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22 January 2022

• 08:0608:06, 22 January 2022 diff hist +103,613‎ This world is false ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0508:05, 22 January 2022 diff hist +3,420‎ Some of the philosophers, especially the minor philosophers, say that this world is false, but we can understand from Bhagavad-gita that the world is not false; it is temporary. There is a difference between temporary and false. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0108:01, 22 January 2022 diff hist +275‎ N Category:This Material World Is Not False ‎ Created page with "Category:False Category:The World Is... Category:Is Not Category:Not False Category:God's Material World Category:Real, False, and Truth - Umbrella Categ..."
• 08:0008:00, 22 January 2022 diff hist +6,342‎ Since the ingredients and the immediate cause of this material manifestation are Brahman, both of them are truth, satya; there is no validity to the expression brahma satyam jagan mithya. The world is not false ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4704:47, 22 January 2022 diff hist +1,695‎ Your real mercy has been granted to Ramananda Raya and Vaninatha Raya, for You have detached them from all material opulence. I think that I have not been favored by such mercy ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4704:47, 22 January 2022 diff hist +3,583‎ What these materialistic men can do mercy to the others? They cannot do anything. Here is the real mercy, to awaken a person to Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4604:46, 22 January 2022 diff hist +4,133‎ Other types of humanitarian work may be temporarily beneficial for the body, but because a living entity is spirit soul, ultimately one can show him real mercy only by revealing knowledge of his spiritual existence ‎No edit summary current

21 January 2022

• 10:4710:47, 21 January 2022 diff hist +4,170‎ Our Krsna consciousness movement is not meant for, I mean to say, mitigating the so-called sufferings of the body. When there is body, there must be suffering. So we should not be very much disturbed by the sufferings of the body ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4710:47, 21 January 2022 diff hist +3,373‎ A devotee has no suffering at all because so-called suffering is also God's grace for a devotee who sees God in everything ‎No edit summary
• 10:1310:13, 21 January 2022 diff hist +6,190‎ The real elevation of human life rests on knowledge and renunciation. As stated in the First Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam, devotional service rendered to Krsna automatically produces perfect knowledge and renunciation ‎No edit summary
• 10:1210:12, 21 January 2022 diff hist +6,925‎ The modern civilization, they are increasing the sense enjoyment process, making life more and more complicated, because the real motive of human life is to develop devotional service to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1110:11, 21 January 2022 diff hist +11‎ Such questions (who he is, what the universe is, what God is, and what the relationship is between himself, God and the material world) cannot be asked by cats and dogs, but they must arise in the heart of a real human being ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 21 January 2022 diff hist +3,565‎ Real knowledge which can help society achieve the real aim of human welfare ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 21 January 2022 diff hist +3,807‎ Real human business is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's para-upakara. In ignorance they are doing all nonsense. Stop them. Give them knowledge. This Krsna conscious movement is real civilization. That we have to prove ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0709:07, 21 January 2022 diff hist +4,073‎ If we don't come to this platform, then we remain animals. So this Krsna consciousness movement means we are trying to bring human being to the platform of spiritual consciousness or real human being ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0109:01, 21 January 2022 diff hist +2,411‎ Relish the real nectar of devotion ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5708:57, 21 January 2022 diff hist +3,421‎ The demigod-worshippers have no real love or devotion for the particular demigod they worship ‎No edit summary
• 08:5008:50, 21 January 2022 diff hist +27‎ Real love and devotion is accepted by the Lord. Many valuable foodstuffs may be presented to a person, but if the person is not hungry, all such offerings are useless for him ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5905:59, 21 January 2022 diff hist +4,380‎ Real guru is never to be killed, but the so-called guru has to be killed ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5805:58, 21 January 2022 diff hist +10‎ That is real affection, to make sure my child gets back to Godhead, that is my real responsibility as a parent. And I have seen that Gurukula offers this opportunity more than any other place anywhere ‎No edit summary
• 05:5605:56, 21 January 2022 diff hist +1,549‎ Indeed, it is a symptom of real affection that one breaks the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not caring for the regulative principles, to associate with Him ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 21 January 2022 diff hist +1,618‎ Scripture is the real father ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4405:44, 21 January 2022 diff hist +7,175‎ The real father is he who does not allow his son to taste the chewing the chewed. That is real father ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4005:40, 21 January 2022 diff hist +8,202‎ Vasudeva also reminded Nanda Maharaja that Balarama did not know His real father. "He knows you as His father. And now you have another child, Krsna, and I think you are taking very nice care of both of Them" ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 21 January 2022 diff hist +4,724‎ Vidura's reference to the Mahabharata indicates that he had heard of the Mahabharata from Vyasadeva, his real father, while he was away from home and was touring the places of pilgrimage ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3205:32, 21 January 2022 diff hist +12,379‎ In one sense, Indra is the real father of Arjuna, and therefore indirectly he wanted to entertain Arjuna with the famous society girl of heaven, Urvasi, the celebrated beauty ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3205:32, 21 January 2022 diff hist +6,904‎ Vasudeva and Devaki were Krsna's real father and mother. Nobody is real father and mother of Krsna, because Krsna is the original father of everyone. But when Krsna comes here, advents, He accepts some devotees as His father, as His mother ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1405:14, 21 January 2022 diff hist +9,568‎ List of personalities who enjoy parental affection toward Krsna 5) Devaki, the wife of Vasudeva, 6) the other fifteen wives of Vasudeva, 7) Kunti, the mother of Arjuna, 8) Vasudeva, the real father of Krsna, and 9) Sandipani Muni, Krsna's teacher ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 21 January 2022 diff hist −30‎ A real guru is well versed in the conclusions of Vedic knowledge (vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah) - BG 15.15 ‎No edit summary current
• 04:4604:46, 21 January 2022 diff hist +4,352‎ Real guru means ‎No edit summary current

6 November 2021

• 11:1911:19, 6 November 2021 diff hist +5,963‎ One who has not been trained cannot distinguish between gold and stone. Similarly, fools and rascals who have not learned from an expert spiritual master what is soul and what is matter cannot understand the existence of the soul within the body ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1911:19, 6 November 2021 diff hist +7,208‎ One is then (by the method of bhakti-yoga) situated in the permanent existence of the soul, with full knowledge of transcendental loving service for the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1911:19, 6 November 2021 diff hist +5,775‎ Here is a very good example concerning spiritual understanding. Foolish rascals, including so-called jnanis, philosophers and scientists, cannot understand the existence of the soul within the body because they are lacking in spiritual knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1911:19, 6 November 2021 diff hist +12‎ He (the self-realized person) is never bewildered by mistaking the gross body for the soul, nor does he accept the body as permanent and disregard the existence of the soul. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1811:18, 6 November 2021 diff hist +12‎ Apart from the separate existence of the soul, the material elements remain unmanifested before creation. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1511:15, 6 November 2021 diff hist −7‎ Nirvana does not finish the existence of the soul. The soul is ever existing. Therefore nirvana means to end one's material existence, and to end material existence means to go back home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1411:14, 6 November 2021 diff hist −7‎ The aim of the analytical study of the material world is to find the soul of existence. The soul of the material world is Visnu, or the Supersoul. Devotional service to the Lord entails service to the Supersoul. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1411:14, 6 November 2021 diff hist +12,579‎ Take a drop of water, as clear as possible. But if you see with microscope, you will see, "Oh, it is full of germs." So imperfect vision of existence, of the existence of the soul, does not mean that there is no soul. The soul is there ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1411:14, 6 November 2021 diff hist +5,514‎ One may argue, "When we analyze the body we find a head, hands, legs, a belly, blood, bones, urine, stool and so on, but after everything is considered, where is the existence of the soul?" A sober man, however, avails himself to Taittiriya Upanisad 3.1.1 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 6 November 2021 diff hist +3,566‎ There are others also who believe in the merging of the spirit soul in the Supreme Spirit when it is uncovered by the material encagement, and there are others also who do not believe in the existence of spirit or soul, but believe in tangible matter ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 6 November 2021 diff hist +5,953‎ Those who are hearing about the existence of soul, some of us also in amazement. It is a mysterious thing ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3808:38, 6 November 2021 diff hist +5,190‎ If by a careful analysis of the body one still cannot find the existence of the soul, this is due to his ignorance ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3808:38, 6 November 2021 diff hist +4,267‎ For them (the demons) it is only a combination of matter that has produced the living entities, and there is no question of the existence of the soul. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3708:37, 6 November 2021 diff hist +3,639‎ Even when the gross body is not acting when the living being is in sound sleep, we know that he is within the body by his breathing. So the living being's passing away from the body does not mean that there is no existence of the living soul ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 6 November 2021 diff hist +5,291‎ Apart from the separate existence of the soul, the material elements remain unmanifested before creation ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2707:27, 6 November 2021 diff hist −7‎ Consciousness is the sign of the living entity, or the soul. The existence of the soul is manifest in the form of consciousness, called jnana-sakti ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0806:08, 6 November 2021 diff hist +57,390‎ Buddhist philosophy does not admit the existence of the spirit soul ‎No edit summary current

5 November 2021

• 13:1613:16, 5 November 2021 diff hist +4,275‎ The material position of a devotee doesn’t matter because devotional service is not dependent on material considerations ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 5 November 2021 diff hist +5,254‎ The devotional activities of the Krsna consciousness movement are completely transcendental to material considerations ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0913:09, 5 November 2021 diff hist −12‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu requested the blessings of a grhastha. This incident shows the special significance of Sri Caitanya’s preaching. He gave equal status to everyone, regardless of material considerations. His movement is thoroughly spiritual ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0913:09, 5 November 2021 diff hist +4,614‎ Prabuddha said, "Such great personalities who have taken shelter of the Supreme Godhead, leaving aside all material considerations, are to be understood as bona fide spiritual masters" ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0813:08, 5 November 2021 diff hist +5,459‎ Next, Rupa Gosvami states that devotional service is transcendental to all material considerations and that it is not limited to any particular country, class, society or circumstance ‎No edit summary
• 13:0713:07, 5 November 2021 diff hist +2,731‎ It is very difficult to understand the activities of a transcendental person. Sometimes they may seem rather odd, but a transcendental personality remains in his position, unaffected by material considerations ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 5 November 2021 diff hist +2,568‎ In offering one's daughter to a person, the culture and quality are counted as prominent, not wealth or any other material consideration ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 5 November 2021 diff hist +5,845‎ In actuality there cannot be a family of gosvamis based on material considerations, caste or heredity. The gosvami title is actually the monopoly of the pure devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4812:48, 5 November 2021 diff hist +5,890‎ Being transcendentally situated, such personalities as the Kumaras are above all material considerations and are always neutral in respect to material dualities ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4011:40, 5 November 2021 diff hist +3,186‎ This continued material life is called samsara. Birth, death, lamentation, foolishness and anxiety are due to such material considerations. Thus we sometimes come to a proper understanding and sometimes fall again to a wrong conception of life ‎No edit summary
• 11:4011:40, 5 November 2021 diff hist +3,297‎ The distinction of the Lord is that His activities are all transcendental, & He is able to do anything and everything without being deterred by limitations of time and space. He can enjoy His transcendental happiness regardless of material considerations ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3711:37, 5 November 2021 diff hist +4,420‎ As soon as one is favored by the mercy of the spiritual master and the Lord, one is immediately given all the power necessary to write books and propagate the Krsna consciousness movement without being hampered by material considerations ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3711:37, 5 November 2021 diff hist +5,330‎ A surrendered soul serves Krsna without material considerations ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3611:36, 5 November 2021 diff hist +5,134‎ Such great personalities, who have taken shelter of the Supreme Godhead, leaving aside all material considerations, are to be understood as bona fide spiritual masters ‎No edit summary current

4 November 2021

• 06:5306:53, 4 November 2021 diff hist +3,149‎ From anger, delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost, one falls down again into the material pool. BG 2.63 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 4 November 2021 diff hist +3,497‎ From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost one falls down again into the material pool ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 4 November 2021 diff hist +2,409‎ For the sake of getting contributions from the King of heaven," he said, "you have lost your religious intelligence. Therefore I pronounce this curse: your body also will fall" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 4 November 2021 diff hist +3,796‎ Demons have lost all intelligence because they do not know what is actually their self-interest. Even if they have information of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they decline to approach Him ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 4 November 2021 diff hist +9,838‎ Buddha knew everything because He is incarnation of God. But He had to cheat the people in that way because they are not intelligent enough. Why not intelligent? Because they were killers of animals, they lost their intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 4 November 2021 diff hist +1,632‎ As their envy increased, they lost their intelligence. Being extremely hardhearted and unable to tolerate the King's neglect, they finally administered poison to the son ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4906:49, 4 November 2021 diff hist +11,051‎ As stated in Bhagavad-gita, kamais tais tair hrta jnanah: when one becomes lusty, he loses his intelligence. Therefore Agnidhra, having lost his intelligence, could not distinguish whether Purvacitti was male or female ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 4 November 2021 diff hist +1,364‎ You have lost your intelligence in the association of Gopala, and therefore you are eager to hear the Mayavada philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2806:28, 4 November 2021 diff hist +2,679‎ While Krsna was joking with Rukmini in Dvaraka, she was full of distress, fear and lamentation. She had also lost her intelligence. She dropped her hand bangles and the fan she was using to fan the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2706:27, 4 November 2021 diff hist +5,632‎ When one becomes lusty, he loses his intelligence. Therefore Agnidhra, having lost his intelligence, could not distinguish whether Purvacitti was male or female ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 4 November 2021 diff hist +11,038‎ When intelligence is lost ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2406:24, 4 November 2021 diff hist +6,305‎ Those whose minds are distorted by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular regulations of worship according to their own natures. One enamored by material benefits is called hrta jnana "one who has lost his intelligence" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2306:23, 4 November 2021 diff hist −29‎ Those who are intelligent - in other words, those who have not lost their intelligence - do not involve themselves in this process of wandering up and down ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2206:22, 4 November 2021 diff hist +3,535‎ The statement in Bhagavad-gita that persons who worship the demigods have lost their intelligence is confirmed in this verse - in SB 3.32.4 ‎No edit summary
• 06:2206:22, 4 November 2021 diff hist +12,991‎ The Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.20) says that demigod worship is meant for men who have lost all their intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2206:22, 4 November 2021 diff hist +5,084‎ The Bhagavad-gita (7.20) condemns demigod worship: Only persons whose intelligence is lost and who are mad with lusty desires worship the demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures ‎No edit summary
• 06:1906:19, 4 November 2021 diff hist +5,679‎ Persons who are impelled by lust and desire go to the demigods to derive some material benefit. Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura uses the very specific words nasta-buddhayah, meaning “persons who have lost their sense or intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1806:18, 4 November 2021 diff hist +5,044‎ Only persons who have lost their intelligence go to worship the demigods ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3205:32, 4 November 2021 diff hist −29‎ Kamais tais tair hrta-jnanah prapadyante ’nya-devatah: only men who have lost their intelligence worship the various demigods to fulfill their desires - BG 7.20 ‎No edit summary
• 05:3105:31, 4 November 2021 diff hist +4,564‎ It is described that due to their lusty desires they have lost their intelligence, and therefore they have taken to worshiping the different demigods ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3005:30, 4 November 2021 diff hist +3,460‎ In Bhagavad-gita it is clearly said that one who worships the demigods has lost his intelligence ‎No edit summary
• 05:2605:26, 4 November 2021 diff hist +132‎ N Category:Intelligence is Lost ‎ Created page with "Category: Intelligence Category: Lost Category: All Categories - Vaniquotes Category: Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes"

1 November 2021

• 09:1709:17, 1 November 2021 diff hist +3,581‎ The muni's sense organs, breath, mind and intelligence were all restrained from material activities, and he was situated in a trance apart from the three, having achieved a transcendental position qualitatively equal with the Supreme Absolute ‎No edit summary current

31 October 2021

• 09:5409:54, 31 October 2021 diff hist +6,632‎ The living entity, while dreaming, gives up the actual living body. Through the activities of his mind and intelligence, he acts in another body, either as a god or a dog ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 31 October 2021 diff hist +9‎ That is the distinction between mind and intelligence; mind is a product of egoism in goodness, and intelligence is a product of egoism in passion. The desire to accept something and reject something is a very important factor of the mind ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 31 October 2021 diff hist +4,373‎ The highest goal of life can be achieved as long as one's body is stout and strong. We should therefore live in such a way that we keep ourselves always healthy and strong in mind and intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1009:10, 31 October 2021 diff hist +2,474‎ When his intelligence and mind were fixed upon the form of the Lord, the brahmana Ajamila once again saw before him four celestial persons. He could understand that they were those he had seen previously ‎No edit summary current

29 October 2021

• 10:3810:38, 29 October 2021 diff hist +4,337‎ In the life of Maharaja Ambarisa, we find that the great Maharaja first engaged his mind on the lotus feet of Krsna. In this way his intelligence became purified. Maharaja Ambarisa also used his other senses in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 29 October 2021 diff hist +4,764‎ Polluted intelligence has been compared to a prostitute. One who has not purified his intelligence is said to be controlled by that prostitute ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 29 October 2021 diff hist +4,685‎ The more the mind becomes fixed upon the different parts of the limbs, one after another, the more the intelligence becomes purified ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 29 October 2021 diff hist +6,759‎ Intelligence becomes purified ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4409:44, 29 October 2021 diff hist +6,345‎ In purified intelligence a living entity cannot think otherwise than to surrender ‎No edit summary current

28 October 2021

• 12:4112:41, 28 October 2021 diff hist +132‎ N Category:Purified Intelligence ‎ Created page with "Category:Purified Category:Intelligence Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes"
• 12:2612:26, 28 October 2021 diff hist +19,807‎ Purified intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2410:24, 28 October 2021 diff hist −10‎ One who misuses this opportunity of advanced intelligence is verily condemned and put into different types of miseries, either in this present life or in the future. That is the way the Supreme controls everyone ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2210:22, 28 October 2021 diff hist +3,259‎ Because man is more intelligent. He can misuse his independence and intelligence, whereas animal cannot do that; he is not so intelligent. That is the defect of the modern civilization ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1710:17, 28 October 2021 diff hist +130‎ N Category:Misuse of Intelligence ‎ Created page with "Category:Misuse Category:Intelligence Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes"
• 10:1510:15, 28 October 2021 diff hist +36,571‎ Misuse of intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 28 October 2021 diff hist +4,492‎ Krsna is bewildering my intelligence because, although He is unborn, He has appeared as the son of Nanda. He is all-pervading, but still He is held on the lap of Yasoda. In spite of His being all-pervasive, He has become limited by the love of Yasoda ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 28 October 2021 diff hist +5,524‎ Dear Lord, unless one worships the lotus feet of great devotees, one will be conquered by the illusory energy, and his intelligence will be bewildered. Indeed, who has not been carried away by the waves of material enjoyment, which are like poison? ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5909:59, 28 October 2021 diff hist +136‎ N Category:Bewildered Intelligence ‎ Created page with "Category:Intelligence Category:Bewilderment Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes"
• 09:5709:57, 28 October 2021 diff hist +9,433‎ Intelligence is bewildered ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 28 October 2021 diff hist +134‎ N Category:Sufficient Intelligence ‎ Created page with "Category:Sufficient Category:Intelligence Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes"
• 09:5109:51, 28 October 2021 diff hist +6,427‎ The Bhagavatam says that because nondevotees neglect the transcendental loving service of the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead, their intelligence is not sufficient, and therefore these persons fall down ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 28 October 2021 diff hist +40,828‎ One who has sufficient intelligence will engage himself in full devotional service and regard the Supreme Lord as his spiritual master and worshipable God ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 28 October 2021 diff hist +27,450‎ Sufficient intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2407:24, 28 October 2021 diff hist +6,444‎ The symptoms of mahatma, great soul. So the first symptom is that he is equal to everyone, sama-cittah. And the next qualification is prasanta. Prasanta means pacified. He's not disturbed by any material anxiety ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2407:24, 28 October 2021 diff hist +6,085‎ Prahlada Maharaja explained to his father that to be freed from all material anxieties one should go to the forest. Hitvatma-patam grham andha-kupam ‎No edit summary
• 07:1107:11, 28 October 2021 diff hist +6,116‎ Krsna is called Mukunda because as soon as one comes in constant touch with Krsna or sees Him in full Krsna consciousness, one immediately becomes freed from all material anxieties. Not only that, but one is immediately blessed with all spiritual bliss ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1007:10, 28 October 2021 diff hist +4,320‎ Foolish people do not know that by attempting to escape anxiety by drink and sex, they simply increase their duration of material life. It is not possible to escape material anxiety in this way ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1007:10, 28 October 2021 diff hist +4,035‎ But because of our material anxieties, which are inevitable in this material world, we cannot understand the Supreme Lord, although He is situated so near to us ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0907:09, 28 October 2021 diff hist +4,821‎ Bhukti means material enjoyment, and mukti means to become freed from material anxiety and to become one with the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0907:09, 28 October 2021 diff hist +3,814‎ Because of our material anxieties, which are inevitable in this material world, we cannot understand the Supreme Lord, although He is situated so near to us ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0807:08, 28 October 2021 diff hist +6,247‎ Anyone who has got material desire, he is full of material anxiety. But one who has no material desire, one who lives only for serving Krsna, naturally he has no anxieties ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0807:08, 28 October 2021 diff hist +2,897‎ Although there may be sufficient cause for being unhappy, one should avoid counteracting such reversals, for the more we become implicated in rectifying such reversals, the more we enter into the darkest regions of material anxiety ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0707:07, 28 October 2021 diff hist +2,057‎ After delivering charge of his (Sagara Maharaja's) kingdom to Amsuman and thus being freed from all material anxiety and bondage, Sagara Maharaja, following the means instructed by Aurva Muni, achieved the supreme destination ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0707:07, 28 October 2021 diff hist +2,376‎ Material anxiety means ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 28 October 2021 diff hist +4,333‎ It may be, according to the material calculation, these are good sinful activities and these are bad sinful activities. No, sinful activities are sinful activities. What is our sinful activity? As soon as we forget Krsna, everything we do, that is sinful ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 28 October 2021 diff hist −18‎ Everyone wants to show his opulence to friends and relatives. This is a typical calculation of material life. The transcendental life is, however, different. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0206:02, 28 October 2021 diff hist +2,530‎ By materialistic calculations, Sukracarya thought that Bali Maharaja would under no circumstances be able to keep his promise to the brahmacari, Lord Vamanadeva ‎No edit summary current

27 October 2021

• 09:2809:28, 27 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ To think that God has lost His personality because His many parts and parcels are distributed all over the universe is an illusion. That is a material calculation. Such calculations are possible only under the influence of the material energy, maya ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 27 October 2021 diff hist +5,138‎ There is no material calculation for the value of the ticket by which one can enter the kingdom of God. The only price for such entrance is this laulyam lalasamayi, or desire and great eagerness ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 27 October 2021 diff hist +3,508‎ The magnitude of the soul is so small for our material calculation that he cannot be seen even by the most powerful microscope; therefore, he is invisible ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 27 October 2021 diff hist +8,265‎ The first doubt of Maharaja Pariksit: First of all, from the material calculation He (Krsna) was only eight years old. At that age a boy cannot be lusty. Apta-kama means that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is self-satisfied ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 27 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ The bees hum around flowers, and their sweet sound is enjoyed by the Lord. The Lord's bangles, necklace, crown and anklets are all bedecked with invaluable jewels. Since the jewels and pearls are spiritual, there is no material calculation of their value ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 27 October 2021 diff hist +21,097‎ The area of the present Vrndavana miles in area, and Vrndavana City is estimated to be about sixteen krosas, or thirty-two miles. How it is all the Vaikunthas exist there is beyond material calculation ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 27 October 2021 diff hist +9,214‎ Our material calculation is all nonsense. Our material calculation of our activities, they are all nonsense. They are all causes of our bondage. And when the same senses, they are engaged in the service of the Supreme, that is our freedom ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 27 October 2021 diff hist +2,783‎ My dear Lord, anyone who always keeps Your holy name on his tongue is greater than an initiated brahmana. Although he may be born in a family of dog-eaters and therefore, by material calculations, be the lowest of men, he is glorious nevertheless ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 27 October 2021 diff hist +4,644‎ In the spiritual world there is no influence of the material energy or material calculations of fragments ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 27 October 2021 diff hist +3,784‎ If someone very great by material calculations fails to take shelter of the Supreme Soul but instead becomes attached to material household life, his greatness is like that of a young, low-class couple ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 27 October 2021 diff hist +5,285‎ He (God) lives everywhere - in the houses of the poor and those of the rich - but in all circumstances He remains Narayana; to think that He becomes either poor or rich is a material calculation ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 27 October 2021 diff hist +5,823‎ By our material calculation we see a difference between the name and the substance, but in the spiritual world the Absolute is always absolute: the name, form, qualities and pastimes of the Absolute are all as good as the Absolute Himself ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 27 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ By material calculation, traveling at the speed of light it would take forty thousand light-years to reach the topmost planet ‎No edit summary
• 09:2309:23, 27 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ By material calculation all this (God's varieties of forms) may appear contradictory, but if we understand that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has inconceivable potencies, we can accept these facts as eternally possible in Him ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2209:22, 27 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ At the time of the Battle of Kuruksetra, He (Krsna) had many grandchildren at home; or, in other words, He had sufficiently aged by material calculations. Still He looked just like a young man twenty or twenty-five years old. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2209:22, 27 October 2021 diff hist +3,507‎ Although he may be born in a family of dog-eaters and therefore by material calculation may be the lowest among men, he is still glorious. This is the wonderful effect of chanting the holy name of the Lord ‎No edit summary current

26 October 2021

• 09:5609:56, 26 October 2021 diff hist +2,803‎ We are superior to animals by superior intelligence. Just like a human child. His father is superior than the child because the father has got superior intelligence, not that the child has no soul ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5609:56, 26 October 2021 diff hist +3,709‎ This life is preparation for the next life. You can prepare. It is in your hand. It is in your hand. God has given you the superior intelligence better than the animals ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 26 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ Superior to the mind is the intelligence, and behind the intelligence is the false ego, which is far superior to the intelligence and which covers the spirit soul ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 26 October 2021 diff hist +15,500‎ Prthu Maharaja suggested that theistic men will solidly reject the views of the atheists on the grounds that there cannot be many varieties of existence without the plan of a superior intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 26 October 2021 diff hist +132‎ N Category:Superior Intelligence ‎ Created page with "Category:Superior Category:Intelligence Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes"
• 09:0109:01, 26 October 2021 diff hist +5,480‎ One cannot establish a friendship with the Supreme Lord Ramacandra on the basis of material qualities such as one's birth in an aristocratic family, one's personal beauty, one's eloquence, one's sharp intelligence or one's superior race or nation ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5908:59, 26 October 2021 diff hist +4,724‎ O Lord, You perform many wonderful activities. Our only aim was to acquire a son by performing this great sacrifice; therefore our intelligence is not very sharp. We are not experienced in ascertaining life's goal ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5908:59, 26 October 2021 diff hist +2,559‎ When one's consciousness and intelligence are without any brilliant thoughts about Krsna, they become morose and lusterless, so much so that one cannot derive any benefit despite sharp intelligence ‎No edit summary
• 08:5608:56, 26 October 2021 diff hist +7,253‎ Uddhava, as a student of Brhaspati, had very sharp intelligence, so instead of handing over the written message, he thought it wise to read it personally and explain it to them (gopis) ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5308:53, 26 October 2021 diff hist +39,152‎ Those who are very sharp in their intelligence should adopt this process of chanting the holy names of the Lord. One should not manufacture different types of chanting ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5208:52, 26 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ The word su-medhasah means sharply intelligent. When one’s intelligence is sharp, he can increase the interests of common men in loving Caitanya Mahaprabhu and through Him in loving Radha-Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5108:51, 26 October 2021 diff hist +4,291‎ The intelligence must be very sharp (samahita-dhiyah) and should always be acting in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5008:50, 26 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ One who has fixed his mind in Krsna consciousness should be understood to have very sharp intelligence in regard to the value of life ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5008:50, 26 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ One cannot understand them (Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam) simply by erudite scholarship or sharp intelligence ‎No edit summary
• 08:4508:45, 26 October 2021 diff hist +129‎ N Category:Sharp Intelligence ‎ Created page with "Category:Sharp Category:Intelligence Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes"
• 08:3208:32, 26 October 2021 diff hist +1,968‎ Because of separation from His many friends in Vrndavana, who were like His own life, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu spoke like a madman. His intelligence was transformed ‎No edit summary
• 06:0806:08, 26 October 2021 diff hist +3,131‎ The wife is the inspiration of all good intelligence. Upon seeing one's wife dressed nicely, one can think very soberly about family business ‎No edit summary current

25 October 2021

• 12:4412:44, 25 October 2021 diff hist +24,791‎ Intelligence is even finer (than the mind). Finer than intelligence is the soul, which is not matter like mind and intelligence but is spirit, or antimatter ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1712:17, 25 October 2021 diff hist +4,187‎ First bodily concept, gross, then mental, then intellectual, then spiritual. So this Krsna consciousness movement is on the spiritual platform, above body, mind and intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 25 October 2021 diff hist +4,631‎ As long as the mind is distracted towards the material, there is no possibility of concentrating one's mind and intelligence upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His partial representation, Supersoul ‎No edit summary current

24 October 2021

• 12:0512:05, 24 October 2021 diff hist +9,470‎ God gives the living entity the intelligence with which to improve his position so that he may return home, back to Godhead, or if he does not want to go back to Godhead, the Lord gives him the intelligence with which to improve his material position ‎No edit summary current

21 October 2021

• 10:0310:03, 21 October 2021 diff hist +2,990‎ The material conception of a thing is at once changed as soon as it is put into the service of the Lord. That is the secret of spiritual success ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4808:48, 21 October 2021 diff hist +2,833‎ This may appear to be against the spiritual concept of life, but just as fire is still beautiful even when surrounded by smoke, she (Devahuti) looked completely pure although it seemed that she was living in a luxurious way ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4808:48, 21 October 2021 diff hist −15‎ Liberation involves getting free from the concept of material life; in spiritual life the same distinction is there, the same individuality is there, but in pure Krsna consciousness. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3608:36, 21 October 2021 diff hist +3,829‎ The perfect spiritual concept of life is complete knowledge of one's constitutional position ‎No edit summary current

20 October 2021

• 13:0113:01, 20 October 2021 diff hist +3,910‎ When thus attracted by the beauty of the material energy, one becomes very eager to enjoy. This is elaborately described in this instance of Puranjana's becoming attracted by the beautiful woman ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 20 October 2021 diff hist +2,671‎ Whatever little beauty we find in this material world, that is a perverted reflection of Krsna's beauty ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 20 October 2021 diff hist +2,484‎ The beauty of material nature is due to His (God's) personal beauty, yet He is always magnificently dressed and ornamented to prove His transcendental variegatedness, which is so important in the advancement of spiritual knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 20 October 2021 diff hist +18‎ Such a person (one who does not know the actual goal of life) wants to enjoy the material world by taking birth in a highly elevated family with the benefits of education, beauty and immense wealth, which in this material world are desirable ‎No edit summary
• 12:5312:53, 20 October 2021 diff hist +18‎ One who possesses all these material qualities (prestigious position, material wealth, beauty, education and so on) is expected to become a devotee, and when he actually does, the qualities are properly utilized ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4612:46, 20 October 2021 diff hist +52‎ One who is therefore attracted by the beauty of the Lord is no longer attracted by the beauty of material nature, although he does not minimize its beauty ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4112:41, 20 October 2021 diff hist +9‎ O my Lord, Jagadisa, I (Caitanya) do not pray for benedictions by which to achieve material wealth, popularity or beauty. My only desire is to serve You. Kindly engage me in the service of the servant of Your servant - CC Antya 20.29, Siksastaka 4 ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4012:40, 20 October 2021 diff hist +4,387‎ Material assets such as education, wealth, beauty and good parentage are undoubtedly nice, but when they decorate persons of a malicious nature, then they act adversely ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3912:39, 20 October 2021 diff hist +3,999‎ Material enjoyment entails money, beauty and the reputation they bring, which can all be achieved by the mercy of the goddess of fortune. The goddess of fortune, however, never remains alone ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 20 October 2021 diff hist +19,867‎ It is useless to give such a person (who's too much puffed up because of his family, opulence, beauty & material advancement) good instruction for gentle behavior & a peaceful life; on the contrary, one should search out the ways & means to punish him ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3312:33, 20 October 2021 diff hist +4,383‎ If one is conscious of his eternal relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one can utilize one's material assets, such as great learning and beauty and exalted ancestry, for the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5510:55, 20 October 2021 diff hist +2,995‎ In spite of the material assets of janmaisvarya-sruta-sri (SB 1.8.26) birth in an aristocratic family with full opulence, wealth, education and beauty - he was very much aggrieved because in spite of having so many wives, he had no son ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5410:54, 20 October 2021 diff hist +8,547‎ If we become accustomed to see Krsna beautifully decorated, nicely decorated, nicely dressed, then we forget other, so-called material beauty ‎No edit summary current

19 October 2021

• 13:3913:39, 19 October 2021 diff hist +4,708‎ Although if one is conscious of his eternal relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one can utilize one's material assets, such as great learning and beauty and exalted ancestry, for the service of the Lord; then such assets become glorious ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 19 October 2021 diff hist +8,099‎ Generally, the material opulences are good parentage, education, beauty and riches, but although a devotee of the Lord may possess all four of these material opulences, he is never carried away by the pride of possessing such distinctions ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 19 October 2021 diff hist +5,816‎ Prestigious position, material wealth, beauty, education and so on, but although these are certainly good qualifications in material dealings, they are not necessary for achieving friendship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 19 October 2021 diff hist +5,324‎ These descriptions, even if considered overestimations, must be taken as they are in order to divert our attention from the fleeting material beauty to the eternal beauty of Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 19 October 2021 diff hist +2,354‎ There is no reality in the material beauty. What you think as real that is also unreal because everything material transforms into matter at the ultimate stage. It is the spirit soul who is beautiful and not the matter ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5210:52, 19 October 2021 diff hist +9‎ If one approaches a transcendental devotee on the strength of one’s material heritage and beauty and does not offer respect to the advanced devotee of the Lord, the Vaisnava devotee may offer formal respects to such a materially puffed-up person ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 19 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ When one tries to enjoy mundane pleasures on the material plane, spiritual bliss becomes smothered and lies dormant, in a slumbering state. Perfection in yoga, therefore, is marked by the awakening of spiritual bliss ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1509:15, 19 October 2021 diff hist +4,724‎ The devotee-gardener is in touch with the abode of the Lord even from the material plane by dint of performing devotional service to the Lord simply by hearing and chanting ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1508:15, 19 October 2021 diff hist +4,619‎ When Uddhava wanted to speak to Vidura, he came down from the abode of the Lord, Dvaraka, to the material plane of human beings ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1508:15, 19 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ We should not think, that Krsna, who is always spiritual, tries to seek pleasure on this material plane like us ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1408:14, 19 October 2021 diff hist +5,856‎ Mucukunda continued, "Whether on the material plane or the spiritual plane, everyone must take shelter under Your lotus feet (Krsna's). I therefore submit unto You, my Lord" ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 19 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ Any work begun on the material plane has to be completed, otherwise the whole attempt becomes a failure. But any work begun in Krsna consciousness has a permanent effect, even though not finished. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1208:12, 19 October 2021 diff hist +4,648‎ A living entity can live either on the material plane or in the transcendental abode of the Lord, in accordance with his existential condition ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1108:11, 19 October 2021 diff hist +2,151‎ A devotee does not live on the material plane-he lives in Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

18 October 2021

• 15:2515:25, 18 October 2021 diff hist +5,125‎ This material world is often described as an ocean of nescience. In such an ocean, everything is agitated. The mind of a great devotee is also like an ocean or a very large lake, but there is no agitation ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5013:50, 18 October 2021 diff hist +296‎ Category:Ocean of Material Existence ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3713:37, 18 October 2021 diff hist +6,431‎ For one who has accepted the boat of the lotus feet of God, who is the shelter of the cosmic manifestation & is famous as Murari, the enemy of the demon Mura, the ocean of the material world is like the water contained in a calf's hoofprint - SB 10.14.58 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 18 October 2021 diff hist +6,251‎ For one who has accepted the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is the shelter of the cosmic manifestation and is famous as Murari, or the enemy of the Mura demon, the ocean of the material world is like the water contained in a calf's hoofprint ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4711:47, 18 October 2021 diff hist +5,999‎ The soul from the spiritual platform sometimes jumps over the material ocean of nescience. The Vedic knowledge gives him specific instruction how to swim over but if he is a rascal, he does not take the instruction through the bona fide representative ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4411:44, 18 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ Bhavambudhih, the material ocean of fear, becomes very easy to cross by the mercy of the supreme controller ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4011:40, 18 October 2021 diff hist +5,886‎ The Vedic instruction is so nice that the soul, when he jumps over this material ocean, the Vedic instruction teaches him how to swim and come back again to the shore. This swimming process is called sacrifice, charity and penance ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2611:26, 18 October 2021 diff hist +4,213‎ Advised by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu: Alas, for a person seriously desiring to cross the material ocean and engage in the transcendental loving service of the Lord without material motives ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 18 October 2021 diff hist +6,503‎ We become hungry, we become thirsty. We become overwhelmed with regret, soka moha, illusion, then birth, death, so many currents. We are being carried away. I am spirit soul. I am put into the material ocean ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 18 October 2021 diff hist +6,295‎ Sridhara Swami said in his verse "It is a fact that unless one is Krsna conscious, unless one is engaged in devotional service, and unless one has the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he cannot cross over this material ocean" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 18 October 2021 diff hist +7,989‎ Spiritual happiness is anandambudhi-vardhanam, or the ocean of happiness which increases. The material ocean is stagnant, but the spiritual ocean is dynamic ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 18 October 2021 diff hist +6,553‎ I am put into the material ocean, and the currents, currents are carried away. So here, if you be engaged, srnvanti gayanti abhiksnasah, twenty-four hours, then the current, upasanam, uparamam, the current will stop ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 18 October 2021 diff hist +2,996‎ He (the living entity) is simply in the midst of the material ocean, struggling for existence. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 18 October 2021 diff hist +3,733‎ Even one is the most sinful man, but if he gets the Krsna science, he is free. He is free, and he can go. He can cross over the material ocean of ignorance very easily ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 18 October 2021 diff hist +2,926‎ As one can cross over the ocean with seagoing vessels, one can cross the dangerous situation of the material ocean by living with a wife ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1411:14, 18 October 2021 diff hist +11‎ Category:Material Ocean ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3507:35, 18 October 2021 diff hist +3,804‎ The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil amongst various species. BG 13.22 - 1972 ‎No edit summary
• 07:3507:35, 18 October 2021 diff hist +4,817‎ The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil amongst various species - BG 13.22 ‎No edit summary
• 07:3507:35, 18 October 2021 diff hist +9‎ The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species - Bhagavad-gita 13.22 ‎No edit summary
• 07:3507:35, 18 October 2021 diff hist +8,008‎ The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species ‎No edit summary
• 07:3407:34, 18 October 2021 diff hist +9‎ The living entity in material nature follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species - BG 13.22 ‎No edit summary
• 07:2707:27, 18 October 2021 diff hist +4,083‎ That is the way of the spiritual and godly life, after attaining which a man is not bewildered. If one is thus situated even at the hour of death, one can enter into the kingdom of God ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 18 October 2021 diff hist +3,974‎ That is the way of the spiritual and godly life, after attaining which a man is not bewildered. Being so situated, even at the hour of death, one can enter into the kingdom of God. BG 2.72 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 18 October 2021 diff hist +2,606‎ Please continue to study very thoroughly our Krsna consciousness way of spiritual life and with the help of Bhagavan das become more and more fixed up in the service of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1007:10, 18 October 2021 diff hist +7‎ The materialistic way of life differs from the spiritual way of life in that one is disobedience and the other is obedience to the will of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0007:00, 18 October 2021 diff hist +2,479‎ In old age one cannot be trained in the spiritual way of life ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 18 October 2021 diff hist +2,602‎ Adapted to the spiritual way of life ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 18 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ The sastra recommends, smartavyah satatam visnuh: Lord Visnu should be remembered always, constantly. Vismartavyo na jatucit: Visnu should never be forgotten. That is the spiritual way of life ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4805:48, 18 October 2021 diff hist +9‎ The living entity in material nature follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of material nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species - BG 13.22 ‎No edit summary
• 05:4805:48, 18 October 2021 diff hist +6,960‎ In our materialistic way of life, which is just like a desert, we are hankering after an ocean of happiness, but in the form of society, friends and mundane love we are getting no more than a drop of water ‎No edit summary current

12 October 2021

• 05:5405:54, 12 October 2021 diff hist +3,261‎ He is very cleverly attentive to seeing that not a single farthing is lost by mismanagement. Thus although an attached person in material existence always suffers from threefold miseries, he does not develop a distaste for the way of material existence ‎No edit summary current

11 October 2021

• 11:2111:21, 11 October 2021 diff hist −12‎ The cosmic material expansion is called maya, illusion, because it has no eternal existence. Because it is sometimes manifested and sometimes not, it is regarded as illusory. But beyond this temporary manifestation is a higher nature - CC Intro ‎No edit summary
• 11:2111:21, 11 October 2021 diff hist +51,076‎ The cosmic material expansion is called maya because it has no eternal existence. Because it is sometimes manifested and sometimes not manifested, it is regarded as illusory. But beyond this temporary manifestation there is a higher nature ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2111:21, 11 October 2021 diff hist +4,801‎ Although sometimes a materialist becomes very opulent in the eyes of another materialist, such opulence is bestowed upon him by the goddess Durgadevi, a material expansion of the goddess of fortune, not by Laksmidevi herself ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0711:07, 11 October 2021 diff hist +33‎ The form of the Lord, as seen by Brahma, existed before the creation of Brahma, and the material manifestation with all the ingredients and agents of material creation are also energetic expansions of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0511:05, 11 October 2021 diff hist +3,271‎ The five sense objects, the five sense organs, the five knowledge-acquiring senses and the mind are the sixteen material expansions. These combine with the living entity and are influenced by the three modes of material nature ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0411:04, 11 October 2021 diff hist +10‎ The living entities, who are residents of the spiritual as well as the material expansions, are His (God's) marginal energy (tatastha-sakti), and they are at liberty to live in either of the energies, external or internal ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 11 October 2021 diff hist +4,245‎ When he (an intelligent man) is in association with saintly persons, all his doubts about the spiritual expansion of life are eradicated, and he makes tangible progress on the path of spiritual understanding ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 11 October 2021 diff hist +4,722‎ Variegatedness is expanded as the spiritual expansion of the Supreme Godhead Himself, for the manifestation there is totally of the spiritual energy, as explained in Chapter Seven ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0209:02, 11 October 2021 diff hist +3,986‎ All variegatedness is expanded (in the abode of Krsna) as the spiritual expansion of the Supreme Godhead Himself, for the manifestation there is totally of the spiritual energy, as explained in Chapter Seven (of BG). BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 11 October 2021 diff hist +4,140‎ The yogic process is a material attempt to realize God, whereas bhakti, devotional service, is the spiritual process by which to realize Him. Maharaja Khatvanga accepted the spiritual path, and therefore he was no longer interested in anything material ‎No edit summary current

10 October 2021

• 12:4012:40, 10 October 2021 diff hist +4,589‎ Strong faith that by Krsna consciousness one will be elevated to the highest perfection of life is called vyavasayatmika intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 10 October 2021 diff hist +11,440‎ Sraddha, faith in Krsna, is the beginning of Krsna consciousness. Faith means strong faith ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2710:27, 10 October 2021 diff hist +4,838‎ One's faith may be in a demigod or some created God or some mental concoction. It is supposed to be one's strong faith in something that is productive of the works of material goodness. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1210:12, 10 October 2021 diff hist +42,854‎ Devotees completely believe, with strong faith, that Narayana is transcendental and has inconceivable proprietorship of various transcendental potencies ‎No edit summary
• 10:1210:12, 10 October 2021 diff hist +3,138‎ Being cursed by Sukracarya, Bali Maharaja was deprived of all his possessions, with the result that the Supreme Personality of Godhead favored him for his strong faith in devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1110:11, 10 October 2021 diff hist +26‎ A strong faith in Krsna consciousness that one should be elevated to the highest perfection of life is called vyavasayatmika intelligence. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 10 October 2021 diff hist +8,828‎ Those who are on the spiritual path are resolute in purpose, and their aim is one. O beloved child of the Kurus, the intelligence of those who are irresolute is many-branched ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 10 October 2021 diff hist +6,109‎ When the interaction of the three modes of material nature begins, Brahma and the great sages, who are the authors of the spiritual path and the yoga system, come back under the influence of the time factor ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5107:51, 10 October 2021 diff hist +4,758‎ The first spiritual master mentioned (in Krsna-karnamrta) is Cintamani, who was one of his instructing spiritual masters because she first showed him the spiritual path. Cintamani was a prostitute with whom Bilvamangala was intimate earlier in his life ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4907:49, 10 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ One who has faith in his spiritual master actually receives transcendental instruction, and as his attachment for material life slackens, he is able to advance on the spiritual path ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4807:48, 10 October 2021 diff hist +5,561‎ Lust, anger and greed run parallel in the heart and check one's progress on the spiritual path ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4707:47, 10 October 2021 diff hist +5‎ If we strictly follow the principle of disciplic succession, we are certainly on the right path of spiritual liberation, or eternal engagement in devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1507:15, 10 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ As stated in Bhagavad-gita (BG 2.41): "Those who are on the spiritual path are resolute in purpose, and their aim is one. O beloved child of the Kurus, the intelligence of those who are irresolute is many-branched." ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 10 October 2021 diff hist +2,952‎ Actually, it is for this purpose (to teach the path of spiritual liberation) that Narada Muni compiled his Bhakti-sutra and gave directions in the Narada-pancaratra ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 10 October 2021 diff hist +7,304‎ As in the material world there is material construction, in the spiritual world there is spiritual construction ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5506:55, 10 October 2021 diff hist +20,955‎ The universes of the material creation have a limited length and breadth, but as far as the Vaikuntha planets are concerned, there is no limitation to their dimensions because they are spiritual ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5406:54, 10 October 2021 diff hist +4,640‎ Even though all the material universes are annihilated again and again in the Causal Ocean, the Vaikuntha planets, which are spiritual, exist eternally and are not subject to dissolution ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 10 October 2021 diff hist +3,767‎ The left ear, which is known as Devahu, is utilized for hearing about even higher planetary systems, such as Maharloka, Tapoloka and Brahmaloka - or yet even higher planets, situated in the spiritual universe ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 10 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ Krsna is the proprietor of both the material and spiritual universes. The material world constitutes only one-fourth of His creative energy ‎No edit summary current

9 October 2021

• 09:0509:05, 9 October 2021 diff hist +7,439‎ Brahma-lina, merging into the Supreme Brahman, is not actual lina, or annihilation, for the subtle form remaining in the Brahman effulgence will return to the material world after the material creation and again assume a material form ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0509:05, 9 October 2021 diff hist +6,466‎ When the mind is in touch with the impersonal Brahman one becomes satisfied, but one must advance further to render service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for one's remaining merged in the Brahman effulgence is not always assured ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 9 October 2021 diff hist +3,353‎ If one is destined to remain in the Lord’s impersonal effulgence, he misses the opportunity to render service to the Personality of Godhead. Therefore devotees consider remaining in the impersonal Brahman effulgence a kind of punishment ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 9 October 2021 diff hist +8,674‎ To remain as molecular part of the Brahman rays or spiritual rays, that is impersonal. And to have a spiritual form just like Krsna and Visnu, that is another spiritual perfection. That is Vaisnava philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 9 October 2021 diff hist +25,466‎ They (the impersonalists) try to remain satisfied with the impersonal Brahman, but Krsna is so attractive and so strong that He attracts their minds ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5108:51, 9 October 2021 diff hist +125‎ N Category:Remaining in the Brahman ‎ Created page with "Category:Remain Category:Brahman Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes"
• 08:3908:39, 9 October 2021 diff hist +17,697‎ The Mayavadi philosopher, puffed-up and incompetent, can not understand variegatedness in spiritual energy. He consequently falsely believes that spiritual variegatedness is no different from material variegatedness ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 9 October 2021 diff hist +3,260‎ The material varieties may be temporary, but they are not false. They are a reflection of the spiritual varieties ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 9 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ The living entity who is nitya-baddha, or eternally conditioned, sees the material varieties as being actually different from one another ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 9 October 2021 diff hist +14‎ The Brahma-samhita describes the supreme abode as ananda-cinmaya-rasa, a place where everything is full of spiritual bliss. Whatever variegatedness is manifest there is all of the quality of spiritual bliss - there is nothing material. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1606:16, 9 October 2021 diff hist +7,455‎ Philosophers like the Saranatha Mayavadis who do not believe in the spiritual existence of the Absolute Truth but consider material varieties to be everything do not believe that there are two kinds of nature, inferior (material) and superior (spiritual) ‎No edit summary current

8 October 2021

• 07:2107:21, 8 October 2021 diff hist +7,137‎ The Varanasi impersonalists propagate the idea that the impersonal Brahman is truth whereas material varieties are false ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 8 October 2021 diff hist −4‎ Just as there is material variegatedness in this world, so, in the spiritual world, there is also variegatedness. Those in ignorance of this think that spiritual existence is opposed to material variety. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4506:45, 8 October 2021 diff hist +2,352‎ None of them (Krsna's ornaments) are made of material ingredients; otherwise there would be no chance of their decorating the body of the Lord. As such, in the paravyoma, spiritual varieties are also distinguished from the material variegatedness ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 8 October 2021 diff hist +3,513‎ One should simply try to understand that on the spiritual platform, there are many varieties of reciprocal love. Such loving exchanges should never be considered to be material ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 8 October 2021 diff hist +7,268‎ Impersonal Brahman is a feature of the Absolute distinct from the material variegatedness, just as light is a conception distinct from its counterpart, darkness ‎No edit summary current

7 October 2021

• 14:4714:47, 7 October 2021 diff hist +17,569‎ Deluded by this false belief (that spiritual variegatedness is no different from material variegatedness), the Mayavadis deride the pastimes of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4114:41, 7 October 2021 diff hist +54,261‎ Material variegatedness ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3714:37, 7 October 2021 diff hist +33,187‎ Spiritual variegatedness ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3314:33, 7 October 2021 diff hist −1‎ Category:Material Variegatedness ‎No edit summary
• 14:3114:31, 7 October 2021 diff hist +80‎ Category:Spiritual Variegatedness ‎No edit summary
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• 13:1613:16, 7 October 2021 diff hist +7,228‎ From Vedic literature we learn that when the Supreme Lord glances (sa aiksata) over the material energy, the three modes of material nature become manifest and create material variety ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 7 October 2021 diff hist +7,367‎ For one who becomes Krsna conscious, the distinction between material and spiritual varieties does not exist. An advanced devotee like Prahlada Maharaja sees everything as one - Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5212:52, 7 October 2021 diff hist +7,764‎ A day may come when the people of this earth will be able to travel in outer space and see the variegatedness of these millions of planets with their own eyes. In every planet there is as much material variegatedness as we find in our own planet ‎No edit summary
• 11:4011:40, 7 October 2021 diff hist +2,955‎ Because the body is material, his natural tendency is to be attracted by the varieties of the material world. Thus the living entity suffers the miseries of material existence ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3811:38, 7 October 2021 diff hist +4,308‎ Being a liberated soul and completely learned, he sees all material varieties as meaningless because their basic principle is nescience ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4806:48, 7 October 2021 diff hist +5,914‎ In the spiritual world, every living entity is surrendered to the Supreme Lord and is completely on the spiritual platform. Although there are servitors, the served and service, all are spiritual and variegated ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3706:37, 7 October 2021 diff hist +6,510‎ A materialist can think only of the negation of material variety; he cannot understand spiritual variety. He thinks that spiritual variety simply contradicts material variety and is a negation or void ‎No edit summary
• 06:2706:27, 7 October 2021 diff hist +6,312‎ The fifth kind of liberation, merging with the Supreme, is not considered an opulence in spiritual variegated existence ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2106:21, 7 October 2021 diff hist +2,433‎ This transcendental region (Brahmaloka) is undoubtedly spiritual, but it contains no manifestations of spiritual activities or variegatedness ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1806:18, 7 October 2021 diff hist +7,967‎ The total exhibition of these potencies (Hladini, sandhini, and samvit) is called visuddha-sattva, and this platform of spiritual variegatedness is displayed even in the material world when the Lord appears here ‎No edit summary current

6 October 2021

• 12:2812:28, 6 October 2021 diff hist +27,400‎ Material scientists cannot see any cognizant spiritual substance that might be the cause of the creation ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3807:38, 6 October 2021 diff hist +4,486‎ It is to be concluded that the ecstatic symptoms of asaya-suddhi are visible when a devotee’s service has no material cause and is purely spiritual in nature ‎No edit summary current

5 October 2021

• 07:1007:10, 5 October 2021 diff hist +2,861‎ So the original primeval cause is vigraha, the personal, and the impersonal spiritual effulgence, brahma-jyotir, is also an effect of the Supreme Brahman ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0807:08, 5 October 2021 diff hist +3,374‎ Revives (devotional service to God) one's normal condition of spiritual existence, even in this life, and frees one from the material winds which cause one to quiver. Only knowledge in devotional service can elevate one towards the path of liberation ‎No edit summary current

4 October 2021

• 07:3807:38, 4 October 2021 diff hist −11‎ Materialists sometimes give the argument that as straw eaten by a cow produces milk automatically, so material nature, under different circumstances, produces varieties of manifestations. Thus originally matter is the cause ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3207:32, 4 October 2021 diff hist +7,368‎ There are two parties - namely, the theists and the atheists. The theist, who accepts the Supersoul, finds the spiritual cause through mystic yoga ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 4 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ Some people are too materially attached and therefore do not give attention to spiritual life, some of them want to merge into the supreme spiritual cause. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0007:00, 4 October 2021 diff hist +9‎ The material cause of the material elements absorbs the material body, and the spiritual soul assumes its original position ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 4 October 2021 diff hist +1,407‎ Lord Visnu, in His efficient aspect, glances over the material energy, and Sri Advaita, as the material cause, creates the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4906:49, 4 October 2021 diff hist +9‎ By the covering power of the material energy, the material scientist cannot look beyond the material causes ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 4 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ One should see not only the four material causes, but the supreme efficient cause as well. One who does not see the Supreme thinks himself to be the instrument. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 4 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ These (when a devotee’s service has no material cause and is purely spiritual in nature) are characteristics of transcendental love of Godhead, as stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam - 1.2.6 ‎No edit summary
• 06:2906:29, 4 October 2021 diff hist +28,025‎ The woman, as the material cause, supplies the body of the soul, and as the efficient cause she gives birth to the child ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 4 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ The Sankhya philosophy regards the total energy (mahat-tattva), the false ego and the five objects of sense perception as the seven diverse manifestations of material nature, which has two features, known as the material cause and efficient cause ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 4 October 2021 diff hist +3,648‎ The physical elements, nature, the original cause, culture, destiny and the time element are all material causes. Agitated by these material causes, the eleven functions transform into hundreds of functions and then into thousands and then into millions ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2806:28, 4 October 2021 diff hist +3,763‎ The mahat-tattva is the total cause of the total cosmic manifestation, and because in the total substance of the material cause there are three modes of nature, it is sometimes called Brahman. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2806:28, 4 October 2021 diff hist +5,326‎ The inert matter is neither efficient nor the material cause of the cosmic manifestation ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2806:28, 4 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ The external energy consists of two parts - the efficient cause (nimitta) and the material cause (upadana), maya being the efficient cause and pradhana the material cause ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1606:16, 4 October 2021 diff hist +2,590‎ He is the support of the material cause and He enters into everything. He is absolute, one without a second, and He is the eyes of the illusory energy ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1506:15, 4 October 2021 diff hist +2,333‎ Just as the external energy consists of two parts, so Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, assumes two forms to create the material world with the efficient and material causes ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1506:15, 4 October 2021 diff hist +5,187‎ Love means without any personal profit. If I love God for some profit, that is business; that is not love. Ahaituky apratihata. And such love of God cannot be checked by any material cause ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1406:14, 4 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ Material nature is one, but because of the interaction of the three qualities, it can produce the total energy and the wonderful cosmic manifestation. Such transformations divide material nature into two features, namely the efficient and material causes ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1006:10, 4 October 2021 diff hist +1,435‎ Four material causes ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1006:10, 4 October 2021 diff hist +5,011‎ Even though a pure devotee is present on this mortal planet, he is here in relation to the Lord for engagement in transcendental loving service, and not for any material cause ‎No edit summary
• 06:0806:08, 4 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ By understanding the material cause, one can guess that the purusa, the enjoyer, being without activity, is aloof from all kinds of enjoyment or superintendence ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 4 October 2021 diff hist +2,414‎ Balarama and Krsna are the original efficient and material causes of the material world. As Maha-Visnu and the material energy, They enter into the material elements and create the diversities by multi-energies. Thus They are the cause of all causes ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 4 October 2021 diff hist +4,095‎ Avyakta, or the original material cause, is beyond this material manifestation and is the cause of the material world ‎No edit summary current

2 October 2021

• 09:1809:18, 2 October 2021 diff hist −13‎ Although the material causes are the place, the worker, the endeavor and the senses, the final cause is the Supreme, the Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 2 October 2021 diff hist +4,957‎ Prthu frankly tells the Lord that the Lord's offerings of benedictions in the form of material facilities are certainly causes for bewilderment. A pure devotee is not at all interested in bhukti or mukti ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0809:08, 2 October 2021 diff hist +8‎ A tree is matter, but a tree produces fruit. Water is matter, but water flows. In this way, say the Sankhyites, matter is the cause of movements and production. As such, matter can be considered the material and efficient cause of everything ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0709:07, 2 October 2021 diff hist +7,692‎ A father’s and mother’s taking care of their children is not the cause of their comfort. Sometimes it is found that in spite of all care by the parents, the children go bad or succumb to death. Therefore material causes are not sufficient for results ‎No edit summary
• 08:4408:44, 2 October 2021 diff hist +5,481‎ The spiritual entities are meant for enjoyment, as stated in the Vedanta-sutra (1.1.12): ananda-mayo 'bhyasat. By nature and constitution, every living being-including the Supreme Lord and each of His parts and parcels-is meant for eternal enjoyment ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4408:44, 2 October 2021 diff hist +6,190‎ This is confirmed in the Padma Purana, wherein it is said that there are two kinds of spiritual entities: one is called the jiva, and the other is called the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4408:44, 2 October 2021 diff hist +10‎ To advance in devotional service, a devotee should see other living entities as spiritual sparks, parts and parcels of the Supreme Lord. A devotee is to offer respect to every entity that has a relationship with the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4208:42, 2 October 2021 diff hist +4,211‎ It is the spiritual entity, or spiritual spark within the body, that is being promoted by the laws of nature under the supervision of superior authority ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4208:42, 2 October 2021 diff hist +6,114‎ The influence of maya is experienced by the part and parcel spiritual entity, but it cannot influence the Supersoul, the Paramatma ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1507:15, 2 October 2021 diff hist +2,730‎ My dear father, what is the source of your knowledge? Under whose protection are you standing? And under whom are you working? What is your real position? Do you alone create all entities with material elements by your personal energy ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1207:12, 2 October 2021 diff hist +6,598‎ The Supreme Lord is the creator of everything, and this means that He existed when there was no creation. In other words, His name, form and qualities are not materially created entities; they are transcendental always ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1107:11, 2 October 2021 diff hist +1,657‎ The authority for such acts is the prerogative of Ramananda Raya alone, for I can understand that his body is not material but has been completely transformed into a spiritual entity ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4606:46, 2 October 2021 diff hist +5,864‎ Brahman is the resort of the mahat-tattva, which includes all material and spiritual entities. It is described in this connection that the Supreme Brahman, the Personality of Godhead, is the master of both pradhana and purusa ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3406:34, 2 October 2021 diff hist +2,267‎ Spiritual entities means ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2006:20, 2 October 2021 diff hist +3,515‎ The demigods approached the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the controller of both kinds of entities (material entities and spiritual entities), in order to know why their breathing was choked ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1906:19, 2 October 2021 diff hist +3,596‎ It is by the will of the SPG that material entities cannot breathe whereas spiritual entities are able to breathe; material entities are products of the Lord's external energy, whereas spiritual entities are products of the Lord's internal energy ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1406:14, 2 October 2021 diff hist +4,935‎ In the rays of the moon, different material entities appear to be comparatively more or less important. The light of the moon on the Taj Mahal appears to be more beautiful than the same light in the wilderness ‎No edit summary current

1 October 2021

• 08:0808:08, 1 October 2021 diff hist +4,200‎ When we begin this sublime chanting process, or even if we simply hear the sound Hare Krishna, then we have begun our journey back to the Spiritual Kingdom, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0408:04, 1 October 2021 diff hist +3,784‎ The sound of this material world and that of the spiritual world are completely different. The sound of the spiritual world is nectarean and eternal, whereas the sound of the material world is hackneyed and subject to end ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 1 October 2021 diff hist +9,016‎ Our material position and spiritual position - the ultimate point is sound. And this sound is presented in its original spiritual form. That is called Veda ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0907:09, 1 October 2021 diff hist +5,764‎ Real sound is coming from the spiritual world. It is simply just like gramophone. The sound is coming originally from the person; the gramophone is reproducing. That is not the original source of the sound ‎No edit summary
• 06:4306:43, 1 October 2021 diff hist +5,484‎ Although when a pure devotee speaks the articulation of his voice may resemble the sound of this material sky, the voice is spiritually very powerful because it touches the particles of saffron dust on the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 1 October 2021 diff hist +4,128‎ Even the very sound of the holy name of Lord Krsna or Rama can at once surcharge the atmosphere spiritually ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2805:28, 1 October 2021 diff hist +7,321‎ Krsna consciousness movement is meant for this purpose, that "You have already attachment for sound. Now just transfer this attachment for spiritual sound. Then your life will be successful" ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2805:28, 1 October 2021 diff hist +4,733‎ Just as life in this material world has its beginning in material sound, similarly a spiritual life has its beginning in this spiritual sound vibration ‎No edit summary
• 05:2705:27, 1 October 2021 diff hist +4,738‎ If we approach that sound (the spiritual sound), then our spiritual life begins, and the other requirements for spiritual advancement can be supplied ‎No edit summary
• 05:2405:24, 1 October 2021 diff hist +3,250‎ The musical notes (in Sanskrit) are sa, r, ga, ma, dha, and ni. All these sound vibrations are originally called sabda-brahma, or spiritual sound ‎No edit summary

30 September 2021

• 11:4511:45, 30 September 2021 diff hist +3,115‎ The Vedas are spiritual sound, and therefore there is no need of material interpretation for the sound vibration of the Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2811:28, 30 September 2021 diff hist +6‎ The sound vibration of the Hare Krsna mantra, although presented in the ordinary alphabet, should not be taken as mundane or material ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1409:14, 30 September 2021 diff hist +4,827‎ Our entanglement in material affairs has begun from material sound. Now we must purify that sound in spiritual understanding. There is sound in the spiritual world also ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2307:23, 30 September 2021 diff hist +4,779‎ There are many professional reciters of Srimad-Bhagavatam who speak the narrations very ornamentally, but a pure devotee does not like to hear from them because such glorification of the Lord is simply a vibration of material sound ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2307:23, 30 September 2021 diff hist +6,998‎ The vibration of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra is not a material sound, and similarly the form of the Lord and His appearance and activities are all nonmaterial ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2307:23, 30 September 2021 diff hist −13‎ The holy name of the Lord, the Hare Krsna mantra, cannot be identified with any material sound ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2207:22, 30 September 2021 diff hist +6,093‎ King Pariksit continued, "How then can Brahman, the Absolute Truth, be described by your words? I do not see how it is possible to understand transcendence from such expressions of material sound" ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2107:21, 30 September 2021 diff hist +2,785‎ It is not that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is absent; He is present there. And when a devotee utters the transcendental name, it is not a material sound. Therefore, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is naturally pleased ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2107:21, 30 September 2021 diff hist +9,420‎ If one thinks that the holy name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the names and activities of the demigods are on the same level, or if one accepts the holy name of Visnu to be a material sound vibration, that is also an offense ‎No edit summary current

29 September 2021

• 07:1007:10, 29 September 2021 diff hist +4,434‎ N If we have little faith that we require awakening of spiritual consciousness, we should not sleep under the spell of this material consciousness . . . a little faith will help us ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If we have little faith that we require awakening of spiritual consciousness, we should not sleep under the spell of this mate..."

28 September 2021

• 16:3716:37, 28 September 2021 diff hist +2,854‎ N You have come here with a little faith. That increasing of that faith is advancement of Krsna consciousness. That is required. Adau sraddha. First of all little faith, "Let us see" ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"You have come here with a little faith"|"First of all little faith"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|BhavesvariRadhika}} {{complete|ALL..."
• 16:2616:26, 28 September 2021 diff hist +4,482‎ N How to come to this bhava stage, that is Rupa Gosvami has described: adau sraddha (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.4.15). First of all little faith ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"First of all little faith"|"How to come to this bhava stage"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|BhavesvariRadhika}} {{complete|ALL}} {{fi..."
• 15:3015:30, 28 September 2021 diff hist +3,116‎ N First of all faith is required. Without faith, therefore, faithlessness is no, I mean to say, position of making further progress. Little faith must be there. That faith must be increased by further advancement ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"That faith must be increased by further advancement"|"Little faith must be there"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|BhavesvariRadhika}}..."
• 10:5010:50, 28 September 2021 diff hist +1,553‎ N This is the first stage. One should be inquisitive and have little faith or little respect for Kṛṣṇa consciousness: "It is very nice. They are speaking . . . doing nice work." This is the first stage ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"One should be inquisitive and have little faith or little respect for Krsna consciousness"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|BhavesvariR..."
• 09:5309:53, 28 September 2021 diff hist +2,596‎ N The first stage is sraddha, a little faith ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The first stage is sraddha, a little faith"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|BhavesvariRadhika}} {{complete|}} {{goal|0}} {{first|2021-..."
• 08:4408:44, 28 September 2021 diff hist +3,387‎ N All boys and girls, ladies and gentlemen who are in this meeting, they have got this faith, sraddha. It is understood. Otherwise, why you have come here? Unless you have got little faith, you would not have come (to hear me) ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Unless you have got little faith, you would not have come"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|BhavesvariRadhika}} {{complete|}} {{goal|0}..."
• 07:0107:01, 28 September 2021 diff hist +5,022‎ N Still, you come (to hear me). Why? Because you have got some little faith, "Oh, here is Bhagavad-gita. Let us hear it." So the faith is the beginning. The faithless cannot have any spiritual life ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"still, you come. Why? Because you have got some little faith"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|BhavesvariRadhika}} {{complete|ALL}} {{f..."

27 September 2021

• 14:4714:47, 27 September 2021 diff hist +2,738‎ N If you have got little faith still that "I can be satisfied; I can be happy materially," then that is maya's influence. That is maya's influence. There is no possibility ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If you have got little faith still that "I can be satisfied; I can be happy materially," then that is maya's influence"}} {{no..."
• 07:5707:57, 27 September 2021 diff hist +4,045‎ We misunderstand the meaning of religion. Religion (is) generally understood as a kind of cult and faith. But in the Vedic literature, religion means the characteristic ‎No edit summary current

25 September 2021

• 11:1011:10, 25 September 2021 diff hist +4,916‎ Sukadeva Gosvami continued: O best of the Pandu dynasty (Maharaja Pariksit), the King of the Sindhu and Sauvira states (Maharaja Rahugana) had great faith in discussions of the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3009:30, 25 September 2021 diff hist +6,481‎ Sukadeva Gosvami has used the word sraddhanvita for one who is trained in spiritual life. Sraddha, or faith, is the beginning ‎No edit summary
• 09:1809:18, 25 September 2021 diff hist +2,577‎ Persons who are too addicted to this material world execute their prescribed duties very nicely and with great faith. They daily perform all such prescribed duties with attachment to the fruitive result ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 25 September 2021 diff hist +141‎ N Category:Faith in the Material World ‎ Created page with "Category:Faith Category:Material World (Prakrti) Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes" current
• 06:0806:08, 25 September 2021 diff hist +4,639‎ Sadhana-bhakti divided into many different parts, including faith, association with devotees, initiation by the spiritual master, engagement in ds under the instructions of a spiritual master, steadiness in ds and the awakening of a taste for ds ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0206:02, 25 September 2021 diff hist +6,876‎ That purity is said, adau sraddha: "Beginning is faith." Now tato sadhu-sangah: "You mix with faithful men." Then it will develop. Otherwise, if you take simply initiation and then sleep, then faith will be lost. That is happening ‎No edit summary current

24 September 2021

• 07:0407:04, 24 September 2021 diff hist +3,644‎ Persons who had never undergone the reformatory ritualistic ceremonies of the Vedas were confident that Krsna would accept only faith and devotion, and so they were engaged in Krsna consciousness and were freed from all anxieties ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0506:05, 24 September 2021 diff hist +46‎ Puffed up mundane scholars have to wait for the causeless mercy of the devotee of the Lord. One should therefore cultivate Krsna consciousness with faith and knowledge, and in this way attain perfection. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5105:51, 24 September 2021 diff hist +6,077‎ Prahlada Maharaja continued: My dear friends, if you can place your faith in my words, simply by that faith you can also understand transcendental knowledge, just like me, although you are small children ‎No edit summary
• 05:4405:44, 24 September 2021 diff hist +6,793‎ Recently there is division of Pakistan and India. Twenty years before, this Pakistan was part of India. Now, these Muhammadans, they did not come from outside. They changed their faith from Hindus to Muhammadans. Now they divided their property ‎No edit summary current

23 September 2021

• 10:0710:07, 23 September 2021 diff hist +1,810‎ While dying, Ajamila chanted the holy name of the Lord, intending to call his son Narayana. Nevertheless, he attained the spiritual world. What then to speak of those who chant the holy name with faith and reverence ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2805:28, 23 September 2021 diff hist +3,763‎ Religion or faith, you can change from one to another, but you must know the essential value of your life ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2805:28, 23 September 2021 diff hist +2,537‎ Religion is a faith, and culture is educational or advancement of knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1605:16, 23 September 2021 diff hist +2,896‎ With faith and reverence the prostitute associated with Haridasa Thakura, who personally treated her material disease by chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra ‎No edit summary current
• 05:0505:05, 23 September 2021 diff hist +1,458‎ Whoever hears this narration with faith and love certainly develops love of God at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current

22 September 2021

• 12:1212:12, 22 September 2021 diff hist +13‎ With such faith (that a person who simply chants the holy name of Krsna once becomes perfect) in the holy name one may begin a life of Krsna consciousness. But an ordinary person cannot chant the holy name of Krsna with such faith ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 22 September 2021 diff hist +2,902‎ These examples are given in the sastra. They are not exaggeration but actual fact. And we have to take it in good faith ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1511:15, 22 September 2021 diff hist +121‎ N Category:Good Faith ‎ Created page with "Category:Good Category:Faith Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes" current
• 07:0107:01, 22 September 2021 diff hist +126‎ N Category:Proper Guidance ‎ Created page with "Category:Proper Category:Guidance Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes"
• 05:5605:56, 22 September 2021 diff hist +2,178‎ You should present Krsna consciousness not as a religion, but a science of God realization. Try to convince them that it is not just a kind of faith ‎No edit summary current

21 September 2021

• 10:3510:35, 21 September 2021 diff hist +123‎ N Category:Little Faith ‎ Created page with "Category:Little Category:Faith Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes"
• 10:3310:33, 21 September 2021 diff hist +7,963‎ Faith is the basic principle. So unless one comes to this basic principle of faith, there is no question of progress. So little faith, even. Not full faith. It develops by sadhu-sanga, by association with the devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 21 September 2021 diff hist +6,366‎ If one only chants, with some slight faith, the holy names of Lord Caitanya and Nityananda, very quickly he is cleansed of all offenses ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 21 September 2021 diff hist +2,070‎ If one hears and again narrates, with faith and devotion, this story of the Daksa yajna as it was conducted by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, then certainly one is cleared of all contamination of material existence, O son of Kuru ‎No edit summary current

20 September 2021

• 09:4109:41, 20 September 2021 diff hist +4,991‎ One must begin with faith, and when this faith is increased by chanting, a person can become a member of the Society ‎No edit summary current

19 September 2021

• 05:1805:18, 19 September 2021 diff hist +151‎ N Category:Faith in the Authority ‎ Created page with "Category:Faith In... Category:Faith Category:Authority Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes" current
• 05:0105:01, 19 September 2021 diff hist +3,941‎ Faith inspires initial surrender, and later, by the powerful influence of saintly association, one's faith deepens and becomes steady. Once faith becomes steady, all mental agitations and doubts clear up due to constant worship of the Lord ‎No edit summary current

18 September 2021

• 14:4714:47, 18 September 2021 diff hist +147‎ N Category:Everything Begins with Faith ‎ Created page with "Category:Begins Category:Faith Category:Everything Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes"
• 07:3207:32, 18 September 2021 diff hist −24‎ Category:Faith in Chanting the Holy Names ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 18 September 2021 diff hist +239‎ N Category:Faith in Chanting the Holy Names ‎ Created page with "Category:Faith Category:Chanting Category:Holy Names Category:Chanting the Holy Names of God Category:Chanting the Hole Names of Krsna Category:Wanted Ca..."
• 07:2607:26, 18 September 2021 diff hist +3,167‎ Endowed with such a faith, he seeks favors of a particular demigod and obtains his desires. But in actuality these benefits are bestowed by Me alone. BG 7.22 - 1972 ‎No edit summary
• 06:5806:58, 18 September 2021 diff hist +3,028‎ Demons were relying upon the dependability of Krsna, because they were confident that Krsna would never attack them without due cause. Therefore, with faith and confidence, they used to live with their doors wide open ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1305:13, 18 September 2021 diff hist +3,641‎ Due to faith a person associates with pure devotees, and by such association he develops devotional service. As devotional service develops, his misgivings diminish ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 18 September 2021 diff hist +4,210‎ Dharma does not exactly mean a kind of faith. It is characteristic. Just like sugar is sweet. That is the characteristic of sugar ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5404:54, 18 September 2021 diff hist +8,941‎ Dharma means it is translated into English as "religion." And religion means a kind of faith. But so far the Sanskrit word dharma is there, it does not mean a kind of faith. It is a fact ‎No edit summary current
• 04:5404:54, 18 September 2021 diff hist +6,588‎ Dharma generally in English is translated: religion. Religion means a kind of faith ‎No edit summary current
• 04:3804:38, 18 September 2021 diff hist +2,016‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu continued, "I think that today all My desires have been fulfilled because I see that Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya has acquired faith in the maha-prasadam of Lord Jagannatha" ‎No edit summary current
• 03:1303:13, 18 September 2021 diff hist +1,982‎ By chanting all these mantras, welcoming the Supreme Personality of Godhead with faith and devotion, and offering Him items of worship (such as padya and arghya), one should worship Kesava, Hrsikesa, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current

17 September 2021

• 11:2911:29, 17 September 2021 diff hist +1,752‎ After hearing Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the acarya of the Tattvavada sampradaya became very much ashamed. Upon observing Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's rigid faith in Vaisnavism, he was struck with wonder ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 17 September 2021 diff hist +5,640‎ According to the faith, there are first-class, second-class and neophyte devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 17 September 2021 diff hist +30‎ According to different types of faith, there are different kinds of worship. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

16 September 2021

• 15:1515:15, 16 September 2021 diff hist +5,469‎ Anyone who has not faith, for him there is no profit even during this life and what to speak of the next life? ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 16 September 2021 diff hist +29‎ An advanced devotee should respect a person who has been initiated by a bona fide spiritual master and who is situated on the transcendental platform, chanting the holy name with faith and obeisances and following the instructions of the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 16 September 2021 diff hist +29‎ All Vedic literatures are to be understood with faith and devotion, not by mundane scholarship. We have therefore presented Bhagavad-gita As It Is ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0015:00, 16 September 2021 diff hist +1,513‎ All the residents of Vidyanagara were of different faiths, but after seeing Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, they abandoned their own faiths and became Vaisnavas ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 16 September 2021 diff hist +2,111‎ A faithful devotee is a truly eligible candidate for the loving service of the Lord. According to one's faith, one is classified as a topmost devotee, an intermediate devotee or an inferior devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 16 September 2021 diff hist +2,132‎ If one hears with faith and love these pastimes concerning Lord Caitanya’s meeting with Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya, he very soon is freed from the net of speculation and fruitive activity and attains the shelter of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's lotus feet ‎No edit summary current

15 September 2021

• 10:1810:18, 15 September 2021 diff hist +10‎ As far as different faiths are concerned, religions may be of different types, but on the spiritual platform, everyone has an equal right to execute devotional service. That is the platform of oneness and the basis for a classless society ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4808:48, 15 September 2021 diff hist +3,957‎ Actually the Mayavadi philosophy was started with Vivekananda. Because I don't find in the Christian faith that they are Mayavadis. Their belief is service to God. Of course, they are somewhat Mayavadis ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 15 September 2021 diff hist +246‎ Category:Faith in Krsna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 15 September 2021 diff hist +454‎ Category:Faith in Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 15 September 2021 diff hist +447‎ Category:Faith in God ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 15 September 2021 diff hist +259‎ Category:Faith in Devotional Service to God ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 15 September 2021 diff hist +217‎ Category:Faith in Caitanya ‎No edit summary current
• 05:2405:24, 15 September 2021 diff hist +6,134‎ It is also said in the Bhagavad-gita that a person who is engaged in devotional service with love and faith is guided from within by the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 05:1905:19, 15 September 2021 diff hist +4,844‎ If you continually hear with faith and appreciation, then you will come to the stage of tasting ‎No edit summary current

14 September 2021

• 15:4715:47, 14 September 2021 diff hist +3,647‎ A transcendentally sober person who, with faith and love, continually hears from a realized soul about the activities of Lord Krsna in His rasa dance with the gopis ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4615:46, 14 September 2021 diff hist +1,431‎ Please hear the pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu with faith and confidence. Do not argue, for arguments will produce a contrary result ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4615:46, 14 September 2021 diff hist +1,631‎ Please hear the transcendental pastimes of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu with faith and devotion. Giving up envy of the Lord, everyone chant the Lord's holy name, Hari ‎No edit summary
• 15:4515:45, 14 September 2021 diff hist +4,788‎ Any person who describes the great characteristics of King Prthu with faith and determination - whether he reads or hears of them himself or helps others to hear of them - is certain to attain the very planet which Maharaja Prthu attained ‎No edit summary
• 15:4515:45, 14 September 2021 diff hist +2,004‎ The activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are undoubtedly uncommon, especially His talking like a madman. Therefore, one who hears of these pastimes should not put forward mundane arguments. He should simply hear the pastimes with full faith ‎No edit summary
• 15:4415:44, 14 September 2021 diff hist +1,870‎ The author requests every reader to hear these talks with faith and without argument. By studying them in this way, one will be able to understand the confidential truth of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
• 15:3915:39, 14 September 2021 diff hist +2,778‎ Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear Pariksit, one who employs this armor or hears about it with faith and veneration when afraid because of any conditions in the material world is immediately freed from all dangers and is worshiped by all living entities ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0813:08, 14 September 2021 diff hist +3,099‎ Anyone who hears this history with faith and devotion is certainly liberated from material entanglement as well as from the clutches of his enemies ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 14 September 2021 diff hist +5,384‎ One should hear the Gita from the devotee because at the beginning of the Fourth Chapter it is stated that the Gita can only be perfectly understood by devotees. Hearing the Gita from devotees, not from mental speculators, is called faith. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4412:44, 14 September 2021 diff hist +142‎ N Category:Hearing with Faith ‎ Created page with "Category:Hearing Category:With Category:Faith Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes"
• 12:3412:34, 14 September 2021 diff hist +46,468‎ If one is engaged in chanting and hearing with devotion and faith, his material misgivings gradually become vanquished ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 14 September 2021 diff hist +3,532‎ You try to understand this philosophy more seriously, and as you are able try to write articles on this subject matter without being inclined to compromise with any other religious faith ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 14 September 2021 diff hist +5,824‎ There are various types of religious faiths in the world but they are imparted according to the students, or followers, time, place, circumstances, etc ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 14 September 2021 diff hist −13‎ Non-sanatana religious faith may have some beginning in the annals of human history, but there is no beginning to the history of sanatana-dharma because it remains eternally with the living entities. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 14 September 2021 diff hist +8,551‎ This Krsna consciousness movement is a scientific movement. It is not a religious faith. That is not. The beginning is that as the child grows to become a boy and boy grows to become a young man.... This is scientific. It is not the question of religion ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 14 September 2021 diff hist +126‎ N Category:Religious Faith ‎ Created page with "Category:Religious Category:Faith Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes"
• 09:1009:10, 14 September 2021 diff hist +2,849‎ The Supreme Lord said, according to the modes of nature acquired by the embodied soul, one's faith can be of three kinds-goodness, passion or ignorance. Now hear about these. BG 17.2 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0909:09, 14 September 2021 diff hist +4,763‎ The contaminated modes of material nature expand to the heart. Therefore according to the position of the heart in contact with a particular mode of material nature, one's faith is established. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 14 September 2021 diff hist +30‎ It should be understood, that if one's heart is in the mode of goodness, his faith is also in the mode of goodness. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5808:58, 14 September 2021 diff hist +4,721‎ As long as one's faith is not completely in purified goodness, the faith is subject to contamination by any of the modes of material nature. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5108:51, 14 September 2021 diff hist +170‎ N Category:Faith Evolving from the Three Modes ‎ Created page with "Category:Faith Category:Evolve Category:Modes of Nature Category:Mode Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes"
• 08:4908:49, 14 September 2021 diff hist +4,803‎ According to one's existence under the various modes of nature, one evolves a particular kind of faith. The living being is said to be of a particular faith according to the modes he has acquired ‎No edit summary
• 08:3708:37, 14 September 2021 diff hist +138‎ N Category:Losing Faith in God ‎ Created page with "Category:Lose Category:Faith Category:God Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes Category:Wanted Categories - Vaniquotes" current

13 September 2021

• 15:3815:38, 13 September 2021 diff hist +6,845‎ Since the Supreme Lord is all-inclusive, if anyone worships Him with unflinching faith, he has automatically achieved all other opulences and performed all other duties ‎No edit summary current
• 15:3515:35, 13 September 2021 diff hist +11,738‎ He (Kholaveca Sridhara) was quite happy in his present position and wanted only to gain unflinching faith and devotion unto the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya. That is the position of pure devotees ‎No edit summary current

12 September 2021

• 14:2014:20, 12 September 2021 diff hist +1,941‎ According to Sridhara Svami, although the Bhagavatam (9.1.11-12) has previously included Iksvaku among the ten sons begotten by Manu in his wife Sraddha, this was a generalization ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1914:19, 12 September 2021 diff hist +2,328‎ Manu had begun that sacrifice for the sake of getting a son, but because the priest was diverted by the request of Manu's wife, a daughter named Ila was born. Upon seeing the daughter, Manu was not very satisfied. Thus he spoke to his guru, Vasistha ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1714:17, 12 September 2021 diff hist +1,760‎ During that sacrifice, Sraddha, Manu's wife, who was observing the vow of subsisting only by drinking milk, approached the priest offering the sacrifice, offered obeisances to him and begged for a daughter ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 12 September 2021 diff hist +2,237‎ O King, best of the Bharata dynasty, from Vivasvan, by the womb of Samjna, Sraddhadeva Manu was born. Sraddhadeva Manu, having conquered his senses, begot ten sons in the womb of his wife, Sraddha. The names of these sons were Iksvaku, Nrga, Saryati ‎No edit summary current
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11 September 2021

• 16:0016:00, 11 September 2021 diff hist +4,358‎ Sraddha is a ritualistic performance observed by the followers of the Vedas. There is a yearly occasion of fifteen days when ritualistic religionists follow the principle of offering oblations to departed souls ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5915:59, 11 September 2021 diff hist +4,350‎ The performance of sraddha, or offering oblations with prasada, is still current in India, especially at Gaya, where oblations are offered at the lotus feet of Visnu in a celebrated temple ‎No edit summary
• 15:2915:29, 11 September 2021 diff hist +7,888‎ Just like death anniversary observed, similarly, in the family, the descendants, they offer some foodstuff after some religious ceremony. That is called sraddha ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 11 September 2021 diff hist +4,025‎ It is through the medium of this invisible body that those well versed in the rituals offer oblations to the Sadhyas and Pitas (in the form of their departed ancestors) on the occasion of sraddha ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 11 September 2021 diff hist +3,432‎ It is the duty of all householders to offer food grains to all their departed forefathers, but during the time of Hiranyakasipu this process was stopped; no one would offer sraddha oblations of food grains to the forefathers with great respect ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 11 September 2021 diff hist +19,791‎ It is not that one accepts a portion of Bhagavad-gita according to his own whimsical interpretations and then rejects another portion. This is not sraddha. Sraddha means accepting the instructions of Bhagavad-gita in their totality ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 11 September 2021 diff hist +3,951‎ It is evident that ksatriyas killed animals in the forest because the flesh of the animals was suitable to be offered at a particular type of yajna. Offering oblations to the forefathers in the ceremony known as sraddha is also a kind of yajna ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 11 September 2021 diff hist +6,142‎ We find that King Priyavrata had to be persuaded by Lord Brahma to accept the post of emperor of the entire universe. Similarly, his father, Svayambhuva Manu, felt relieved to entrust the universal government to Priyavrata ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0314:03, 11 September 2021 diff hist +2,087‎ If in a kalpa a suitable living entity is not available to take charge of Brahma's post, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself personally expands and becomes Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0314:03, 11 September 2021 diff hist +5,699‎ If a Raksasa, or demon, were situated in Brahma's post, then the entire arrangement of the universe, especially the protection of the brahminical culture and cows, would be ruined. All the demigods anticipated this danger ‎No edit summary
• 14:0214:02, 11 September 2021 diff hist +4,466‎ The karmis, they are more and more becoming entangled: "Give me this, give me that, give me that"; ultimately, "Give me the post of Brahma," "Give me the post of Indra." So their business is simply "give me" ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 11 September 2021 diff hist +2,150‎ The various names of the demigods - Lord Brahma, Lord Siva, Lord Indra and so on - are not personal names; they are names of different posts ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4713:47, 11 September 2021 diff hist −10‎ Sometimes, when there is no ordinary living entity available, the post of Brahma is occupied by an expansion of Lord Visnu, but generally this post is occupied by a greatly pious living entity within this universe ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4513:45, 11 September 2021 diff hist +5,705‎ Visnu pervades the entire material world, whereas Brahma merely occupies one subordinate post ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 11 September 2021 diff hist +2,807‎ The post of Lord Brahma is meant for very highly elevated, spiritually advanced living beings. When such living beings are unavailable, Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, expands Himself as Lord Brahma. This takes place very rarely ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 11 September 2021 diff hist −10‎ The post of Brahma to officiate in the creation of the universe is offered to the most pure living being, and unless one is so qualified one cannot expect to be treated like Brahmaji directly ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 11 September 2021 diff hist +2,628‎ The post of Brahma is the supermost post in the universe, and it appears that there are many Brahmas and many universes besides the one in which we are situated ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 11 September 2021 diff hist +2,739‎ The post of Brahma is the highest responsible post within the universe, and it is offered to the most perfect personality of the universe ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 11 September 2021 diff hist −10‎ From this verse we can understand that Brahma is the name of the post and that the person occupying the post has a particular name also ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 11 September 2021 diff hist −10‎ Although they are ordinary living entities, they are able to attain responsible posts, like Lord Brahmā, Indra, Candra and Varuṇa ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3613:36, 11 September 2021 diff hist +4,785‎ Brahma is also living being, but because he is very pure... This Brahma post is sometimes not available because there is no such pure living being. So Krsna becomes Himself Brahma sometimes ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 11 September 2021 diff hist +7,105‎ Although a living entity like us, Lord Brahma is exalted due to his pious activities; therefore he is given the high post of Brahma ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 11 September 2021 diff hist +6,852‎ My dear Uddhava, a person whose consciousness is completely absorbed in My thought and activities does not aspire even to occupy the post of Brahma, or the post of Indra, or the post of lordship over the planets, or the eight kinds of mystic perfections ‎No edit summary
• 12:3212:32, 11 September 2021 diff hist +5,547‎ When the tithi of the death anniversary falls on the Ekadasi day, the sraddha ceremony should be held not on Ekadasi but on the next day, or dvadasi ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3212:32, 11 September 2021 diff hist −13‎ When He (Advaita prabhu) performed the sraddha ceremony for His father, He first of all called Haridasa Thakura and offered him food ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3112:31, 11 September 2021 diff hist +2,314‎ Vasistha could immediately understand that part of the flesh had already been taken by Vikuksi, and therefore he said that it was unfit to be used in the sraddha ceremony ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2612:26, 11 September 2021 diff hist +1,883‎ There was no end to the transcendental qualities of Haridasa Thakura. Here I mention but a fraction of his qualities. He was so exalted that Advaita Gosvami, when performing the sraddha ceremony of his father, offered him the first plate ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2612:26, 11 September 2021 diff hist +9‎ There are three kinds of ceremonies - specifically, ceremonies to please the Supreme Lord or the demigods, those performed for social celebrations like marriages and birthdays, and those meant to please the forefathers, like the sraddha ceremony ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2612:26, 11 September 2021 diff hist −13‎ The word yoga refers to a certain relationship between the sun and moon as they move in the sky. There are twenty-seven different degrees of yoga, of which the 17th is called Vyatipata. On the day when this occurs, one should perform the sraddha ceremony ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2512:25, 11 September 2021 diff hist −13‎ Indians spend especially lavishly on three occasions - at the birth of a child, at marriage and while observing the sraddha ceremony ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2512:25, 11 September 2021 diff hist +6,361‎ The purpose of the sraddha ceremony is to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu, so that after pleasing Him one may offer prasada to one's forefathers and in this way make them happy ‎No edit summary
• 12:2512:25, 11 September 2021 diff hist +7,909‎ In many instances devotees have accepted the Deity as a son. In Bengal there are many such instances, and even after the death of the devotee, the Deity performs the sraddha ceremony for the father. The relationship is never destroyed ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2512:25, 11 September 2021 diff hist +2,923‎ If one recites this narration while offering oblations to the pitas and demigods, especially during the sraddha ceremony, the demigods and inhabitants of Pitrloka will be extremely pleased with him and bestow upon him the fulfillment of all desires ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2512:25, 11 September 2021 diff hist +2,927‎ The Caitanya-mangala, Madhya-khanda, describes this incident (CC Adi 17.91) as follows: Srivasa Pandita was performing the sraddha ceremony for his father, and as is customary, he was hearing the thousand names of Lord Visnu ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2412:24, 11 September 2021 diff hist −13‎ Srila Jiva Gosvami has given quotations from many sastras stating that the sraddha ceremony of oblations to the forefathers should not be performed on Ekadasi tithi ‎No edit summary
• 12:2412:24, 11 September 2021 diff hist −13‎ One who smears oil on his body while observing a vow in conjunction with a ritual, while bathing in the morning, while performing the sraddha ceremony, or on dvadasi day may as well pour wine over his body. Therefore, oil should be rejected ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2412:24, 11 September 2021 diff hist +5,810‎ One should perform the sraddha ceremony on the Makara-sankranti (the day when the sun begins to move north) or on the Karkata-sankranti (the day when the sun begins to move south) ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 11 September 2021 diff hist −13‎ On these two days of the year (Makara-sankranti and Karkata-sankranti), one should perform the sraddha ceremony ‎No edit summary current
• 12:2012:20, 11 September 2021 diff hist +5,914‎ On these two days of the year (the first day when the sun begins to move north and enter the zodiacal sign of Capricorn and the first day when the sun begins to move south and enter the sign of Cancer), one should perform the sraddha ceremony ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 11 September 2021 diff hist +3,460‎ Even until today, the Deity performs the sraddha ceremony on the anniversary of the death of Govinda Ghosa. The temple of this Deity is managed by the raja-vamsa family of Krsnanagara, whose members are descendants of Raja Krsnacandra ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 11 September 2021 diff hist +1,956‎ During the months of January, February and March, oblations offered to the forefathers are called astaka-sraddha. The sraddha ceremony is held during the dark fortnight of the month ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 11 September 2021 diff hist −13‎ At that time (when Srivasa Pandita was hearing the thousand names of Lord Visnu in the sraddha ceremony of his father) Gaurahari (Lord Caitanya) appeared on the scene, and He also began to hear the thousand names of Visnu with full satisfaction ‎No edit summary current

6 September 2021

• 07:2707:27, 6 September 2021 diff hist +40,967‎ The hunter's complexion was very dark, and his eyes were red. It appeared to be dangerous just to see him standing there with his bow and arrows, looking just like an associate of Yamaraja, death ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2707:27, 6 September 2021 diff hist +1,722‎ The hunter's body was blackish. He had reddish eyes, and he appeared fierce. It was as if the superintendent of death, Yamaraja, were standing there with a bow and arrows in his hands ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2307:23, 6 September 2021 diff hist +41,044‎ The hunter received the two great sages at his home and offered them a sitting place, brought water, washed their feet, took water to them to drink, and finally both he and his wife touched the water with their heads ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2307:23, 6 September 2021 diff hist +1,959‎ He then fetched water and washed the sages' feet with great devotion. Then both husband and wife drank that water and sprinkled it on their heads ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2307:23, 6 September 2021 diff hist +2,793‎ After you have distributed all your riches to the brahmanas, you and your wife should leave home, each of you taking only one cloth to wear ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2007:20, 6 September 2021 diff hist +41,223‎ After this, they (the hunter and his wife) began to feel ecstasy and began to dance and sing Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. They raised their hands and danced with their clothes flying ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 6 September 2021 diff hist +1,732‎ With great alacrity the hunter began to run toward his spiritual master, but he could not fall down and offer obeisances because ants were running hither and thither around his feet ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 6 September 2021 diff hist +1,920‎ When the hunter chanted the Hare Krsna maha-mantra before his spiritual master, his body trembled and tears welled up in his eyes. Filled with ecstatic love, he raised his hands and began to dance, waving his garments up and down ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 6 September 2021 diff hist +40,717‎ On his way to greet the great sages, the hunter saw that there were ants on the ground before him and that they were hindering his passage ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 6 September 2021 diff hist +1,781‎ Seeing the ants, the hunter whisked them away with a piece of cloth. After thus clearing the ants from the ground, he fell down flat to offer his obeisances ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1207:12, 6 September 2021 diff hist +3,786‎ There is one instance where a hunter was taking pleasure in killing animals, but after becoming a devotee he was not prepared to kill even an ant. Such is the quality of a devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1007:10, 6 September 2021 diff hist +1,279‎ I beg you that from this day on you will kill animals completely and not leave them half-dead ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1007:10, 6 September 2021 diff hist +40,743‎ If you (the hunter) want to kill an animal, why don't you kill it completely? Why do you leave it half-killed and allow it to die flopping around ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0907:09, 6 September 2021 diff hist +1,571‎ The hunter replied, 'My dear sir, what are you asking of me? What is wrong with the animals' lying there half-killed? Will you please explain this to me ‎No edit summary current

4 September 2021

• 15:3015:30, 4 September 2021 diff hist +1,177‎ When I see half-killed animals suffer, I feel great pleasure ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2915:29, 4 September 2021 diff hist +40,965‎ When he (the hunter) reached the sages, he tried to bow down before them, but he saw that there were so many ants that he could not bow down without crushing them. Thus he slowly cleared away the ants with his cloth ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5905:59, 4 September 2021 diff hist +2,423‎ A person can be relieved from his sinful activity if he surrenders to the lotus feet of a person who actually represents Narada Muni. Narada Muni gave instructions to the hunter after the hunter surrendered ‎No edit summary
• 05:4805:48, 4 September 2021 diff hist +5,551‎ A hunter in the forest, although a great sinner, was not an intentional offender. He was at once influenced by the presence of Narada, and he agreed to take the path of devotion, leaving aside his hearth and home ‎No edit summary