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05:3605:36, 10 March 2024 diff hist −1‎ Why do we want to see God as death? When the demon Hiranyakasipu saw Krsna, he saw Him as death personified, but the devotee, Prahlada, saw Him in His personal form as his beloved Lord ‎No edit summary current
05:2805:28, 10 March 2024 diff hist +9‎ When the great personality Prahlada Maharaja saw that the Supreme Lord was sitting there, surrounded and worshiped by His intimate associates like Sunanda, he was overwhelmed with tears of jubilation ‎No edit summary current
05:2605:26, 10 March 2024 diff hist +9‎ When Nrsimhadeva appeared, Prahlada Maharaja saw the Lord as the supreme solace, whereas his father, a demon, saw Him as the ultimate death ‎No edit summary current
05:2005:20, 10 March 2024 diff hist +9‎ When Hiranyakasipu was threatening to kill Prahlada, he certainly saw the column standing before him & his father, and he saw that the Lord was present in the pillar to encourage him not to fear his demoniac father's words. God was present to protect him ‎No edit summary current
05:1405:14, 10 March 2024 diff hist +9‎ Prahlada Maharaja saw Krsna in a pillar. There are many other examples. Krsna is there; all that is required is our qualification to see Him ‎No edit summary current
05:1305:13, 10 March 2024 diff hist +9‎ Just as those who are greedy see everything as a source of money-making and those who are lusty see everything as being conducive to sex, the most perfect devotee, Prahlada Maharaja, saw Narayana even within a stone column ‎No edit summary current

04:4904:49, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni advises that human beings not waste their time simply jumping like cats and monkeys, without real benefit. The duty of the human being is to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
04:4804:48, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni advised the Haryasvas, the sons of Prajapati Daksa, that instead of begetting progeny, it would be better to leave and achieve the perfection of spiritual understanding according to the instructions of the sastras ‎No edit summary current
04:4804:48, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni advised the Haryasvas not to enter household life. Since they were already advanced in spiritual knowledge, why should they be entangled in that way? ‎No edit summary current
04:4704:47, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni advised that even for religiosity, economic development, sense gratification or liberation, one should approach the SPG, offer prayers and ask for the fulfillment of one's desire at the lotus feet of the Lord. That is real intelligence ‎No edit summary current
04:4704:47, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni advised Prajapati Daksa's second group of sons to follow their elder brothers and be promoted to the spiritual world ‎No edit summary current
04:4704:47, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni advised him (Vyasadeva) to write about the activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore Vyasadeva began writing Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
04:4604:46, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada is advising Vyasadeva; Vyasadeva is advising his disciple Madhvacarya; he is advising his disciple. This is Vaisnavism. They are not concerned for personal self ‎No edit summary current
04:4604:46, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada informed him (Kamsa) that any one of the sons of Devaki might be Visnu. Because Visnu was to kill him, Kamsa should not spare any of Devaki's children, Narada Muni advised ‎No edit summary
04:4604:46, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada gave them (the hunter & his wife) 1 Tulasi plant, & they sat down near the Tulasi plant, & he advised that "Go on chanting HK mantra." In the meantime, in the village it was advertised that - The hunter has become a Vaisnava. Let us go and see him ‎No edit summary current
04:4404:44, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni advises the hunter to accept only what is absolutely necessary for him and his wife. The devotee should always be alert to consume only those things that he absolutely requires and not create unnecessary needs ‎No edit summary current
04:4404:44, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni advises the Pracetas to worship the direct cause, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As stated before, when the root of a tree is watered, all the parts are energized ‎No edit summary current
04:4304:43, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni advises Vyasadeva thusly, "Even if one does not execute his specific occupational duty, but immediately takes direct shelter of the lotus feet of Hari (Krsna), there will be no fault on his part, & in all circumstances his position is secure" ‎No edit summary current
04:4204:42, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni advises Vyasadeva, "A person who is simply discharging his occupational duty in varna and asrama, however, with no Krsna consciousness, practically does not gain the true benefit of human life" ‎No edit summary current
04:4204:42, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni advises Vyasadeva, "Even if, by some bad association, he falls down while executing devotional service, or if he doesn't finish the complete course of devotional service and dies untimely, still he is not at a loss" ‎No edit summary current
04:4104:41, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni described to the boys (the Haryasvas) their ultimate goal of life and advised them not to become ordinary karmis to beget children. Thus all the sons of Daksa became enlightened and left, never to return ‎No edit summary current
04:4104:41, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni had come to advise Priyavrata about the value of spiritual life, knowledge, renunciation and bhakti, and Lord Brahma knew that Narada's instructions were very impressive ‎No edit summary current
04:4104:41, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni then advised the hunter, 'Return home and distribute whatever riches you have to the pure brahmanas who know the Absolute Truth' ‎No edit summary current
04:4004:40, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni therefore advised Dhruva Maharaja to take shelter of Vasudeva, Lord Krsna, and engage himself in the way that his mother had advised, for that would help him fulfill his desire ‎No edit summary current
04:3904:39, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni therefore advised Vyasadeva that one should take to Krsna consciousness, devotional service, and abandon all ordinary occupational duties. This advice was also given by Lord Krsna Himself ‎No edit summary current
04:3804:38, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada Muni was speaking to Vyasadeva, who was morose even after he had compiled all the Vedic literatures. In this connection, Narada Muni advised Srila Vyasadeva to try to attain devotional service and nothing else ‎No edit summary current
04:3804:38, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada was never advised to preach the principles of Bhagavatam to earn a livelihood; he was ordered by his spiritual master to take the matter very seriously in a missionary spirit ‎No edit summary current
04:3804:38, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Naradaji advises Vyasadeva to broadcast the transcendental knowledge of God in terms of the vast Vedic knowledge which he had already attained ‎No edit summary current
04:3604:36, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada advises Vyasadeva that - You are not only fortunate, but you are amogha-drk. Your vision is perfect because you are liberated ‎No edit summary current
04:3604:36, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada advises Sri Vyasadeva to compose transcendental literature which is not only attractive but can also actually bring liberation from all kinds of bondage ‎No edit summary current
04:3504:35, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada advises Dhruva to meditate on the pastimes of the Lord, which is as good as the meditation of concentrating one's mind on the form of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
04:3404:34, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada advised that a devotee should act perfectly ‎No edit summary current
04:3404:34, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Narada advised meditation upon the transcendental activities of the Lord. Impersonal Brahman has no activities, but the Personality of Godhead has many activities, and all such activities are transcendental, without any tinge of material quality ‎No edit summary current
04:3304:33, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ This compromising spirit of Vyasadeva is directly condemned by Narada, who advises him to directly proclaim that the prime necessity of human life is to realize one's eternal relation with the Lord and thus surrender unto Him without delay ‎No edit summary current
04:3204:32, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ The use of the word manisaya is very appropriate, for it indicates that since both Narada Muni and Lord Brahma are authorized to give instruction, Priyavrata should neglect neither of them but should use his intelligence to follow the advice of both ‎No edit summary current
04:3104:31, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ The significance of this particular verse (SB 4.8.71) is that Dhruva Maharaja acted exactly according to the advice of his spiritual master, the great sage Narada ‎No edit summary current
04:3004:30, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ The sage Maitreya continued: The great personality Narada Muni, upon hearing the words of Dhruva Maharaja, became very compassionate toward him, and in order to show him his causeless mercy, he gave him the following expert advice ‎No edit summary current
04:2904:29, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ The living entity is actually a spiritual soul who is part and parcel of God and has nothing to do with relationships in the world of duality. Therefore Narada Muni advised Citraketu not to lament for his so-called dead son ‎No edit summary current
04:2804:28, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ The great sage Narada therefore advised that a devotee should act perfectly ‎No edit summary current
04:2704:27, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ The disciples of Narada Muni advise all the members of the younger generation to join the Krsna consciousness movement immediately. There is nothing wrong in this ‎No edit summary current
04:2604:26, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ The devotee of the Lord, Srila Vyasadeva, knows this very well. He is further advised by Srila Narada to expand the idea so that the entrapped conditioned souls may take lessons from him to understand the Supreme Lord as the primeval cause ‎No edit summary current
04:2604:26, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ The demigods cannot give any benediction without the sanction of the Supreme Lord. Narada Muni, therefore, advised that even for religiosity, economic development, sense gratification or liberation, one should approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
04:2504:25, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Yudhisthira Maharaja is advised by Narada not to be disturbed by the affairs of so-called happiness and distress, but to look only unto the Lord to execute the mission for which the Lord has descended. That was his prime duty ‎No edit summary current
04:2404:24, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ When Pracinabarhi was performing Vedic rituals in which the killing of animals was recommended, Narada Muni, out of compassion, advised him to stop. Pracinabarhi understood Narada properly and then left the kingdom to perform austerities in the forest ‎No edit summary current
04:2404:24, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ When Dhruva Maharaja, the son of the King, was thus advised by the great sage Narada, he circumambulated Narada, his spiritual master, and offered him respectful obeisances ‎No edit summary current
04:2304:23, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Vyasadeva was not satisfied (although he complied all Vedic literature). His dissatisfaction was observed by his spiritual master, and thus Narada advised him to write on the transcendental activities of Lord Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
04:2204:22, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Srila Vyasadeva is advised by Srila Narada to expand this idea in the Bhagavatam. In the Bhagavad-gita also the same idea is explained: surrender fully unto the lotus feet of the Lord. That is the only business of the perfect human being ‎No edit summary current
04:2104:21, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Sri Vyasadeva is advised by Narada to describe the science of God directly by relating His transcendental activities ‎No edit summary current
04:2004:20, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Sri Naradaji advised Vyasadeva to describe the glories of the Lord just to do good to all eight classes of men, both good and bad ‎No edit summary current
04:1804:18, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ One should take little risk in order to enter into the eternal life, blissful life. One should take a little risk. That is advised by Narada ‎No edit summary
04:1704:17, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Sri Narada advised Srila Vyasadeva to become absorbed in transcendental meditation on the Personality of Godhead and His activities. Srila Vyasadeva did not take notice of the effulgence of Brahman because that is not absolute vision ‎No edit summary current
04:1604:16, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Priyavrata might argue that Lord Brahma was requesting him to accept family life and the responsibility for ruling a kingdom, although Narada Muni had advised him not to enter household life and be entangled in material affairs ‎No edit summary current
04:1604:16, 2 March 2024 diff hist −1‎ One should take little risk in order to enter into the eternal life, blissful life. One should take a little risk. That is advised by Narada ‎No edit summary
04:1504:15, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ One can keep his wife as an assistant in the vanaprastha stage. The idea is that the wife will assist the husband in spiritual advancement. Therefore Narada Muni advised the hunter to adopt the vanaprastha stage and leave home ‎No edit summary current
04:1404:14, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ On the advice of Narada Muni he (Marutta) appointed Samvarta to the post, and he was successful in his mission ‎No edit summary current
04:1404:14, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Maitreya continued: The King, Uttanapada, after being advised by Narada Muni, practically gave up all duties in relation with his kingdom, which was very vast and wide, opulent like the goddess of fortune, and he simply began to think of his son Dhruva ‎No edit summary current
04:1304:13, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Maharaja Yudhisthira was advised by Narada not to disturb his uncle (Dhrtarastra) by attempting to bring him back home. He was now beyond the attraction of anything material ‎No edit summary current
04:1104:11, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Maharaja Yudhisthira is advised by Narada not to worry about his uncles' suffering for want of food, for they could live on vegetables available in the jungles as prasada of the Supreme Lord and thus realize the path of salvation ‎No edit summary current
04:1004:10, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ If the activities of the Supreme Brahman were material activities, then Narada would not have advised Vyasadeva to meditate upon them. And the param brahma is Lord Sri Krsna, as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
04:0904:09, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Hariscandra had no sons, but on the advice of Narada he worshiped Varuna and in this way got a son named Rohita. Hariscandra promised that Rohita would be used to perform a Varuna-yajna ‎No edit summary current
03:1803:18, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ He (Vyasadeva) was not satisfied until he wrote Srimad-Bhagavatam. His dissatisfaction was observed by his spiritual master, and consequently Narada advised him to write on the transcendental activities of the Lord Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
03:1703:17, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Hariscandra had no son and was therefore extremely morose. Once, therefore, following the advice of Narada, he took shelter of Varuna and said to him "My lord I have no son. Would you kindly give me one?" ‎No edit summary current
03:0703:07, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Dhruva Maharaja, having arrived at Madhuvana, took his bath in the River Yamuna and observed fasting in the night with great care and attention. After that, as advised by the great sage Narada, he engaged himself in worshiping the Supreme Person ‎No edit summary current
03:0503:05, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Dhruva Maharaja was determined to achieve the benediction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore Narada advised him to go back home for the time being, and in mature time he could try to practice devotional service ‎No edit summary current
02:4802:48, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Dhruva Maharaja regretted that he had rejected the advice of Narada Muni and was adamant in asking him for something perishable, namely revenge against his stepmother for her insult, and possession of the kingdom of his father (King Uttanapada) ‎No edit summary current
02:4502:45, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Both Narada Muni and Suniti, the mother of Dhruva Maharaja, advised Dhruva Maharaja to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Now, Narada Muni is especially giving him directions how this worship of the Supreme Person can very quickly fructify ‎No edit summary current
02:4302:43, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ Because the great sage Narada was aware of the nature of the demon Vrkasura, he did not advise him to approach Visnu or Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary current
02:3502:35, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ As indicated in verse 79 (SB 4.29.79), Narada Muni advised King Pracinabarhi to take to devotional service rather than waste time performing ritualistic ceremonies and fruitive activities ‎No edit summary current
02:2902:29, 2 March 2024 diff hist −2‎ According to the advice of Narada Muni, one should directly engage in devotional service. This will include all pious activity ‎No edit summary current

18:4118:41, 3 November 2023 diff hist +25‎ While living one may be proud of one's body, thinking oneself a very big man, minister, president or even demigod, but whatever one may be, after death this body will turn either into worms, into stool or into ashes - SB 10.10.10 ‎No edit summary current
18:3518:35, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is here (in SB 3.32.18) described as hari-medhah, or "He who can deliver one from the cycle of birth and death." ‎No edit summary current
18:3218:32, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44‎ The statement in Bhagavad-gita that the mental situation at the time of death is the basis of the next birth is also corroborated in this verse - SB 3.26.34 ‎No edit summary current
18:2618:26, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44‎ The real purpose of life is to remember Krsna when one's life comes to an end (ante narayana-smrtih (SB 2.1.6)). If at the time of death one can remember Krsna, one's life is successful ‎No edit summary current
18:2018:20, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44‎ The cycle of repeated birth and death is figuratively described herein - SB 8.5.28 ‎No edit summary current
18:1618:16, 3 November 2023 diff hist +44‎ There is no birth, death, old age and disease. That eternal land is full of transcendental enjoyment and full of beauty and bliss. This very fact is also corroborated in this verse of SB (2.6.18) and the transcendental nature is described as amrta ‎No edit summary current

20:5720:57, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ We are talking on the Srimad-Bhagavatam. The subject matter is how one shall transfer himself from this material world to the spiritual world and thereby stop birth, death, old age and disease. This is the whole subject matter ‎No edit summary current
20:5520:55, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Those who are not strictly in the Vaisnava discipline should not make a business of this Bhagavatam and become a cause of spiritual death for so many hearers ‎No edit summary current
20:5020:50, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ This is the first verse, the first chapter of Second Canto Srimad-Bhagavatam, spoken by Sukadeva Gosvami. Sukadeva Gosvami came to the scene when Maharaja Pariksit was on the verge of his death. So he was perplexed what to do at the time of death ‎No edit summary current
18:5918:59, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ This bhagavata-dharma means that how to get out of these four defects of material life, or four miserable condition of material life - birth, death, old age and disease - and get eternal, blissful life of knowledge ‎No edit summary current
18:5718:57, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ The Srimad-Bhagavatam instructs that no body should become father or mother if they cannot take this responsibility, namely, stopping the repeated birth and death cycle of their children ‎No edit summary current
18:5518:55, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ The Bhagavat also says that no one should become the parent unless he can deliver the child from the clutches of death. So it is your duty to make this baby KC so that he may not have to take birth again ‎No edit summary current
18:5118:51, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ The Bhagavata says: "One should not become a father, one should not become a mother, unless they are able to protect the children from the imminent danger of death." What is that? The cycle of birth and death ‎No edit summary current
18:4818:48, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ There is a similarity between the prayers of Lord Caitanya and the statements of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Lord Caitanya prays, "in life after life," indicating that a devotee does not even desire the cessation of birth and death ‎No edit summary current
18:4618:46, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ That is Bhagavatam's instruction: "Don't accept guru, don't accept father, don't accept . . . or don't be father, don't be mother, don't be . . . if you cannot stop death." Either you don't accept, or don't become ‎No edit summary current
18:4418:44, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Sukadeva Gosvami epitomizes the proper reciter for Srimad-Bhagavatam, and Pariksit Maharaja, who purposefully left his kingdom and family prior to meeting death, epitomizes the person fit to hear it ‎No edit summary current
18:4018:40, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Sukadeva Gosvami, the son of Vyasadeva, in his turn delivered the Bhagavatam to the great Emperor Pariksit, who sat surrounded by sages on the bank of the Ganges, awaiting death without taking food or drink ‎No edit summary current
18:3818:38, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam says that we should try for the highest achievement, and complete it before the next death comes ‎No edit summary current
18:3618:36, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam is the post-graduate study of knowledge for one who has thoroughly understood the principles of the BG. Unfortunately people have no taste for them, and therefore they are under the clutches of maya for repetition of birth and death ‎No edit summary current
18:3418:34, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Simply by understanding the Supreme Lord, one goes beyond birth, death, old age and disease. Srila Sukadeva Gosvami advised Maharaja Pariksit in Srimad-Bhagavatam - in SB 2.1.5 ‎No edit summary current
18:3318:33, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Simply by hearing, you become perfect. Just like Pariksit Maharaja. At the time of point of his death, he had no time to perform any yajna or any big, big thing. He simply heard Srimad-Bhagavatam carefully - and he became perfect simply by hearing ‎No edit summary current
17:3717:37, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Just utilize the opportunity to finish the business of Krishna Consciousness, without waiting for further incarnation. Srimad-Bhagavatam says that we should try for the highest achievement, and complete it before the next death comes ‎No edit summary current
17:2617:26, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ In some editions of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, the text of the last line of this verse reads anyatra kupitad dvijat, which means that the King might be overwhelmed by the thought of his imminent death by snakebite ‎No edit summary current
17:2117:21, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ In the Third Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam we are informed that those who are expert in fruitive activities and sacrificial methods on earth attain to the moon at death. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
17:1217:12, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Krsna Consciousness means to be on the platform of deathlessness. Every sloka in Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam is informing us of this. If you read these books carefully you will understand this platform of deathlessness ‎No edit summary
17:0617:06, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ Kumbhipaka, a type of hellish condition, is described in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 5.26.13), wherein it is said that a person who cooks living birds and beasts to satisfy his tongue is brought before Yamaraja after death and punished in the Kumbhipaka hell ‎No edit summary current
17:0117:01, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ On the path of bondage, one eternally undergoes the repetition of birth and death. One who desires liberation from such bondage should join the ISKCON and thus take advantage of the opportunity to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam from devotees ‎No edit summary current
16:5316:53, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Third Canto, it is stated that an individual soul, after his death, is put into the womb of a mother where he gets a particular type of body under the supervision of superior power. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
16:4516:45, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 5.5.4) it is said: A materialistic person, madly engaged in activities for sense enjoyment, does not know that he is entangling himself in repeated birth and death and that his body, although temporary, is full of miseries ‎No edit summary current
16:2916:29, 31 October 2023 diff hist +44‎ As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 5.5.18), pita na sa syat: one should not become a father unless one is able to protect his child from mrtyu, the path of birth and death. But where is there education about this ‎No edit summary current
16:2716:27, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ Whoever, at the time of death, quits his body remembering Me (Krsna) alone, at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt ‎No edit summary Tag: Manual revert
16:2616:26, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ Your devotional service will be tested at the time of death. Because yam yam vapi smaram loke tyajaty ante kalevaram (BG 8.6). At the time of death, if we can remember Krsna, narayana-smrtih, that is all success ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
16:2516:25, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ Your choice, make your choice, which way. Again death or deathlessness. Stop death from you. This is human life. The karmis, jnanis, yogis, they're trying for death. There will be death. But for the bhaktas, devotees, there is deathlessness ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
16:2516:25, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ Your death is stopped from the point where you begin Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
16:2416:24, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ You may be very much advanced in scientific knowledge, but you cannot stop death. That is not possible. Neither you can stop old age, neither you can stop birth ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
16:2316:23, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ You must decide whether you want to stop this evolutionary process, cycle of birth and death, and go back to home, back to Godhead, or if you want to continue again the cycle of birth and death ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
16:2216:22, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ You prepare yourself for higher standard of life or to make a permanent solution of your miserable condition of life, namely birth, death, old age and disease. This is required. This is human business, or dharma ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
16:2116:21, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ You will find at the time of death, in coma, his eye drops are coming out. He is thinking, "I made so many things so nicely to live comfortably, and now I am losing everything." Great distress ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
16:2016:20, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ You will be judged after your death, every one of us. Of course, if he takes Krsna consciousness seriously, then the path is automatic. Automatically you go back to home, back to Godhead. There is no question of judgment ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
16:1916:19, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ You simply desire, and it will be fulfilled in your next life. Desire means if you strongly desire till the point of your death, then next life you are going to get ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
16:1816:18, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ You should become a perfect human being. Purify your existence. Why you are subjected to birth, death, old age and disease? Because we are impure. Now, if we purify our existence, then there will be no such thing as birth, death, old age and disease ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
16:1716:17, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ After the results of one's sacrifices, charity and other pious activities expire, one must return to the lower planetary systems and again feel the pangs of birth and death. However, one who becomes Krsna conscious can go back to Krsna ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
16:1616:16, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ All your chants that you are practicing, this will be tested at the time of death. If you can remember Krsna, Hare Krsna, hari-kirtana, at the time of death, then you are successful ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
16:1516:15, 31 October 2023 diff hist −44‎ After the death of Dantavakra, just as at the time of Sisupala's death, in the presence of all the persons standing there a small particle of spiritual effulgence came out of the demon’s body and very wonderfully merged into the body of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert

20:1120:11, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ He (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) points out eleven factors in the sloka, namely (1) atmarama, (2) munayah, (3) nirgrantha, (4) api, (5) ca, (6) urukrama, (7) kurvanti, (8) ahaitukim, (9) bhaktim, (10) ittham-bhuta-gunah and (11) harih ‎No edit summary current
20:0920:09, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ When everyone heard Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's explanation of the atmarama-sloka, everyone was astonished and struck with wonder. They concluded that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was none other than Lord Krsna Himself ‎No edit summary current
20:0720:07, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ When all the people gathered there expressed the desire to hear again the sixty-one different meanings of the atmarama-sloka, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu again explained them ‎No edit summary current
20:0520:05, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu explained this atmarama sloka very vividly before His chief devotee Srila Sanatana Gosvami ‎No edit summary current
20:0320:03, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ Everyone who heard the explanations of the Atmarama sloka was amazed. Indeed, everyone considered Lord Caitanya to be none other than Sri Krsna Himself ‎No edit summary current
20:0220:02, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ Everyone assembled was very eager to hear the different versions of the Atmarama sloka again, and since they were so eager, Lord Caitanya again explained the sloka in the same way that He had explained it to Sanatana Gosvami ‎No edit summary current
20:0020:00, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ Bhattacarya began to explain the Atmarama sloka, using his methods of logic and grammar. Thus he explained the Atmarama sloka in nine different ways ‎No edit summary current
19:5819:58, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ At the request of Bhattacarya, Lord Caitanya explained the Atmarama sloka. The words of the verse were analyzed thus: (11) harih. This verse has already been explained in the Lord's teachings to Sanatana Gosvami ‎No edit summary
19:5619:56, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ At the request of Bhattacarya, Lord Caitanya explained the Atmarama sloka. The words of the verse were analyzed thus: (1) atmaramah, (2) ca, (3) munayah, (4) nirgranthah, (5) api, (6) , (7) kurvanti, (8) ahaitukim, (9) bhaktim, (10) itthambhuta-gunah ‎No edit summary current
19:5519:55, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ After hearing the explanation of the atmarama sloka from the Lord, the Bhattacarya was convinced that such a scholarly presentation is impossible for an earthly creature ‎No edit summary current
18:2518:25, 27 October 2023 diff hist +12‎ When things are done for others, the verb form changes to kurvanti. Thus Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu informed Sanatana Gosvami that in the atmarama verse the verb kurvanti means that things should be done only for the satisfaction of Krsna ‎No edit summary
18:2118:21, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ Upon hearing Caitanya Mahaprabhu's explanation of the atmarama verse, Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya was struck with wonder. He then understood Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to be Krsna in person, and he thus condemned himself in the following words ‎No edit summary current
18:1718:17, 27 October 2023 diff hist −67‎ This verse (SB 1.7.10) had been previously explained to a great Vedantist known as Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya. After taking lessons from Lord Caitanya, Sanatana Gosvami referred to this incident and prayed to the Lord to again explain the Atmarama verse ‎No edit summary current
18:1318:13, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ This atmarama verse was once nicely explained by Lord Caitanya to Sanatana Goswami. There is a detailed explanation of this verse in the author's Teachings of Lord Caitanya ‎No edit summary
18:1218:12, 27 October 2023 diff hist −14‎ This (CC Madhya 6.186) is the famous atmarama verse - SB 1.7.10 ‎No edit summary current
18:0918:09, 27 October 2023 diff hist 0‎ The word 'ahaituki' is always applicable to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Urukrama. In this way I have described thirteen complete meanings - of the atmarama verse ‎No edit summary current
18:0718:07, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ The thirteen meanings of the atmarama verse mentioned here are based on the following meanings for the word atmarama: sagarbha-yogarudha, one who has been elevated to the platform of yogic perfection by meditating on the Visnu form ‎No edit summary current
18:0518:05, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ The thirteen meanings of the atmarama verse mentioned here are based on the following meanings for the word atmarama: (9) nigarbha-yogaruruksu, one who is trying for perfection in impersonal meditation ‎No edit summary current
18:0418:04, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ The thirteen meanings of the atmarama verse mentioned here are based on the following meanings for the word atmarama: (8) sagarbha-yogaruruksu, a yogi meditating upon the four-handed Visnu form and desiring yogic perfection ‎No edit summary current
18:0018:00, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ The thirteen meanings of the atmarama verse mentioned here are based on the following meanings for the word atmarama: (7) nirgrantha-muni, a completely liberated saint ‎No edit summary current
17:5817:58, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ The thirteen meanings of the atmarama verse mentioned here are based on the following meanings for the word atmarama: (5) jivan-mukta, one who is liberated in this life; (6) prapta-svarupa, one who has attained his original constitutional position ‎No edit summary current
17:5717:57, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ The thirteen meanings of the atmarama verse mentioned here are based on the following meanings for the word atmarama: (3) prapta-brahma-laya, one who has actually attained Brahman perfection; (4) mumuksu, one who desires liberation ‎No edit summary current
17:5517:55, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ The thirteen meanings of the atmarama verse mentioned here are based on the following meanings for the word atmarama: (13) nigarbha-prapta-siddhi, one who has attained perfection by practicing impersonal meditation ‎No edit summary current
17:5217:52, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ The thirteen meanings of the atmarama verse mentioned here are based on the following meanings for the word atmarama: (12) sagarbha-prapta-siddhi, one who has attained the perfectional stage by meditating on the Visnu form ‎No edit summary current
17:5117:51, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ The thirteen meanings of the atmarama verse mentioned here are based on the following meanings for the word atmarama: (11) nigarbha-yogarudha, an impersonal yogi on the platform of perfection ‎No edit summary current
17:5017:50, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ The thirteen meanings of the atmarama verse mentioned here are based on the following meanings for the word atmarama: (1) sadhaka, the neophyte performer; (2) brahma-maya, one absorbed in the thought of impersonal Brahman ‎No edit summary current
17:4717:47, 27 October 2023 diff hist +12‎ The Lord (Caitanya) established the import of the eleven words in the Atmarama verse, and then He began to explain the import of each item ‎No edit summary current
17:4317:43, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ The Bhattacarya explained the atmarama verse in nine different ways on the basis of scripture. After hearing his explanation, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, smiling a little, began to speak ‎No edit summary current
17:4217:42, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ The atmarama verse is like the sentence 'In this forest many different trees bear fruit.' All atmaramas render devotional service to Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
17:3917:39, 27 October 2023 diff hist +12‎ There are eleven words in the atmarama verse, and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu explained each word, one after the other ‎No edit summary current
17:3717:37, 27 October 2023 diff hist +12‎ There are eleven items in the Atmarama verse: (1) atmaramah, (2) ca, (3) munayah, (4) nirgranthah, (5) api, (6) urukrame, (7) kurvanti, (8) ahaitukim, (9) bhaktim, (10) ittham-bhuta-gunah, (11) harih ‎No edit summary current
17:3417:34, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya then began to explain the atmarama verse, and according to the principles of logic, he put forward various propositions ‎No edit summary current
17:3217:32, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ Please hear the meaning of the word 'ittham-bhuta-guna,' which is found in the atmarama verse. 'Ittham-bhuta' has different meanings, and 'guna' has other meanings ‎No edit summary current
17:3017:30, 27 October 2023 diff hist −14‎ Lord Caitanya replied that first of all Bhattacarya should explain the Atmarama verse according to his own understanding, and then Lord Caitanya would explain it ‎No edit summary current
17:2817:28, 27 October 2023 diff hist +12‎ Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu gave him (Sanatana Gosvami) His blessings to do all the works and also explained to Sanatana Gosvami the import of the atmarama verse from sixty-one different angles of vision ‎No edit summary current
17:2717:27, 27 October 2023 diff hist −14‎ Lord Caitanya explained a very famous verse known as the Atmarama verse, which appears in Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
17:2517:25, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ Lord Caitanya did not mention the nine different explanations of Bhattacarya, but He did explain the verse by analyzing these eleven words. In this way, He expounded sixty-one different explanations of the Atmarama verse ‎No edit summary current
17:2217:22, 27 October 2023 diff hist +12‎ Kaviraja Gosvami, the author of Caitanya-caritamrta, appreciating the Lord's explanation of the Atmarama verse, has also glorified Lord Caitanya in his prayers ‎No edit summary current
17:2117:21, 27 October 2023 diff hist −31‎ In this way we have found three more meanings (of the atmarama verse). Combine these with the other meanings, and the total number of meanings adds up to twenty-six in all ‎No edit summary current
17:1917:19, 27 October 2023 diff hist 0‎ I have already spoken about thirteen meanings (of the atmarama verse). Now there are six more. Combined, these make nineteen ‎No edit summary current
17:1817:18, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ In this way we have found three more meanings (of the atmarama verse). Combine these with the other meanings, and the total number of meanings adds up to twenty-six in all ‎No edit summary
17:1417:14, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ In this way I shall progressively explain all the words in the atmarama verse. It should be understood that all these words are meant to enable one to taste the transcendental qualities of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
17:1317:13, 27 October 2023 diff hist +12‎ In this atmarama verse it is stated that even those who are completely liberated from material contamination are attracted by the transcendental qualities of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
17:0717:07, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ In the Twenty-third Chapter there is a description of the mellows of transcendental loving service, and in the Twenty-fourth Chapter I have described how the Lord analyzed the atmarama verse ‎No edit summary current
17:0617:06, 27 October 2023 diff hist −45‎ In the atmarama verse of the SB, it is said that those who are already situated on the platform of self-realization are attracted by the transcendental qualities of Krsna. This means that Krsna's qualities are not material but pure and transcendental ‎No edit summary current
17:0417:04, 27 October 2023 diff hist +53‎ In summary, Krsna is the meaning behind all the words in the Atmarama verse. Up to this point Lord Caitanya spoke only of the introduction to the Atmarama verse. Next He explains its real position ‎No edit summary current
17:0017:00, 27 October 2023 diff hist +53‎ Falling flat at the feet of Lord Caitanya, Sanatana Gosvami requested Him to explain the Atmarama verse as He had explained it to Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya. Sanatana explained his eagerness to hear the same explanation in order that he might be enlightened ‎No edit summary current
16:5416:54, 27 October 2023 diff hist +53‎ Continuing to explain the Atmarama verse, Lord Caitanya pointed out that the word atma also indicated all varieties of the Personality of Godhead. Generally the Personality of Godhead Himself, Krsna, and His different expansions are all known as the PG ‎No edit summary current
16:5116:51, 27 October 2023 diff hist −67‎ Caitanya discussed the Atmarama verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam with Prakasananda Sarasvati. Lord Caitanya's admirer, the Maharastriya brahmana, related that the Lord explained this verse in sixty-one different ways ‎No edit summary current
16:4916:49, 27 October 2023 diff hist −14‎ Bhattacarya asked Lord Caitanya to explain the famous Atmarama verse, for he desired to hear it from the Lord Himself ‎No edit summary current
16:4716:47, 27 October 2023 diff hist +12‎ At this time the brahmana from the province of Maharashtra mentioned Lord Caitanya's explanation of the atmarama verse ‎No edit summary current
16:4116:41, 27 October 2023 diff hist +53‎ Api added to the word 'nirgranthah' is used for exposition. Thus I have tried to clarify seven meanings - of the atmarama verse ‎No edit summary current
16:3816:38, 27 October 2023 diff hist +53‎ All glories to Sri Caitanya, who acted as the eastern horizon where the sun of the atmarama verse rose. He manifested its rays in the form of different meanings and thus eradicated the darkness of the material world. May He protect the universe ‎No edit summary current
16:3116:31, 27 October 2023 diff hist +53‎ After hearing the atmarama verse, Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya addressed Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu - My dear Sir, please explain this verse. I have a great desire to hear Your explanation of it ‎No edit summary current

21:4521:45, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ Those who are thinking that "I am now liberated simply by some volumes of philosophical speculation," so Bhagavata says, "No, your intelligence is not yet purified because you have not yet approached Krsna" ‎No edit summary current
21:3721:37, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ The inhabitants of the Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual sky are all liberated souls. In Srimad-Bhagavatam we are informed that their bodily features are exactly like God's ‎No edit summary
21:2921:29, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ The Srimad-Bhagavatam confirms that it is not possible for one to become liberated by cultivation of empiric philosophical speculation. Simply knowing that one is not matter but spirit soul, or Brahman, does not purify one's intelligence ‎No edit summary
21:2521:25, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ The Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.2.32) states, Persons who are falsely puffed up, thinking they have become liberated simply by understanding their constitutional position as Brahman, or spirit soul, are factually still contaminated ‎No edit summary
21:1621:16, 24 October 2023 diff hist +26‎ That such a (saintly) person gradually becomes liberated and enters the kingdom of God is confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam, Fifth Canto, Fifth Chapter, verse 2 ‎No edit summary
21:0921:09, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ Sukadeva Gosvami was a liberated soul from the very beginning of his birth, and his father taught him Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
21:0821:08, 24 October 2023 diff hist +53‎ There are many conversions in Vedic literature. For instance, in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 1.7.10) the famous Atmarama verse is especially meant for those who are attracted to self-realization and liberated from all material attachments ‎No edit summary current
20:5220:52, 24 October 2023 diff hist −53‎ According to the Visva-prakasa Sanskrit dictionary, there are seven synonyms for the word atmarama, which are as follows: (1) Brahman (the Absolute Truth), (2) body, (3) mind, (4) endeavor, (5) endurance, (6) intelligence and (7) personal habits ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
20:5020:50, 24 October 2023 diff hist −53‎ As factually stated by Nanda Maharaja (in Chapter 8 of SB Canto 10), Garga Muni, being a devotee, had no needs. Similarly, when Krsna comes He has no needs, for He is purna, atmarama ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
20:4620:46, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu recommended that in order to relish the real taste of Srimad-Bhagavatam, one should take instruction from the person bhagavatam. Srimad-Bhagavatam is relishable even by a liberated person ‎No edit summary current
20:4420:44, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ Regarding persons attached to the impersonal Brahman, Srimad-Bhagavatam says, "My dear Lord, those who think of themselves as liberated by mental speculation are not yet purified of the contamination of material nature" ‎No edit summary
20:4220:42, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ Lord Caitanya elaborated on these teachings of Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 10.87.30) by pointing out that there are two kinds of living entities - the eternally liberated and the eternally conditioned ‎No edit summary current
20:4020:40, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ It was admitted by Sukadeva Gosvami that although he was liberated from within the very womb of his mother, it was only after relishing Srimad-Bhagavatam that he became a great devotee ‎No edit summary current
20:3520:35, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ It is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam that if one actually wants to be liberated he must render service to the devotees; but one who associates with materialistic people is on the path leading to the darkest region of existence. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
20:3020:30, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 10.2.32) it is said that due to their poor fund of knowledge, the jnanis are not actually liberated. They simply think that they are liberated ‎No edit summary
20:2720:27, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ In the Sixth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam we read that when the Vaikuntha-dutas came to take Ajamila, they were four-handed and very beautiful. In the spiritual world, there are four-handed living entities, and they are all nitya-mukta, eternally liberated ‎No edit summary current
20:2220:22, 24 October 2023 diff hist +94‎ In Srimad-Bhagavatam you have said that... It's stated that Vyasadeva was afraid when Suta Gosvami was born that he would leave home because he was already a liberated soul ‎No edit summary current
01:5401:54, 24 October 2023 diff hist −43‎ According to Vedic civilization, this giving up of home by vanaprastha and sannyasa is compulsory. But people are so attached to their homes that even up to the point of death they do not like to retire from home life ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
01:5201:52, 24 October 2023 diff hist −19‎ Acceptance of service rendered by a woman may appear very pleasing, but one should be very cautious in accepting such service because it is clearly said that woman is the gateway to death, or forgetfulness of one's self ‎No edit summary current
01:5001:50, 24 October 2023 diff hist +1‎ According to a Bengali proverb, whatever spiritual progress one makes in life will be tested at the time of death ‎No edit summary current
01:3601:36, 24 October 2023 diff hist +1‎ According to the Vedic system, a dead body is set on fire, but before death there is another fire, or fever, which is called prajvara, or visnu-jvara ‎No edit summary current
01:2701:27, 24 October 2023 diff hist +43‎ According to Vedic civilization, this giving up of home by vanaprastha and sannyasa is compulsory. But people are so attached to their homes that even up to the point of death they do not like to retire from home life ‎No edit summary
01:2401:24, 24 October 2023 diff hist +43‎ According to the Vedic system, a dead body is set on fire, but before death there is another fire, or fever, which is called prajvara, or visnu-jvara ‎No edit summary
01:2301:23, 24 October 2023 diff hist +43‎ According to a Bengali proverb, whatever spiritual progress one makes in life will be tested at the time of death ‎No edit summary
01:2101:21, 24 October 2023 diff hist +36‎ Acceptance of service rendered by a woman may appear very pleasing, but one should be very cautious in accepting such service because it is clearly said that woman is the gateway to death, or forgetfulness of one's self ‎No edit summary

03:5403:54, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ How a devotee becomes the greatest of all transcendentalists is stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 6.14.5):There are many liberated souls and perfected souls, but out of all of them he who is a devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is best ‎No edit summary
03:0303:03, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ One can be liberated from all adverse circumstances simply by seriously engaging in devotional service. How this devotional service develops and becomes mature is explained here - in SB 3.27.21 ‎No edit summary
03:0003:00, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ Kirtanad eva krsnasya mukta-sangah param vrajet: (SB 12.3.51) Chant the Lord's holy name and you'll be liberated ‎No edit summary
02:5602:56, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ It is stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 10.2.32) that a person who gives up the transcendental loving service of the Supreme Lord and superficially considers himself liberated, never attains to liberation ‎No edit summary current
02:5402:54, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ It is said, mahat-sevam dvaram ahur vimukteh: (SB 5.5.2) if one wants to progress on the path of liberation, he should associate with mahatmas, or liberated devotees ‎No edit summary
02:5002:50, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ In this age of Kali it is a great ocean of faults. But still, there is one sublime gain. What is that? Now, kirtanad eva krsnasya (SB 12.3.51). Simply by krsna-kirtana, kirtanad eva krsnasya mukta-sangah, he becomes liberated ‎No edit summary
02:4502:45, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 12.3.51) it is said, kirtanad eva krsnasya mukta-sangah param vrajet: “Simply by chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, or Lord Krsna’s name, one is liberated and goes back home, back to Godhead.” ‎No edit summary
02:4202:42, 21 October 2023 diff hist +94‎ Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Sri Krsna as they are given in Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land - CC Madhya 7.128 quotes in SB 10.2.19 ‎No edit summary current
02:3202:32, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ Devotional service is so perfect that simply by following the rules and regulations and executing them under the direction of the spiritual master, one is liberated, as it is said herein (in SB 3.33.10), from the clutches of maya, even in this body ‎No edit summary current
02:3002:30, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ Because of her association with her great husband, Maharaja Yayati, Devayani became purified, adopted the means of bhakti-yoga, and thus became liberated ‎No edit summary
02:2702:27, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ A liberated person no longer desires external material happiness. This state is called brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20), attaining which one is assured of going back to Godhead, back to home. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
02:1902:19, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ A devotee's life and duty are very well explained herein (SB 7.9.18). As soon as a devotee can chant the holy name and glories of the Supreme Lord, he certainly comes to the liberated position ‎No edit summary current
02:1502:15, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ Anyone who becomes even slightly interested in krsna-katha is liberated. Kirtanad eva krsnasya mukta-sangah param vrajet (SB 12.3.51). Simply by chanting or repeating krsna-katha, one is liberated from the contamination of Kali-yuga ‎No edit summary current
02:1002:10, 21 October 2023 diff hist +94‎ If persons who are trying to be liberated hear such narrations as the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, then their path of liberation becomes very clear ‎No edit summary current
02:0702:07, 21 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Those who are not liberated from material bondage cannot understand transcendental devotional service. In Bhagavad-gita 7.3 it is clearly stated, yatatam api siddhanam ‎No edit summary current

18:5818:58, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ To become honest is also good karma. How to become a good man is described in the Bhagavad-gita very elaborately (BG 16.5): So if you become qualified with the daivi sampad (transcendental qualities), then, vimoksaya - you will be liberated ‎No edit summary current
18:5518:55, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ We shall find in the Bhagavad-gita, Tenth Chapter, that anyone who is engaged in that way is a liberated person. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
18:5318:53, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ When one is so liberated, he can really understand the transcendental features of the form of the Lord. Siva advises everyone to practice bhagavad-bhakti-yoga. By doing so one can become really liberated and enjoy spiritual bliss ‎No edit summary
18:4518:45, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ As it will be seen, actual devotional service begins after liberation. So in Bhagavad-gita it is said, brahma-bhuta. After being liberated, or being situated in the Brahman position, one's devotional service begins. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
17:4717:47, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ The remedial measures can be understood when one associates with persons who are liberated. It must be understood who is actually liberated. The liberated person is described in Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
17:4117:41, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ The liberated person is described in Bhagavad-gita: one who engages in uninterrupted devotional service to the Lord, having surpassed the stringent laws of material nature, is understood to be situated in Brahman ‎No edit summary current
17:3717:37, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ The faithful human being who is desirous of being liberated from the clutches of material existence can very easily take advantage of the Bhagavad-gita, and with this in view, the Lord instructed Arjuna as if Arjuna were in need of it ‎No edit summary current
17:2417:24, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Simply by fixing oneself in Krsna consciousness, engaging the senses in the service of the Lord, one is imperceptibly liberated. This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
17:0317:03, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ There are many philosophers who write comments on the Bhagavad-gita but have no faith in Krsna. They will never be liberated from the bondage of fruitive action. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
17:0117:01, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Out of hundreds of thousands of liberated persons, even one person is rarely found who can firmly fix his mind unto the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krsna, as declared by the Lord Himself in the Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
16:5816:58, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Liberation is open for everyone (samam carantam (SB 1.8.28)). In Bhagavad-gita Krsna does not say to Arjuna, "Only you may come to Me and become liberated." No, the Lord is available for everyone ‎No edit summary
16:5616:56, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15), "The real purpose of veda, knowledge, is to know Me." One who knows Krsna perfectly is liberated ‎No edit summary
16:5516:55, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ One's ignorance can be removed by the instruction of the Bhagavad-gita which teaches one to surrender unto Lord Sri Krsna in all respects and become liberated from the chained victimization of action and reaction, birth after birth. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
16:5216:52, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ In the Bhagavad-gita (4.9) the Lord promises that one who simply understands the mysteries of His transcendental birth and deeds will be liberated from the clutches of Maya and go back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
16:4916:49, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ In Bhagavad-gita the Lord affirms: anyone who wants to be liberated from the entanglement of this material world is given liberation by the Lord ‎No edit summary current
16:3816:38, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ In Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that His birth and deeds are transcendental and that anyone who is so fortunate as to know the transcendental nature of His birth and deeds will at once become liberated and eligible to return to the kingdom of God ‎No edit summary current
16:3416:34, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that one who knows the truth about Sri Krsna's descent and His various activities is at once liberated and does not have to fall again to this existence of birth and death after he leaves his present material body ‎No edit summary
16:3116:31, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Sri Krsna as they are given in the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land ‎No edit summary current
16:2716:27, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ He (Lord Caitanya) doesn't want even mukti. Otherwise, if one is liberated, then according to Bhagavad-gita and every Vedic sastra, punar janma naiti, tyaktva deham punar janma naiti (BG 4.9). That is mukti ‎No edit summary current
16:1716:17, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Devotional service of the Lord is accepted in the Bhagavad-gita as the liberated stage. Therefore, brahmi-sthitih is liberation from material bondage. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
16:1516:15, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ As stated in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 12.5), kleso ‘dhikaratas tesam avyaktasakta-cetasam: impersonalists must work hard for many, many births, and only then will they perhaps be liberated ‎No edit summary
16:1216:12, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ As advised in Bhagavad-gita if one transcends these four processes and is actually liberated, one engages in devotional service. Then he is guaranteed not to fall to material existence again ‎No edit summary
16:0316:03, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ As explained in Bhagavad-gita, Fourth Chapter, anyone who understands the transcendental activities, the appearance and the disappearance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is to be considered liberated ‎No edit summary current
15:5615:56, 20 October 2023 diff hist 0‎ Any person, if he is fortunate enough to hear these teachings (of Bhagavad-gita) from Krsna or from His bona fide spiritual representative, is sure to become a liberated person and get out of the darkness of ignorance. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:5215:52, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Any person, if he is fortunate enough to hear these teachings (of Bhagavad-gita) from Krsna or from His bona fide spiritual representative, is sure to become a liberated person and get out of the darkness of ignorance. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary

23:3123:31, 21 May 2023 diff hist +19,195‎ Why have we taken so much land (in Mayapur)? Those who are seriously desirous - they will come and live with us. Association is very influential. If you associate with drunkards, you become drunk; if you associate with sadhus, then you become a sadhu ‎No edit summary current
23:2923:29, 21 May 2023 diff hist +3,842‎ Try to concentrate on these farm projects. Let the villagers come and hear, and distribute prasadam. In this way draw their sympathy and gradually they'll become our associates. Then they can come to live with us and work with us ‎No edit summary current
23:2723:27, 21 May 2023 diff hist +5,920‎ To live with devotees or to live in a temple means to associate with the sravana-kirtana process ‎No edit summary current
23:2523:25, 21 May 2023 diff hist +3,133‎ The man who lives with a wife has a great responsibility in maintaining the members of the other social orders - the brahmacaris, vanaprasthas and sannyasis ‎No edit summary current
23:2323:23, 21 May 2023 diff hist +2,371‎ The drug habit is killing the soul of the younger generation in the Western world. So if you live with the devotees, you will get strength to give up this bad habit ‎No edit summary current
23:1823:18, 21 May 2023 diff hist +6,405‎ You have to live with us. Then your friends will not ask you, "What about marijuana?" ‎No edit summary current
23:1323:13, 21 May 2023 diff hist +2,330‎ Regarding your request for some books, the best thing will be if you ask some able person to buy them for you. Or you may ask for the fare to come to Madras and live with the devotees of our Movement ‎No edit summary current
23:1023:10, 21 May 2023 diff hist +2,740‎ Out of the five kinds of liberations, achieving the same planet where the Lord resides and living with the Lord there is called salokya liberation ‎No edit summary
23:0723:07, 21 May 2023 diff hist +3,597‎ Our policy is to live with devotees. Immediately return and live with devotees and take care of the Deities and Tulsi. That is our main business. My Guru Maharaja condemned living alone in a lonely place ‎No edit summary current
22:5922:59, 21 May 2023 diff hist +6,230‎ Most rubbish civilization, modern misleading, soul-killing. Andha yathandhair upaniyamanah (SB 7.5.31). Very difficult to live with them. Still, we have to do this Krsna's business. So we have to do our business. Let the dogs bark on ‎No edit summary current
22:5122:51, 21 May 2023 diff hist +8,013‎ Krsna is the complete whole, and thus all plenary expansions and incarnations always live with Him ‎No edit summary current
22:4822:48, 21 May 2023 diff hist +12‎ It is recommended that a woman desiring to advance in Krsna consciousness peacefully live with a husband and that the couple should not separate under any condition ‎No edit summary current
22:4522:45, 21 May 2023 diff hist +3,035‎ It appears that Vasudeva, the father of Lord Krsna, had completely separate residential quarters where he lived with his eighteen wives, out of whom Srimati Devaki is the real mother of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
22:1622:16, 21 May 2023 diff hist +5,390‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally admitted that a grhastha must live with a wife. Ksatriyas were even allowed to have many wives to encourage them in discharging the duties of government ‎No edit summary current
21:4421:44, 21 May 2023 diff hist +9,562‎ So Krsna is so friendly that He always lives with us just to turn our face towards Krsna. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese arjuna tisthati. What is His business? He is simply waiting for the time when we shall turn our face to Krsna. That is His business ‎No edit summary current

16:5916:59, 20 May 2023 diff hist +2,596‎ In Candapura lived Balarama Acarya and Yadunandana Acarya, the priests of these two personalities, and when Haridasa Thakura went there he lived with them ‎No edit summary current

18:3218:32, 17 May 2023 diff hist +4,471‎ If you live with the association of sadhu, devotee, then it will be quickly fruitful - And if you live with these ordinary men, then whatever you have got will be finished very soon ‎No edit summary current
18:0918:09, 17 May 2023 diff hist +5,437‎ If you are serious about Krsna consciousness, if you are serious about increasing attachment for Krsna, then you should come and live with the devotees ‎No edit summary current
18:0318:03, 17 May 2023 diff hist +2,837‎ If one always thinks of something, he certainly gets a related body after death. Maharaja Agnidhra was always thinking of Pitrloka, the place where his wife had returned. After his death he achieved that same planet, probably to live with her again ‎No edit summary
03:0103:01, 17 May 2023 diff hist +4,805‎ Even if he goes from forest to forest, one who is not self-controlled must always fear material bondage because he is living with six co-wives - the mind and knowledge-acquiring senses ‎No edit summary current

20:2120:21, 8 May 2023 diff hist +3,392‎ So don't become grhamedhis, simply having a wife and few children. That, cats and dogs they have also got. That is not required. You find inconvenience to live alone as brahmacari - all right, you take to a wife. Live with wife. Live responsibly ‎No edit summary current
16:5816:58, 8 May 2023 diff hist +4,881‎ I may not be liberated birth after birth, it doesn't matter. But I wish that, I wish to live with the devotees ‎No edit summary current
16:3416:34, 8 May 2023 diff hist +3,404‎ He (Lord Krsna) desires that all of them come to Him and live with Him, but going back to Godhead means that one must purify himself from material infections ‎No edit summary current
16:2616:26, 8 May 2023 diff hist +3,381‎ Puranjana used to live with his wife for sense enjoyment, and at night this very sense enjoyment was appreciated in different ways ‎No edit summary current
16:1916:19, 8 May 2023 diff hist +3,834‎ I have heard that your good wife, Patty is growing Srimate Tulasi devi there at your house with good success. That is another very auspicious sign. The Tulasi, she will not go to live with anyone nondevotee ‎No edit summary current
14:5514:55, 8 May 2023 diff hist +4,629‎ God is everywhere, but He has got a special planet, which is called Goloka Vrndavana. You can enter there directly and see God and live with Him, dance with Him, play with Him, eat with Him. That is the perfection of life ‎No edit summary

17:4217:42, 7 May 2023 diff hist +7,435‎ Gadadhara Pandita, in the last years of his life, also lived with Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha Puri. There is no doubt, therefore, that Acyutananda was a disciple of Pandita Gadadhara ‎No edit summary current
16:4816:48, 7 May 2023 diff hist +3,665‎ Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, kita janma hao yatha tuya dasa. Thus he prays to take birth as an insignificant insect in the association of devotees. Because devotees are engaged in the service of the Lord, anyone who lives with them also lives in Vaikuntha ‎No edit summary current
16:4516:45, 7 May 2023 diff hist +3,599‎ Being a householder or living with a wife and children is never condemned, provided one lives according to the regulative principles of varnasrama-dharma ‎No edit summary current
16:4116:41, 7 May 2023 diff hist +4,366‎ At the mature age say after 50 years old age, everyone should separate from wife. Married life does not mean that one should continue to live with wife throughout the whole life ‎No edit summary current
16:3816:38, 7 May 2023 diff hist −9‎ Although a person may live with his wife and children happily in Krsna consciousness, he also observes the regulative principles followed in any temple. If there is no Krsna consciousness, the householder’s abode is called a grha-medhi’s house ‎No edit summary current

20:0720:07, 5 May 2023 diff hist +5,469‎ After fifty years of age, one should voluntarily give up family life and go to the forest. The best forest is Vrndavana, where one need not live with the animals but can associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who never leaves Vrndavana ‎No edit summary current
19:5619:56, 5 May 2023 diff hist +6‎ A devotee does not live alone. Of course, everyone lives with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but because the devotee is engaged in His service, he actually does not live in any material condition ‎No edit summary current
19:4319:43, 5 May 2023 diff hist +6‎ A devotee always lives with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, engaging in His service, and therefore he is always transcendental to hellish or heavenly residences ‎No edit summary current
19:1319:13, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2,550‎ My last request to you both is that if you find such difficulty to live with your God-brothers, you can live with me ‎No edit summary current
19:1119:11, 5 May 2023 diff hist +4,408‎ My plan is that personally I shall try to retire from active participation, but I want a place where I can live with at least 15 devotees engaged in editorial work, recording work, photographic work, painting work, etc. ‎No edit summary current
19:0919:09, 5 May 2023 diff hist +3,861‎ It is only the question of understanding the process how to execute Krishna Consciousness. If you can therefore spare some time to live with me, it will be better. You appear to be a very intelligent boy and I hope you will learn the art quickly ‎No edit summary current
19:0619:06, 5 May 2023 diff hist +4,549‎ They could go out and make thousands of dollars a month as educators and skilled professional men, still they prefer to live with me and eat only a little rice from the floor, and sleep on the cold ground without cover ‎No edit summary current
19:0519:05, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2,641‎ There is no worry. I am still prepared to accept you as my original disciple and if there is anything wrong, I am prepared to try and correct it so that your life may not be spoiled. Please therefore come here immediately and live with me ‎No edit summary current
19:0319:03, 5 May 2023 diff hist +4,327‎ So far as you writing you are lonely I think that there is no need for this. Such sentiments of wishing for me to be there is nice but a girl is meant for living with her husband and not her father ‎No edit summary current
19:0019:00, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2‎ My intention of calling him is that he expressed a strong desire to live with me in Montreal, so I wish to keep him with me at least for some time and train him to act as secretary ‎No edit summary current
18:5818:58, 5 May 2023 diff hist +3,387‎ If you are more serious about Krsna Consciousness then you should not only read our books and literatures with due care, but also if possible you should come here and live with me for some time ‎No edit summary current
18:5718:57, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2‎ If you are sincere to our line of action, please come here to Los Angeles and live with me for some time ‎No edit summary current
18:5518:55, 5 May 2023 diff hist +1,779‎ If you actually want to give me service, then you can live with me. I want your service ‎No edit summary current
18:5218:52, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2‎ I think you should without further delay try to become devotees as the others are doing and live with us and practise the regulative principles of brahmacary life ‎No edit summary current
18:4918:49, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2,418‎ I hope you are chanting regularly at least 16 rounds. Sometimes Maya disturbs us but that does not mean any serious drawback. So if you feel too much uneasy, you can come and live with me for some time, and everything will be set up ‎No edit summary current
18:4818:48, 5 May 2023 diff hist +1,880‎ Here in Bombay we have a nice spot. We are now in possession. It is just like a garden house. I shall be glad if you come here and live with me for some time ‎No edit summary current
18:4618:46, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2‎ Don't be implicated in sinful activities. Be God conscious and live here with us comfortably, take your food. We have got this nice palace ‎No edit summary current
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08:0808:08, 4 December 2022 diff hist +27,783‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Krsna Himself, but He is Krsna accepting the propensities of Radharani. Radharani is always feeling separation from Krsna, and similarly, in the position of Radharani. Lord Caitanya was always feeling that separation ‎No edit summary current
08:0408:04, 4 December 2022 diff hist +17,286‎ By this attitude of service (chanting Hare Krsna), God will reveal Himself. You cannot understand God by your endeavor. Only if God reveals Himself ‎No edit summary current
08:0108:01, 4 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ By the mercy of the spiritual master one is benedicted by the mercy of Krsna. Without the grace of the spiritual master no one can make any advancement. Therefore I should always remember the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current

13:2113:21, 2 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ By the ascending process one is elevated by knowledge acquired by himself. In this way one thinks - I don't care for any authorities or books. I will attain knowledge myself by meditation, philosophy, etc. In this way I will understand God ‎No edit summary current
13:1513:15, 2 December 2022 diff hist +36,212‎ By studying Bhagavad-gita under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, we can remove these doubts and make definite progress ‎No edit summary current
12:3612:36, 2 December 2022 diff hist +24,977‎ By seeing Krsna, we will not understand Him, but by listening carefully to His teachings, we can come to the platform of understanding ‎No edit summary current
12:2612:26, 2 December 2022 diff hist +15,335‎ By intelligence, you can understand that although the body is changed, the soul is there. The same soul which was existing in the body of the child is still continuing in the body of the old man ‎No edit summary current
12:2012:20, 2 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ By hearing the words of Lord Krsna and following them carefully, we will attain not only peace in the world, but the supreme peace - param santim ‎No edit summary current
12:1712:17, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ By good work we may get a good birth in an aristocratic or wealthy family, and by bad work we may take birth even in the animal kingdom or in degraded human families ‎No edit summary current
12:1512:15, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ By engaging in the transcendental service of Krsna, we actually get out of the cycle of birth and death. But because the fire of knowledge is not burning in our minds, we accept material existence as happiness ‎No edit summary current
12:1212:12, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ By chanting and hearing of Krsna we can actually associate with Him, for He is absolute and nondifferent from His names, qualities, forms and pastimes ‎No edit summary current
12:0712:07, 2 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ By accepting Krsna in this spirit (as said in BG 9.27), we can attain complete knowledge. If, however, we do not accept Krsna and interpret Bhagavad-gita in our own way, then everything will be spoiled ‎No edit summary current
11:5611:56, 2 December 2022 diff hist +13,984‎ Brahma-samhita states that if one takes to the ascending process and travels at the speed of mind and wind for millions of years, he will still end up not knowing ‎No edit summary current
11:5311:53, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Both Krsna and Rama mean the supreme pleasure, and Hara is the supreme pleasure energy of the Lord, changed to Hare (Hah-ray) in the vocative. The supreme pleasure energy of the Lord helps us to reach the Lord ‎No edit summary current
11:5011:50, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Bhagavan, Lord Krsna, says that, out of many, many millions of people, one may understand it. But still, the knowledge is there. If you want to understand it, it is not difficult. You can understand it ‎No edit summary current
11:4611:46, 2 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ Bhagavad-gita itself gives some information about the succession of spiritual masters. (Which) Lord Sri Krsna says - in BG 4.1-3 ‎No edit summary
11:4311:43, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Beyond intelligence, they do not know what exists. But here in the Bhagavad-gita you can find this ‎No edit summary
11:3911:39, 2 December 2022 diff hist +17,810‎ Because Krsna was God, He demanded (BG 18.66): "Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me." But people misunderstood Him. Therefore Krsna again came as a guru and taught people how to surrender to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
11:3611:36, 2 December 2022 diff hist +5,456‎ Because Krsna hasn't got this temporary body, therefore He is not suffering from these things (disease, old age and etc.). Therefore Krsna, you will see always, young man. You will never see Krsna's picture as old man, because He is eternal body ‎No edit summary current

11:3211:32, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ At the utmost we can only gratify our personal whims by some pseudo-adaptation of this (Meditation) system ‎No edit summary current
11:2811:28, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ At the end of Bhagavad-gita (18.66) Sri Krsna advises Arjuna: "Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." This is the most confidential part of knowledge ‎No edit summary current
11:2611:26, 1 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ At least three times a day I should offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
11:2211:22, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ At every moment, every second, every day, every hour, the body is changing, so the last change is when one cannot act with the body, and so he has to take another one ‎No edit summary current
11:1211:12, 1 December 2022 diff hist −3‎ As you are married, there is no need of separation as you are practicing artificially. You must live just like a respectable married couple and earn money as a Grhastha, and spend 50% for Krishna - that is the real program ‎No edit summary current
10:5210:52, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ As we associate with Krsna, He helps us to understand Him and dispels the darkness of ignorance with the light of knowledge. Krsna is sitting within our hearts acting as guru ‎No edit summary current
10:5010:50, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ As soon as we become a little inclined toward Him, He begins to give favorable instructions from within our hearts so that we can gradually make progress ‎No edit summary current
10:4710:47, 1 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ As soon as there is some personal interpretation (in the carried message of authority), the message is lost and the instructions become offensive. A person who interprets the scriptures according to his own whims should be immediately rejected ‎No edit summary current
10:4410:44, 1 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ As soon as a boy and girl are married, they want an apartment. Then they have children. And when they have children, they want social recognition - society, friendship, and love. In this way their material attachment goes on increasing ‎No edit summary current
10:4010:40, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ As long as we have the body, we must eat to maintain it, and we must sleep in order to give it rest. We cannot expect to negate these activities, but the Vedic literatures do give us guidelines for regulation in eating, sleeping, mating, etc ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ As living spiritual souls, we are all originally Krsna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter from time immemorial, our consciousness is now adulterated by the material atmosphere ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 1 December 2022 diff hist +36,192‎ As far as the science of God is concerned, Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, advises us to go to a person to whom we can surrender ‎No edit summary current
10:2810:28, 1 December 2022 diff hist +24,488‎ As Arjuna, we should accept Krsna as the SP of Godhead and do as He says (BG 9.27): O son of Kunti, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me ‎No edit summary
10:2610:26, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Arjuna was thinking that controlling the mind was simply not possible for him. Are we then to assume that what was impossible for Arjuna in a more advanced age is possible for us in this degenerate age ‎No edit summary current
10:2010:20, 1 December 2022 diff hist +11,799‎ Arjuna was renowned as a great warrior and administrator. He was such an intelligent man that he could understand Bhagavad-gita within one hour, whereas at the present moment great scholars cannot even understand it in the course of a lifetime ‎No edit summary current
10:1710:17, 1 December 2022 diff hist +25,394‎ Arjuna was Krsna's constant friend, so when Krsna went to His abode, Arjuna was overwhelmed, but just by remembering His teachings he got relief from the pains of separation. Thus whenever we feel separation, it is best to remember the teachings ‎No edit summary current
10:1410:14, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Arjuna says that he accepts all that Krsna has said to him because Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead - BG 18.73 ‎No edit summary current
10:1110:11, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Arjuna says that controlling this mind is more difficult than stopping the wind from blowing. One can imagine a man stretching out his arms trying to stop a hurricane ‎No edit summary current
10:0810:08, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Arjuna heard explanation of meditational system of yoga, all this being conducted in a secluded place alone - he replied: O Madhusudana, the system of yoga, You have summarized appears impractical & unendurable to me, for the mind is restless & unsteady ‎No edit summary current
10:0510:05, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Are we to despair the mind's ever being controlled? No, it can be controlled, and the process is this Krsna consciousness. The mind must be fixed always in Krsna. Insofar as the mind is absorbed in Krsna it has attained the perfection of yoga ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Are we to assume that Arjuna is simply not sufficiently qualified to control his mind? The actual fact is that we cannot begin to understand the immense qualifications of Arjuna ‎No edit summary current
09:5709:57, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Anyone who is a representative of Krsna - if he takes (charity), that is perfection ‎No edit summary current
09:4809:48, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Anyone knows that an unbridled horse is dangerous to ride. He can go in any direction at any speed, and his rider is likely to come to some harm. Insofar as the mind is unbridled, Krsna agrees with Arjuna that the yoga system is very difficult work indeed ‎No edit summary current
09:4509:45, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Anyone can take part in vibrating this transcendental sound without any previous qualification. In a more advanced stage, of course, one is not expected to commit offenses on grounds of spiritual understanding ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 1 December 2022 diff hist +5,734‎ Ananta-rupam. Adyam, He (Krsna) is the original person. Purana-purusam, the oldest person, because He is the original. Nava-yauvanam ca, but He is still young man. You have seen the picture of Krsna. You will never see Krsna as old man ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Although the sadhus do not mind if they are insulted, Krsna does not tolerate any insult to them. As stated in the Ninth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, Krsna is alike to all, but He is especially inclined to His devotees - BG 9.29 ‎No edit summary current

15:4715:47, 30 November 2022 diff hist +15,201‎ Although Prahlada was only five years old, by advancement in knowledge he was imparting perfect instructions to his classmates. Some may find these instructions unpalatable ‎No edit summary current
15:4315:43, 30 November 2022 diff hist −4‎ Although Krsna is neutral to all, for one who is constantly engaged in Krsna consciousness, who is spreading the message of Bhagavad-gita, He gives special protection ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 30 November 2022 diff hist +27,164‎ Although Krsna delineates the meditational yoga system in the Sixth Chapter, He does not stress it nor encourage Arjuna to pursue it as his path ‎No edit summary current
15:3415:34, 30 November 2022 diff hist +5,020‎ Although He (Krsna) assumes so many varieties of visnu-tattva, still, advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam adyam purana-purusam nava-yauvanam ca. Therefore visnu-tattva is, never looks like old man. Nava-yauvanam. Always young. Krsna always young ‎No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 30 November 2022 diff hist +26,960‎ All these requirements (for disciplining the body), however, can essentially be broken down into four basic rules: no illicit sexual connection, no intoxication, no meat-eating and no gambling ‎No edit summary current
15:2415:24, 30 November 2022 diff hist −4‎ All the information necessary is set forth in Bhagavad-gita, and a sane man will take advantage of this knowledge ‎No edit summary

09:5709:57, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,154‎ There must be ideal, first-class men to act as advisors, second-class men to act as administrators, third-class men to produce food and protect cows, and fourth-class men who obey the three higher classes of society ‎No edit summary current
09:5609:56, 22 September 2022 diff hist +9,030‎ The scientific proposal is that there is first class man and there is tenth class man, but everyone can be utilized for the ultimate goal of life. That is classless. And that means everyone can become Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
09:5609:56, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,420‎ They (the American people) must divide their society into first-class men, second-class men, third-class men and fourth-class men. Since they are now creating only men who are less than fourth class, how can they avoid the dangers of a criminal society ‎No edit summary
09:5509:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,675‎ These boys and girls, American boys and girls, they're being taught, instructed to become first-class, intelligent man. This is the movement ‎No edit summary current
09:5309:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +10,026‎ The organized society should be that there should be first-class men, brahmana. They would give advice to the second-class men, the administrators. And the administrator class of men, they will see that everyone is following the religious principles ‎No edit summary current
09:5309:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,971‎ The four classes of men are there, still. But the third-class, fourth-class man is taking the place of first class. And the first-class man is kicked out, "Go out. Don't talk of God." This is the position at the present moment ‎No edit summary current
09:5209:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,248‎ The first-class men are called brahmana, most learned scholar. Learned scholar means, as I was explaining, one who has complete knowledge of God. That is learned scholar ‎No edit summary current
09:5209:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,972‎ The first-class faithful men are the Vaisnavas and the brahmanas, then the ksatriyas, then the vaisyas, then the sudras, then the mlecchas, the yavanas and at last the candalas ‎No edit summary current
09:5109:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,992‎ Suppose you are in this Krsna conscious society. Now, you cannot expect that all the members of the society will be first-class men. How can we expect? We are collecting members of the society from all classes of men ‎No edit summary current
09:5109:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +10,986‎ So far we are concerned we are trying to train first class men. How much great responsibility we have to follow regulative principles, chant the beads, live with personal character etc ‎No edit summary current
09:4909:49, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,050‎ The perfect civilization, Krsna has giving idea, there must be first-class, second-class, third-class, fourth-class. And less than fourth-class, fifth-class. So, first-class man is described, samo damah tapah saucam ksantir arjavam ‎No edit summary current
09:4609:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,043‎ One big man came. So I talked about first-class men, and he admitted. So he said at the last moment, "Now let me go and engage myself in fourth-class activities." So everyone is engaged in fourth-class activities, and we are trying to make first-class men ‎No edit summary current
09:4509:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,180‎ Occupational duties are described in the religious scriptures. If one analyzes them, he can fully understand their qualities & faults and then give them up completely to render service unto the S P of God. Such a person is considered a first-class man ‎No edit summary current
09:4509:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,883‎ Lord says to Uddhava, "My dear Uddhava, any person who takes shelter of Me in complete surrender and follows My instructions, giving up all occupational duties, is to be considered the first-class man" ‎No edit summary current
09:4409:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,321‎ Krsna consciousness movement means we are trying to create some first-class men ‎No edit summary current
09:4309:43, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,219‎ In our sastra charity is recommended to be given to the high-class men, brahmanas and Vaisnavas. They know how to spend money ‎No edit summary current
09:4109:41, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,364‎ Ideal is that man must be first-class ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,149‎ I am very glad to hear that the building work is going on with full speed, including both day & night shifts of workers. Do not worry, I am sending you two first-class men from England, both of them have got good experience in engineering & building work ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,892‎ For the satisfaction of the tongue they are risking their own life and committing sinful life to suffer later on. Therefore the first-class man's first duty is to samah, controlling the mind ‎No edit summary current
09:3609:36, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,675‎ First-class man will think that "I want to eat something to keep myself fit. If by natural products I can keep myself fit, why shall I kill another animal?" ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,692‎ First-class man is lazy intelligent. Just like you'll see the high-court judges. They're very lazy and most intelligent. That is first-class man. They are doing everything very soberly ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,549‎ First class-man is lazy intelligent. He knows the value of life, and soberly he is thinking. Just like all our great saintly persons. They were living in the forest, meditation, tapasya, and writing books ‎No edit summary current
09:3309:33, 22 September 2022 diff hist +9,287‎ You go to the airport, any high-class standard man. They search out the pocket. So nobody is believable. So this is the result of modern education. You cannot find out an ideal character man ‎No edit summary current
09:3209:32, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,477‎ Why monarchy? You can continue democracy, but the legislators should be first-class men who has knowledge, not these rascals ‎No edit summary current
09:3109:31, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,374‎ Krsna consciousness movement is trying to create at least one section first-class men so that people may see, "Oh, here are ideal men" ‎No edit summary current
09:3109:31, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,168‎ He is certainly a first-class man who awakens and understands, either by himself or from others, the falsity and misery of this material world and thus leaves home and depends fully on the Personality of Godhead residing within his heart ‎No edit summary current
09:2909:29, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,908‎ Because there is no first-class man to take charge of the woman, they are declaring independence. All the men are doing that. They keep girlfriend, make her pregnant, and go away ‎No edit summary current
09:2809:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,285‎ At the present moment, there is no intelligent class of men. All laborer, worker class of men, fourth class. No first class, second class. Therefore society is in chaotic condition. There is no brain ‎No edit summary current
09:2609:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,106‎ First-class man means ‎No edit summary current
09:2509:25, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,980‎ My request to persons who have joined this Krsna consciousness movement, they should very carefully keep them as first-class men ‎No edit summary current
09:2509:25, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,021‎ No society can improve in transcendental knowledge without the guidance of such first-class men, and no brain can assimilate the subtle form of knowledge without fine brain tissues ‎No edit summary current
09:2409:24, 22 September 2022 diff hist +16,837‎ First-class man (Letters) ‎No edit summary current
09:2309:23, 22 September 2022 diff hist +9,016‎ According to the Vedic system it is said, janmana jayate sudrah: one is born of a material father and mother as a sudra. The purpose of life, however, is to become a brahmana, a first-class man ‎No edit summary current
09:2309:23, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,841‎ Nowadays first-class man means ‎No edit summary current
09:2109:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +117,870‎ First-class man (Lectures) ‎No edit summary current
09:2009:20, 22 September 2022 diff hist +40,279‎ First-class man (Conversations, 1976 - 1977) ‎No edit summary current
09:1909:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +113,003‎ First-class man (Conversations, 1975) ‎No edit summary current
09:1809:18, 22 September 2022 diff hist +25,491‎ First-class man (Conversations, 1972 - 1974) ‎No edit summary current
09:1709:17, 22 September 2022 diff hist +13,598‎ First-class man (Books) ‎No edit summary current
09:1009:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,383‎ We don't need to change our position to become a guru. All we have to do is follow in the disciplic succession stemming from Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
09:1009:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,293‎ One may think, - I am illiterate and have no education. I was not born in a very high family. How can I become a guru ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,291‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that it is not very difficult. Yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna'-upadesa: (CC Madhya 7.128) - Simply speak whatever Krsna speaks. Then you become a guru ‎No edit summary current
09:0809:08, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,384‎ Whoever speaks what Krsna has not spoken is not a guru but a rascal. A guru only speaks what Krsna has spoken. This is the sastric injunction ‎No edit summary current
09:0809:08, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,497‎ People are in darkness, and they have to be enlightened. We have finally come from the animal kingdom to the human form, and now this human form gives us the opportunity to get out of the cycle of birth and death ‎No edit summary current
09:0709:07, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,446‎ The mission of this Krsna consciousness society is to awaken people to their original consciousness ‎No edit summary current
09:0709:07, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,461‎ Jiva jaga, jiva jaga, gauracanda bale'. The word gauracanda refers to Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who tells the living entity, "Get up! Get up! How long will you continue to sleep?" Kota nidra yao maya-pisacira kole ‎No edit summary current
09:0709:07, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,183‎ The same is stated here (Jiva jaga, jiva jaga). It is the prime business of human beings to connect again with the Supreme Soul ‎No edit summary current
09:0609:06, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,578‎ The purpose of yoga is to awaken to Krsna consciousness and connect oneself again with Krsna. That is adhyatmika-yoga. Yoga does not mean showing some mystic magic ‎No edit summary current
09:0609:06, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,780‎ There are many yogis and many different types of yoga systems, and all of these are discussed in Bhagavad-gita. There is hatha-yoga, karma-yoga, jnana-yoga and raja-yoga; however, the real yoga system is meant for reviving our connection with Krsna ‎No edit summary current
09:0509:05, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,557‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu has advised: amara ajnaya guru hana tara' ei desa (CC Madhya 7.128). Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructed people to learn from Him and then go teach people within their own villages ‎No edit summary current
09:0509:05, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,704‎ It is said: yoga adhyatmikah pumsam. Adhyatmikah: we are living entities, souls. It is not that we are disconnected from Krsna, but we have simply forgotten Him. It is not possible to be disconnected, but it is possible to be covered ‎No edit summary current
09:0409:04, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,205‎ There is yoga, and there is yogamaya. Yogamaya means forgetfulness. First of all we have to understand what is the soul ‎No edit summary current
09:0409:04, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,379‎ At the present moment, people are in such darkness that they do not even understand the soul. Therefore Bhagavad-gita (2.13) first of all teaches what the soul is ‎No edit summary
08:5908:59, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,622‎ Kapiladeva is referred to as Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Bhagavan makes no mistakes. Narayanah paro 'vyaktat: even Sankaracarya says that - Bhagavan, Narayana, does not belong to this material world ‎No edit summary current
08:5908:59, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,319‎ When we speak of Bhagavan, or when the sastras refer to Bhagavan, we refer to Him who is above material understanding ‎No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,570‎ As stated here, sri-bhagavan uvaca. It does not say vyasadeva uvaca or kapiladeva uvaca. Similarly, in Bhagavad-gita, Vyasadeva says, sri-bhagavan uvaca. Bhagavan refers to Him who is above the defects of this material world ‎No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,595‎ Bhagavan is not subject to the four deficiencies of the living entities. Being imperfect, living entities are illusioned and subject to commit mistakes. They also have the tendency to cheat others ‎No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,265‎ When one who has no knowledge tries to become a teacher or preacher, he is actually cheating others ‎No edit summary current
08:5608:56, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,317‎ Since we ourselves do not possess perfect knowledge, we simply try to teach what Sri Bhagavan says. We do not manufacture our own teachings ‎No edit summary current
08:5508:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,537‎ So-called scholars and learned men manufacture their own teachings and give their opinions. In the West especially, we find much philosophical speculation and mental gymnastics, but such philosophy can never be perfect ‎No edit summary current
08:5508:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,705‎ We have to take our ideas from Bhagavan; then they will be perfect. We read Bhagavad-gita because it is perfect. There is no mistake in it; there is no illusion in it; there is no cheating in it. Nor is it delivered by one whose senses are imperfect ‎No edit summary current
08:5408:54, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,469‎ God knows everything, but we do not know what is God. That is our position. Our position is not knowing. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati (BG 18.61). Isvara, God, Krsna, is situated in everyone's heart ‎No edit summary current
08:5408:54, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,580‎ Sarvasya caham hrdi sannivistah: "I have entered into everyone's heart." (BG 15.15) The Supreme Lord refers not only to the hearts of human beings but to those of animals and everything else ‎No edit summary current
08:5308:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,548‎ The Supreme Lord is within the atom as Paramatma, and therefore He is also within the individual soul. Being within everything, He knows everything. Since He knows everything, we have to take lessons from Him ‎No edit summary current
08:5208:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,543‎ This Krsna consciousness philosophy is very easy because we do not manufacture ideas. We take the ideas and the words delivered by the Supreme Person, Krsna, or His incarnation or representative ‎No edit summary current
08:5208:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,426‎ If we take what Bhagavan says as perfect knowledge, we receive perfect knowledge. For receiving this knowledge, there is a disciplic succession - parampara ‎No edit summary current
08:5108:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,537‎ His (Krsna's) representative does not say anything which Krsna Himself does not say. It is very easy to be a representative, but one cannot be a representative of Krsna if one tries to interpret Krsna's words in a whimsical way ‎No edit summary current
08:5108:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,222‎ There is no authority superior to Sri Krsna, and if we stick to this principle, we can become gurus ‎No edit summary current
08:4808:48, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,786‎ Krsna is not alone, but is always with His friends, either the gopis or the cowherd boys, or with His mother and father. We never find Krsna alone. He may be with Radharani or with His devotees ‎No edit summary current
08:4708:47, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,541‎ He (Krsna) is like a king or president. When one says that the king or president is coming, it is understood that he is not coming alone. He comes with His secretaries, ministers and many others ‎No edit summary current
08:4608:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,628‎ The word yoga means "connection," and atma means "soul" and sometimes "mind" or "body." The material body has nothing to do with the Supreme Being because the Supreme Being is completely spiritual. He has no material covering ‎No edit summary current
08:4608:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,285‎ One who thinks that Krsna, the Supreme Being, has a material covering is himself covered by maya ‎No edit summary current
08:4508:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,418‎ Krsna does not say that He comes as an ordinary living being. Rather, His advent is totally transcendental. Janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah - BG 4.9 ‎No edit summary current
08:4408:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,388‎ We have to learn how Krsna takes His birth, which is not ordinary. If it were ordinary, why should we observe the Janmastami ceremony? His birth is divyam, divine ‎No edit summary current
08:4108:41, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,500‎ Krsna is the original Supreme Being, the original spirit soul. We are simply minute parts and parcels of Krsna. If we connect with Krsna, we are illuminated just as Krsna is illuminated ‎No edit summary current
08:4008:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,202‎ If we fall down from Krsna, our spiritual power and illumination are extinguished ‎No edit summary current
08:4008:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,508‎ The word yoga means connecting or linking with that original source. Yoga is the Sanskrit word meaning "connection," and viyoga means - disconnection ‎No edit summary current
08:3608:36, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,507‎ On one side there is happiness, and on the other side there is distress. Both happiness and distress are actually illusions. In summer, water is happiness, but in winter it is distress ‎No edit summary current
08:3508:35, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,676‎ The water is the same, but at one time it brings happiness and at another time it brings distress. When a son is born, he brings happiness, but when he dies, he brings distress. In either case, the son is the same ‎No edit summary current
08:3408:34, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,371‎ This material world is the world of duality, and we cannot understand happiness without distress or distress without happiness. This is therefore called the relative world ‎No edit summary current
08:3308:33, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,663‎ Generally yoga is practiced to acquire some material profit. There are eight kinds of yogic perfection (siddhis): anima, laghima, prapti, isitva, vasitva, mahima, prakamya and kamavasayita ‎No edit summary current
08:2808:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,238‎ Spiritual happiness is above these dualities, and that spiritual happiness is the perfection of yoga. Yoga adhyatmikah ‎No edit summary current
08:2808:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,443‎ Yoga is the happiness of the soul, and the individual soul can be happy when it is with the Supersoul, the Supreme Soul ‎No edit summary current
08:2708:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,312‎ Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13). There is the Supreme Soul, or the supreme living being, and there are many individual souls, individual beings ‎No edit summary current
08:2708:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,324‎ We are many, but the principal living being is one, Krsna. He is the fire, and we are the sparks from that fire ‎No edit summary current
08:2608:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,594‎ The sparks are illuminated when they are with the original fire, but if the sparks no longer associate with the original fire, they are extinguished. Similarly, our real happiness is in enjoying with the Supreme Being. Happiness is being in His company ‎No edit summary current
08:2108:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,452‎ A real yogi can become smaller than the smallest, lighter than the lightest and bigger than the biggest. Whatever he wants he can produce immediately in his hand ‎No edit summary current
08:2008:20, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,593‎ He (a real yogi) can even create a planet. These are some of the yoga-siddhis, but here it is stated that the supreme yoga system does not aim at material happiness or relief from distresses caused by material inconvenience ‎No edit summary
08:1808:18, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,402‎ Everyone is trying to get out of material distress and gain some happiness. In any case, when something is material, there is only so-called happiness and so-called distress ‎No edit summary current
08:1708:17, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,425‎ The attempt in this material world to maximize happiness and minimize distress is called the struggle for existence ‎No edit summary current
08:1608:16, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,414‎ If you can get Krsna to smile upon you just once, your life's goal is fulfilled. Thus smiling, Kapiladeva began to enlighten His mother ‎No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,559‎ When Kapiladeva or His representative sees someone a little interested, he becomes very glad and thanks him. When Kapiladeva saw His mother interested, He thanked her from within, not openly ‎No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,370‎ Kapiladeva was very glad, and He began to speak. Kapiladeva was an incarnation of God and was a young boy; therefore His face was very beautiful ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,317‎ When He answered this question, He became even more beautiful, and He smiled because He was pleased at His mother's question ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,265‎ Krsna is also very beautiful, but when a devotee serves Him and comes to Him, He becomes even more beautiful ‎No edit summary current
08:1308:13, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,602‎ When a devotee with all his heart and soul serves Krsna, dresses Him in nice garments and gives Him a flower, Krsna smiles ‎No edit summary current
08:1108:11, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,891‎ When a student hears spiritual subjects attentively, the spiritual master becomes very happy. Kapiladeva was very happy to see His mother eager to understand spiritual subject matters. He therefore thanked His mother for her inquiry ‎No edit summary current
08:1008:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,695‎ It is regrettable that in India, where these literatures are available, people are not interested. They are interested in Marxist literature but not Srimad-Bhagavatam, and this is India's misfortune ‎No edit summary current
08:0908:09, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,451‎ If the mango is tasted by the parrot, it becomes doubly tasty. The word suka means parrot, and Sukadeva Gosvami spoke Srimad-Bhagavatam. It is therefore more relishable from his lips ‎No edit summary
08:0408:04, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,391‎ Generally people are interested in things that give immediate pleasure. We want to taste something tasty to the tongue, regardless of whether it is edible or not ‎No edit summary current
07:2907:29, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,530‎ People should not waste their time associating with crows; they should associate with swans. When garbage is thrown out, crows and dogs come to see what is there, but no sane man will go ‎No edit summary current
07:2907:29, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,715‎ Those who are interested in trying to get pleasure out of this material world are actually chewing the chewed. Punah punas carvita-carvananam (SB 7.5.30). If one picks up a piece of sugarcane which has already been chewed, he is a fool ‎No edit summary current
07:2807:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,549‎ We must know that the juice has already been taken out of that sugarcane. What will one get by chewing it? However, there are animals who are simply interested in chewing the chewed ‎No edit summary current
07:2707:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,679‎ Material life means chewing the chewed. A father educates his son to earn a livelihood, get married and settle down, but he himself already knows that by doing this he has not become satisfied. Why, then, is he engaging his son in this same business ‎No edit summary current
07:2707:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,232‎ A real father is one who does not allow his son to chew the chewed ‎No edit summary current
07:2607:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,681‎ Pita na sa syaj janani na sa syat... na mocayed yah samupeta-mrtyum: one should not become a father or a mother unless one is able to save his children from the impending clutches of death. That is the duty of the father and mother. How can this be done ‎No edit summary current
07:2607:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,350‎ A father and mother should educate their son in Krsna consciousness. Then he can be saved. They should educate the son in such a way that there is no pavarga ‎No edit summary current
07:2507:25, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,663‎ If we do not go forward to liberation, we promote a civilization of cats and dogs. Eating, sleeping, mating, defending, fearing and dying are all experienced by cats and dogs, but human life is meant for another purpose ‎No edit summary current
07:2407:24, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,449‎ Of course we have to maintain the body; it is not that we should neglect it. But we should not unnecessarily engage in the maintenance of the body ‎No edit summary current
07:2407:24, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,593‎ From the Vedas we can receive education of all kinds. On a mango tree, there are ripened mangoes and green mangoes. The Srimad-Bhagavatam is the ripened mango of the desire tree of Vedic knowledge: nigama-kalpa-taror galitam phalam - SB 1.1.3 ‎No edit summary
07:2107:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,474‎ One may ask, - How is it that in the modern age these Europeans and Americans of the Krsna consciousness movement do not take interest in newspapers ‎No edit summary current
07:2107:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,653‎ Newspapers are very popular in the West. Each day the papers are published in three or four editions, and they are all selling. However, these American boys and girls who have come to Krsna consciousness have stopped reading newspapers ‎No edit summary current
07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,725‎ They (American boys and girls) do not know what is happening from day to day, and it does not matter. All of this is a waste of time. It is better that they read literatures like Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita. Why waste one's valuable time ‎No edit summary
07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,471‎ Kapiladeva was very glad that His mother was interested only in spiritual advancement. This material world is called pavarga, and to nullify it is called apavarga ‎No edit summary current
07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,538‎ In this material world, people are laboring very hard simply to earn some money. This creates a hellish situation, and this is the way of material life ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,323‎ The questions are raised by Devahuti, and the answers are given by Kapiladeva. That is apavarga-vardhanam ‎No edit summary current
07:1607:16, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,541‎ As far as material maintenance is concerned, the sastras never stress it. Rather, they say that one's maintenance will come automatically ‎No edit summary current
07:1307:13, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,506‎ Transcendentalists are not interested in worldly talks. Indeed, worldly talks are very disgusting to them, and they avoid the company of those who talk about nonsensical worldly affairs ‎No edit summary current

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