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16:0616:06, 8 February 2022 diff hist +3,535‎ He (a brahmana who was suffering from leprosy) desired to enjoy the company of a prostitute, and therefore his wife went to her and became her maidservant, just to draw her attention for his service ‎No edit summary current
16:0016:00, 8 February 2022 diff hist +2,358‎ Any brahmana or brahmana's wife who drinks liquor is taken by the agents of Yamaraja to the hell known as Ayahpana. This hell also awaits any ksatriya, vaisya, or person under a vow who in illusion drinks soma-rasa ‎No edit summary current
15:5615:56, 8 February 2022 diff hist +6,319‎ Within themselves they (the wives of the brahmanas) began to embrace Krsna to their hearts' content, and the distress of separation was mitigated immediately ‎No edit summary current
15:5515:55, 8 February 2022 diff hist +8,251‎ With their very eyes the wives of the brahmanas saw the Supreme Personality of Godhead, of whom they had heard so much, who was so dear to them, and in whom their minds were always absorbed ‎No edit summary current
15:5315:53, 8 February 2022 diff hist +4,610‎ When Sudama went there, the brahmanas refused to offer anything, but the wives of the brahmanas, upon hearing that Sri Krsna wanted some foodstuff, immediately took many palatable dishes and went to offer them to Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
15:5215:52, 8 February 2022 diff hist +3,255‎ This dhira-lalita trait in the personality of Krsna is described by Yajna-patni, the wife of one of the brahmanas who were performing sacrifices in Vrndavana ‎No edit summary current
15:5215:52, 8 February 2022 diff hist −35‎ They (the wives of the brahmanas) were very much chastised for this by their husbands, and they were ready to give up their lives ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 8 February 2022 diff hist +8,096‎ They (the wives of the brahmanas) did not have to be convinced of the importance of Krsna and Balarama; immediately upon hearing Their names, they became very eager to see Them ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 8 February 2022 diff hist +4,418‎ The wives of the brahmanas, because they were inspired by pure devotional service, did not care for any kind of opposition. They immediately went to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
15:5015:50, 8 February 2022 diff hist +7,087‎ The wives of the brahmanas said, "Therefore we have no shelter to return to. Please, therefore, do not ask us to return home, but arrange for our stay under Your lotus feet so that we can eternally live under Your protection" ‎No edit summary current
15:5015:50, 8 February 2022 diff hist +7,038‎ The wives of the brahmanas said, "And what shall we do if we return home? Our husbands, brothers, fathers, sons, mothers and friends will no longer accept us at home because we have already left them all" ‎No edit summary current
15:5015:50, 8 February 2022 diff hist +6,916‎ The wives of the brahmanas replied, "Dear Lord, this sort of instruction does not befit You. Your eternal promise is that You will always protect Your devotees, and now You must fulfill this promise" ‎No edit summary current
15:4815:48, 8 February 2022 diff hist +3,419‎ The wife of a brahmana suffering from leprosy manifested herself as the topmost of all chaste women by serving a prostitute to satisfy her husband ‎No edit summary current
15:4815:48, 8 February 2022 diff hist +6,938‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead replied, "My dear wives of the brahmanas, rest assured that your husbands will not neglect you on your return, nor will your brothers, sons or fathers refuse to accept you" ‎No edit summary current
15:4815:48, 8 February 2022 diff hist +4,621‎ The cowherd boys went on saying, "Please arrange for something that will mitigate our hunger" Requested in this way by Their friends, Lord Krsna and Balarama arranged to show compassion to certain wives of brahmanas who were performing sacrifices ‎No edit summary current
15:4715:47, 8 February 2022 diff hist +8,290‎ The boys said, "All of us are very hungry; therefore, we have come to you (the wives of the brahmanas) for some food. Please give us something to eat for Krsna, Balarama and ourselves" ‎No edit summary current
15:4715:47, 8 February 2022 diff hist +5,905‎ That oneness was exhibited by the wives of the brahmanas in their love for Krsna ‎No edit summary current
15:4615:46, 8 February 2022 diff hist +3,647‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said, "When they (wife of brahmanas) heard that Krsna was nearby, they became very anxious to see Him and immediately left their homes." This is an instance of emotional activity caused by the presence of someone who is very dear ‎No edit summary current
15:4615:46, 8 February 2022 diff hist +3,419‎ Sukadeva Gosvami informs King Pariksit: "My dear King, the wives of the brahmanas were usually very much attached to the glorification of Krsna, and they were always anxious to get an opportunity to see Him" ‎No edit summary
15:4615:46, 8 February 2022 diff hist +4,774‎ Sukadeva Gosvami and the wives of the brahmanas who were performing yajna are vivid examples of devotees who achieved the perfectional stage of devotional service by the grace of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
15:4115:41, 8 February 2022 diff hist +8,592‎ She (the wife of the brahmana) said, "You are a householder; therefore without money you are in distress. But as soon as He (Krsna) understands your position, He will certainly give you sufficient riches so that you can live very comfortably" ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 8 February 2022 diff hist +1,549‎ One day when Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu had finished His dancing, a woman, the wife of a brahmana, came there and caught hold of His lotus feet ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 8 February 2022 diff hist +8,172‎ Now they (the wives of the brahmanas) saw Him eye to eye and face to face, and Krsna entered within their hearts through their eyes ‎No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 8 February 2022 diff hist +6,338‎ Krsna welcomed them with the following words: "My dear wives of the brahmanas, you are all very fortunate and are welcome here. Please let Me know what I can do for you" ‎No edit summary current
15:3715:37, 8 February 2022 diff hist +6,706‎ Krsna said, "My dear wives of the brahmanas, you can now return to your homes" ‎No edit summary current
15:3715:37, 8 February 2022 diff hist +8‎ It is said that Suklambara Brahmacari was one of the wives of the yajnic brahmanas during the time of Lord Krsna’s pastimes in Vrndavana ‎No edit summary current
15:3615:36, 8 February 2022 diff hist −29‎ In the dress of brahmanas’ wives, celestial ladies like the wives of Lord Brahma and Lord Siva also came to see the newborn child ‎No edit summary current
14:4714:47, 8 February 2022 diff hist +8,039‎ Immediately upon hearing this, the wives of the brahmanas became anxious for Krsna and Balarama. These reactions were spontaneous ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 8 February 2022 diff hist +2,908‎ Here, in this verse (SB 9.9.32), the feelings inherent in this (vedic) culture are expressed by the wife of the brahmana. A woman without a husband is like a dead body ‎No edit summary
14:3714:37, 8 February 2022 diff hist +8,025‎ Carrying out Krsna's order, the boys immediately went to the wives of the brahmanas. They found the wives sitting inside the brahmanas' house. They were very beautifully decorated with ornaments ‎No edit summary current
14:3514:35, 8 February 2022 diff hist +2,933‎ Being so ordered by the Lord (Krsna), all the cowherd boys went to the brahmanas and asked them for food, but they were denied. After this, the cowherd boys begged food from the wives of the brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
14:3214:32, 8 February 2022 diff hist +3,701‎ As far as neglecting the presence of others is concerned, the wives of the brahmanas who were performing sacrifices at Vrndavana left home as soon as they heard that Krsna was nearby. They left their homes without caring for their learned husbands ‎No edit summary current
14:3014:30, 8 February 2022 diff hist +4,250‎ Anyone who becomes attracted to Krsna can be relieved from the bondage of birth and death, which can be compared to the locked-up homes that were neglected by the wives of the brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
14:1514:15, 8 February 2022 diff hist +6,665‎ All (beautiful men and women) were singing auspicious songs. The wife of the brahmana (Sudama) was very glad on hearing the tidings of her husband’s arrival, and with great haste she came out of the palace ‎No edit summary current
14:1414:14, 8 February 2022 diff hist +7,270‎ After the return of their wives from Krsna, the brahmanas engaged in the performance of sacrifices began to regret their sinful activities in refusing food to the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
14:0114:01, 8 February 2022 diff hist +1,481‎ In one village there was a Vedic brahmana named Kurma. He invited Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu to his home with great respect and devotion ‎No edit summary current
08:0108:01, 8 February 2022 diff hist +5,242‎ We need a class of men purely brahmanas. The whole world is full of sudras. The Krishna Consciousness movement is meant for re-establishing the system of four varnas and asramas, then there will be progress of civilization ‎No edit summary current
07:4007:40, 8 February 2022 diff hist +3,605‎ There is a need for a good and intelligent class of brahmanas who are expert in performing the purificatory processes prescribed in the system of varnasrama-dharma ‎No edit summary current
07:3507:35, 8 February 2022 diff hist +9,799‎ The less intelligent than brahmanas, the ksatriyas, the vaisyas, the sudras, they would need the brahmanas for health and future. Everyone is very inquisitive to learn what is future, what is going to happen next, and everyone is concerned with the health ‎No edit summary current
07:2707:27, 8 February 2022 diff hist +5,321‎ In Bhagavad-gita (BG 18.41-44) the qualifications of the brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras are specifically mentioned, and it is understood that all such qualifications are needed before one can be designated as belonging to a particular group ‎No edit summary current
07:2407:24, 8 February 2022 diff hist +3,396‎ If a brahmana or Vaisnava sticks to his position as an eternal servant of the Lord and executes the will of the Lord, there is no question of scarcity for his personal maintenance or the needs of his family ‎No edit summary current

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05:3305:33, 25 January 2022 diff hist +85,833‎ Dr. Radhakrishnan (Lectures) ‎No edit summary current

15:3315:33, 2 December 2021 diff hist +24,165‎ Prescribed duties in the scriptures ‎No edit summary current
15:2915:29, 2 December 2021 diff hist +5,173‎ One who has already developed spontaneous attachment for Krsna does not require to execute the duties prescribed in the scriptures ‎No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 2 December 2021 diff hist +8,890‎ As long as one is in the modes of material nature and is performing the duties prescribed in the scriptures, he can be elevated to higher planetary systems, where the predominating deities are material representations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
15:0015:00, 2 December 2021 diff hist −7‎ It is Srimad-Bhagavatam's opinion that the process of Deity worship is not actually necessary, just as the specific prescriptions of the Pancaratra & other scriptures do not have to be followed ‎No edit summary
14:5314:53, 2 December 2021 diff hist +4,219‎ Sex life is especially meant for having good children. The circumstances for creating good children are mentioned in kama-sastra, the scripture in which suitable arrangements are prescribed for factually glorious sex life ‎No edit summary current
14:5214:52, 2 December 2021 diff hist −5‎ Simply by discharging uncontaminated devotional service as prescribed in the scriptures, one becomes equal to Brahman ‎No edit summary current
14:5014:50, 2 December 2021 diff hist −5‎ Kardama Muni wanted to marry Devahūti in the recognized manner of marriage prescribed in the scriptures ‎No edit summary current
14:5014:50, 2 December 2021 diff hist +4,487‎ It is stated there that a person who is actually in devotional service must be engaged in all kinds of activities, those prescribed in the revealed scriptures and also those which are accepted for livelihood ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 2 December 2021 diff hist +5,236‎ The bhakti process, as performed under the regulative principles of vaidhi-bhakti, or devotional service following the prescribed rules and regulations, is defined by the revealed scriptures and confirmed by great acaryas ‎No edit summary
14:4114:41, 2 December 2021 diff hist +4,005‎ If (conditioned souls) are able to create a Krsna conscious atmosphere, as prescribed in revealed scriptures, by temple worship and household Deity worship, then in spite of their material enjoyment they can make advancement in pure Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
14:3614:36, 2 December 2021 diff hist −5‎ By good work only, as prescribed in the scriptures, can one obtain birth in a good family, opulence, good education and good bodily features. We see also that even in this life one obtains a good education or money by good work ‎No edit summary current
14:2814:28, 2 December 2021 diff hist −5‎ These girls (Krsna's neighbors), as well as the queens, underwent severe penances by taking vows, bathing and offering sacrifices in the fire, as prescribed in the scriptures ‎No edit summary current
14:2714:27, 2 December 2021 diff hist +4,562‎ These girls (the damsels of Vraja), as well as the queens (of Dvaraka), underwent severe penances by taking vows, bathing and offering sacrifices in the fire, as prescribed in the scriptures ‎No edit summary current
14:1214:12, 2 December 2021 diff hist −5‎ Regulated occupational duties, as prescribed in the scriptures in terms of the different orders and divisions of society performed in Krsna consciousness for the satisfaction of the Supreme are called actions in the mode of goodness. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
14:0914:09, 2 December 2021 diff hist +2,671‎ Prescribed differently in the scriptures for different ages ‎No edit summary current

16:1316:13, 1 December 2021 diff hist +9,635‎ We may also remember in this connection that the process of gradual emancipation by the devotees in the manner mentioned above, although authoritative, is not viable in the present age because of people's being primarily unaware of yoga practice ‎No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 1 December 2021 diff hist +8,365‎ At the present age people are embarrassed with so many things that it is hardly possible to divert his attention in all the Vedic literatures. This one literature (Bhagavad-gita) will do because it is essence of all Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
15:2115:21, 1 December 2021 diff hist +3,532‎ In Kali-yuga one has a maximum lifetime of one hundred years, but as people become degraded, the duration of their lives decreases ‎No edit summary current
15:1715:17, 1 December 2021 diff hist +32‎ In Kali-yuga, however, because the varnasrama system is neglected, people are generally thieves and rogues ‎No edit summary current
15:1615:16, 1 December 2021 diff hist +3,500‎ In Kali-yuga, however, people have forgotten the essence. Mandah sumanda-matayo manda-bhagya hy upadrutah ‎No edit summary current
15:1515:15, 1 December 2021 diff hist +8,043‎ In Kali-yuga, people will exploit the body of the bull and the cow as they like, and thus they will invite sufferings of various types ‎No edit summary current
15:1515:15, 1 December 2021 diff hist +12‎ In Kali-yuga, people cannot undergo severe austerities like drinking only water and eating only air for many months. One cannot imitate such a process ‎No edit summary current
15:1215:12, 1 December 2021 diff hist +12‎ In Kali-yuga, instead of drinking milk, people prefer to slaughter an animal and eat its flesh. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, in His instructions of Bhagavad-gita, advises go-raksya, which means cow protection ‎No edit summary current
15:0615:06, 1 December 2021 diff hist +3,794‎ In the Vedic literatures it is recommended that in Kali-yuga people engage in glorifying the Lord by chanting the holy name of Krsna (kirtanad eva krsnasya mukta-sangah param vrajet (SB 3.31.1)) without offense ‎No edit summary current
14:5714:57, 1 December 2021 diff hist +23,108‎ In this present age, Kali-yuga, people who are not in full knowledge are still attempting this meditative process which was recommended for a previous age ‎No edit summary
14:5514:55, 1 December 2021 diff hist +5,710‎ With the progression of the age of Kali, people are becoming very proud, and attached to women and intoxication ‎No edit summary current
14:5314:53, 1 December 2021 diff hist +2,530‎ Visvamitra Muni cursed his sons to become mlecchas. But in the present age, Kali-yuga, there is no need of cursing, for people are automatically mlecchas ‎No edit summary current
14:5114:51, 1 December 2021 diff hist +32‎ Unfortunately, because of Kali-yuga, foolish people do not surrender to the lotus feet of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
14:5014:50, 1 December 2021 diff hist +3,695‎ Time will come in this Kali-yuga when actually people will become what is called man-eater ‎No edit summary current
14:4914:49, 1 December 2021 diff hist +5,287‎ The word yajna indicates Lord Visnu. We should work only for His satisfaction. In modern times (Kali-yuga), however, people have forgotten Visnu altogether, and they conduct their activities for sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
14:4714:47, 1 December 2021 diff hist +8,031‎ The people of Kali-yuga will not perform any sacrifice. The mleccha population will care very little for performances of sacrifices, although performance of sacrifice is essential for persons who are materially engaged in sense enjoyment ‎No edit summary current
14:2214:22, 1 December 2021 diff hist +3,980‎ People in general are unaware that the message of Srimad-Bhagavatam can give all of human society relief from the pangs of Kali-yuga - kali-kalmasa-ghnam ‎No edit summary
13:4913:49, 1 December 2021 diff hist +3,518‎ This forgetfulness actually occurs when one renders service unto the Lord. A devotee no longer works with the body for sense gratification with family, society, country, humanity and so on ‎No edit summary current
13:4613:46, 1 December 2021 diff hist +3,868‎ They (saintly devotees) are not concerned with dharma (religiosity), artha (economic development), or kama - sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
13:4413:44, 1 December 2021 diff hist +4,054‎ Such persons (devotees of God) appear to be acting on the platform of their respective duties, but such activities are not performed for personal sense gratification; rather, they are performed for the Supreme Person ‎No edit summary current
13:4113:41, 1 December 2021 diff hist 0‎ Indra, for example, although a devotee, was not much interested in release from material bondage; instead, he desired sense gratification and a high standard of material happiness in the heavenly planets ‎No edit summary current
13:3613:36, 1 December 2021 diff hist +4,937‎ Dhruva Mahārāja is advised that if he has no desire for sense gratification, then he should directly engage himself in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. The path of apavarga, or liberation, begins from the stage called moksa ‎No edit summary current
13:3213:32, 1 December 2021 diff hist +9,297‎ An asura is not a devotee of Lord Visnu; instead, for his sense gratification he is a devotee of the demigods, bhutas, pretas and so on. Thus one can judge who is a devata, who is a Raksasa and who is an asura by how they conduct their activities ‎No edit summary current
13:3013:30, 1 December 2021 diff hist +4,131‎ A pure devotee is not concerned with material things. He is not concerned with religiosity, economic development or sense gratification. He is interested only in serving the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
13:2913:29, 1 December 2021 diff hist +3,576‎ A Krsna conscious man - one who has lost all inclinations for material sense gratification, although the desires are present. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
13:2813:28, 1 December 2021 diff hist +5,040‎ A devotee who actually wants to make progress in devotional service and go back home, back to Godhead, must lose interest in sense enjoyment and associating with persons who are after money and sense gratification. This is the advice of Lord Caitanya ‎No edit summary current
13:2613:26, 1 December 2021 diff hist +43,683‎ In the material world there is keen competition between animals, men, communities and even nations in an attempt to gratify the senses, but the devotees of the Lord are above all this ‎No edit summary current
13:1413:14, 1 December 2021 diff hist +3,953‎ When a devotee no longer has any desire for material sense gratification, in his spiritual identity he engages in the service of the Lord, for his dormant spiritual consciousness awakens. This awakening of spiritual consciousness makes his body spiritual ‎No edit summary current
13:1313:13, 1 December 2021 diff hist +3,167‎ When one associates with a pure devotee, he becomes so elevated that he does not aspire even for sarsti, sarupya, samipya or salokya, because he feels that such liberation is a kind of sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
13:1113:11, 1 December 2021 diff hist +3,135‎ He is anyabhilasita-sunya: a devotee is always devoid of all desires for sense gratification. His only aim is to satisfy or gratify the senses of the Lord. That is the difference between a karmi and a devotee ‎No edit summary current
13:0913:09, 1 December 2021 diff hist +6,111‎ Amrta chadi' visa mage: - "such a devotee (who serves Krsna for material sense gratification) is like a person who asks for poison instead of nectar." Ei bada murkha: "That is his foolishness." Ami-vijna: "But I am experienced." ‎No edit summary current
13:0413:04, 1 December 2021 diff hist +4,282‎ A devotee simply offers everything to the Supreme Personality of Godhead to receive the best results of charity, religious performances, sense gratification and even liberation (dharma, artha, kama, moksa) - SB 4.8.41, CC Adi 1.90 ‎No edit summary
13:0313:03, 1 December 2021 diff hist +1,681‎ If a devotee wants liberation or material sense gratification from the Lord, Krsna immediately delivers it, but pure devotional service He keeps hidden ‎No edit summary current
13:0213:02, 1 December 2021 diff hist +4,366‎ Baliyasa, means "offering the results of all activities to the Supreme Personality of Godhead." A devotee does not act on his personal account for sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
12:5512:55, 1 December 2021 diff hist +5,290‎ Devotees of the demigods ask for benedictions simply for sense gratification, and therefore they have been described in Bhagavad-gita (7.20) as bereft of intelligence ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 1 December 2021 diff hist +6,343‎ By this incident Krsna proved that those who are Krsna conscious devotees will not be lacking material enjoyment of sense gratification ‎No edit summary current

18:2118:21, 30 November 2021 diff hist +4,784‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not allow any of His devotees or assistants to be engaged in sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
18:2018:20, 30 November 2021 diff hist +4,150‎ The sunshine sterilizes and purifies polluted and dirty places. Similarly, a devotee may engage in so many material activities, but because he has no desire for sense gratification, they never affect him ‎No edit summary current
18:1518:15, 30 November 2021 diff hist +6,198‎ The Lord is very much satisfied with pure devotees because they do not act for sense gratification but only in terms of the Lord's desire ‎No edit summary current
18:1018:10, 30 November 2021 diff hist +3,131‎ The devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead do not, however, ask any favor for sense gratification. Even if they are offered liberation, they refuse it ‎No edit summary current
17:2017:20, 30 November 2021 diff hist +5,374‎ A devotee does not at all desire anything for sense gratification. Devotion is explained as devoid of material desires - anyabhilasita-sunya ‎No edit summary current
17:1517:15, 30 November 2021 diff hist +3,403‎ Especially in this age, Kali-yuga, cows are being killed all over the world, and as soon as there is a movement to establish brahminical civilization, people in general rebel ‎No edit summary current
17:0917:09, 30 November 2021 diff hist +3,619‎ As Kali-yuga advances, people are becoming godless and taking up so-called secularism. They do not know the punishment awaiting them in Asi-patravana ‎No edit summary current
17:0417:04, 30 November 2021 diff hist +3,349‎ A civilization that allows men to mix unrestrictedly with women is an animal civilization. In Kali-yuga, people are extremely liberal, but mixing with women and talking with them as equals actually constitutes an uncivilized way of life ‎No edit summary
16:2916:29, 30 November 2021 diff hist +3,369‎ The populace will be harassed on one side by scarcity of food and on another by heavy taxation by the government. In other words, the people in most parts of the world in this age are harassed by the ruling principles of Hiranyakasipu ‎No edit summary current
16:2816:28, 30 November 2021 diff hist +3,745‎ The people in this age, they will be dull-headed rascals. Therefore, if they get this knowledge recorded in writing, they may be able to derive some benefit ‎No edit summary current
16:1716:17, 30 November 2021 diff hist +5‎ Personality of Godhead appeared as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and preached that in this age the Vedic activities cannot be systematically performed because people are so fallen ‎No edit summary current
16:1516:15, 30 November 2021 diff hist +3,027‎ Nowadays people are very much inclined to the meditational process, which is not practical in this age. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:5015:50, 30 November 2021 diff hist +9,628‎ In this age, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura introduced the sacred thread ceremony for his Vaisnava disciples, with the idea that people should understand that when one becomes a Vaisnava he has already acquired the qualifications of a brahmana ‎No edit summary current
15:4815:48, 30 November 2021 diff hist +3,912‎ In this age, people are all bad and unfortunate, and they do not accept Vedic instructions to make their life successful ‎No edit summary current
15:4815:48, 30 November 2021 diff hist +4,632‎ In this age, no one is expected to be highly educated in the Vedic ways of understanding because people are very slow, lazy and unfortunate. Therefore Lord Caitanya has recommended the sound vibration Hare Ksna ‎No edit summary current
15:4515:45, 30 November 2021 diff hist +5,157‎ In this age, many unscrupulous men manufacture their own religious faiths which are not based on any revealed scriptures, and very often people who are addicted to sense gratification are attracted by such institutions ‎No edit summary current
15:4115:41, 30 November 2021 diff hist +3,097‎ In this age we see much material improvement, but still people are struggling to get more and more material opulence. Manah sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati - BG 15.7 ‎No edit summary current
14:5314:53, 30 November 2021 diff hist +13,972‎ In this age, the life span will gradually decrease. People will gradually lose their memory, finer sentiments, strength, and better qualities ‎No edit summary current
14:4114:41, 30 November 2021 diff hist +4,239‎ In this age of Kali, however, such sin (drunkenness) is to be seen everywhere, for people all over the world have become shameless. Long ago, when he saw the scene of the drunken sudra & the prostitute, Ajamila, who was a perfect brahmacari, was affected ‎No edit summary current
14:3814:38, 30 November 2021 diff hist +4,632‎ No one in this age can attain the perfectional stage of yoga, but people indulge in practicing sitting postures, which is more or less a gymnastic process ‎No edit summary current
14:3614:36, 30 November 2021 diff hist +5,756‎ Our purpose, mission, is that people may become God conscious. And the process is in this age by chanting the holy name of God ‎No edit summary current
14:3414:34, 30 November 2021 diff hist +5,404‎ People should take advantage of the injunctions in different sastras concerning sacrifices in this age and not create unnecessary disturbances during the sinful age of Kali ‎No edit summary current
14:2914:29, 30 November 2021 diff hist +2,245‎ Such people worship the Age of Kali because in this age one can advance in spiritual knowledge and attain life's goal simply by chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra ‎No edit summary current
13:0913:09, 30 November 2021 diff hist +5,253‎ The karmis want to use the property of the Lord for their selfish sense gratification, but a devotee endeavors to use the Lord's property for God's service ‎No edit summary current
13:0413:04, 30 November 2021 diff hist +5,360‎ This is the difference between DS and all other methods of perfection. One who performs severe austerities for sense gratification is fearful to the entire world, whereas a devotee who performs even a slight amount of DS is a friend to everyone ‎No edit summary current
12:5912:59, 30 November 2021 diff hist +66‎ Unless all of the senses are engaged in the service of the Lord, even one of them engaged in sense gratification can deviate the devotee from the path of transcendental advancement. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
08:5308:53, 30 November 2021 diff hist +3,002‎ In the material condition, all living entities are engaged in sense gratification, but when they associate with devotees who follow the regulative principles, they become purified and awakened to their original consciousness ‎No edit summary current
08:4708:47, 30 November 2021 diff hist +6,074‎ By yoga-maya, the Lord remains concealed to the nondevotees or casual devotees who are serving their sense gratification. The Lord is never visible to the pseudodevotees who worship the demigods in charge of universal affairs ‎No edit summary current
08:4308:43, 30 November 2021 diff hist +3,464‎ Asuras work for personal sense gratification, whereas devotees work for the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord. Both work conscientiously, but their motives are different ‎No edit summary current
08:2608:26, 30 November 2021 diff hist +6,775‎ The devotee contemplates, "Persons unaware of the supreme reservoir of pleasure falsely engage in deriving pleasure from sense gratification, but this is transient and illusory" ‎No edit summary current
08:1808:18, 30 November 2021 diff hist +5,435‎ One who performs severe austerities for sense gratification is fearful to the entire world, whereas a devotee who performs even a slight amount of devotional service is a friend to everyone ‎No edit summary current
08:0408:04, 30 November 2021 diff hist +2,288‎ If a devotee desires material religiosity, economic development, sense gratification or liberation from the material world, he is awarded these results ‎No edit summary current

15:4915:49, 29 November 2021 diff hist +24‎ The results of knowledge and fruitive activities are liberation and material sense gratification respectively. Consequently, they cannot be part and parcel of devotional service; rather, they have no intrinsic value in the discharge of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
15:3315:33, 29 November 2021 diff hist +7,348‎ In the course of the evolutionary process, which is caused by fruitive activities due to undesirable material sense gratification, I have received this human form of life, which can lead to the heavenly planets, to liberation, to the lower species ‎No edit summary current
15:1915:19, 29 November 2021 diff hist +20,622‎ When one is absorbed in temporary designated existence, he hankers after sense gratification and liberation ‎No edit summary current
14:4914:49, 29 November 2021 diff hist +4,574‎ The gate on the western side of the city was known as Asuri because it was especially meant for the asuras. The word asura refers to those who are interested in sense gratification, specifically in sex life, to which they are overly attracted ‎No edit summary current
14:4714:47, 29 November 2021 diff hist +4,408‎ Material sense gratification is also called gramya, and the place where sex life is indulged in to a great extent is called Gramaka. When going to Gramaka, Puranjana used to be accompanied by his friend Durmada ‎No edit summary current
14:4614:46, 29 November 2021 diff hist +11,504‎ The material taste means we want to gratify senses in so many ways, and the supermost point is sex life. So as soon as you get into touch with Krsna and you develop Krsna love, all this nonsense finished. Then you are liberated ‎No edit summary
14:2014:20, 29 November 2021 diff hist +6,687‎ Out of thousands and even millions of ignorant people who are wasting their time simply gratifying their senses, one may come to the platform of knowledge and understand higher values of life ‎No edit summary current
13:5713:57, 29 November 2021 diff hist +3,227‎ Please take this opportunity offered you all by Krsna very seriously and do not misuse your life for sense gratification. You are a very intelligent boy I know and a very sincere devotee of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
13:0513:05, 29 November 2021 diff hist +4,656‎ If we use this human form of life exactly like the cats and dogs, simply for sense gratification, then we are committing suicide ‎No edit summary current
12:4512:45, 29 November 2021 diff hist +4,243‎ Being desirous of sense gratification and opulent life, they say that there is nothing more than this ‎No edit summary current
12:4412:44, 29 November 2021 diff hist +3,725‎ Being desirous of sense gratification and opulent life, they say that there is nothing more than this. BG 2.42.43 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
12:0312:03, 29 November 2021 diff hist +6,423‎ They have only one aim in life-sense gratification-and in order to achieve this end they make plans for economic development. Misguided men think that religion should be maintained because it contributes to economic development ‎No edit summary current
11:5611:56, 29 November 2021 diff hist +4,139‎ The other students were advanced in enjoying materialistic life through religion, economic development & sense gratification, but Prahlada laughed at them knowing that this was not actual happiness for real happiness is advancement in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
11:4711:47, 29 November 2021 diff hist +10‎ The central point of material life is sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
11:3511:35, 29 November 2021 diff hist +6,918‎ In the barbarian stage, or in the mode of ignorance, the senses are gratified in a very crude way, whereas in the mode of passion, or in civilized life, the senses are gratified in a polished manner ‎No edit summary current
11:2311:23, 29 November 2021 diff hist +4,048‎ At the present moment there is no aim of life. The aim of life is sense gratification. That's all. Indriya-trpti. That is forbidden in the sastras ‎No edit summary current
10:4910:49, 29 November 2021 diff hist +4,004‎ The completely bewildered material civilization is wrongly directed towards the fulfillment of desires in sense gratification. In such civilization, in all spheres of life, the ultimate end is sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
10:4410:44, 29 November 2021 diff hist +5,026‎ It is clearly stated, "the more the intelligence becomes purified," which means the more one becomes detached from sense gratification. Our intelligence in the present conditioned state of life is impure due to being engaged in sense gratification ‎No edit summary current

16:0016:00, 28 November 2021 diff hist +18‎ We should always remember that Krsna’s sense gratification is never to be compared to the sense gratification of the material world. As we have already explained, Krsna’s sense gratification is just like gold ‎No edit summary current
15:5415:54, 28 November 2021 diff hist +3,909‎ This material world is not created for those who do not want to enjoy sense gratification, who constantly remain in transcendental loving service and who are eternally Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
15:4715:47, 28 November 2021 diff hist +6,037‎ The conditioned souls are generally put into the activities of the material world for sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
15:4415:44, 28 November 2021 diff hist +4,253‎ The conditioned souls, who have come to this material world for sense gratification, are allowed to enjoy their senses under certain regulative principles. If they violate these regulations, they are judged and punished by Yamaraja ‎No edit summary current
15:3115:31, 28 November 2021 diff hist +5,771‎ The conditioned souls, or living entities who come to the material world to enjoy sense gratification, are covered in the beginning by five different conditions. The first condition is a covering of tamisra, or anger ‎No edit summary current
14:5514:55, 28 November 2021 diff hist +4,168‎ If you want to remain in this material world and do hard work for sense gratification, that chance will be given to you. But if you want to go back to home, back to Godhead, that chance also will be given to you ‎No edit summary current
14:5014:50, 28 November 2021 diff hist +6,037‎ He (the living entity) remains within the material world simply for the purpose of sense gratification & transmigrates from one body to another. His process of reproducing so many sons & grandsons results in so-called societies, nations, communities ‎No edit summary current
14:2014:20, 28 November 2021 diff hist +6,528‎ Actually, the activities of sense gratification are material. In the spiritual world there are symptoms like kissing and embracing, but there is no sense-gratificatory process as it exists in the material world ‎No edit summary current
14:1414:14, 28 November 2021 diff hist +4,515‎ We can see that such a great mystic yogi as Saubhari became a victim of sense gratification, and such great sages as Vasistha and Visvamitra became birds. This is the material world ‎No edit summary current
13:4913:49, 28 November 2021 diff hist +2,506‎ The perverted reflection of that sense gratification found in the material world is just like iron ‎No edit summary current
13:4713:47, 28 November 2021 diff hist +6,429‎ The living entities are therefore called jivatma, and the Supreme Lord is called Paramatma. Both the Paramatma and the jivatma are within this material world, and therefore this material world has a purpose other than sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
07:1507:15, 28 November 2021 diff hist +5,990‎ Here in the material world, material nature forces the living entity to change his body due to his different desires for sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
07:0907:09, 28 November 2021 diff hist +2,867‎ The conditioned souls who have come to this material world for material sense gratification are regulated by the injunctions of the Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current

15:2415:24, 27 November 2021 diff hist +6,352‎ The conception of a life of sense gratification is illusion, but the conception of service by the jivatma to the Paramatma, even in this material world, is not at all illusory ‎No edit summary current
15:1715:17, 27 November 2021 diff hist +4,903‎ There are many sharply intelligent people in this material world, and they discover so many things for sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
14:5414:54, 27 November 2021 diff hist +6,672‎ In this material world people are engaged in different activities simply to achieve a little success in sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
14:0014:00, 27 November 2021 diff hist +8,735‎ In the beginning of our spiritual life we must worship Madana-mohana so that He may attract us and nullify our attachment for material sense gratification. This relationship with Madana-mohana is necessary for neophyte devotees ‎No edit summary
13:5113:51, 27 November 2021 diff hist +41,270‎ When one has already ascended to the path of yoga, meditation and detachment are the goals, & when one is no longer attached to working for sense gratification, he gradually becomes free. At that time he also attains a state of ecstasy called yoga arudha ‎No edit summary current
07:3807:38, 27 November 2021 diff hist +5,803‎ Money is undoubtedly coming in great quantities, but we should not be attached to this money for sense gratification; every cent should be spent for spreading the Krsna consciousness movement, not for sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
07:0607:06, 27 November 2021 diff hist +9,779‎ At the present moment human civilization is too much attached to economic development and sense gratification and is therefore nearing the path of ruination ‎No edit summary current
07:0107:01, 27 November 2021 diff hist +3,617‎ At the present moment, modern civilization is too much attached to the material way of life, or sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
07:0007:00, 27 November 2021 diff hist +26‎ As long as one is very much attached to material sense gratification, the worship of the demigods or the worship of one's husband is recommended ‎No edit summary current
05:2305:23, 27 November 2021 diff hist +5,046‎ Lord Krsna behaved by His personal example as if He were very much attached to the four principles of civilized life, namely religion, economic development, sense gratification and salvation ‎No edit summary current
05:0605:06, 27 November 2021 diff hist +5,971‎ Unfortunately, being overly attached to sense gratification, materialists are not serious in helping this movement. Instead, some of them try to suppress it ‎No edit summary current

12:5812:58, 26 November 2021 diff hist +1,856‎ Last night there was sugar candy here, he said. "Therefore ants are wandering about. Alas, this renounced sannyasi is attached to such sense gratification!" After speaking in this way, he got up and left ‎No edit summary current
12:3812:38, 26 November 2021 diff hist +4,379‎ Because we are very attached to sense gratification, we go to God, to the temple or churches, for some economic reasons. Then again, economic development does not mean sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
12:3012:30, 26 November 2021 diff hist +4,229‎ Unfortunately, due to our bad association and great attachment for sense gratification, we do not remember our best friend, the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
11:4711:47, 26 November 2021 diff hist +4,129‎ There are different stages of perfection according to different persons' objectives. Generally people are karmis, for they engage in activities of sense gratification ‎No edit summary
11:3311:33, 26 November 2021 diff hist +8,141‎ When a karmi performs some ritualistic ceremony, his ambition is sense gratification - good position, good wife, good house, good children or good wealth - but the ambition of the members of the Yadu dynasty was different ‎No edit summary current

15:0915:09, 25 November 2021 diff hist +4,495‎ With folded hands I request you, don't you become hippies again by growing hair. Keep your head cleansed at least once in a month. That is my request. Neither I can chastise you. I am also old man; you are young men ‎No edit summary current
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13:0513:05, 24 November 2021 diff hist +5,324‎ The jnanis are a little more advanced than the dull-headed karmis, who are simply interested in sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
12:5912:59, 24 November 2021 diff hist +3,351‎ Ordinary karmis are busy acquiring money for sense gratification, and ordinary jnanis are socially aloof when they speculate on liberation, but actual devotees and saintly persons are always anxious to see how the people can be made happy ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 24 November 2021 diff hist +4,507‎ Of the different classes of men-karmis, jnanis and yogis - the karmis are those who are engaged in the activities of sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
12:4812:48, 24 November 2021 diff hist +4,773‎ Karmis are simply full of desires because they try to enjoy sense gratification. They are not peaceful in this life, nor the next, during the past, present or future ‎No edit summary current
12:3812:38, 24 November 2021 diff hist +7,355‎ Generally, in the material world two things are going on. The karmis are busy try to earn money for their sense gratification, and the jnanis, they've given up the world as mithya ‎No edit summary current
12:3512:35, 24 November 2021 diff hist +4,440‎ Although apparently a grhastha (householder), Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya was unlike the so-called karmis interested in sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
12:2112:21, 24 November 2021 diff hist +6,793‎ The word visaya denotes sense gratification. The karmis flatly state that they want sense gratification. The yogis also want sense gratification, but they want it to a higher degree ‎No edit summary current
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08:2908:29, 24 November 2021 diff hist +2,745‎ Lord Krsna is dhira-lalita, for He can always keep His girlfriends in a subjugated state. Thus His only business is enjoying sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
08:2108:21, 24 November 2021 diff hist +5,178‎ The system of varnasrama & its prescribed duties are so designed that the conditioned soul may enjoy in the material world according to his desire for sense gratification & at the same time gradually become elevated to spiritual understanding ‎No edit summary current
08:1908:19, 24 November 2021 diff hist +6,112‎ The plan is to give the conditioned souls who so desire a chance to enjoy sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
07:2007:20, 24 November 2021 diff hist +5,937‎ The body is made of senses. The conditioned soul wants to enjoy sense gratification, and, according to his capacity to enjoy sense gratification, he is offered a body, or field of activity. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
06:4206:42, 24 November 2021 diff hist +5,354‎ They (living entities) have taken it for granted that this life, as presently manifested under the conditions of material nature, is all in all for enjoying the highest amount of sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
05:5305:53, 24 November 2021 diff hist +3,898‎ At the time of his (Dhruva Maharaja) death he would remember the Supreme Lord, and before his death he would enjoy this material world, not by sense gratification, but by performing great sacrifices ‎No edit summary current
05:3705:37, 24 November 2021 diff hist +3,449‎ They (the materialists) try to enjoy this material world to the utmost limit and therefore always engage in inventing something for sense gratification. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
05:0905:09, 24 November 2021 diff hist +26‎ There is no recommendation in the Vedic scriptures that one can go on enjoying material sense gratification at one's whims, as one likes, and at the same time become a great meditator by paying a rascal some money ‎No edit summary current
05:0705:07, 24 November 2021 diff hist +4,851‎ The Lord is so kind, however, that even today persons whose brain substance is spoiled are given the benediction to become cats, dogs or hogs and enjoy material happiness from sex life and sense gratification ‎No edit summary current

16:3116:31, 23 November 2021 diff hist +3,697‎ It is the Yamaraja's duty to see that these rascals who have forgotten Krsna, or God, and come here to enjoy material sense gratification, they must be punished. Because material sense gratification is always sinful ‎No edit summary
16:2516:25, 23 November 2021 diff hist +7,121‎ If you have got a tinge of attachment for material enjoyment, Krsna will give you chance: "All right, you enjoy. You enjoy, to the fullest extent." Because we have come to this material world for enjoying sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
16:2116:21, 23 November 2021 diff hist +5,358‎ Bhukti refers to being situated in a very good position, like a position with the demigods in the higher planetary systems, where one can enjoy material sense gratification to the greatest extent ‎No edit summary current
15:5415:54, 23 November 2021 diff hist +18‎ While one enjoys sense gratification, it may be that there is some feeling of happiness, but actually that so-called feeling of happiness is the ultimate enemy of the sense enjoyer. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:4115:41, 23 November 2021 diff hist +2,919‎ The asuras want to enjoy a life of sense gratification, even at the cost of others happiness ‎No edit summary current
13:5613:56, 23 November 2021 diff hist +3,745‎ Materialistic persons take to so-called religion to get some blessings so that they can improve their economic position and enjoy the material world through sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
13:5413:54, 23 November 2021 diff hist +1,350‎ Jagadananda wants Me to enjoy bodily sense gratification, and out of fear I do whatever he tells Me ‎No edit summary current
13:5213:52, 23 November 2021 diff hist +3,422‎ In the heavenly planets, although the residents enjoy superior sense gratification, they never forget their positions as eternal servants of the Supreme Being ‎No edit summary
13:5013:50, 23 November 2021 diff hist +2,762‎ In spite of achieving the power to control in all directions and in spite of enjoying all types of dear sense gratification as much as possible, Hiranyakasipu was dissatisfied because instead of controlling his senses he remained their servant ‎No edit summary current
06:5606:56, 23 November 2021 diff hist +3,774‎ Ksatriyas are generally endowed with material qualities conducive to gaining material wealth and enjoying sense gratification, but those who are spiritually advanced are not interested in material opulence ‎No edit summary current
06:5406:54, 23 November 2021 diff hist +1,532‎ I have spent a full one thousand years enjoying sense gratification, yet my desire to enjoy such pleasure increases daily ‎No edit summary current
06:3506:35, 23 November 2021 diff hist +12‎ Even on this earth some are very eager to have somarasa to become strong and fit to enjoy sense gratifications. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
06:2606:26, 23 November 2021 diff hist +2,344‎ Damodara Pandita and others are more advanced in receiving the mercy of Lord Krsna; therefore they are independent of public opinion. As such, they want Me to enjoy sense gratification, even though it be unethical ‎No edit summary current
06:0206:02, 23 November 2021 diff hist +4,225‎ The Vedic process of sense gratification is therefore planned in such a way that one can economically develop and enjoy sense gratification and yet ultimately attain liberation ‎No edit summary current
05:5805:58, 23 November 2021 diff hist +57‎ The mammonist philosophy of work very hard and enjoy sense gratification is condemned herein (in BG 3.16) by the Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
05:5405:54, 23 November 2021 diff hist +3,976‎ In all scriptures people are encouraged to act in a pious way so that they can enjoy sense gratification not only in this life but also in the next. For example, one is promised promotion to the heavenly kingdom of higher planets by pious activities ‎No edit summary

15:5715:57, 20 November 2021 diff hist +6,380‎ The two expressions grha-vrata and carvita-carvananam indicate that a materialistic person tries to enjoy sense gratification in different bodily forms, life after life, but is still unsatisfied ‎No edit summary current
15:4715:47, 20 November 2021 diff hist +3,673‎ The krpana, having a wrong estimation of his material body, wants to enjoy sense gratification with his utmost strength, and even in old age he wants to become a young man by medical treatment or otherwise ‎No edit summary current
15:2715:27, 20 November 2021 diff hist +46‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura remarks that residing in Vrndavana with a view to enjoy sense gratification surely leads a so-called devotee to a lower species ‎No edit summary current
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15:1015:10, 20 November 2021 diff hist +3,558‎ As long as we desire to enjoy sense gratification, we create material activities. When the living entity acts in the material field, he enjoys the senses, and while enjoying the senses, he creates another series of material activities ‎No edit summary current
15:0815:08, 20 November 2021 diff hist +12‎ When the mode of passion is increased, one develops the hankering for material enjoyment. He wants to enjoy sense gratification. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
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08:0908:09, 19 November 2021 diff hist +3,827‎ Unfortunately, people in this modern age do not know how these laws are working. Having no knowledge of the eternity of the spirit soul and its transmigration, the population of the present age is in the greatest ignorance ‎No edit summary current
08:0808:08, 19 November 2021 diff hist +3,820‎ Unfortunately, especially in this age of Kali, everyone is an atheist, people do not even believe in God, what to speak of following His words. The words nija-veda-patha can also mean "one's own set of religious principles ‎No edit summary current
08:0308:03, 19 November 2021 diff hist +5,654‎ The principles of the parampara system were strictly honored in previous ages but in the present age, Kali-yuga, people neglect the importance of this system of srauta-parampara, or receiving knowledge by disciplic succession ‎No edit summary
08:0108:01, 19 November 2021 diff hist +2,525‎ The people of the world in this age of Kali are always full of anxieties. Everyone is diseased with some kind of ailment. From the very faces of the people of this age, one can find out the index of the mind ‎No edit summary current
07:5807:58, 19 November 2021 diff hist +4,452‎ The government administration in the present age (Kali-yuga) is bereft of all godly qualities. Considering all these points, the people today have no alternative but to take to Krsna consciousness for protection of religion, life and property ‎No edit summary current
07:5607:56, 19 November 2021 diff hist +3,566‎ The age of Kali is full of sinful reactions, and people are more and more addicted to the qualities of this age, but simply by hearing and chanting of krsna-katha one is sure to go back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
07:5507:55, 19 November 2021 diff hist +9,411‎ They (people in general, especially in this age of Kali) have no knowledge that the material or external nature is very strong, for everyone is strongly bound by the stringent laws of material nature. BG 1972 Preface ‎No edit summary current
07:2907:29, 19 November 2021 diff hist +4,795‎ Lord Caitanya next informed Prakasananda that in the modern age people in general are more or less bereft of spiritual intellect ‎No edit summary current
07:2907:29, 19 November 2021 diff hist +20,811‎ Lord Caitanya immediately informed Prakasananda that in the modern age people in general are more or less bereft of all spiritual intellect ‎No edit summary current
07:2307:23, 19 November 2021 diff hist +32‎ In this age people are not going to search out a saint in the forest, so the saints and sages have to come to the big cities to make arrangements to receive the people in general, who are accustomed to the modern amenities of material life ‎No edit summary current
07:2107:21, 19 November 2021 diff hist +4,432‎ In this age of Kali, when all people are very contaminated, the chanting of the holy name of the Lord is recommended as the only means of improvement ‎No edit summary current
07:2107:21, 19 November 2021 diff hist +5,238‎ In this Age of Kali, real religious propaganda should induce people to chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. This is possible for someone who is especially empowered by Krsna. No one can do this without being especially favored by Krsna ‎No edit summary current
07:2007:20, 19 November 2021 diff hist +6,604‎ In this age of Kali, people endowed with sufficient intelligence will worship the Lord, who is accompanied by His associates, by performance of sankirtana-yajna ‎No edit summary current
07:1907:19, 19 November 2021 diff hist +6,785‎ In this age of Kali, people cannot follow the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore the Lord Himself takes the part of Sri Krsna Caitanya to teach personally how to become Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
07:1907:19, 19 November 2021 diff hist +2,638‎ In this age of Kali, people are overwhelmed by the modes of passion and ignorance. Lord Rsabhadeva incarnated Himself to deliver them from the clutches of maya ‎No edit summary current
07:1807:18, 19 November 2021 diff hist +3,840‎ In this age of Kali, however, there is a great concession given to people in general. Yajnaih sankirtana-prayair yajanti hi sumedhasah: (SB 11.5.32) we may worship Lord Caitanya, the hidden incarnation of Krsna ‎No edit summary
07:1707:17, 19 November 2021 diff hist +7,916‎ In this age a saintly person has to make proper arrangements to receive people and attract them to the message of Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
07:1607:16, 19 November 2021 diff hist +5,141‎ In this age (Kali-yuga), people are indulging in such necessities of life without following the rules and regulations, and this deterioration of social and moral rules is certainly lamentable because of the harmful effects of such beastly behavior ‎No edit summary current
07:1407:14, 19 November 2021 diff hist +4,300‎ In this age, although people are greatly sinful, simply chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra can relieve them from the reactions of their sins. Eka krsna-name: only by chanting Krsna’s name is this possible ‎No edit summary current
07:0907:09, 19 November 2021 diff hist +6,264‎ In the modern age people are under the impression that during the Vedic period or the prehistoric ages America and many other parts of the world had not been discovered, but that is not a fact ‎No edit summary
07:0607:06, 19 November 2021 diff hist +3,294‎ In the modern age, people from earth have tried to go to the moon, but they have not been able to find anyone there, what to speak of meeting the moon's predominating deity ‎No edit summary current
06:5906:59, 19 November 2021 diff hist +2,768‎ How come that if in this age of Kali people in general are less intelligent, in this particular age they've received the fullest revelation of knowledge? Why not in the Satya-yuga? ‎No edit summary current
06:4306:43, 19 November 2021 diff hist −25‎ Sangopangastra-parsadam indicates that Lord Caitanya is Lord Krsna. His body is always decorated with ornaments of sandalwood and with sandalwood paste. By His superexcellent beauty He subdues all the people of the age ‎No edit summary current
06:2406:24, 19 November 2021 diff hist +2,992‎ There are sufferings from internal diseases, separation from those near and dear, and anxieties for maintaining the status quo. These are but some important factors which make the people of this age always unhappy ‎No edit summary current
06:2206:22, 19 November 2021 diff hist −13‎ The people of this age especially do not know the value of not discharging semen. As such, they are variously entangled with material qualities and suffer an existence of struggle only ‎No edit summary current
06:2106:21, 19 November 2021 diff hist +2,737‎ The people of this age are so fallen they are like cats and dogs. What cats and dogs will understand about philosophy? ‎No edit summary current
06:2006:20, 19 November 2021 diff hist +8,129‎ The people of this age are inclined toward industrial enterprises for comfortable living, but they refuse to endeavor to execute devotional service, by which they can achieve the ultimate goal of life by returning home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
06:2006:20, 19 November 2021 diff hist +5,105‎ The Lord is so kind that in spite of Kali-yuga's being devoid of these three spiritual qualities (namely austerity, cleanliness and mercy), He comes and protects the people of this age in His covered incarnation as Lord Caitanya ‎No edit summary current

17:1817:18, 18 November 2021 diff hist +11,782‎ Even if one gets the position of Brahma, the most exalted position in this material world, he is a conditioned soul ‎No edit summary current
17:1017:10, 18 November 2021 diff hist +5,426‎ Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has said that a Vaisnava is recognized by his preaching work - that is, by convincing the conditioned soul about his eternal position, which is explained here (in CC Madhya 20.6) as nija-dharma ‎No edit summary
17:0417:04, 18 November 2021 diff hist +6,143‎ Krsna said, "The names of these six conditioned souls are as follows: Smara, Udgitha, Parisvanga, Patanga, Ksudrabhrt and Ghrni. They will be reinstated in their former position as demigods" ‎No edit summary current
16:5916:59, 18 November 2021 diff hist +4,867‎ Actually his (the conditioned soul) position is to know that he is an eternal servant of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
16:3816:38, 18 November 2021 diff hist +4,417‎ In conditioned life the soul is under the impression that he can become the lord of the universe, and the last point of this misconception is to think oneself the Supreme ‎No edit summary current
15:5615:56, 18 November 2021 diff hist +10,479‎ The conditioned souls strive to become lords of the material world. Everyone is trying to lord it over the material nature by applying his highest degree of intelligence ‎No edit summary current
15:3715:37, 18 November 2021 diff hist +4,263‎ The attraction for material things is certainly due to illusion. There is no value in attraction to material things, for the conditioned soul is diverted by them ‎No edit summary current
15:3415:34, 18 November 2021 diff hist +8,332‎ Temporary manifestations are so created as to present an illusion of reality to the bewildered mind of the conditioned soul, who appears in so many species of life, including the higher demigods, like Brahma, Indra, Candra, and so on ‎No edit summary current
15:3115:31, 18 November 2021 diff hist +7,013‎ He (the conditioned soul) does not know that all such renderings of service are totally illusory. As we have discussed many times before, this material world is itself an illusion, like a mirage in the desert ‎No edit summary current
15:2015:20, 18 November 2021 diff hist +3,215‎ Unfortunately, the conditioned souls, being placed into illusion by the external energy of the Lord, want to fight with one another, and therefore peace is disturbed ‎No edit summary current
15:1815:18, 18 November 2021 diff hist +4,423‎ This illusion caused by the material energy acts especially on the conditioned souls, but it sometimes also acts on liberated souls as well ‎No edit summary current
15:0915:09, 18 November 2021 diff hist +4,934‎ In Bhagavad-gita it is said that because the whole world is illusioned by the three modes of material nature, the common conditioned soul, being covered by such energy, cannot see the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
15:0015:00, 18 November 2021 diff hist −9‎ In the greater forest of worldly transaction, the fire of war takes place because of the violent passion of the conditioned souls illusioned by the external energy ‎No edit summary current
14:5114:51, 18 November 2021 diff hist +22‎ Another meaning of guna is rope; it is to be understood that the conditioned soul is tightly tied by the ropes of illusion. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
14:3014:30, 18 November 2021 diff hist +5,652‎ The Lord is the only enjoyer, and all others are enjoyed. The living beings are predominated enjoyers. But the eternally conditioned souls, forgetful of this constitutional position, have strong aspirations to enjoy ‎No edit summary current
14:2014:20, 18 November 2021 diff hist +4,141‎ The distinction is that the nitya-siddhas are eternally Krsna conscious without any forgetfulness, whereas the nitya-baddhas, or eternally conditioned souls, are forgetful of their relationship with Krsna ‎No edit summary current
14:0914:09, 18 November 2021 diff hist +2,653‎ There is no difference between the Supreme Lord and His body, but the conditioned soul, although eternal, is different from his body ‎No edit summary current
13:4213:42, 18 November 2021 diff hist +3,889‎ Those who live within the spiritual expansion of the Lord are called liberated souls, whereas the residents of the external expansion are called the conditioned souls ‎No edit summary current
13:3813:38, 18 November 2021 diff hist +2,754‎ The liberated soul and the conditioned soul have different engagements. The liberated soul is always engaged in the progressive path of spiritual attainment, which is something like a dream for the conditioned soul ‎No edit summary current
13:3013:30, 18 November 2021 diff hist +2,344‎ The engagement of a conditioned soul appears to be a dream for the liberated soul ‎No edit summary current
13:2913:29, 18 November 2021 diff hist +3,221‎ The conditioned souls are always within the Maha Visnu Form, whereas the liberated souls in Vaikuntha, they are engaged in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
13:2713:27, 18 November 2021 diff hist +2,642‎ The conditioned soul cannot imagine the actual engagements of the liberated soul. While the conditioned soul thus dreams about spiritual engagements, the liberated soul is awake ‎No edit summary current
06:1106:11, 18 November 2021 diff hist +4,035‎ This material creation is created by the Lord to give a facility to the conditioned souls to fulfill these lustful propensities. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
06:1006:10, 18 November 2021 diff hist +3,937‎ The propensities for eating flesh, drinking wine and enjoying sex are all natural to the conditioned soul. The path of such enjoyment is called pravrtti-marga ‎No edit summary current
06:0906:09, 18 November 2021 diff hist +4,445‎ Even the body and the senses do not belong to him (the conditioned soul), for they are given to him by the grace of the Lord to satisfy his different propensities through the material energy ‎No edit summary current
06:0206:02, 18 November 2021 diff hist +6,689‎ Srutadeva said, "The conditioned soul feels the pangs of material contamination as the threefold miseries as long as You (Krsna) are not visible to him" ‎No edit summary current
06:0006:00, 18 November 2021 diff hist +3,915‎ A conditioned soul is one who has forgotten Krsna as his eternal master. Thinking that he is enjoying the material world, the conditioned soul suffers the threefold miseries of material existence ‎No edit summary
05:5505:55, 18 November 2021 diff hist +6,327‎ Materialistic education expands the influence of maya. Such an education induces the conditioned soul to be increasingly attracted to materialistic life and to stray further and further away from liberation from unwanted miseries ‎No edit summary current
05:5205:52, 18 November 2021 diff hist +2,354‎ Ghosts and mischievous hobgoblins are also the creation of Brahma; they are not false. All of them are meant for putting the conditioned soul into various miseries. They are understood to be the creation of Brahma under the direction of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
05:3705:37, 18 November 2021 diff hist +5,201‎ In materially conditioned life, the soul is different from the gross embodiment and subtle mind. For the Supreme Lord, however, there is never any such difference between Him and His body and mind ‎No edit summary
05:3105:31, 18 November 2021 diff hist +5,895‎ The mind of the conditioned soul, on account of its association with the material energy contains heaps of dirt in the form of desires to lord it over material nature. This dirt is like a mountain, but a mountain can be shattered when hit by a thunderbolt ‎No edit summary current
05:2605:26, 18 November 2021 diff hist +2,784‎ It is very pleasing to me that you have distributed so many of my books and preached to the students. This is our mission of life, to somehow turn the minds of the conditioned souls to Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
05:2505:25, 18 November 2021 diff hist +4,716‎ In this way the mind's function can become dangerous for a conditioned soul. Students of psychology are aware of the mind's various psychological changes ‎No edit summary current
05:2405:24, 18 November 2021 diff hist +3,922‎ All his (the conditioned soul's) other senses - his hands, his legs, his belly, his genitals, his mind, etc. - are so susceptible to the attraction of the objects of enjoyment that he cannot restrain himself ‎No edit summary current

16:5116:51, 17 November 2021 diff hist +4,993‎ With such resources (material energy & ingredients), and at the cost of valuable energy, the conditioned soul creates, satisfies his whims, but unwillingly has to depart from all his creations and enter into another phase of life to create again and again ‎No edit summary current
16:4516:45, 17 November 2021 diff hist +3,902‎ When a conditioned living being thinks, "I am the enjoyer, and this world is meant to be enjoyed by me," this conception of life is dictated to him by Sankarsana. Thus the mundane conditioned soul thinks himself the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
16:3716:37, 17 November 2021 diff hist +10,577‎ We have information from the Bhagavad-gita (3.10-11) that Lord Brahma, after giving rebirth to the conditioned souls within the universe, instructed them to perform sacrifices and to lead a prosperous life ‎No edit summary current
16:3316:33, 17 November 2021 diff hist +5,227‎ To revolve in the cycle of transmigration in a series of lives numbering 8,400,000 is an imprisoned life for the condemned conditioned souls ‎No edit summary current
16:1216:12, 17 November 2021 diff hist +7,107‎ In order to show them special favor, Krsna exhibited this rasa-lila dance. It is to captivate the conditioned soul. Since they are very much attracted by sex, they can enjoy the same life with Krsna & thus become liberated from the material condition ‎No edit summary current
16:0316:03, 17 November 2021 diff hist +8,842‎ Generally a conditioned soul has the determination for material profit, but when these desires for material profit are satisfied through performance of yajna, one gradually achieves the spiritual platform. Then his life becomes perfect ‎No edit summary current
15:5915:59, 17 November 2021 diff hist +4,755‎ During the course of the cosmic manifestation, the conditioned souls are given a chance to revive their original status of life with the help of revealed scriptures, so mercifully compiled by the Lord in His different incarnations ‎No edit summary
15:4315:43, 17 November 2021 diff hist +3,916‎ Prthu Maharaja is compared to such a conditioned soul, not because he was a conditioned soul but because he was so anxious to receive the Kumaras that it was as if without them he would have lost his life ‎No edit summary current
15:4115:41, 17 November 2021 diff hist +7,064‎ For the conditioned soul there are two statuses of living. One status is in this present life, and the other is our preparation for the next life ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 17 November 2021 diff hist +2,247‎ Being bereft of his life's reserved wealth, the conditioned soul loses all enthusiasm. Indeed, it is as though he loses his life ‎No edit summary current
15:2115:21, 17 November 2021 diff hist +78,146‎ The Lord descends to reclaim all of these fallen, conditioned souls to call them back to the sanatana eternal sky so that the sanatana living entities may regain their eternal sanatana positions in eternal association with the Lord. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
15:2015:20, 17 November 2021 diff hist +6,842‎ Some ask that if Krsna is self-sufficient, why did He at all manifest the pastimes with the gopis, which are disturbing to the so-called moralists of the world? The answer is that such activities show special mercy to the fallen, conditioned souls ‎No edit summary current
15:0515:05, 17 November 2021 diff hist +6,256‎ If actually there is any sympathizer for the fallen conditioned souls, he is a Vaisnava. He knows why they are suffering. Therefore he wants to give him the information: "My dear friend, you are suffering simply for forgetting your real lover, Krsna" ‎No edit summary current
15:0115:01, 17 November 2021 diff hist +5,137‎ As stated in the sastras, a devotee should be both tolerant and merciful. Devotees engaged in preaching should be prepared to be accused by ignorant persons, and yet they must be very merciful to the fallen conditioned souls ‎No edit summary current
14:5914:59, 17 November 2021 diff hist +2,710‎ The Lord then presented Himself as a most fallen living entity, and He said, "If someone accepts a fallen conditioned soul as Visnu, Bhagavan, or an incarnation, he commits a great offense" ‎No edit summary current
14:5614:56, 17 November 2021 diff hist −19‎ The behavior of the most elevated transcendentalist and that of the most fallen conditioned soul appears to be the same ‎No edit summary current
14:5414:54, 17 November 2021 diff hist −19‎ Lord Kapila was very satisfied by the request of His glorious mother (Devahuti) because she was thinking not only in terms of her personal salvation but in terms of all the fallen conditioned souls ‎No edit summary current
14:4914:49, 17 November 2021 diff hist +5,912‎ He (Krsna) is not obliged to come here, like karmis, or ordinary living beings; rather, He appears by His own internal energy (sambhavamy atma-mayaya (BG 4.6)) just to show favor to the fallen conditioned souls ‎No edit summary current
14:4414:44, 17 November 2021 diff hist +20,842‎ Although a conditioned soul may be fallen to the lowest position, it is possible for him to advance in spiritual science if he is innocent ‎No edit summary current
14:2414:24, 17 November 2021 diff hist −5‎ No one other than the Supreme Lord Himself, who has engaged the conditioned souls by His own illusory energy, can possess these (nyagrodha-parimandala) bodily features. These features certainly indicate an incarnation of Visnu and no one else ‎No edit summary current
14:2214:22, 17 November 2021 diff hist +6,454‎ Not only are scriptural disparities resolved, but a kind of transcendental bliss is awakened, and in this way one is fully satisfied. The transcendental loving service of the Lord constantly engages the conditioned soul in serving the Lord’s lotus feet ‎No edit summary current
14:1814:18, 17 November 2021 diff hist +5,512‎ Demigods like Yamaraja and other controllers are there for the unwanted conditioned souls who always engage in threatening the tranquillity of the kingdom of God ‎No edit summary current
14:1614:16, 17 November 2021 diff hist +4,189‎ The contamination in the heart of a conditioned soul is like a huge accumulation of garbage created by the three modes of material nature ‎No edit summary current
13:3713:37, 17 November 2021 diff hist +26,102‎ Actually the body is not the living entity, but the doctrine of transformation accepts the body as the living entity. Every conditioned soul is undoubtedly contaminated by this doctrine of transformation ‎No edit summary current
13:1713:17, 17 November 2021 diff hist +3,641‎ The form of the Lord and the form of the conditioned soul are different because the Lord is always blissful whereas the conditioned soul is always under the threefold miseries of the material world. The Supreme Lord is sac-cid-ananda-vigraha - Bs. 5.1 ‎No edit summary current
13:0813:08, 17 November 2021 diff hist +2,926‎ When one reaches a finer version of ignorance, he falsely thinks of himself as the Supreme Lord. That egoistic conviction of the conditioned soul is the last snare of the illusory energy which controls the entire material world ‎No edit summary current
10:0810:08, 17 November 2021 diff hist +6,561‎ The conditioned soul becomes enwrapped in the material world, whereas the Supersoul, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, leaves it without being affected, just as a snake sheds his skin ‎No edit summary current
09:5209:52, 17 November 2021 diff hist +5,775‎ That (CC Adi 7.116) is the position of the conditioned souls. Because they are in touch with the material world, their spiritual quality is almost dead ‎No edit summary current
09:4509:45, 17 November 2021 diff hist +6,021‎ In the material world, this (God's) potency, working as mahamaya, acts upon the conditioned souls to deprive them more and more of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
09:4309:43, 17 November 2021 diff hist +4,735‎ In the material world, every conditioned soul changes his material body again and again, but when the spirit soul is purified of all material coverings, there is no longer a chance of his accepting a material body ‎No edit summary current
09:3609:36, 17 November 2021 diff hist +4,580‎ Illusioned by the external energy of the Lord, he (the conditioned soul) is forced to become a servant of the material world. That is the real position of the conditioned soul ‎No edit summary current
09:3309:33, 17 November 2021 diff hist +3,859‎ Conditioned souls are resting in the condition called susupti which is exactly deep sleep without dream, or anesthetized state, therefore they do not remember being with Krsna when they wake up in the material world and become engaged in material affairs ‎No edit summary
09:2809:28, 17 November 2021 diff hist +4,033‎ At that time the conditioned souls are resting in the condition called susupti which is exactly deep sleep without dream, or anesthetized state, therefore they do not remember being with Krsna when they wake up in the material world ‎No edit summary
09:2009:20, 17 November 2021 diff hist −15‎ He (the Supreme Lord) is not personally attached to any of the affairs within the material cosmos. The material world is created by the expansion of His purusa-avataras, who direct the aggregate material energy and all the conditioned souls ‎No edit summary current
09:1709:17, 17 November 2021 diff hist +7‎ In the material world the conditioned spirit soul is subjected to various rewards and punishments ‎No edit summary current
08:5408:54, 17 November 2021 diff hist +3,303‎ The conditioned souls, who are residents of the material world, are put in the womb of mother earth in the same way the seed of a child is put by the father in the womb of the mother ‎No edit summary current
08:5308:53, 17 November 2021 diff hist +5,881‎ The creation of the material world, wherein the conditioned souls are allowed to act subordinately by the Supreme Lord, takes place again and again after being repeatedly annihilated. The material creation is something like a cloud in the unlimited sky ‎No edit summary current
08:5008:50, 17 November 2021 diff hist +3,466‎ The designations of the conditioned soul in the material world are decorations of the dead body ‎No edit summary current
08:4808:48, 17 November 2021 diff hist +5,571‎ The illusory energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead binds all of us conditioned souls to this material world. Therefore, without being favored by Him, persons like us cannot understand how to get out of that illusory energy ‎No edit summary current
08:4508:45, 17 November 2021 diff hist +7,890‎ The number of ever-liberated souls is far, far greater than the number of conditioned souls in the material world, and the ever-liberated souls in the Vaikuntha planets never care to visit this miserable material world ‎No edit summary
08:4208:42, 17 November 2021 diff hist +2,948‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is one. Unaffected by the conditions of the material world, He creates all the conditioned souls by His own personal potency ‎No edit summary current
08:3308:33, 17 November 2021 diff hist +46‎ Within this material world the conditioned soul has desires and acts in accordance with these desires. All these acts are observed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
07:2407:24, 17 November 2021 diff hist +3,458‎ Almost all the conditioned souls within the material world are envious. Jealous people generally turn against one who automatically attains some reputation. This is natural for jealous people ‎No edit summary
06:3806:38, 17 November 2021 diff hist +3,478‎ The conditioned souls are shackled to material existence because they are captivated by the charms of sense gratification, especially sex life. The sex-god is called Makara-dhvaja ‎No edit summary current
06:3406:34, 17 November 2021 diff hist +4,564‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu here (in CC Madhya 15.169) informed Vasudeva Datta that since Krsna is all-powerful, He can immediately deliver all conditioned souls from material existence ‎No edit summary
05:4205:42, 17 November 2021 diff hist +5,403‎ Akrura began to think, "Just as a blade of grass floating on the waves of a river may by chance come near the shore and gain shelter, a conditioned soul carried away by the waves of material existence may sometimes be saved by the grace of Krsna" ‎No edit summary current

16:0616:06, 16 November 2021 diff hist +3,669‎ Sometimes the conditioned soul is attracted by illusion personified (his wife or girl friend) and becomes eager to be embraced by a woman. Thus he loses his intelligence as well as knowledge of life's goal ‎No edit summary current
16:0116:01, 16 November 2021 diff hist +3,356‎ If a conditioned soul, thinking of the Lord as an enemy or a friend, somehow or other becomes attached to the Lord, he receives great benefit ‎No edit summary current
15:5715:57, 16 November 2021 diff hist +3,906‎ Sukadeva Gosvami proves that because the body of the conditioned soul is infected by the three qualities of nature, dualities arise such as enmity and friendship, attachment and detachment ‎No edit summary current
14:5014:50, 16 November 2021 diff hist +2,714‎ Only when a conditioned soul accepts the body as himself does he feel the effects of chastisement or praise. Then he determines one person to be his enemy and another his friend and wants to chastise the enemy and welcome the friend ‎No edit summary current
14:2414:24, 16 November 2021 diff hist +3,617‎ Maya is also Krsna's energy, so it is her duty to punish the conditioned soul because they have decided to forget Krsna. Still, Krsna is so merciful, He comes personally, He authorizes His devotee, servant, to enlighten these conditioned souls ‎No edit summary current
14:0614:06, 16 November 2021 diff hist +6,234‎ This forgetfulness (living entities are meant for going back to Godhead) is so strong due to the influence of maya that the conditioned souls do not at all want to go back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
13:5813:58, 16 November 2021 diff hist +4,019‎ Krsna knows the cause of the distressed condition of the conditioned soul. He therefore descends from His original position to instruct the conditioned soul and inform him about his forgetfulness of his relationship with Krsna ‎No edit summary current
13:3513:35, 16 November 2021 diff hist +2,893‎ Lord Sri Krsna is so attractive for the living beings, especially for the devotees, that it is impossible for them to tolerate separation. The conditioned soul under the spell of illusory energy forgets the Lord, otherwise he cannot ‎No edit summary current
13:3113:31, 16 November 2021 diff hist +63‎ Generally, the conditioned souls forget Krsna when they are enticed by the material, external energy. Consequently they are called krsna-bahirmukha, bereft of their relationship with Krsna ‎No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 16 November 2021 diff hist +4,936‎ The conditioned soul is forced to accept a particular type of body according to his karma given by the laws of material nature under the direction of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary
13:2013:20, 16 November 2021 diff hist +5,281‎ Priyavrata might have thought that although a conditioned soul is forced to act according to the laws of nature, why should he, who was far advanced in spiritual understanding, accept the same kind of bondage and impediments to spiritual advancement ‎No edit summary current
13:1613:16, 16 November 2021 diff hist +3,444‎ A conditioned soul is forced to accept a particular type of body by the higher authority of material laws, but here (in SB 3.20.8) it is clearly said that the Lord was not forced to accept the form of a boar by the external power ‎No edit summary
12:3012:30, 16 November 2021 diff hist +8,815‎ Voluntarily we have accepted this material body, but actually we are spirit souls who should not have accepted it. When and how we accepted it cannot be traced. No one can trace the history of when the conditioned soul first accepted the material body ‎No edit summary current
12:2712:27, 16 November 2021 diff hist +4,156‎ The dream is that the conditioned soul thinks of his material body as "I" or falsely thinks that he is the Lord and that everything in connection with that material body is "mine" ‎No edit summary current
12:2512:25, 16 November 2021 diff hist +6,845‎ The conditioned soul is covered by the material body, with the mind and the senses, and when he is liberated this material covering perishes, but his spiritual body manifests in its individual capacity. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
06:2006:20, 16 November 2021 diff hist +3,099‎ In this way the conditioned soul living within the body forgets his self-interest because he identifies himself with the body. Because the body is material, his natural tendency is to be attracted by the varieties of the material world ‎No edit summary current
05:5105:51, 16 November 2021 diff hist +4,552‎ The living entity is also required to revive his natural love and affection for the Lord, and that is the highest perfection of the living entity. Srimad-Bhagavatam treats the conditioned soul with an aim to that goal of life ‎No edit summary current
05:4505:45, 16 November 2021 diff hist 0‎ The material world, full of conditioned souls trying to lord it over matter, is a manifestation of the external energy of the Supreme Lord, and the spiritual world, full of perfect servitors of the Lord, is a manifestation of His internal energy ‎No edit summary current
05:3505:35, 16 November 2021 diff hist +4,689‎ The conditioned soul comes to this material world in order to lord it over material nature ‎No edit summary current
05:3305:33, 16 November 2021 diff hist +5,298‎ If he (the conditioned soul) likes, he can forget the Supreme Personality of Godhead and come into the material existence with a false ego to lord it over material nature, but if he likes he can turn his face to the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current

16:5516:55, 15 November 2021 diff hist +3,272‎ A conditioned soul is always engaged in some type of sense gratification, but when he understands by good association that it is only a repetition of the same thing, and he is awakened to his real Krsna consciousness. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
16:3616:36, 15 November 2021 diff hist +5,805‎ Here (SB 4.29.3) it is clearly stated: namabhir va kriya-gunaih. The Lord has specific names such as Rama, Krsna, Govinda, Narayana, Visnu and Adhoksaja. There are indeed many names, but the conditioned soul cannot understand them ‎No edit summary
14:2414:24, 15 November 2021 diff hist +5,611‎ We have several times been requested by so-called devotees to take up the Tenth Canto immediately, but we have refrained from such an action because we wish to present SB as the science of God and not as a sensuous understanding for the conditioned soul ‎No edit summary
14:1714:17, 15 November 2021 diff hist +9,714‎ The material energy of the Supreme PG is called maya, or illusion, because in two capacities (by supplying the material elements and by causing the material manifestation) it makes the conditioned soul unable to understand the real truth of creation ‎No edit summary current
14:1114:11, 15 November 2021 diff hist +6,963‎ The conditioned souls are naturally averse to understanding the spiritual existence of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
13:5513:55, 15 November 2021 diff hist +3,673‎ He (God) is not perceivable by the conditioned souls, who are accustomed to material vision and cannot understand that the Supreme Personality of Godhead exists in His abode, which is beyond that vision ‎No edit summary current
13:4713:47, 15 November 2021 diff hist +2,728‎ Being bitten by this python, they always remain in the darkness of ignorance. They are like dead bodies thrown in a distant forest. Thus the conditioned souls cannot understand what is going on in life ‎No edit summary current
13:2113:21, 15 November 2021 diff hist +7,196‎ The conditioned souls, subjected to these three miseries by the control of the external energy, suffer various difficulties ‎No edit summary current
12:5512:55, 15 November 2021 diff hist +7,359‎ In this way the conditioned soul goes sometimes to the heavenly planets, sometimes to the earthly planets and sometimes to the lower planets and lower species. Thus he suffers continuously due to different types of bodies ‎No edit summary
09:4109:41, 15 November 2021 diff hist +3,434‎ A pure devotee of the Lord like Brahma and persons in his disciplic succession are always unhappy to see the perplexities of the conditioned souls, who are suffering the onslaughts of the threefold miseries which pertain to the body and mind ‎No edit summary current
09:2509:25, 15 November 2021 diff hist +89‎ When he (the conditioned spirit soul) is punished for his abominable activities, he is thrown into hellish planets where he suffers the miseries of material existence more acutely ‎No edit summary current
09:2009:20, 15 November 2021 diff hist +3,423‎ When dreaming, it is not possible to avoid the actual facts, and the conditioned soul is forced to suffer due to his dream ‎No edit summary current
09:1409:14, 15 November 2021 diff hist +36‎ They (the conditioned souls) are simply suffering different pains and pleasures, generally pains that are always inauspicious. They try to gain release from these pains, but they cannot due to ignorance ‎No edit summary current
09:0809:08, 15 November 2021 diff hist +2,242‎ The sufferings of the conditioned soul are superficial and have no intrinsic value, like the cutting off of one's head in a dream ‎No edit summary current
09:0109:01, 15 November 2021 diff hist +2,979‎ The sufferings are not extraneously imposed upon them; rather, the conditioned souls create their own suffering by their own acts ‎No edit summary current
07:1607:16, 15 November 2021 diff hist +4,299‎ O my Lord, You are the master and leader of all living entities. Under Your direction, all conditioned souls, as if bound by rope, are constantly engaged in satisfying their desires ‎No edit summary current
07:1507:15, 15 November 2021 diff hist +4,022‎ Not knowing this (that his activities are being observed by different stars and planets and are being recorded), the conditioned soul commits all kinds of sinful activities for the satisfaction of his lusty desires ‎No edit summary

15:1415:14, 14 November 2021 diff hist +12,991‎ The conditioned soul, engrossed in the material body, increases the pages of history by all kinds of material activities - CC Preface ‎No edit summary current
15:1215:12, 14 November 2021 diff hist +44‎ The conditioned soul is often frustrated in trying to understand the distinctions between the material body, the Supersoul and the individual soul ‎No edit summary current
14:4414:44, 14 November 2021 diff hist +12,693‎ Being engrossed in the material body, the conditioned soul increases the pages of history by all kinds of material activities ‎No edit summary current
14:1014:10, 14 November 2021 diff hist +3,272‎ The subtle laws of karma, which are controlled by the Supreme, cannot be understood by ordinary conditioned souls ‎No edit summary current
07:3107:31, 14 November 2021 diff hist +3,921‎ Such a (degraded) life is also God's grace because the conditioned soul desired a body like that for perfectly tasting a particular type of foodstuff ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 14 November 2021 diff hist +101‎ Devahuti requests her glorious son, Kapila Muni, to explain about this continued journey to impress upon the conditioned souls that they are undergoing a path of degradation by not understanding the path of bhakti-yoga, devotional service ‎No edit summary current
06:5606:56, 14 November 2021 diff hist +130‎ Krsna orders this release (of conditioned soul) out of His causeless mercy on the surrendered soul and out of His paternal affection for the living entity who is originally a beloved son of the Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
05:0805:08, 14 November 2021 diff hist +5,245‎ The laws of nature are not subservient to the whimsical desires of the conditioned soul. Our endeavor, therefore, should be to associate always with sattva-guna and not indulge in rajo-guna or tamo-guna - rajas-tamo-bhavah - SB 1.2.19 ‎No edit summary current
05:0705:07, 14 November 2021 diff hist +4,436‎ The conditioned soul surrenders to the laws of nature in material existence, but when one fully surrenders to the Lord, material nature does not act upon him. Such a fully surrendered soul is favored by the Supreme Personality of Godhead directly ‎No edit summary current
04:5104:51, 14 November 2021 diff hist +4,969‎ One should not mistake the appearance of the Lord as a human being or a beast to be the same as the birth of an ordinary conditioned soul, who is forced to appear by the laws of nature. This kind of thinking is offensive ‎No edit summary current
04:4804:48, 14 November 2021 diff hist +3,023‎ Actually it is not the creator, but the conditioned soul who is inexperienced. He does not know how the subtle laws of fruitive activity work, and without knowledge of these laws of nature, he ignorantly criticizes the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current

18:0718:07, 13 November 2021 diff hist +4,342‎ Thinking himself a product of the material energy, the conditioned soul engages in the service of the material energy in so many ways. He becomes the servant of lust, anger, greed and envy. In this way one totally becomes a servant of the illusory energy ‎No edit summary current
18:0518:05, 13 November 2021 diff hist +2,515‎ In Bhagavad-gita (BG 3.37) it is stated that lust, anger and greed are the causes of the conditioned soul's bondage in this material world. Kama esa krodha esa rajo-guna-samudbhavah ‎No edit summary current
18:0318:03, 13 November 2021 diff hist +4,237‎ He (conditioned soul) can know that his eternal position is to render service unto the Lord and not to the perverted senses in the capacity of lust, anger, desire to lord it over, etc ‎No edit summary current
17:4817:48, 13 November 2021 diff hist +4,017‎ These are our inquiries. The ordinary conditioned soul is subject to the material laws, and he thus receives the fruits of his actions. Do You, like an ordinary human being, exist within this material world in a body produced by the material modes? ‎No edit summary current
17:4517:45, 13 November 2021 diff hist +3,114‎ Ordinary conditioned souls, being forgetful of the activities of the Lord, are always full of anxieties and material tribulations ‎No edit summary current
17:4317:43, 13 November 2021 diff hist +6,951‎ Krsna has maintained spiritual individuality all along; if He is accepted as an ordinary conditioned soul in individual consciousness, then His Bhagavad-gita has no value as authoritative scripture. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
17:4217:42, 13 November 2021 diff hist +4,830‎ He was unhappy to see others unhappy, and He was the well-wisher of all living entities. Although He was a perfect personality, the Supreme Lord and controller of all, He nonetheless acted as if He were an ordinary conditioned soul ‎No edit summary current
17:4017:40, 13 November 2021 diff hist +4,535‎ Brahma is not an ordinary conditioned soul. He is far, far superior to all the other demigods, and yet he could not comprehend the display of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
17:2917:29, 13 November 2021 diff hist +4,026‎ A conditioned soul does not know what complete independence is. Complete independence means situation in one's own constitutional position ‎No edit summary current
15:0115:01, 13 November 2021 diff hist +2,514‎ We are all conditioned souls so we are affected by Maya, but if we sincerely chant and serve, our attachment for Krishna will be revived and we will no more have to come under this Maya ‎No edit summary current
13:5613:56, 13 November 2021 diff hist +3,544‎ The Mayavada version that when Brahman assumes a form the form is accepted from maya is not acceptable, because although maya is superior to the conditioned soul, she is not superior to the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
13:4713:47, 13 November 2021 diff hist +8,073‎ Certain conditioned souls put forward the theory that the Supreme Brahman, or the Personality of Godhead, is overcome by illusion, or maya, and at the same time they maintain that He is unconditioned ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 13 November 2021 diff hist +3,435‎ Maya always influences the conditioned soul ‎No edit summary current
06:4506:45, 13 November 2021 diff hist +3,796‎ If a conditioned soul becomes Krsna conscious, the karma of his pious and impious activities is completely destroyed ‎No edit summary current

18:5418:54, 12 November 2021 diff hist +3,128‎ Being thus illusioned, the mind further creates pious and impious activities and their karma, and thus the soul becomes conditioned ‎No edit summary current
18:4718:47, 12 November 2021 diff hist +4,846‎ The Bhagavad-gita was delivered to the conditioned souls of the world to deliver them from the wrong conception of identifying the body with the soul and to reestablish the soul's eternal relation with the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
18:4418:44, 12 November 2021 diff hist +6,313‎ The Bhagavad-gita says that Lord Brahma is a conditioned soul. Then how was it possible for him to impart the Vedas to a non-conditioned soul - Narada Muni? ‎No edit summary current
18:4118:41, 12 November 2021 diff hist +5,528‎ Such an egocentric attitude (the false egocentric attitude of thinking oneself to be all in all) on the part of the conditioned soul, who is completely under the control of material nature, is described in Bhagavad-gita as foolish ‎No edit summary current
18:3818:38, 12 November 2021 diff hist +6,478‎ Krsna is, of course, always very kind to every conditioned soul, but, as stated in the Bhagavad-gita, He is especially inclined to the pure devotees ‎No edit summary current
18:3418:34, 12 November 2021 diff hist +3,745‎ In Bhagavad-gita the Lord (Krsna) says, mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca: (BG 15.15) "From Me the conditioned soul receives memory, knowledge and forgetfulness." ‎No edit summary current
18:2118:21, 12 November 2021 diff hist +6,136‎ Bhagavad-gita says that the conditioned soul is subjected to four defects. Does that refer to the body or the soul? ‎No edit summary current
17:3817:38, 12 November 2021 diff hist +5,226‎ They mistake the Lord and His pastimes in the material world to be one with the conditioned souls and their activities. The Lord condemns such less intelligent persons in the Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
15:4515:45, 12 November 2021 diff hist +5,028‎ He is described in Bhagavad-gita as mahesvara, or the Supreme Lord. He is Paramatma, not jivatma. Paramatma means the Supersoul, who is sitting by the side of the conditioned soul just to sanction his activities ‎No edit summary current
15:4315:43, 12 November 2021 diff hist +4,181‎ Every conditioned soul is bound by the laws of material nature, as described in Bhagavad-gita (prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah) - BG 3.27 ‎No edit summary current
14:0914:09, 12 November 2021 diff hist +3,593‎ The enemy has captured different strategic positions in the body of the conditioned soul, and therefore Lord Krsna is giving hints of those places, so that one who wants to conquer the enemy may know where he can be found. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
13:5713:57, 12 November 2021 diff hist +2,367‎ The conditioned soul considers his body to be his self and considers everything in relationship with the body to be his. Because he has this wrong conception of life, he is subjected to dualities like praise and chastisement ‎No edit summary current
13:4713:47, 12 November 2021 diff hist +7,238‎ The ordinary living entity is prone to falling into the clutches of maya, but the Supreme Lord in His different incarnations and forms is acyuta, infallible. Therefore His body is different from the material body possessed by the conditioned soul ‎No edit summary current
07:3607:36, 12 November 2021 diff hist +127‎ After finishing the present material body, they (conditioned souls who learn how to perform yajnas for the satisfaction of Visnu) can enter into the kingdom of God. That is the whole program for the conditioned soul. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

16:1316:13, 11 November 2021 diff hist +6,613‎ Acceptance of the spiritual body of the Lord as material is dictated by the tendency to equate the Supreme Personality of Godhead with the conditioned soul. The conditioned soul has a material body ‎No edit summary current
08:2308:23, 11 November 2021 diff hist +5,086‎ The conditioned soul engages in the happiness and distress of the particular body given him by the arrangement of the external energy of the Supreme Lord. But the supreme living being, or the Paramatma, is different from the conditioned soul ‎No edit summary current
08:1608:16, 11 November 2021 diff hist +4,008‎ The conditioned soul is forced to take a certain type of body and senses under the three modes of material nature. That body is not received according to his own choice ‎No edit summary
08:0508:05, 11 November 2021 diff hist −9‎ There is no difference between the body and self as there is in the conditioned soul ‎No edit summary current
08:0008:00, 11 November 2021 diff hist +4,971‎ This (material) body is the field of activity for the conditioned soul. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
06:5406:54, 11 November 2021 diff hist +2,690‎ Just as a monkey jumps from one tree to another, the conditioned soul jumps from one body to another ‎No edit summary current
06:5006:50, 11 November 2021 diff hist +5,909‎ In material life, as soon as a conditioned soul changes his body he forgets everything of his past body ‎No edit summary current
05:2305:23, 11 November 2021 diff hist +4,247‎ The conditioned soul, being wrapped in ignorance and therefore not knowing the goal of life, accepts a guru who can juggle words and make some display of magic that is wonderful to a fool ‎No edit summary current

07:1307:13, 10 November 2021 diff hist +2,038‎ He is thus ready to suffer the threefold miseries - miseries brought about by the body and mind, the inimical behavior of other living entities and natural disturbances caused by the demigods ‎No edit summary current
07:0607:06, 10 November 2021 diff hist +9‎ For a conditioned soul, the body is different from the soul, and the name given by the father is also different from the soul ‎No edit summary current
06:4306:43, 10 November 2021 diff hist +3,384‎ The human form of body is achieved by the conditioned soul after many, many births and is a very valuable asset ‎No edit summary current
06:3806:38, 10 November 2021 diff hist +2,153‎ The conditioned souls are eager to identify with the body and consider that the body is "myself" and that anything in relationship with the body or possessions of the body is "mine ‎No edit summary current
06:0606:06, 10 November 2021 diff hist +2,382‎ The conditioned soul has a body full of dirty things - bones, blood, urine, stool and so forth ‎No edit summary current
06:0106:01, 10 November 2021 diff hist +9‎ The body of the conditioned soul is different from the soul, and the conditioned soul’s name is different from his body ‎No edit summary current
05:5005:50, 10 November 2021 diff hist +43,953‎ The temporary manifestations are so created as to present an illusion of reality to the bewildered mind of the conditioned soul. Thus there appear to be so many species of life, including the higher demigods like Brahma, Indra, Candra, etc ‎No edit summary current

16:5316:53, 9 November 2021 diff hist +2,841‎ This cosmic universe is created by the Lord for those living entities who are carried away by the illusory thought of becoming one with Him by imitation. The three modes of material nature are for the further bewilderment of the conditioned souls ‎No edit summary current
16:4716:47, 9 November 2021 diff hist +5,444‎ Thus they should understand that they also are apt to die, yet still they are bewildered. The conditioned soul comes from an unknown place and returns after death to that same unknown place ‎No edit summary current
16:4116:41, 9 November 2021 diff hist +6,932‎ To the conditioned soul, "me" means the material body. This is called moha, or bewilderment ‎No edit summary current
15:5315:53, 9 November 2021 diff hist +4,364‎ These various activities are described in Bhagavad-gita (BG 2.41) as bahu-sakha hy anantas ca buddhayo 'vyavasayinam. The conditioned soul is bewildered into various activities for want of pure consciousness ‎No edit summary
15:3415:34, 9 November 2021 diff hist +16‎ Lord Krsna appeared and performed many uncommon activities, and some materialists misunderstood Him, but in His appearance as Lord Caitanya He did not show much of His opulences, and therefore fewer conditioned souls were bewildered ‎No edit summary current
15:3215:32, 9 November 2021 diff hist +5,823‎ Lamentation, aggrievement and bewilderment are characteristics of conditioned souls, but how can such things affect the person of the Supreme, who is full of knowledge, power and all opulence? ‎No edit summary current
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09:3309:33, 9 November 2021 diff hist +3,811‎ Within this material world the conditioned soul accepts different apartments, or different bodily forms, and then travels about ‎No edit summary current
09:2809:28, 9 November 2021 diff hist +2,909‎ Just as a householder, although different from the identity of his house, thinks his house to be identical with him, so the conditioned soul, due to ignorance, accepts the body to be himself, although the body is actually different from the soul ‎No edit summary current
09:2509:25, 9 November 2021 diff hist +4,449‎ In this world of matter, which the conditioned soul accepts as consisting of enjoyable resources, the conditioned soul expands, thinking that he is the enjoyer of the material world ‎No edit summary current
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09:1909:19, 9 November 2021 diff hist +12‎ In the association of so-called society, friendship and love, the conditioned soul appears completely satisfied ‎No edit summary current
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08:5208:52, 9 November 2021 diff hist +3,884‎ A conditioned soul is already degraded by the material association, and still in the Kali-yuga the good qualities of a man will deteriorate to the lowest standard ‎No edit summary
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12:4812:48, 7 November 2021 diff hist +5,209‎ My wealth, my country, my community, and hundreds and thousands of similar illusory contemplations - cause bewilderment for the conditioned soul ‎No edit summary current
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12:3112:31, 7 November 2021 diff hist +3,879‎ A conditioned soul is bewildered by the Lord's illusory energy (maya). Maya’s business is to keep the conditioned soul forgetful of his real relationship with Krsna ‎No edit summary
12:1712:17, 7 November 2021 diff hist +7,431‎ Conditioned souls are naturally averse to understanding the spiritual existence of the Lord, & if they try to know the transcendental nature of the Lord's pastimes while they remain absorbed in materialism, they are sure to blunder like the sahajiyas ‎No edit summary current
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11:1711:17, 7 November 2021 diff hist +13‎ The conditioned soul is absorbed in matter, whereas the liberated soul is completely indifferent to matter. This indifference is explained as follows ‎No edit summary current
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10:4310:43, 7 November 2021 diff hist +4,474‎ The materially absorbed conditioned soul can be cured by Krsna consciousness as set forth here in the Gita. This process is generally known as yajna ‎No edit summary
09:2609:26, 7 November 2021 diff hist +6,118‎ The people of this age are described as mandah sumanda-matayo manda-bhagya hy upadrutah. In other words, they are extremely bad and slow to understand the opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
09:2509:25, 7 November 2021 diff hist +3,869‎ Unfortunately, the people of this age of Kali do not even know the meaning of austerity. Under these circumstances, the Lord has appeared as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to bestow upon the fallen souls the easiest method of self-realization ‎No edit summary current
09:2509:25, 7 November 2021 diff hist +3,074‎ Unfortunately people in this age avoid the association of liberated people (sadhu-sanga (CC Madhya 22.83)) and continue in their stereotyped way of family life. Thus they are embarrassed by the exchange of money and sex ‎No edit summary current
09:2509:25, 7 November 2021 diff hist −13‎ To be religious, one must abide by the orders of God, but unfortunately people in this age have rejected religion, and they are busy in economic development. Therefore they will adopt any means to get money ‎No edit summary current

09:2309:23, 6 November 2021 diff hist +6,581‎ Sometimes these unfortunate people (the people of this age who have no gold) want to be promoted to the heavenly planets to achieve fortunate positions, as described in this verse, but pure devotees of the Lord are not at all interested in such opulence ‎No edit summary
09:2309:23, 6 November 2021 diff hist +3,163‎ People should take advantage of the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra and thus gain relief from all the problems created in this age of Kali ‎No edit summary current
09:2209:22, 6 November 2021 diff hist +3,628‎ People have become so degraded in this age that on the one hand they restrict polygamy and on the other hand they hunt for women in so many ways ‎No edit summary current
09:2209:22, 6 November 2021 diff hist −13‎ One can go to the supreme planet (param vrajet) simply by chanting the Hare Krsna mantra. This is especially meant for the people of this age - kaler dosa-nidhe ‎No edit summary
09:1709:17, 6 November 2021 diff hist +3,062‎ My dear Thakura Haridasa, in this Age of Kali most people are bereft of Vedic culture, and therefore they are called yavanas. They are concerned only with killing cows and brahminical culture. In this way they all engage in sinful acts ‎No edit summary current
09:1509:15, 6 November 2021 diff hist +24,609‎ Lord Caitanya has made all these subject matters (Bhagavad-gita and Bhagavata Purana) easier for the fallen people of this age to accept, and Sri Caitanya-caritamrta has therefore presented them for the easy understanding of all concerned ‎No edit summary
09:1509:15, 6 November 2021 diff hist +7,047‎ Krsna is available so cheaply for the people, especially kalau, in this age of Kali. Still, we are reluctant to chant the holy name ‎No edit summary current
09:1409:14, 6 November 2021 diff hist +3,241‎ It is said in Vedic literatures that people in this age will be more inclined to accept anyone as the Supreme Lord and accept any religious system opposed to Vedic principles ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 6 November 2021 diff hist +4,779‎ In this Age of Kali it is very difficult to collect the different articles required for offering sacrifices. People have neither the means to collect the required paraphernalia nor the necessary knowledge or tendency to offer such sacrifices ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 6 November 2021 diff hist +23,235‎ In this age (of Kali-yuga) the Lord is yellow (Caitanya Mahaprabhu), and He teaches people love of God by chanting the names of Krsna. This teaching is carried out personally by Krsna, and He exhibits love of Godhead by chanting, singing and dancing ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 6 November 2021 diff hist +2,282‎ In the present age the number of demoniac people is increasing; therefore natural disturbances are also increasing. There is no doubt about this, as we can understand from the statements of the Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 6 November 2021 diff hist +3,053‎ In the modern age the people have begun to detonate atomic weapons on the surface of the earth, and still the earth is forbearing to the inhabitants, like a mother who excuses a little child ‎No edit summary current
09:0509:05, 6 November 2021 diff hist +2,055‎ In the Age of Kali, as well as in Dvapara-yuga, the people offer prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead by various mantras and observe the regulative principles of the supplementary Vedic literatures. Now please hear of this from me ‎No edit summary current
09:0409:04, 6 November 2021 diff hist +4,989‎ In the Age of Kali, mlecchas, or lowborn people who have not undergone the purifying process of samskara, who do not know how to apply that process in actual life & who are covered by the modes of passion & ignorance will take the posts of administrators ‎No edit summary current
09:0309:03, 6 November 2021 diff hist +5,379‎ In SB 11.5.32, there is the following statement regarding Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu: In the Age of Kali, people who are endowed with sufficient intelligence will worship the Lord, who is accompanied by His associates, by performance of the sankirtana-yajna ‎No edit summary
07:3407:34, 6 November 2021 diff hist −13‎ For this age it is recommended that people gather together and chant the Hare Krsna mantra to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is accompanied by His associates ‎No edit summary current
07:3407:34, 6 November 2021 diff hist +2,827‎ Foreseeing the incompetencies of the people in this age of Kali, or the iron age of quarrel, the sages requested that Suta Gosvami give a summary of all revealed scriptures because the people of this age are condemned in every respect ‎No edit summary current
07:3307:33, 6 November 2021 diff hist +3,477‎ During the time of Lord Rsabhadeva, the King of Konka and Venka acted like a paramahamsa and imitated Lord Rsabhadeva. He introduced a system of religion and took advantage of the fallen condition of the people in this age of Kali ‎No edit summary current
07:3207:32, 6 November 2021 diff hist −13‎ Considering the position of the people of this age the chanting of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s name is more essential than the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra ‎No edit summary current
07:3207:32, 6 November 2021 diff hist +4,202‎ By teaching the human beings the science of self-realization, Lord Krsna has twice personally tried to save the people of this age from groveling in carnal pleasures ‎No edit summary current
07:3007:30, 6 November 2021 diff hist +6,361‎ Because the people of this age have no gold in their possession, they are actually poverty-stricken, and therefore they are considered unfortunate ‎No edit summary current
07:2907:29, 6 November 2021 diff hist −13‎ Because the people of this age are so fallen, they can simply chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. In this way they can rid themselves of the bodily conception of life and become eligible to engage in the Lord’s devotional service ‎No edit summary current
07:2607:26, 6 November 2021 diff hist +3,633‎ At the present moment, human civilization is acting on a false platform of bodily identification; therefore it can be said that the people of the present age have lost their souls, and in this respect they are no better than animals ‎No edit summary current
07:1907:19, 6 November 2021 diff hist +4,023‎ All of human society is terribly contaminated. The people of this age are therefore described as mandah sumanda-matayo manda-bhagya hy upadrutah - SB 1.1.10 ‎No edit summary current
07:1807:18, 6 November 2021 diff hist +6,612‎ According to sastric injunctions, almost all the people of this age belong to the sudra category. Of course, although Agnidhra had a desire to be transferred to Pitrloka, this does not mean that his mentality was that of a sudra; he was a ksatriya ‎No edit summary current

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09:0009:00, 11 October 2020 diff hist +5,411‎ Just like here is statue of Krsna. He's not different from Krsna. The original person Krsna and this statue of Krsna is the same. Similarly, a spiritually perfect person and his photograph is the same. Because it is in the absolute stage ‎No edit summary current
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15:4915:49, 22 April 2020 diff hist +4,701‎ Why should you say, "Oh, I am Christian. I am Jew. I cannot attend your meeting." Why should you say, "Oh, I cannot allow you to speak in my church." If I am speaking about God, what objection you have got? ‎No edit summary current

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