 diff hist +1,555 After eating, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu took rest for a while. Tapana Misra then gave Sanatana Gosvami the remnants of food left by Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary
- 14:3014:30, 2 September 2022 diff hist +1,668 After bathing in the sea, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu returned to His residence with all the devotees. Then they all lunched on the remnants of food offered to Lord Jagannatha No edit summary current
- 14:2714:27, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,804 Actually, by eating such maha-prasadam (the remnants of food left by a pure Vaisnava), one is freed from all the contaminations of the material condition. That is the verdict of the sastra No edit summary current
- 14:2714:27, 2 September 2022 diff hist +2,581 According to the varnasrama system, the brahmanas are always honored first. Thus at the festival, the brahmanas and their wives were first offered the remnants of food, and then the others - ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras No edit summary current
- 14:2214:22, 2 September 2022 diff hist +6,456 This is very easy (to accept the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord), but we must follow in the footsteps of great personalities, and then success will be possible No edit summary current
- 14:2214:22, 2 September 2022 diff hist +2,112 Simply abolishing monarchy and replacing it with democracy is not sufficient unless the government men are religious and follow in the footsteps of great religious personalities No edit summary current
- 14:2214:22, 2 September 2022 diff hist +6,404 One who follows in the footsteps of such great personalities surely walks very easily on the path of liberation and ultimately goes back home, back to Godhead. That is the way of perfecting this human form of life No edit summary current
- 14:2014:20, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,262 Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah: (CC Madhya 17.186) one should follow in the footsteps of great personalities No edit summary current
- 14:1914:19, 2 September 2022 diff hist +6 Follow in the footsteps of great religious personalities No edit summary current
- 13:3713:37, 2 September 2022 diff hist −19 We must first activate our dormant love of Godhead by following the prescribed rules and by following in the footsteps of the authorities who are actually fixed in love of Godhead No edit summary current
- 13:3613:36, 2 September 2022 diff hist +5,092 The Srimad-Bhagavatam recommends, therefore, that one follow in the footsteps of the authorities No edit summary current