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21 September 2022

• 06:4106:41, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,953‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked, "Why are you dissatisfied?" Sanatana Gosvami replied, - I am such a poor pandita that I do not even know the goal of life. I do not even know what is beneficial for me. I am simply being carried away by sense gratification ‎No edit summary
• 06:4006:40, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,750‎ When Sanatana Gosvami approached Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he said, - The people in my neighborhood are calling me a pandita, and I am very unhappy because of this ‎No edit summary
• 06:3906:39, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,667‎ Sanatana Gosvami was a great learned scholar, and he was called a pandita, which indicates that he was a learned brahmana ‎No edit summary

20 September 2022

• 15:3715:37, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,802‎ God can be seen, as stated in Brahma-samhita (5.38), premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena - Govinda (Krsna) is always seen by the devotee whose eyes are anointed by the pulp of love ‎No edit summary
• 15:3515:35, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,713‎ If we are devotees, lovers of God, the ointment of love will clear our eyes. In order to see God, we have to cleanse our eyes by wiping away the cataracts of material contamination ‎No edit summary
• 15:3315:33, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,528‎ Although we may be eager to see God, we cannot see Him with these material eyes. Not only can we not see Him, but we cannot understand Him, although His name is there ‎No edit summary current
• 15:3115:31, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,995‎ Understanding God means first of all understanding His name. Therefore from the beginning we should chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. God is not different from His name. Krsna's name and Krsna's person are the same ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2715:27, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,902‎ Absolute - means that Krsna's name, form, place, dress, pastimes and everything are nondifferent from Him. Krsna is present in His name, but because we have no love for Him, we cannot see Him ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,654‎ Those who are learned and intelligent look to the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead for relief from the threefold miseries of material existence ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,700‎ She (Goddess Durga) is so powerful that she can create and maintain. Prakrti, nature, can be very unkind. Mother Durga is often portrayed as chastising demons by piercing them with a trident ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,625‎ We have no control over these threefold miseries. They are controlled by Krsna's maidservant, Goddess Durga, who is material nature. She is not independent of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5613:56, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,492‎ The soul is aloof from the body and mind, but he suffers due to material contamination ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5113:51, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,473‎ Knowledge also begins by understanding the threefold miseries of the material world - adhyatmika, adhibhautika and adhidaivika ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4813:48, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,564‎ Real knowledge, however, is Vedic knowledge, knowing oneself, what one is and what God is and understanding one's relationship with God, and one's duty ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4713:47, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,549‎ One may study to be an electrician and earn his livelihood by repairing electric lines. This kind of knowledge is called silpa jnana ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4613:46, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,570‎ There are different types of knowledge. We are interested in ordinary knowledge for economic benefit, but that is not actual knowledge. That is the art of livelihood ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4513:45, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,849‎ This life is a preparation for the next, and if we want to enjoy our transcendental senses, we have to purify ourselves to return home, back to Godhead. For this purpose, Devahuti is submitting to her son just as a disciple submits to his master ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4513:45, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,467‎ Krsna is so kind that if we want to become tigers, He will give us a tiger body. If we want to become devotees, He will give us the body of a devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,311‎ As long as we continue trying to satisfy our own senses, we have to accept another body ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4213:42, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,827‎ The bona fide spiritual master is a true Vedantist, for he actually knows Vedanta and the Vedas and understands the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna. The word veda means "knowledge," and anta means - last phase ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4013:40, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,616‎ There is no question of destroying the senses or becoming desireless. Desire is a material activity, and becoming desireless is not possible. The senses must be purified in order for us to act through them transcendentally ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4013:40, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,480‎ Bhakti-yoga does not require us to destroy our senses, but to purify them. When the senses are purified, we can serve Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,684‎ We can serve Hrsikesa, the master of the senses, through the senses. We are part and parcel of Krsna, just as the hand is part and parcel of the body. Similarly, our senses are also part and parcel of the spiritual body of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,400‎ When we purify our senses, we can act in our original constitutional position and serve Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3813:38, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,803‎ When we forget our position and try to satisfy ourselves, we become conditioned materially. When we forget that our duty is to serve Krsna, we fall into the material world and become implicated in personal sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3713:37, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,644‎ We living entities are eternal servants of God, and our duty is to help our master enjoy. Srimati Radharani is the topmost servant of Krsna, and Her business is always to keep Krsna pleased ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3613:36, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,887‎ Krsna is very fond of Radharani because She renders the best service. Her sixty-four qualifications are mentioned in the Vedic literatures. Unfortunately, in the material world we are busy trying to enjoy our material senses ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3513:35, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,807‎ Living entities in this material world are very busy trying to gratify their senses. In the street we see many dogs assembled for sex. This may seem very crude, but human beings are engaged in the same business, perhaps in a more elaborate way ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3513:35, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,683‎ We should know that sense gratification is meant for animals, and that sense control is for human beings. By tapasya, penance, we can purify ourselves and regain our eternal life ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,539‎ Actually our material senses are not our real senses. They are covered, just as the body is covered by clothes. Our real body is within the material body. Dehino 'smin yatha dehe - BG 2.13 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3313:33, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,481‎ The spiritual body is within the material body. The material body is changing, going through childhood, youth, then old age, and then it vanishes ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3313:33, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,501‎ Although this is not our real body, we are engaged in sense gratification with it. However, for our own ultimate happiness, we should try to purify our senses ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3013:30, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,352‎ We need only repeat what Krsna has said or what has been said about Krsna in the Vedic literatures ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2913:29, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,379‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted everyone in India to know the science of Krsna and preach Krsna consciousness. This is very simple ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1611:16, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,895‎ Although Kapiladeva is her son, Devahuti does not hesitate to take instructions from Him. She does not say, "Oh, He is my son. What can He tell me? I am His mother, and I shall instruct Him." Instruction has to be taken from one who is in knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1511:15, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,783‎ It doesn't matter what his position is, whether he is a son, a boy, a sudra, brahmana, sannyasi or grhastha. One should simply learn from one who knows. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's instruction ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1511:15, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,694‎ Although Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself was a brahmana and a sannyasi, He took instructions from Ramananda Raya, who was a sudra and grhastha but nonetheless, very exalted spiritually ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1411:14, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,710‎ When Caitanya Mahaprabhu saw that Ramananda Raya was hesitant to give instructions, the Lord said, "Why are you hesitating? Although you are a grhastha and are born in a sudra family, I am prepared to take lessons from you." - CC Madhya 8.128 ‎No edit summary
• 11:1411:14, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,702‎ This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching. Whoever is qualified in Krsna consciousness can become a guru. His family or material identity does not matter. He simply must know the science ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5810:58, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,789‎ When we consult an engineer, a doctor or a lawyer, we do not ask whether he is a brahmana or a sudra. If he is qualified, he can help with a particular subject. Similarly, if one knows the science of Krsna, he can be a guru ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5710:57, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,584‎ Devahuti was taking lessons from her son because He knew the science of Krsna. Even if gold is in a filthy place, we should take it ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5710:57, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,652‎ It is also stated in the Vedas that if a girl is highly qualified or beautiful, she can be accepted in marriage even though born in a lower family. Thus it is not birth that is important, but qualification ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4810:48, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,911‎ The Vedas enjoin that we should not remain in darkness: tamasi ma jyotir gama. We are instructed to go to the light, and that light is the spiritual world, which is directly lighted by the effulgence, or bodily rays, of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4710:47, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,470‎ Na hanyate hanyamane sarire. As stated in Bhagavad-gita (2.20), there is neither birth nor death for the soul. The soul is not destroyed when the body is annihilated ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,437‎ The soul puts bodies on and takes them off like clothes. This simple knowledge is instructed in the beginning of Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,606‎ There are many big scholars and leaders who still cannot understand that the body is different from the person. This is because they do not study Bhagavad-gita in the proper way ‎No edit summary
• 10:4410:44, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,721‎ No one is fully aware or convinced that the real person is not the body. This is called darkness, and when one is disgusted with this darkness, human life begins ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,462‎ One who has become disgusted with material existence needs the instructions of a guru. Tasmad gurum prapadyeta jijnasuh sreya uttamam - SB 11.3.21 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4310:43, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,735‎ Being the wife of a great yogi, Devahuti understood her constitutional position; therefore she is placing her problem before her son, Kapiladeva, an incarnation of God ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4010:40, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,912‎ The Vedic literatures describe this material world as darkness. Actually it is dark, and therefore we require sunlight, moonlight and electricity. If it were not by nature dark, why would we require so many arrangements for artificial light ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3510:35, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,606‎ Having nothing more to do with the material world, finally say, "I have become Narayana." Then they (impersonalist sannyasis) come to the stage of daridra-narayana - poor Narayana ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,554‎ They (impersonalist sannyasis) become Narayana, but for want of anything better to do, for want of variegatedness, they take up material humanitarian activities ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,800‎ Although they (impersonalist sannyasis) consider their wives mithya (false), they return. "You have already left. Why do you come back again?" the wives ask. This means that these so-called sannyasis have nothing to do ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3210:32, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,712‎ We may build a nice spaceship and send it off into space, and the astronauts may go up there and fly in the impersonal sky, but eventually they will become tired and pray to God, - Please let us return to land ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3210:32, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,434‎ Russian astronauts were simply missing Moscow while they were traveling in space. This impersonal traveling is actually very agitating ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3110:31, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,427‎ Impersonal realization of the Absolute Truth cannot be permanent because one wants variety. A falldown is inevitable ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3110:31, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,690‎ When one gentleman read my book Easy Journey to Other planets, he became very enthusiastic about going to other planets. "Oh, yes," I said, "we can go with this book." "Yes," the gentleman said, - then I shall come back ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,629‎ The living entities are Brahman; Krsna is Para-brahman. Krsna is enjoying perpetual ananda, and, being part and parcel of Krsna, we also want ananda ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,232‎ Ananda cannot be impersonal or void; ananda entails variety ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,720‎ No one is simply interested in drinking milk and eating sugar, but with milk and sugar we can make a variety of foods - pera, barfi, ksira, rabri, dahi, and so on. There are hundreds of preparations. In any case, variety is required for enjoyment ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2710:27, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,584‎ The last word of tattva jnana is to understand Krsna, who is full of variety. Kapiladeva is tattva-margagra-darsanam. He is an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2710:27, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,621‎ He (Kapiladeva) will explain to His mother what tattva is, how one can approach the tattva jnana, and how one can actually enjoy tattva jnana. This is not simply dry speculation ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2610:26, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,544‎ This Krsna consciousness philosophy includes spiritual variety. People sometimes misunderstand this variety to be material, and they hanker for nirvisesa, nirakara, void ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2510:25, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,516‎ Our philosophy is not void; it is full of variety and transcendental bliss. This will later be specifically enunciated by Lord Kapiladeva ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,603‎ Our vision is of the same mountain, but due to our different positions we see haze, greenery or variegatedness. In the final stage, there are varieties - trees, animals, men, houses, and so on ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,808‎ The Absolute Truth is not without variety. Just as there is material variety, there is spiritual variety. Because the Mayavadi philosophers are seeing the Absolute Truth from a distance, they think that the Absolute Truth has no variety ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2010:20, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,557‎ They (Mayavadi philosophers) consider variety to be material, but this is a misunderstanding. The Absolute Truth is described as variegated in Brahma-samhita - 5.29 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2010:20, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,679‎ There are Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual world, and there are devotees who are all liberated. These devotees are aksara, which means they do not fall down into the material world. They remain in the spiritual world of the Vaikunthas ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,485‎ They (aksara) are also persons like us, but they are eternal persons, complete with full knowledge and bliss. That is the difference between them and us. That is tattva jnana ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,671‎ Unless we understand the variegatedness of the Absolute Truth, there is a chance that we will fall down. It is not sufficient simply to stick to the indefinite, impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,719‎ Because the impersonalists are not allowed to enter the Vaikuntha planets, they simply remain in the Brahman effulgence. Thus they fall down again into material variety ‎No edit summary
• 10:1710:17, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,693‎ We have seen many impersonalist sannyasis who first of all give up the world as false (brahma satyam jagan mithya). They consider themselves Brahman (aham brahmasmi), consider the world false - jagat is mithya ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1610:16, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,801‎ Looking at a mountain from a distance, we may see a hazy cloud, and if we come nearer, we may see something green. If we actually climb the mountain, we will find many houses, trees and animals ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,640‎ Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are not different. They are simply different aspects of the complete Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1210:12, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,720‎ The words tattva-marga-darsanam are elucidated elsewhere in Srimad-Bhagavatam: brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate (SB 1.2.11). The Absolute Truth is understood differently according to the position of the student ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,445‎ Bhakti is obtainable for a liberated person; it is not for the conditioned soul. How is this possible ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,754‎ We must engage in the nine processes of devotional service, the first of which is hearing (sravana). Then, under the direction of the spiritual master and the sastras, one can immediately become a liberated person ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,828‎ One doesn't have to endeavor separately to become liberated if he immediately engages in devotional service. One must have a firm conviction that he is engaged in Krsna's service and is free from all material contamination. This is imperative ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5209:52, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,757‎ Like Arjuna, Devahuti was aware that she was before her spiritual master, as indicated in the following verse. Indeed, Lord Brahma had informed her that her son was a powerful incarnation ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,400‎ The ultimate goal of the Absolute Truth is Krsna consciousness, devotional service. The liberated stage is not final ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,526‎ If we simply understand that we are not the body, that we are spirit soul, our knowledge is insufficient. We must also act as Brahman; then our position will be fixed ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,718‎ On the bank of the Bindu-sarovara Lake, Kapiladeva personally expounded Sankhya philosophy to His mother, Devahuti, just as Krsna personally expounded the knowledge of Bhagavad-gita to His friend Arjuna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4709:47, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,492‎ Lord Brahma is a jiva-tattva, a living being like us. If we become spiritually powerful, we can also have the post of Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,531‎ Sankaracarya, the Mayavadi impersonalist philosopher, accepts Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead - sa bhagavan svayam krsnah ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4409:44, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,733‎ All the acaryas - Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu Svami, Nimbarka and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu - also accept Krsna as the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,777‎ Kapiladeva is an incarnation of Krsna, and He gave instructions to His mother, Devahuti. We must distinguish between the two Kapilas. One Kapila is this Bhagavan Kapila, and the other Kapila is the atheist Kapila ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,755‎ Bhagavan Kapila is also known as Devahuti-putra Kapila. Both Kapilas expounded Sankhya philosophy, but the atheist Kapila expounded it without understanding, perception or realization of God ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,528‎ Kapiladeva was anxious that His mother not feel the absence of His father, and He was ready to take the best care of her and give her knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,745‎ Women are inferior to men, and Vedic civilization is so perfect that men are given full charge of the women. It is therefore said: matuh priya-cikirsaya. The son is always ready to see that the mother is not unhappy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2109:21, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,651‎ Mahabharata is called the fifth Veda. The four preceding Vedas are the Sama, Yajur, Rg and Atharva. The essence of Vedic knowledge, Bhagavad-gita, is given within the Mahabharata ‎No edit summary current

18 September 2022

• 09:0909:09, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,406‎ Because women are supposed to be less intelligent, they should be given knowledge, and they should also follow this knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0809:08, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,816‎ They should follow their father's instructions, their husband's instructions and the instructions of their grown, scholarly sons like Kapiladeva. In this way, their lives can be perfect. In all cases, women should always remain dependent ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0709:07, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,912‎ Tasmin bindusare 'vatsid bhagavan kapilah kila. It is noteworthy that in this verse Kapiladeva is referred to as Bhagavan, which indicates that He possesses all wealth, fame, knowledge, beauty, strength and renunciation ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,886‎ These six opulences are fully represented in Krsna; therefore Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam (SB 1.3.28)), and others are accepted as His expansions, or incarnations - visnu-tattva ‎No edit summary
• 09:0509:05, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,674‎ In Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, Rupa Gosvami has analyzed the characteristics of Bhagavan. The first Bhagavan is Sri Krsna Himself, but some of His opulences are also bestowed upon Lord Brahma ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,497‎ Devahuti was given to her grown son, Kapiladeva, and Kapiladeva was fully aware that He had to take care of His mother ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,513‎ It is the duty of the father to protect his daughter until she attains puberty and is married to a suitable young man. The husband then takes care of the wife ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,871‎ Generally a man should marry at around twenty-five years of age, and a girl should marry no later than sixteen. If this is the case, when the man is fifty years old, his eldest son should be around twenty-five, old enough to take charge of the mother ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5408:54, 18 September 2022 diff hist +12,039‎ Kapiladeva was about twenty-five years old and was quite able to take charge of His mother, Devahuti. He knew that because His father left His mother in His charge, He should take care of her and always please her. Matuh priya-cikirsaya ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5308:53, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,761‎ Kapiladeva was not irresponsible, but was always ready to please His mother. Kapiladeva was a brahmacari, and His mother took lessons from Him. That is the prerogative of the male ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5108:51, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,984‎ Being a yogi, Kardama Muni strictly followed these principles; therefore as soon as Kapiladeva was grown, Devahuti was placed in His charge. Kardama Muni then left home. As stated in this verse: pitari prasthite 'ranyam matuh priya-cikirsaya ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3808:38, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,503‎ When he gives up his home, he is called a vanaprastha, and after that he may take sannyasa ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,688‎ By his (Kardama Muni's) wife, Devahuti, he had nine daughters, who were distributed to the prajapatis like Daksa Maharaja and many others. The only son of Kardama Muni was Kapiladeva, an incarnation of Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 08:2808:28, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,714‎ These authorities should be followed if we want to approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead and understand the purpose of religious life. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah - CC Madhya 17.186 ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,717‎ These mahajanas follow the principles set forth by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, in Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,483‎ We cannot very easily understand the actual truth of religious systems, but if we follow these mahajanas, we can understand ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2408:24, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,524‎ Kapila Muni explained the glories of devotional service to His mother, Devahuti. If we follow Him, we may learn the truth of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2308:23, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,783‎ According to the system of varnasrama-dharma, one who is over fifty years of age must leave home, go to the forest and completely devote his life to spiritual realization. This is the actual varnasrama-dharma system ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2208:22, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,301‎ It (varnasrama-dharma) is not a Hindu system, for the word "Hindu" is a name given by the Muslims and does not occur in any Vedic literature. However, the varnasrama-dharma is mentioned ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,724‎ He (Kardama Muni) also created a great spaceship as large as a small city. Modern airlines have prepared a 747, & although these are very big, Kardama Muni, by his yogic powers, was able to create a spaceship wherein there were lakes, palaces and gardens ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,826‎ This spaceship could also travel all over the universe. Modern scientists labor very hard to make a small spaceship to go to the moon, but Kardama Muni could create a great spaceship that could travel to all planets. This is possible by yogic powers ‎No edit summary
• 08:1708:17, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,699‎ There are different siddhis, or yogic perfections - anima, laghima, prapti, and so on - and whatever yogis choose to do, they can do. That is the real yoga system ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1508:15, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,809‎ It is not that one becomes a yogi simply by pressing his nose and performing some gymnastics. One must actually attain the yogic siddhis. By these siddhis, the yogi can become very small or very large, very heavy or very light ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1408:14, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,580‎ Whatever he (a yogi) wants, he can immediately produce in his hand, and he can travel wherever he desires. Kardama Muni was such a perfected siddhi-yogi ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1208:12, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,549‎ Kardama Muni was a yogi living in a cottage, and Devahuti was a princess, a king's daughter. Not being used to work, she became very skinny ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1008:10, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,817‎ Being a great yogi, Kardama Muni was not very interested in family life. Nonetheless, he decided to marry, and Svayambhuva Manu brought his daughter Devahuti to him to serve as a wife ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0608:06, 18 September 2022 diff hist +19,797‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam was compiled by Vyasadeva, who also compiled the Vedanta-sutra ‎No edit summary

17 September 2022

• 14:4514:45, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,032‎ Generally the Mayavadis emphasize the commentary made on the Vedanta-sutra by Sankaracarya, the Sariraka-bhasya, but that is not the original commentary on Vedanta-sutra ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,206‎ Transcendental knowledge is therefore very logical. According to the Vedic system, the acarya must understand Vedanta-sutra (also called Brahma-sutra) before he can be accepted as an acarya ‎No edit summary
• 14:4214:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,083‎ We have to approach a spiritual master who is in the disciplic succession from Vyasadeva. Everyone may claim to be following Vyasadeva, but one must actually follow him ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4214:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,993‎ Vyasadeva accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Arjuna also accepted Krsna as Para-brahman, the Supreme Person ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4114:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,078‎ One may say that because Arjuna was a friend of Krsna's, he accepted Him in this way (as Supreme Person), but this is not the case. Arjuna gave evidence that Vyasadeva also accepted Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4014:40, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,332‎ If we are actually interested in understanding, we must approach a representative of Vyasadeva like Maitreya. Maitreya is also addressed as bhagavan, although of course the Supreme Bhagavan is Krsna Himself (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam) - SB 1.3.28 ‎No edit summary
• 14:3914:39, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,203‎ It is not possible to have cent per cent knowledge of Krsna. Not even Narayana Himself is capable of that. Yet those who follow Krsna's instructions fully are sometimes called Bhagavan ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3814:38, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,823‎ There are many artificial Bhagavan's, but a real Bhagavan is one who knows what Krsna has taught ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3714:37, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,935‎ Vidura was very eager to receive transcendental knowledge, and because of this, Maitreya was very pleased with him ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3714:37, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,345‎ One can please the spiritual master simply by surrendering to him and rendering service, saying, - Sir, I am your most obedient servant. Please accept me and give me instructions ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3614:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,450‎ Although Arjuna was a very intimate friend of Krsna's, before receiving Srimad Bhagavad-gita he surrendered himself, saying, sisyas te 'ham sadhi mam tvam prapannam: "Now I am Your disciple and a soul surrendered unto You. Please instruct me." - BG 2.7 ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3614:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,304‎ This is the proper way to ask for knowledge. One does not approach the spiritual master with a challenging spirit. One should also be inquisitive to understand the spiritual science. It is not that one considers himself superior to the guru ‎No edit summary
• 14:3514:35, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,279‎ One must first find a guru to whom one can surrender, and if this is not possible, one shouldn't waste his time. By surrendering to the proper person, one can very quickly come to understand transcendental knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3114:31, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,367‎ Source is abhijna, cognizant. Matter is not cognizant; therefore the theory of modern science that life comes from matter is incorrect. The identity from whom everything emanates is abhijna, cognizant, which means He can understand ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2714:27, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,391‎ Krsna states in Bhagavad-gita "I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me." The same conclusion is also given in Vedanta-sutra, wherein it is stated, janmady asya yatah - Brahman is He from whom everything emanates ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2614:26, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,279‎ Everything - includes living entities and inert matter. Both matter and the living entities come from Krsna. Indeed, the whole world is a combination of matter and spirit, prakrti and the living entity ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2514:25, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,186‎ Material energy is inferior, and spiritual energy is superior. Why? Superior energy (jiva-bhuta), the living entity, is controlling material nature. Actually he is not controlling, but is trying to utilize it ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2414:24, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,212‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam is a commentary on Vedanta-sutra. Vedanta-sutra explains that the Supreme is the source of everything, and the nature of that source is explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.1.1): janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah svarat ‎No edit summary
• 14:2114:21, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,025‎ It is not that we have to understand Krsna fully. That is not possible. We have no capacity to understand the unlimited. Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam - Bs. 5.33 ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1914:19, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,953‎ With our limited knowledge we cannot understand the unlimited; indeed, even Krsna does not understand Himself ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1814:18, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,166‎ His (Krsna's) attraction is unlimited, and to understand why He is so attractive, He became Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and took on the ecstatic emotions of Srimati Radharani - radha-bhava-dyuti ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1714:17, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,924‎ If we can simply understand Krsna in part, that is our perfection. Therefore Krsna says: janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah - BG 4.9 ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1614:16, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,286‎ If we misunderstand Krsna and take Him to be a human being like us, we become mudhas, fools. Krsna's body is not composed of material elements like ours, and if we think this way, we are mistaken ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1514:15, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,993‎ The material nature belongs to Krsna, and He is its controller. We are under the control of material nature, and that is the difference ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1514:15, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,186‎ One who has real knowledge knows that prakrti, material nature, is working under Krsna's direction. It is not possible to understand how all this is going on, but we can understand it in summary ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1414:14, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,393‎ Janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas ca: (SB 1.1.1) everything emanates from the Supreme Absolute Truth, Krsna. This much knowledge is sufficient. We can then increase this knowledge to understand just how material nature is working under Krsna's direction ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1314:13, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,320‎ Modern scientists mistakenly think that material nature is working independently and that things evolve by some chemical process only. However, life does not merely come from life or some chemical evolution ‎No edit summary
• 14:1114:11, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,939‎ Ksetrajna is the proprietor of the ksetra (the body). The individual soul is actually not the proprietor but the occupant ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1014:10, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,091‎ In a house, there is a tenant and a landlord. The tenant is the occupant, and the landlord is the proprietor. Similarly, the atma is simply the occupant of the body; the proprietor is Paramatma ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1014:10, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,139‎ When the landlord tells the tenant to leave the house, the tenant must do so. Similarly, when the Paramatma says that we have to leave the body, we have to do so ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0914:09, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,519‎ To receive Vedic knowledge, we must approach the proper guru. The guru's qualification is given in every sastra. In Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.3.21) it is said: One should not accept a guru unless one is inquisitive to know the ultimate goal of life ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0714:07, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,312‎ One approaches a Mahatmaji and says, "I am suffering from this disease. Please help me." And the Mahatmaji says, "Yes, I have a mantra that will heal you and give you success. Give me a little money and take it." This is not a real guru ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0614:06, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,244‎ One should approach a guru to learn about tattva, the Absolute Truth. One should not search out a guru to cure some material disease; rather, one requires a doctor ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,949‎ The Vedic conclusion is the understanding of Krsna. Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: "By all the Vedas, I am to be known." - BG 15.15 ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0114:01, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,235‎ It is stated that Vidura heard from Maitreya Rsi, and that Maitreya Rsi was very pleased. Unless one satisfies his guru, one cannot receive proper knowledge. That is quite natural ‎No edit summary
• 14:0114:01, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,268‎ If one receives his guru properly and seats him comfortably, and if the guru is pleased with one's behavior, the guru can speak very frankly and freely, and this will be very beneficial to the student ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,505‎ By going to a spiritual master and asking for his instructions and then not following them, one simply wastes his time. Nor should one approach the spiritual master with a challenging spirit, but should go with the aim of rendering service ‎No edit summary
• 13:5913:59, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,228‎ The word nipat means "to fall down," and pra means "without reservation." Transcendental knowledge is based on pranipata. Therefore Krsna says: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja. (BG 18.66) - Just surrender unto Me ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,222‎ Just as we surrender unto Krsna, we have to surrender unto His representative, the spiritual master. The guru is Krsna's external representative, and the internal guru is Krsna Himself situated in everyone's heart ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,248‎ It is not that Krsna is simply in Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrndavana. He is everywhere; He is even within the atom. Goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhutah (Bs. 5.37). That is the definition of Paramatma, the Supersoul ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,253‎ I am atma, a spiritual soul, and you are atma. We are all situated locally, you within your body and I within mine, but the Paramatma is situated everywhere. That is the difference between atma and Paramatma ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5513:55, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,366‎ Those who are mistaken say that there is no difference between them (atma and paramatma), but there is a difference. They are one in the sense that both are cognizant and both are living entities, but they are different quantitatively ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,236‎ There are different divisions for the body: the head, the arms, the belly and the legs. Without the four corresponding divisions, no society can be conducted very well. There will simply be chaos ‎No edit summary
• 13:5013:50, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,859‎ If one actually wants to understand spiritual life and spiritual knowledge, one has to approach a guru ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5013:50, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,209‎ The various yoga systems are given for the machine of the body, but the process of bhakti is transcendental to mechanical arrangements. It is therefore called tad-vijnana, transcendental to material understanding ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4913:49, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,141‎ In hatha-yoga one undergoes various physical disciplines, but the real purpose is to understand Visnu, the Supreme ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,238‎ Brahmany upasamasrayam. According to Mundaka Upanisad (1.2.12), tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet - In order to understand that transcendental science, one must approach a bona fide spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,305‎ The Upanisads inform us that the guru is one who has received knowledge by hearing the Vedas. Srotriyam brahma-nistham (MU 1.2.12). The Vedas are called sruti, and the bona fide guru is in the line of hearing from the disciplic succession ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,282‎ As stated in Bhagavad-gita (4.2), evam parampara-praptam. A bona fide guru does not impart some self-styled, concocted knowledge; his knowledge is standard and received from the parampara system ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0510:05, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,896‎ He (a spiritual master) is also firmly fixed in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead - brahma-nistham ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0510:05, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,224‎ These are his (a spiritual master's) two qualifications: he must have heard the Vedic knowledge through the disciplic succession, and he must be established in service to the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,872‎ He (a spiritual master) does not have to be a very learned scholar, but he must have heard from the proper authority ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,290‎ God gives us the ears to hear, and simply by hearing we may become great preachers. We don't need Ph.D.'s or academic examinations. One may even remain in his position; no changes are necessary ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,399‎ For this purpose there is the varnasrama-dharma, composed of four varnas and four asramas. Unless society is divided into these eight categories, it is simply an animal civilization. There must be some systematized, regulated arrangement ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0010:00, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,170‎ For those who are attached to this bodily machine, the yoga system is recommended. One who is overly attached to the bodily conception is taught to concentrate the mind by some physical gymnastics ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,130‎ He simply studies the mechanical arrangement of the body, which is a machine (yantra) made by nature. The body is actually stated in Bhagavad-gita (18.61) to be a machine ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5609:56, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,244‎ The word tad-vijnana refers to transcendental knowledge, not material knowledge. A medical practitioner may have material knowledge of the body, but he has no knowledge of the spirit soul within ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,432‎ If one goes to a ditchdigger to repair a dictating machine, he cannot help. He may know how to dig ditches, but not repair a machine. Therefore the sastras enjoin that if one wants transcendental knowledge, one must approach the proper person ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,316‎ Transcendental knowledge is not very difficult, but the process must be known. Sometimes a dictating machine or a typewriter may not work, but if we go to a technician who knows the machine, he can immediately repair it. The process must be known ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,320‎ First of all we must receive the information from authorities; then we can speak the truth. One first has to learn how to describe the Absolute Truth, Bhagavan - His actions, His mercy and His compassion upon all living beings ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4409:44, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,092‎ Sravanam kirtanam (SB 7.5.23), hearing and chanting, are the beginning of bhakti, devotional service. Therefore it is said: tani me sraddadhanasya kirtanyany anukirtaya. The word anukirtaya means to follow the parampara system ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4309:43, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,012‎ If one blind man tries to lead another, what is the result? If both the leaders and followers are blind, they will all fall in a ditch, for they are all bound by their nature ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4209:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,171‎ There were Napoleon, Hitler, Gandhi, Nehru and many others, but they could not ultimately prevail. This is durasaya. The ultimate goal of life is to understand Visnu, yet people are going on blindly trying to satisfy their senses ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +21,873‎ In world history we see that there have been many leaders who have died working hard. They could not adjust things properly, despite all their hard efforts ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,105‎ Today no one knows the object of human life; therefore although the foolish people of this age are trying to be happy, their hopes will never be fulfilled. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum durasayah - SB 7.5.31 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 17 September 2022 diff hist +21,629‎ The king was worshiped because he was a rajarsi, both a king and a sage ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3808:38, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,081‎ The Supreme Lord is more anxious to give us education and enlightenment than we are to receive them. He gives us His literature, His devotees and the parampara system, but it is up to us to take advantage of these ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3708:37, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,041‎ The Krsna consciousness movement is intended to give society the proper understanding of the Absolute Truth. We are not presenting a manufactured, bogus philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3608:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +21,878‎ Why should we unnecessarily waste our time concocting some philosophy? There is so much to be learned that has already been given by the supreme authority ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 17 September 2022 diff hist +21,719‎ All we have to do is take this Vedic literature, try to learn it and distribute it. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4207:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +21,876‎ It is the duty of everyone, especially one born in the land of Bharatavarsa, India, to make his life successful by taking advantage of this Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4107:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +21,800‎ Unfortunately, we are simply trying to learn technology, and that is our misfortune. Real education means solving all life's problems ‎No edit summary
• 07:3907:39, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,046‎ Transcendental education means learning how to gain relief from the entanglement of material life. This is made possible by learning about the Lord's transcendental activities ‎No edit summary current

16 September 2022

• 09:5309:53, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,903‎ When there are dharmasya glanih, discrepancies in dharma, Krsna or His incarnation personally comes. It is therefore said: yad yad vidhatte bhagavan. Although He comes, He has no anxiety ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5209:52, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,138‎ He (Krsna) comes by His internal potency, and He does not take help from anyone. He possesses a variety of energies, all of which work correctly and perfectly - parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca ‎No edit summary
• 09:5209:52, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,005‎ Impersonalists cannot understand how everything is being carried out perfectly because they cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead: mohitam nabhijanati mam ebhyah param avyayam ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,210‎ Being covered by the three modes of material nature, one cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. However, the Supreme Lord reveals Himself to His devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,984‎ It is our business to understand Krsna in truth; then our lives will be successful. It is not that we can succeed by understanding Krsna superficially. It is therefore stated here: tani me sraddadhanasya kirtanyany anukirtaya ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,750‎ The word anukirtaya, as we have initially pointed out, means that we should not manufacture anything. The word anu means - to follow ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,696‎ The bhagavat-tattva, or Bhagavan, can be understood only by the parampara system, the system of disciplic succession ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4609:46, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,961‎ The ultimate goal of all activity is the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord, Visnu. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum (SB 7.5.31). Foolish people do not know that their ultimate interest is the satisfaction of Visnu ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4309:43, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,078‎ Foolish people say that there is no brain behind the universe, but this is due to ignorance. By taking information from the sastras, the scriptures, we can understand who that brain is ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4209:42, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,064‎ We see His energies working in this material world all the time. There is thunder and rain, and from rain comes the food we enjoy. This process is outlined in Bhagavad-gita - 3.14 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,850‎ The origin of everything is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Through yajna, sacrifice, we have to satisfy the Supreme Person ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,041‎ Yajnas can be executed when human society is regulated according to the varnasrama-dharma, the system of four social orders (varnas) and four spiritual orders - asramas ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,175‎ There are four varnas (brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra) and four asramas (brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa). These varnas and asramas have their respective duties ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,923‎ Sri Krsna has nothing to do personally. It is His energy that acts. When an important man wants to get something done, he simply tells his secretary, who does everything ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,231‎ There are the jiva-prakrti, the para prakrti expansions, who belong to Krsna's superior energy. In any case, Krsna is always svacchandatma - without anxiety. Even if He is killing a demon, He experiences no anxiety ‎No edit summary current

15 September 2022

• 10:5510:55, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,873‎ The Gosvamis and Krsna Himself tell us that since everything belongs to Krsna, everything should be utilized for His purpose ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5410:54, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,994‎ This creation emanates from Bhagavan, the Supreme Lord, who is without anxiety. Krsna very pleasantly associates with His consort Srimati Radharani and enjoys playing His flute ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5410:54, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,234‎ The original Krsna does not go anywhere; He never takes a step away from Vrndavana. The other activities performed by Krsna are performed in the Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Aniruddha or Pradyumna forms ‎No edit summary
• 10:5310:53, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,116‎ Krsna expands as Sankarsana, Narayana, Visnu, Maha-Visnu, Garbhodakasayi Visnu and Ksirodakasayi Visnu. God can expand Himself in many, many forms ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5310:53, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,870‎ He (Krsna) is the adi-purusa, the original soul of all. Govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami: Lord Brahma says that he is not adi-purusa but that Govinda, Krsna, is the adi-purusa ‎No edit summary
• 10:5210:52, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,031‎ This Krsna has many expansions (advaitam acyutam anadim). He has no beginning, but He is the beginning of everything. He has expanded Himself in many forms. The visnu-tattva consists of bhagavat-tattva-svamsa, the personal expansions ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5210:52, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,761‎ We are also Krsna's forms, but we are vibhinnamsa, separated expansions. We are the expansions of the energies ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,851‎ The demigods have many activities, but Krsna is always peaceful. The Krsna who engages in killing demons is Vasudeva Krsna, not the original Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,959‎ We cannot say that the sunshine is false and that the sun is true. If the sun is true, the sunshine is also true. Similarly, we do not say that the material universe is false. It may be temporary, but it is not false ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,197‎ The Mayavadi philosophers say, brahma satyam jagan mithya: "The Supreme Truth is real, whereas the world is false" - but Vaisnavas do not use the word mithya (false), because God, the Supreme Brahman, is truth, and nothing false can emanate from the truth ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4310:43, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,744‎ If we prepare an earring from gold, the earring is also gold. We cannot say that the earring is false ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4310:43, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,729‎ The Vaisnava philosophers accept the world as temporary, but not false, as the Mayavadi philosophers do ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4210:42, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,832‎ The world (jagat) has emanated from the Supreme; therefore it is not mithya, but it is temporary. That is also explained in Bhagavad-gita (8.19): bhutva bhutva praliyate ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4110:41, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,015‎ The material world comes into existence, remains for some time, and is then annihilated. It is not false, for it can be utilized to realize the Supreme Truth. This is Vaisnava philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4010:40, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,935‎ The world is temporary, but we must use it for spiritual purposes. If something is used for the ultimate truth, the Absolute Truth, it becomes integral with the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3910:39, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,082‎ The word mumuksubhih refers to those who aspire for mukti, liberation. When one becomes disgusted with material engagement, one wants to destroy everything that has anything to do with the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,158‎ The Vaisnava says, prapancikataya buddhya hari-sambandhi-vastunah. Everything has some relationship with the Supreme Person, the Absolute Truth. For instance, a microphone is made of metal, but what is metal? It is another form of earth ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,225‎ Sri Krsna says: "Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego - all together these comprise My separated material energies." All of these are Krsna's energies, and if Krsna is the source of them, how can they be untrue? They are not ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3610:36, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,045‎ A Vaisnava will never say that metal has no connection with Krsna. It is a product of one of His energies, just as this material world is a product of the sun ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3310:33, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,932‎ Although he (managing director) sits in his office without disturbance, he is not very happy because he is always thinking about how to do this or that, how to manage this affair or that ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3210:32, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,682‎ This is material nature, and therefore it is said that there is always anxiety in the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3210:32, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,894‎ When Hiranyakasipu, the father of prahlada Maharaja, asked his son, - My dear boy, what is the best thing you have learned from your teachers ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3110:31, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,924‎ Prahlada Maharaja immediately replied, tat sadhu manye 'sura-varya dehinam sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat (SB 7.5.5). "I have learned that materialists have accepted the asad guna." Asat means - that which is not ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3010:30, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,970‎ We should not remain on this platform, but should go to the platform of sat (om tat sat). This is the Vedic injunction. The material world is asad-vastu; it cannot possibly remain ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3010:30, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,840‎ In the material world, everything will ultimately be vanquished. Whatever exists in the material world exists only for some time. It is temporary ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,842‎ Yato imani bhutani jayante: the Supreme Absolute Truth is He from whom everything is emanating. If everything is emanating from the Absolute Truth, nothing can actually be false ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2610:26, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,906‎ If we organize a business, we have many anxieties. The managing director or proprietor of the business particularly has many anxieties ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2310:23, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,876‎ There are saktyavesa-avataras, guna-avataras and svayam-avataras, and these are all described in Srimad-Bhagavatam. All these avataras, or incarnations, are svacchandatma, free from care and anxiety ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1710:17, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,074‎ Before the creation there was no Brahma or Siva. There was only Krsna. Krsna therefore says, aham adir hi devanam (BG 10.2). He is the creator of all demigods and all other living entities ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1610:16, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,304‎ After the cosmic manifestation is created, the living entities are placed in it. In the Vedas it is stated that in the beginning there was neither Brahma nor Siva, but only Narayana (eko narayana asit). Narayana is also another plenary expansion of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1510:15, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,767‎ The beginning is sravanam kirtanam, hearing and chanting. One must be very eager to hear and chant ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,994‎ We have to learn from the scriptures that Krsna is the origin of all. Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam: (SB 1.3.28) all the visnu-tattvas and incarnations are but plenary expansions or expansions of the plenary expansions of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,891‎ We can understand the pastimes of the Lord by following one or some of the authorized devotional processes ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,909‎ We have to speak or chant about the holy activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but first we have to hear about them ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,872‎ When we speak of Visnu, we mean Krsna. Krsna is the origin of the visnu-tattva - that is, Visnu is an expansion of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,229‎ Nine basic processes of devotional service - hearing & chanting about the Supreme Lord, remembering Him, serving His lotus feet, worshiping Him, offering prayers to the Lord, acting as His servant, becoming His friend, & surrendering everything to Him ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 15 September 2022 diff hist +25,868‎ Concerning Kapiladeva, Saunaka Rsi says, kapilas tattva-sankhyata. Kapila is the Supreme Person; therefore He can explain the Absolute Truth. Actually only Bhagavan can know the true position of the ultimate truth. No one else can know it ‎No edit summary current

14 September 2022

• 13:3713:37, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,387‎ The easiest way to go to the Vaikunthalokas is: janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah (BG 4.9). Simply try to understand Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3713:37, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,716‎ Why does He come? What are His activities? Where does He come from? Why does He come in the form of a human being? We only have to try to understand this and study Krsna as He explains Himself in Bhagavad-gita. What is the difficulty ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3613:36, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,502‎ God personally explains Himself as He is, and if we accept Bhagavad-gita as it is, we shall no longer have to transmigrate. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti - BG 4.9 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3513:35, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,598‎ We shall no longer have to endure birth and death, for we can attain our spiritual bodies (sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1)) and live happily in Krsna's family. Krsna is providing for us here, and He will also provide for us there ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,428‎ We should know that our happiness is in returning home, back to Godhead, where we can eat, drink and be merry in Krsna's company ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3113:31, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,494‎ Everything is present in Vaikunthaloka. There we can have an eternal, blissful life full of knowledge (sac-cid-ananda). It is not compulsory for us to rot in this material world ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2913:29, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,404‎ In this life we enjoy or suffer the results of our past karma, and in the same way we are creating further karma for our next body ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2813:28, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,360‎ We should work in such a way that we will not get another material body, How can this be done? We simply have to try to understand Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,358‎ There are many types of yogis, but he who is devoted to Krsna is the topmost yogi. Sri Krsna is far above all yogic processes ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,850‎ In India there are many yogis who display some magical feats. They can walk on water, make themselves very light or very heavy and so forth. But what is this compared to Krsna's yogic mystic powers? By His potencies, great planets are floating in space ‎No edit summary
• 13:2313:23, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,556‎ Who can manage to float even a small stone in the air? Sometimes a yogi may show a little mystic power by manufacturing some gold, and we are so foolish that we accept him as God ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,672‎ We forget that the real yogi, the Supreme Lord Himself, has created millions of gold mines and is floating them in space. Those who are Krsna conscious are not befooled by yogis who claim to be Bhagavan ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,775‎ A Krsna conscious person wants only to serve the foremost yogi, Yogesvara (varimnah sarva-yoginam). Because we are trying to become His devotees, we accept the Supreme Lord, Yogesvara, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 13:2013:20, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,645‎ It is due to one's work that one becomes a criminal and is therefore put in jail. It is not compulsory for everyone to go to jail. As living entities, we have our proper place in Vaikunthaloka ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1813:18, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,515‎ Yas tv indragopam athavendram aho sva-karma (Bs. 5.54). From Lord Indra to indragopa, an insignificant insect, everyone is reaping the consequences of his karma. We are creating our own karma, our next body, in this life ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1713:17, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,563‎ We come onto this planet to enjoy or suffer life for a few days - fifty or a hundred years - but Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, does not come for that purpose (na mam karmani limpanti) - BG 4.14 ‎No edit summary
• 13:1613:16, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,635‎ There is a Bengali proverb: Dry cow dung is used for fuel, and it is said that when the dry cow dung is being burned, the soft cow dung is laughing, saying, - Oh, you are being burned, but I am safe ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1513:15, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,421‎ It is further stated, na hy asya varsmanah: "No one is greater than Him." No one is greater than Bhagavan or equal to Him. Everyone is inferior ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1413:14, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,363‎ According to Caitanya-caritamrta (CC Adi 5.142), ekale isvara krsna, ara saba bhrtya. There is only one master - Krsna. All others are subservient ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1413:14, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,557‎ Beginning with Lord Brahma, Visnu, Mahesvara, Indra, Candra and all the demigods (there are thirty-three million demigods) and the middle and lower species. Everyone is bhrtya, or servant ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1313:13, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,625‎ When Krsna orders, "My dear Mr. So-and-So, now please give up your place and leave,', one must go. Therefore everyone is a servant. This is the position of Lord Brahma and the ant as well ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,385‎ When Dharmaraja asked Maharaja Yudhisthira what the most wonderful thing in the world was, Maharaja Yudhisthira replied: ahany ahani bhutani gacchantiha yamalayam. ‎No edit summary
• 13:1013:10, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,315‎ Bhagavan, the Supreme Lord, is not in this (conditioned) position. It is therefore said: bhagavan atma-mayaya ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0813:08, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,657‎ Every moment people are dying, but those who are living are thinking, 'My friend has died, but I shall live forever. - (Mahabharata, Vana-parva 313.116) Soft cow dung thinks the same way. This is typical of conditioned beings ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,739‎ Real knowledge means knowing that however great one may be, the four principles of material life are present: birth, old age, disease and death. These exist in the highest planetary system (Brahmaloka) and in the lowest - Patalaloka ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,391‎ Foolish people are unaware of the miserable conditions of material life. Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (13.9), janma-mrtyu jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,375‎ One cannot say, "My dear death, please give me some time to adjust." There is no adjustment; one must immediately get out ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,579‎ Krsna states in Bhagavad-gita (10.34), mrtyuh sarva-haras caham: "I am all-devouring death." Krsna comes as death and plunders everything - bank balance, skyscrapers, wife, children and whatever ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,627‎ Eventually everyone will dry up and be thrown in the fire. That is a fact. We may survive for a few years, but we cannot avoid death. In fact, it is said, - As sure as death ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,329‎ What is the result of death? One loses everything - all honor, money, position and material life itself ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,783‎ It (soft cow dung) does not know that when it dries out, it will be thrown into the fire too. We may laugh because President Nixon is in trouble, and we may think ourselves very safe because we have a big bank balance, but actually no one is safe ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,314‎ Tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovidah. The word kovidah means "intelligent." An intelligent person should try to attain shelter at the lotus feet of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,261‎ Human life is actually meant for getting in touch with the lotus feet of Krsna. That should be our only business ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,421‎ Within this one universe, there are fourteen planetary systems, and the living entities are wandering in different bodily forms on different planets ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,669‎ Sometimes we may think we are very fortunate, just as President Nixon was thinking, "I am very fortunate. I have become the president of the United States." Then he soon realized that he was most unfortunate. Actually this is the situation for everyone ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,607‎ Throughout the world there are problems everywhere. One country has one type of problem, and another country has another. There is strife within governments themselves, and even presidents are fraught with problems ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5212:52, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,678‎ The Krsna consciousness movement is an attempt to make people fortunate. In this age, everyone is unfortunate (manda-bhagyah), but now we are trying to reverse the situation ‎No edit summary
• 12:5112:51, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,867‎ It was Caitanya Mahaprabhu who said to Rupa Gosvami - The living entity is wandering up & down, from one planet to another, & he is very fortunate if by the mercy of the spiritual master & Krsna Himself he can get the seed of devotional service to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4912:49, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,783‎ Everyone is thinking, "May my child live happily" or "May I get so much money." We do not ask or pray for catastrophes, yet they come without invitation. Similarly, whatever happiness is there for our enjoyment will also come without our asking for it ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,658‎ Our actual endeavor should be to attain happiness; that is our real struggle for existence. According to the sastras: tal labhyate duhkhavat. The word duhkhavat indicates that although we do not want misery, misery comes anyway ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4512:45, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,538‎ We should not worry about eating and sleeping, for the needs of the body are already arranged. We do not have to work independently to maintain the body ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4412:44, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,790‎ According to karma, the living entity sometimes goes up & sometimes goes down. He wanders in this way, thinking how he can become materially happy & satisfy his senses. The sastras say that we should not do this, we should endeavor to understand Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4312:43, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,289‎ The word upari indicates the higher planetary systems. There are seven higher planetary systems, and we are in the middle system, in Bhurloka ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4012:40, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,789‎ In Bhagavad-gita, Krsna never says, "Do this or that, and I will then maintain you." Rather, He states that not only will He maintain us, but He will also protect us from the results of sin, from sinful karma (BG 18.66). All of this assurance is there ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3712:37, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,584‎ In our Krsna consciousness movement, we have over a hundred centers, and Krsna is maintaining them all. None of our devotees are employed for independent incomes, yet they are all being maintained ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,541‎ Those who are devotees of the Lord and have taken shelter at His lotus feet, leaving everything aside simply to render service unto Him, will certainly be cared for ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2706:27, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,926‎ We cannot conceive how many living entities are being maintained by the Supreme Lord. All the great elephants, all the small ants, all the 8,400,000 species of life are maintained by Bhagavan. Why do we worry that He will not maintain us ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2506:25, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,463‎ There is no limit to the jivas; no one can count them. The word ananta means that they are without limit. All these jivas, living entities, are being maintained by the Supreme One ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2406:24, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,294‎ Nitya, bhagavan, is the singular, and nityanam are the plural jivas, or living beings. Nityo nityanam: we are many, but God is one ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2306:23, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,333‎ The word bhaga means "opulence," and van means "one who possesses." All the opulences of the creation are present in Bhagavan ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2006:20, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,389‎ In the previous verse (SB 3.25.1), the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Devahuti-putra Kapiladeva has been explained as bhagavan atma-mayaya ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,679‎ If we hear about Krsna, we become purified. Hearing about Krsna means associating with Krsna. In this way we may perfect our lives ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3205:32, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,495‎ We need only hear about Krsna. That's all. We have therefore opened all these centers of Krsna consciousness throughout the world ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3205:32, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,660‎ It is our great fortune that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Krsna Himself, has appeared and given us a very easy process by which we can understand Krsna. What is that process ‎No edit summary
• 05:3105:31, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,711‎ Understanding Krsna is therefore not so easy. As stated by Krsna, out of many thousands one person may become a siddha, a self-realized being. And out of many siddhas, one may be able to understand Krsna ‎No edit summary current

13 September 2022

• 10:2210:22, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,523‎ Krsna comes at intervals or sends His representative, the pure devotee. Sometimes He comes personally, and sometimes He sends His incarnation ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,303‎ We have to accept a certain type of body because we are forced to do so, but this is not the case with Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 10:2110:21, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,749‎ Presently I may have a human form, but in the future I cannot demand a human form. We receive bodies in the next life according to karma, not will. One cannot demand to be a high-court judge unless one has been educated for the job ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2010:20, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,765‎ One must become qualified. If one qualifies himself, one may become a devata, a demigod like Indra or Candra, or one can become a dog or a cat. That depends on one's karma, or activities (karmana daiva-netrena) - SB 3.31.1 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,991‎ When Krsna or His incarnation come, they do not depend on karma for their bodies. The Supreme Lord is above karma and is fully independent. It is therefore said, atma-mayaya. The Supreme Lord comes by His own energy, not by the external energy or by force ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,420‎ Kapiladeva is an incarnation of the Supreme Person, Krsna. Therefore it is stated: kapilas tattva-sankhyata bhagavan atma-mayaya ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,753‎ When the governor visits the prison, he is not forced to do so. He is not to be considered a condemned person; rather, he goes by his own good will just to see how things are going on ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1510:15, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,273‎ Vedic knowledge is the mother, and the spiritual master is the father ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,670‎ When one is twice-born (dvija), he receives a sacred thread from the spiritual master and begins to learn about spiritual life. He is then allowed to read the Vedic literatures. In this way one becomes a son of Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1310:13, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,606‎ Nigama-kalpa-taror galitam phalam: (SB 1.1.3) Srimad-Bhagavatam is the essence of Vedic culture. It is a wish-fulfilling tree, and we can take whatever we want from it ‎No edit summary
• 10:1210:12, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,494‎ Vedic knowledge is perfect, and if we want to come to know it, we must take shelter of a bona fide guru (tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet) - MU 1.2.12 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1010:10, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,485‎ Unfortunately, in this age everything is mismanaged. People forget the aim of life, and at such a time the Supreme Lord Himself comes ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,463‎ The Supreme Lord descends out of compassion because He is more anxious to have us return home, back to Godhead, than we are to go ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,512‎ Because we are in ignorance, we do not know anything about the kingdom of God. We know nothing about how to get there or how to become happy. We have forgotten all this ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0510:05, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,592‎ The word dvija means "twiceborn." One is first born through the womb of a mother, and one's next birth is given by the spiritual master and Vedic knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,617‎ When one comes to detest material enjoyment, one can understand that he has advanced spiritually. Spiritual life does not mean taking sannyasa and then smoking or drinking tea ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,716‎ One must actually come to detest material life. One comes to lose interest in material activities and becomes interested only in the understanding of God, the Supreme Being, and His service ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 13 September 2022 diff hist +26,045‎ Hogs work hard day and night simply eating stool, and because stool contains chemicals, hypophosphates, the hog gets strength, becomes very fat and enjoys sex. In any case, human life is meant not for imitating the life of a hog but for tapasya, austerity ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0110:01, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,844‎ The society of varnasrama-dharma - composed of brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas, sudras, grhasthas, vanaprasthas, brahmacaris and sannyasis - is meant to elevate people gradually to the perfect stage of understanding God ‎No edit summary
• 10:0110:01, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,498‎ When one goes to school, he begins with the first grade, then progresses to the second, third and so forth. In this way one makes progress ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,536‎ They (disciples of Krsna Consciousness) are simply interested in sitting on the floor and learning about Krsna consciousness. Why is this? They have actually rejected the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,399‎ People are saying, "Can you show me God?" while not realizing that they are seeing God daily at every moment ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,425‎ Because people are foolish in this age, they cannot understand that when we perceive the energy of the Lord, we can feel the presence of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,773‎ The young devotees in the Krsna consciousness movement are presently worshiping Krsna. What are the signs of a devotee? The actual sign of a devotee is that he is no longer interested in material enjoyment: bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra ca ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4609:46, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,890‎ Acaryopasanam: this information (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam) is not concocted, but is accepted by the acaryas in the disciplic succession. Although an impersonalist, Sankaracarya has accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 09:4509:45, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,661‎ So have Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu Svami, Nimbarka and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His followers. They all accept Krsna as the Supreme, just as Arjuna himself did. This is the simplest method ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,370‎ There is no need to speculate, "What is God? Where is God?" Why foolishly go on searching? Here is God - Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,584‎ We may think that Krsna cannot be seen, but Krsna can appear in the form of His energy. Of course, a stone is not God, but a stone is another one of God's energies ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,606‎ Heat and light are not fire, but without fire there cannot be heat or light. In that sense, heat and light are nondifferent from fire. This material world is like the heat and light of the supreme fire ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,834‎ Consequently many people are surprised to see how Americans and Europeans have become such great devotees and are dancing in ecstasy. How is it they are so advanced? They have taken the information seriously: krsnas tu bhagavan svayam - SB 1.3.28 ‎No edit summary
• 09:3709:37, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,831‎ On this earth we have created so many dharmas - Hindu dharma, Muslim dharma, Christian dharma. These are all manufactured dharmas, but real dharma is attained when we come to the conclusion that Sri Krsna is everything ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,616‎ The sun is situated in one place, and its light and heat expand throughout the entire solar system. As soon as we perceive light and heat, we can understand that the sun is there ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,498‎ Since light and heat can be perceived by everyone, Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (7.8), prabhasmi sasi-suryayoh - I am the light of the sun and the moon ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0508:05, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,524‎ Presently there is a different God on every street, but Krsna is not that kind of God. He is the Supreme God. As Krsna Himself states in Bhagavad-gita - 7.7 ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0408:04, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,414‎ The purpose of this Krsna consciousness movement is to inform everyone that no one is superior to Krsna, God ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0408:04, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,587‎ Many young Americans and Europeans are fortunate and know nothing of any hodgepodge god, they have taken this bona fide Krsna consciousness movement seriously ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0308:03, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,950‎ Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam: (SB 1.3.28) Bhagavan, God, means Sri Krsna. We have simply presented this information, saying, "Here is God. Sri Krsna." Because they have taken this seriously, many young Americans and Europeans are advancing in KC ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,601‎ The Krsna consciousness movement is meant for the propagation of this message. We are not preaching a particular sectarian religious system but a real religion, dharma ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5707:57, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,678‎ The simplest definition of dharma is that dharma is the order of the Supreme Being. Since the Supreme Being, God, is one, His order must be one. How, then, can there be different dharmas? It is not possible ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,499‎ Gold is gold. If a Christian possesses some gold, does it become Christian gold? Gold is gold whether possessed by a Hindu, a Muslim or a Christian ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5507:55, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,610‎ According to the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, dharma means surrendering unto that Supreme Being. This is bhagavata-dharma, and everyone should be taught how to surrender unto God ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5407:54, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,206‎ God is one; there cannot be two Gods. When there is competition, there is no God ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5207:52, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,892‎ Understanding one's spiritual identity is called dharma. The ultimate goal of dharma is enunciated by Sri Krsna Himself in BG (18.66). Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja: - Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5107:51, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,332‎ Unless one is enlightened by spiritual knowledge, he remains animalistic ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4807:48, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,726‎ We are all Brahman, spirit soul, but somehow or other we have come in contact with these material elements (bhumir apo 'nalo vayuh (BG 7.4)), and we have acquired bodily coverings. Consequently we think, "I am this body." This is ignorance ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4607:46, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,357‎ Gold is gold, even if it is covered with some dirt, which can certainly be removed ‎No edit summary current

11 September 2022

• 10:2710:27, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,448‎ After hearing Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna addressed Krsna as param brahma param dhama (BG 10.12), - the Supreme Brahman and supreme abode ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2610:26, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,784‎ Every person is actually Brahman, spirit soul. We are not actually the body. Awareness of aham brahmasmi ("I am Brahman") is actual self-realization. According to Vedic culture, one must understand that he is Brahman, not the body ‎No edit summary
• 10:2510:25, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,895‎ We should not remain in ignorance like cats and dogs, thinking, "I am this body, I am American, I am Indian, I am brahmana, I am ksatriya, I am Hindu, I am Muslim," and so on. These are all bodily designations ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2210:22, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,526‎ Arjuna was in perfect knowledge, yet Krsna instructed him for our benefit. Arjuna requested Krsna's instructions, which are set forth for all human society ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,652‎ Yet there are mahatmas, great souls, who can understand Krsna. Arjuna could understand that although Krsna was playing the part of his friend, He was nonetheless the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1110:11, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,607‎ After his son grew up, Kardama Muni, being a strict follower of the Vedas, left home and put his wife in the charge of his grown son, Kapiladeva ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,810‎ It is not that one should rot in this material world throughout one's whole life. Pancasordhvam vanam vrajet. According to the Vedic injunctions, there are four asramas and four varnas, and these used to be followed very strictly ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,887‎ Some hundreds & thousands years ago Lord Krsna appeared as Devahuti-putra Kapiladeva. His father's name was Kardama Muni. After Kapiladeva grew up, His father, according to the Vedic system, retired, took sannyasa & left home to cultivate spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,586‎ Since everyone in this age is an unintelligent, unfortunate and disturbed sudra, how can anyone understand the Absolute Truth or the aim of life ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,656‎ This process is not Caitanya Mahaprabhu's invention, but is advised by the sastras, the puranas. The process for this Kali-yuga is very simple. One need only chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0110:01, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,945‎ The characteristics of this age predicted by Srimad-Bhagavatam are already being experienced to some degree. Since Kali-yuga is a very miserable age, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is Sri Krsna Himself, advises everyone simply to chant Hare Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 10:0010:00, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,452‎ According to Srimad-Bhagavatam there will eventually be no rain and consequently a scarcity of food. The governments will also levy very heavy taxes ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,575‎ The word manda means both slow and bad, and everyone in this age is either bad or slow or a combination of both. People are unfortunate and disturbed by so many things ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,707‎ Actually human life is meant for understanding spiritual values, but because everyone in this age is a sudra, no one is interested. People have forgotten life's real purpose ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,335‎ The people in this age are very short-lived and slow in understanding spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,827‎ It is said that at the present moment in Kali-yuga everyone is a sudra (kalau sudra-sambhavah), and it is very difficult in this age to find qualified brahmanas, for they are very rare. There is practically not a single qualified brahmana in this age ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,808‎ According to the Vedic conception, there must be men in society who are factually brahmanas, capable of expounding the real truth. If everyone becomes a sudra, the Absolute Truth cannot be understood ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,517‎ According to Bhagavad-gita (18.42), those possessing brahminical qualifications are situated in sattva-guna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4709:47, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,700‎ We cannot understand the Absolute Truth or the Supreme Person by mental speculation, especially when we are under the influence of the three modes of material nature - sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4609:46, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,467‎ The word sankhyata means "expounder," and tattva means "the Absolute Truth." The Absolute Truth is Bhagavan Sri Krsna Himself ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,921‎ Bhagavan, Krsna or His incarnation, occasionally visits the earth to give humanity information about the aim of life. Thus the Supreme Lord descended as Kapiladeva, tattva-sankhyata ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,277‎ Later, another Kapiladeva appeared who expounded atheistic Sankhya philosophy, which dealt with the twenty-four elements but gave no information about God. The original Kapila is called the Devahuti-putra Kapila, and the other is called the atheist Kapila ‎No edit summary current

7 September 2022

• 16:3616:36, 7 September 2022 diff hist +7,124‎ Authority of the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3616:36, 7 September 2022 diff hist +7,644‎ Authority is your spiritual master. You do not know who is authority? Why this question is there? If one is initiated, then he accepted the authority & if he does not follow the instruction of spiritual master, he is a rascal. He is defying the authority ‎No edit summary
• 16:3316:33, 7 September 2022 diff hist +8,706‎ The four Vaisnava acaryas who are the great authorities of the four Vaisnava disciplic successions, as well as Sripada Sankaracarya of the Mayavada school, appeared in the Panca-dravida provinces ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3216:32, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,615‎ Test for bona fide spiritual masters is that there should be no difference between the instruction of the Lord originally imparted to His devotee and that which is imparted by the authority in the line of disciplic succession ‎No edit summary current
• 16:3216:32, 7 September 2022 diff hist +10,645‎ The demigods prayed - Ajnana-bhidapamarjanam - by Your (Krsna's) appearance the speculative knowledge of ignorance will be vanquished, and the real, experienced knowledge of authorities like Lord Brahma will be established ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2916:29, 7 September 2022 diff hist +3,562‎ We should simply be satisfied with the statements of authorities like Sukadeva Gosvami and appreciate how the entire cosmic manifestation has been made possible by the external energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 16:2716:27, 7 September 2022 diff hist +5,644‎ Here (in SB 7.9.10) is a statement by Prahlada Maharaja, one of the twelve authorities, regarding the distinction between a devotee and a brahmana expert in karma-kanda, or Vedic ritualistic ceremonies ‎No edit summary

2 September 2022

• 10:0610:06, 2 September 2022 diff hist +8,150‎ That which is never created cannot change in formation and quality, even though He (the Lord) is the seedling source of everything ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,555‎ The living entity cannot be desireless or senseless, but he does have to change the quality of the desires. A materially desireless person certainly knows that everything belongs to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0510:05, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,138‎ The living entity cannot be desireless or senseless, but he does have to change the quality of the desires. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,636‎ The Lord is purna, complete, and therefore He eats everything offered by His devotees. However, by the touch of His transcendental hand, all the food remains exactly as before. It is the quality that is changed ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,493‎ The mind is the pivot of the active sense organs, and as such if the quality of thinking, feeling and willing is changed, naturally the quality of actions by the instrumental senses will also change ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,825‎ The quality of engagement by the mind has to be changed ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0010:00, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,726‎ There was no longer a need for material activities. The activities of the mind cannot be stopped, for they are the reflection of the eternal soul, but the quality of the activities can be changed from matter to the transcendental service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5909:59, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,226‎ We cannot change the quality of printing for the matter of a little change in the price. This printing is not approved by me. Repeatedly changing of printers is not at all good. We cannot approve any printing less than quality of printing of Dai Nippon ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 2 September 2022 diff hist +6,540‎ One can very easily understand that the mind is constantly flickering, changing in the quality of its thinking, feeling and willing ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5209:52, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,234‎ Mind or desire cannot be stopped, but to develop a desire to function for spiritual realization, the quality of engagement by the mind has to be changed ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,999‎ Krsna appears on this earth or within this universe without any change in His spiritual body or spiritual qualities ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,702‎ For the present, we are all being controlled by the external energy of the Lord, and just to change the quality of the influence, we must endeavor to cultivate spiritual energy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,072‎ Dhruva Maharaja and Prahlada Maharaja and many other devotees were able to see the Personality of Godhead face to face apparently in the same body. This means that the quality of a devotee's body changes from material to transcendence ‎No edit summary
• 09:4909:49, 2 September 2022 diff hist +2,373‎ Consciousness is pure, for the spirit soul is pure. But consciousness is changed according to the association of the material qualities. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 2 September 2022 diff hist +3,750‎ By the will of the Supreme Lord the different qualitative changes in the material world take place, but there is no possibility of material affection, change or contamination for Lord Visnu ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4709:47, 2 September 2022 diff hist +5,128‎ Anything that changes under the influence of time and circumstances is not sanatana. Therefore anything that changes whatsoever in form or quality cannot be accepted as sanatana ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4609:46, 2 September 2022 diff hist +5,961‎ All culture of knowledge, austerities, sacrifice and activities should be aimed at changing the quality of the influence that is acting upon us ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 2 September 2022 diff hist +4,664‎ Again election, as if election will change their quality. Let them remain as rascal, and simply by election, in place of one rascal, another rascal will improve it. Let them remain rascal, but get vote ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4209:42, 2 September 2022 diff hist +56,539‎ Change the quality ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 2 September 2022 diff hist +213‎ Category:Not Believing in Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 2 September 2022 diff hist +243‎ Category:Not Believing in God ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2109:21, 2 September 2022 diff hist +365‎ Category:Not Believing in Devotional Service to God ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1909:19, 2 September 2022 diff hist +264‎ Category:Nonbelievers ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 2 September 2022 diff hist +282‎ Category:Nescience ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 2 September 2022 diff hist +229‎ Category:Atheist ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 2 September 2022 diff hist +361‎ Category:God Is The Proprietor of the Fields of Nescience and Cognition ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1409:14, 2 September 2022 diff hist +273‎ Category:God and the Nonbelievers ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 2 September 2022 diff hist +526‎ Category:Do Not Believe ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1009:10, 2 September 2022 diff hist +192‎ Category:Disbelieving Krsna ‎No edit summary current

1 September 2022

• 09:5109:51, 1 September 2022 diff hist +5,649‎ There are some yogic schools. In America you'll find. They do not believe in God. But it is not actually... The yoga principle does not deny the existence of God. God is there ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 1 September 2022 diff hist +6,197‎ There are philosophers who do not believe in the Lord's incarnation and who ask - Why should the Supreme Lord come? But the answer is - Why should He not come? Why should He be controlled by the desire of the living entity ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 1 September 2022 diff hist +2,728‎ The virat-rupa, as exhibited by Lord Krsna to Arjuna, is a challenge to the unbelievers ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 1 September 2022 diff hist +6,682‎ They do not believe in God. "Everyone is God. I am God, you are God, he is God, everyone is God. So whatever law you give yourself, that becomes your religion." This is going on. So God is not so cheap that you become God, I become God, he becomes God ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 1 September 2022 diff hist +4,968‎ They (miscreants) are always planning something mischievous. They are the lowest of mankind because they do not believe in God. Why? Their knowledge has been plundered by the influence of the material energy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4709:47, 1 September 2022 diff hist +2‎ These (Buddhist) philosophers were all atheists, for they did not believe in the existence of God ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 1 September 2022 diff hist +7,310‎ This denial, that "I don't believe in God," is a existence like that, one who has forgotten his father and mother. That is maya, and that is material consciousness. Denying God in different way, "There is no God," that is also denial ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4409:44, 1 September 2022 diff hist +5,480‎ Those who are atheistic, i.e., who do not believe in Visnu, or who only recognize the impersonal part of Krsna as the Supreme, cannot have the divine vision. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4409:44, 1 September 2022 diff hist +3,847‎ The Supreme Lord was also anxious, thinking that if He appeared as an ordinary child, she (Devaki) would not believe that Lord Visnu had appeared. Such are the dealings between devotees and the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4309:43, 1 September 2022 diff hist +5,209‎ The pseudo svamis, yogis & incarnations who do not believe in the SPG are known as pasandis. They themselves are fallen and cheated because they do not know the real path of spiritual advancement, and whoever goes to them is certainly cheated in his turn ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4209:42, 1 September 2022 diff hist +3,597‎ The Lord says in the Bhagavad-gita that no one is dearer to Him than one who actually preaches the glories of the Lord to convert the nonbelievers and nondevotees ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 1 September 2022 diff hist +6,399‎ He (King Vena) was an atheist, who did not believe in the existence of God, and who consequently stopped all Vedic ritualistic ceremonies in his kingdom ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 1 September 2022 diff hist +1,344‎ Faithless unbelievers do not see what is clearly evident, just as owls do not see the rays of the sun ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 1 September 2022 diff hist +2‎ Buddhism, actually, they do not believe in God, but they have love for Lord Buddha ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 1 September 2022 diff hist +4,447‎ The impersonalists do not believe in the form of the Lord, and thus they would hardly believe in the Lord's sleeping. Their idea is obtained by a poor fund of knowledge; they calculate everything in terms of man's capacity ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3309:33, 1 September 2022 diff hist +4,476‎ The compulsory law is that God is great, and we are subordinate or servant of God. You may believe or not believe; the God's law will apply upon you forcibly ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 1 September 2022 diff hist +2,354‎ The combination of living entities in different modes of material nature is called crossbreeding. The faithless atheists do not believe in the existence of God, and thus their paths of philosophy are contradictory ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 1 September 2022 diff hist +8,134‎ The American nation should be so strong that anyone godless, he should be fired. Any nation who does not believe in God, war declared. "Either you believe in God or come on. Fight. Come under us" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3109:31, 1 September 2022 diff hist +3,608‎ Those who do not believe in the activities of the Lord cannot explain how things happen. Using words like "accident," they take shelter of ideas that are unbelievable ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3009:30, 1 September 2022 diff hist +2‎ Although the present leaders of India are influencing the people not to believe in God, they are teaching them how to eat meat and become supposedly civilized ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 1 September 2022 diff hist +2‎ Although the present leaders of India are influencing the people not to believe in God, people are nevertheless afraid of the four activities of sinful life - namely illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 1 September 2022 diff hist +7,888‎ Although the present leaders of India are influencing the people not to believe in God, people are nevertheless afraid and whenever there is a religious festival, they gather together by the thousands. We have actual experience of this ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 1 September 2022 diff hist +2‎ Although the present leaders of India are influencing the people not to believe in God, not to believe in a next life and not to believe in a distinction between pious and impious life, and although they are teaching them how to drink wine ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 1 September 2022 diff hist +2‎ A Russian fiction writer is now contributing suggestions to the rest of the world that scientific progress can help man to live forever. Of course, he does not believe in a Supreme Being who is the creator ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 1 September 2022 diff hist +2‎ A living being cannot be a nondevotee of the Lord because of his constitutional position, but when one becomes a nondevotee or nonbeliever, it is to be understood that the person concerned is not in a sound condition of life ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 1 September 2022 diff hist +6,842‎ Since King Vena was such a man, he did not believe in the existence of God. Modern civilization agrees with the principles of King Vena ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2309:23, 1 September 2022 diff hist +5,416‎ Sometimes atheists argue that since God is invisible to their eyes, they do not believe in God. For them the Supreme Lord is describing a method by which one can see God in His impersonal form ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2309:23, 1 September 2022 diff hist +4,187‎ The activities of the Lord are pleasing to experimental vision also, but impersonalists will not believe in His identity because they study the personality of the Lord by comparing their personality to His ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2209:22, 1 September 2022 diff hist +2‎ A demoniac preacher tells his followers: "Why are you seeking God elsewhere? You are all yourselves God! Whatever you like, you can do. Don't believe in God. Throw away God. God is dead." These are the demoniac's preachings . BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2109:21, 1 September 2022 diff hist +3,312‎ That the atheist does not believe in God means ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 1 September 2022 diff hist +4,766‎ Here (in SB 8.3.12) the word jnana-ghanaya indicates that for atheists who disbelieve in the form and existence of the Lord, all these various incarnations appear. Since the Lord comes to teach in so many forms, no one can say that there is no God ‎No edit summary
• 09:1609:16, 1 September 2022 diff hist +3,876‎ Persons who are themselves under the control of supernatural power cannot believe that Lord Krsna is not under any control beyond Himself in the matter of sense enjoyment. They cannot understand that His senses are transcendental ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1409:14, 1 September 2022 diff hist +7,265‎ Our Krsna consciousness movement is just to educate man that you believe or not believe, it doesn't matter. There is God. There is the proprietor, but He's coming personally and He's saying, bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 1 September 2022 diff hist +3,993‎ One who has limited senses cannot believe that the Lord can eat by His transcendental power of hearing and can perform the act of sex life simply by seeing. The controlled living entity cannot even dream of such sense activities in his conditional life ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1009:10, 1 September 2022 diff hist +3,418‎ In Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.15) they (men who dont believe in God's incarnations) are called not only miscreants but also fools and the lowest of mankind, and it is said that their knowledge has been plundered by illusion due to their atheistic temperament ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0909:09, 1 September 2022 diff hist +2‎ Immediate problem is the petrol. Nobody trusts in God. The Arabians, they're thinking that this oil, "Our oil." But actually, his father has not manufactured this oil. It is God's oil. None of them believe in God, either the Arabians or the others ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0809:08, 1 September 2022 diff hist +8,084‎ Lord Buddha deluded the atheists because such atheists who followed his principles did not believe in God, but they kept their absolute faith in Lord Buddha, who himself was the incarnation of God ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0709:07, 1 September 2022 diff hist +2‎ Not believing in the fact that the energy of the Absolute Truth is transformed, Sankaracarya has propounded his theory of illusion. This theory states that although the Absolute Truth is never transformed, we think that it is transformed ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 1 September 2022 diff hist +5,889‎ Lord Buddha propagated, "Yes, there is no God. But what I say, you follow." "Yes, sir." But he is God. This is cheating. Yes. They do not believe in God, but they believe in Buddha, and Buddha is God ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0509:05, 1 September 2022 diff hist +1,498‎ Lord Nityananda's very features indicate that He is the subduer of the unbelievers. All sins and unbelievers flee from the loud shouts of Advaita Acarya ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0209:02, 1 September 2022 diff hist +3,131‎ Unfortunately, materially affected conditioned souls are all more or less averse to topics of the Supreme Lord because some of them do not believe in the existence of God and some of them believe only in the impersonal feature of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 1 September 2022 diff hist +2‎ No one should hear Bhagavad-gita or Srimad-Bhagavatam from a person who does not believe in the existence of the Lord. Such a person is already doomed, and any association with such a doomed person makes the associater also doomed ‎No edit summary
• 08:5808:58, 1 September 2022 diff hist +3,230‎ We do not believe. "Oh, God cannot give us protection. Let me try my own technology. I shall protect myself" ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5408:54, 1 September 2022 diff hist +5,973‎ You may not believe in God, but when death comes you must believe in God ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4108:41, 1 September 2022 diff hist +189,759‎ Not believe in God ‎No edit summary current

17 August 2022

• 14:0714:07, 17 August 2022 diff hist +2,378‎ According to Sridhara Svami, Arjuna was obliged to catch this son of a brahmana like an animal as a part of his duty (dharma). This suggestion by Sridhara Svami is also confirmed in the later statement of Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current

14 March 2021

• 11:0811:08, 14 March 2021 diff hist +56‎ The descendants of Kanu Thakura know him as Nagara Purusottama. He was the cowherd boy named Dama during krsna-lila. It is said that just after the birth of Kanu Thakura, his mother, Jahnava, died. ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0211:02, 14 March 2021 diff hist +4,089‎ N The descendants of Kanu Thakura know him as Nagara Purusottama. He was the cowherd boy named Dama during krsna-lila. It is said that just after the birth of Kanu Thakura, his mother, Jahnava, died. ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The descendants of Kanu Thakura know him as Nagara Purusottama. He was the cowherd boy named Dama during krsna-lila. It is sai..."

28 February 2021

• 09:1609:16, 28 February 2021 diff hist +7,222‎ N If one goes about two or two and a half miles from the Jhikaragacha-ghata station, he can see Bodhakhana, the headquarters of Kanu Thakura. The son of Sadasiva was Purusottama Thakura, and his son was Kanu Thakura ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"He can see Bodhakhana, the headquarters of Kanu Thakura. The son of Sadasiva was Purusottama Thakura, and his son was Kanu Tha..."

27 February 2021

• 12:3812:38, 27 February 2021 diff hist +4,051‎ N Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes in his Anubhasya, - To go to the headquarters of Kanu Thakura, one has to proceed by boat from the Jhikaragacha-ghata station to the river known as Kapotaksa ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"To go to the headquarters of Kanu Thakura, one has to proceed by boat from the Jhikaragacha-ghata station to the river known a..."
• 12:1312:13, 27 February 2021 diff hist +2,922‎ N Since that place (Sahebadanga Bedigrama) also has been destroyed, all the Deities are now situated in the village named Candude-grama, which is situated one mile up from Palapada, as referred to above ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Since that place also has been destroyed, all the Deities are now situated in the village named Cānduḍe-grāma, which is si..."
• 11:5811:58, 27 February 2021 diff hist +2,819‎ N Purusottama dasa Thakura sometimes lived at Sukhasagara, near the Cakadaha and Simurali railway stations. All the Deities installed by Purusottama Thakura were formerly situated in Beledanga-grama ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Purusottama dasa Thakura sometimes lived at Sukhasagara, near the Cakadaha and Simurali railway stations. All the Deities inst..."
• 11:4211:42, 27 February 2021 diff hist +3,107‎ N In texts 194 & 200 (of the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika) it is said that Kamsari Sena, the father of Sadasiva Kaviraja, was formerly the gopi named Ratnavali in Krsna’s pastimes. All the family members of Sadasiva Kaviraja were great devotees of Lord Caitanya ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In texts 194 and 200 it is said that Kaṁsāri Sena, the father of Sadāśiva Kavirāja, was formerly the gopī named Ratnāv..."
• 11:1711:17, 27 February 2021 diff hist +2,754‎ N Text 156 of the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika says that Candravali, a most beloved gopi of Krsna’s, later took birth as Sadasiva Kaviraja ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Text 156 of the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika says that Candravali, a most beloved gopi of Krsna’s, later took birth as Sadasiva Ka..."
• 11:0411:04, 27 February 2021 diff hist +2,835‎ N Sadasiva Kaviraja and Nagara Purusottama, who were father and son, are described in the Caitanya-bhagavata as maha-bhagyavan, greatly fortunate. They belonged to the vaidya caste of physicians ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Sadāśiva Kavirāja and Nāgara Puruṣottama, who were father and son, are described in the Caitanya-bhāgavata as mahā-bh..."
• 10:3110:31, 27 February 2021 diff hist +2,866‎ N To reach Akaihata, one has to go from the Byandel junction station to the Katwa railway station and then go about two miles, or one has to get off at the Danihata station and from there go one mile ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is situated on the road to Navadvīpa. To reach Ākāihāṭa, one has to go from the Byāṇḍel junction station to the..."
• 10:0910:09, 27 February 2021 diff hist +2,606‎ N In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (132) it is said that Kala Krsnadasa, who was also known as Kaliya Krsnadasa, was formerly a gopa (cowherd boy) of the name Lavanga. He was one of the twelve cowherd boys ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (132) it is said that Kālā Kṛṣṇadāsa, who was also known as Kāliyā Kṛṣṇad..."
• 09:5709:57, 27 February 2021 diff hist +1,245‎ N In this verse the word radhe refers to Radhadesa, the part of Bengal where the Ganges does not flow ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In this verse the word rāḍhe refers to Rāḍhadeśa, the part of Bengal where the Ganges does not flow"}} {{notes|}} {{com..."
• 09:4209:42, 27 February 2021 diff hist +1,636‎ N They (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Ratnagarbha Acarya) had been residents of the same village. Ratnagarbha Acarya had three sons - Krsnananda, Jiva and Yadunatha Kavicandra ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"They had been residents of the same village. Ratnagarbha Ācārya had three sons—Kṛṣṇānanda, Jīva and Yadunātha Kav..."
• 09:0009:00, 27 February 2021 diff hist +1,769‎ N In the Caitanya-bhagavata, Madhya-khanda, Chapter One, it is said that a gentleman known as Ratnagarbha Acarya was a friend of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s father ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya-khaṇḍa, Chapter One, it is said that a gentleman known as Ratnagarbha Ācārya was a fr..."

26 February 2021

• 13:1313:13, 26 February 2021 diff hist +2,904‎ N In the temple of Mahesa Pandita there are Deities of Gaura-Nityananda, Sri Gopinatha, Sri Madana-mohana and Radha-Govinda, as well as a salagrama-sila ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the temple of Maheśa Paṇḍita there are Deities of Gaura-Nityānanda, Śrī Gopīnātha, Śrī Madana-mohana and Rādh..."
• 13:0413:04, 26 February 2021 diff hist +3,088‎ N It is mentioned that Mahesa Pandita joined the festival performed by Sri Nityananda Prabhu at Panihati. Narottama dasa Thakura also joined in the festival, and Mahesa Pandita saw him on that occasion ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is mentioned that Maheśa Paṇḍita joined the festival performed by Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu at Pānihāṭi. Narottama..."
• 12:4712:47, 26 February 2021 diff hist +2,626‎ N There are about fourteen villages (where Palapada is situated in the midst of various villages such as Beledanga, Berigrama, Sukhasagara, Candude and Manasapota), and the entire neighborhood is known as Pancanagara Paragana ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"There are about fourteen villages, and the entire neighborhood is known as Pāñcanagara Paragaṇa"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|K..."
• 10:5210:52, 26 February 2021 diff hist +2,921‎ N When Masipura merged into the riverbed of the Ganges, the Deities there were brought to Palapada, which is situated in the midst of various villages such as Beledanga, Berigrama, Sukhasagara, Candude and Manasapota ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"When Masipura merged into the riverbed of the Ganges, the Deities there were brought to Palapada, which is situated in the mid..."
• 10:3510:35, 26 February 2021 diff hist +3,007‎ N It is said that formerly Mahesa Pandita lived on the eastern side of Jirat in the village known as Masipura or Yasipura ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The Ganges flows nearby. It is said that formerly Maheśa Paṇḍita lived on the eastern side of Jirāṭ in the village kno..."
• 09:3809:38, 26 February 2021 diff hist +2,870‎ N The village of Mahesa Pandita, which is known as Palapada, is situated in the district of Nadia within a forest about one mile south of the Cakadaha railway station.The Ganges flows nearby ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The village of Maheśa Paṇḍita, which is known as Pālapāḍā, is situated in the district of Nadia within a forest abou..."

25 February 2021

• 14:2414:24, 25 February 2021 diff hist +3,340‎ N The descendants of Pandita Dhananjaya still live in Sitala-grama and look after the temple worship ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The descendants of Paṇḍita Dhanañjaya still live in Śītala-grāma and look after the temple worship"}} {{notes|}} {{com..."
• 14:2014:20, 25 February 2021 diff hist +3,854‎ N After some time, he (Pandita Dhananjaya) left the responsibility for worship with a disciple and went back to Vrndavana. After returning from Vrndavana to Sitala-grama, he established a Deity of Gaurasundara in the temple ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"After some time, he left the responsibility for worship with a disciple and went back to Vrndavana. After returning from Vrnda..."
• 14:1014:10, 25 February 2021 diff hist +3,828‎ N Before going to Vrndavana, he (Pandita Dhananjaya) lived for some time in a village named Sancadapancada, which is six miles south of the Memari railway station. Sometimes this village is also known as ‘the place of Dhananjaya’ (Dhananjayera Pata) ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Before going to Vṛndāvana, he lived for some time in a village named Sāṅcaḍāpāṅcaḍā, which is six miles south o..."
• 13:5613:56, 25 February 2021 diff hist +3,526‎ N It is said that for some time Pandita Dhananjaya was in a sankirtana party under the direction of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and then he went to Vrndavana ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is said that for some time Pandita Dhananjaya was in a sankirtana party under the direction of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and..."
• 13:4613:46, 25 February 2021 diff hist +3,436‎ N The foundation of the old temple (at Sitala) is still visible. There is a tulasi pillar near the temple, and every year during the month of Kartika (October-November) the disappearance day of Dhananjaya is observed ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The foundation of the old temple is still visible. There is a tulasi pillar near the temple, and every year during the month o..."
• 13:3013:30, 25 February 2021 diff hist +3,632‎ N Some time ago, the zamindars of Bajaravana Kabasi, the Mulliks, constructed a big house for the purpose of a temple, but for the last sixty-five years the temple has been broken down and abandoned ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Some time ago, the zamindars of Bājāravana Kābāśī, the Mulliks, constructed a big house for the purpose of a temple, but..."
• 13:1813:18, 25 February 2021 diff hist +3,453‎ N One has to go about a mile northeast of this station to reach Sitala. The temple was a thatched house with walls made of dirt ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"One has to go about a mile northeast of this station to reach Sitala. The temple was a thatched house with walls made of dirt"..."
• 13:0913:09, 25 February 2021 diff hist +3,587‎ N Sitala-grama is situated near the Mangalakota police station and Kaicara post office in the district of Burdwan. On the narrow railway from Burdwan to Katwa is a railway station about nine miles from Katwa known as Kaicara ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Sitala-grama is situated near the Mangalakota police station and Kaicara post office in the district of Burdwan. On the narrow..."
• 12:3712:37, 25 February 2021 diff hist +3,569‎ N Pandita Dhananjaya was a resident of the village in Katwa named Sitala. He was one of the twelve gopalas. His former name, according to the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (127), was Vasudama ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Paṇḍita Dhanañjaya was a resident of the village in Katwa named Śītala. He was one of the twelve gopālas. His former n..."
• 12:1012:10, 25 February 2021 diff hist +3,471‎ Lord Caitanya asked Jagadisa to go to Jagannatha Puri to preach the hari-nama-sankirtana movement ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5310:53, 25 February 2021 diff hist +4,453‎ N In the temple, Baladeva and Sri Sri Radha-Gopinatha are together on the throne. It is supposed that the Deity of Baladeva was installed later because according to transcendental mellow, Baladeva, Krsna and Radha cannot stay on the same throne ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the temple, Baladeva and Sri Sri Radha-Gopinatha are together on the throne. It is supposed that the Deity of Baladeva was..."
• 10:4010:40, 25 February 2021 diff hist +4,343‎ N The family titles of Paramesvari’s descendants are Adhikari and Gupta. Unfortunately, his family members do not worship the Deity directly; they have engaged paid brahmanas to worship the Deity ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The family titles of Paramesvari’s descendants are Adhikari and Gupta. Unfortunately, his family members do not worship the..."
• 10:2210:22, 25 February 2021 diff hist +4,507‎ N The descendants of Paramesvari Thakura took many disciples from brahmana families, but as these descendants gradually took to the profession of physicians, persons from brahmana families ceased becoming their disciples. ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The descendants of Paramesvari Thakura took many disciples from brahmana families, but as these descendants gradually took to..."
• 09:3309:33, 25 February 2021 diff hist +4,497‎ N “Paramesvari Thakura belonged, it is said, to a vaidya family. A descendant of his brother’s is at present a worshiper in the temple. Some of their family members still reside in the district of Hugli, near the post office of Canditala ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"“Parameśvarī Ṭhākura belonged, it is said, to a vaidya family. A descendant of his brother’s is at present a worshipe..."
• 09:2209:22, 25 February 2021 diff hist +4,385‎ N In front of the temple, in a very attractive place among two bakula trees and a kadamba tree, is the tomb of Paramesvari Thakura, and above it is an altar with a tulasi bush. It is said that only one flower a year comes out of the kadamba tree. ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In front of the temple, in a very attractive place among two bakula trees and a kadamba tree, is the tomb of Paramesvari Thaku..."
• 09:0209:02, 25 February 2021 diff hist +4,043‎ N Another temple in Atapura, established by the Mitra family, is known as the Radha-Govinda temple. ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Another temple in Atapura, established by the Mitra family, is known as the Radha-Govinda temple"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Krit..." current
• 08:3908:39, 25 February 2021 diff hist +4,323‎ N It is stated in the Bhakti-ratnakara that by the order of Srimati Jahnava-mata, he installed Radha-Gopinatha in the temple at Atapura, in the district of Hugli. The Atapura station is on the narrow-gauge railway line between Howrah and Amata ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is stated in the Bhakti-ratnakara that by the order of Srimati Jahnava-mata, he installed Radha-Gopinatha in the temple at..." current
• 08:2508:25, 25 February 2021 diff hist +4,313‎ N Formerly he (Paramesvara dasa) was Arjuna, a friend of Krsna and Balarama.He was the fifth among the twelve gopalas.He accompanied Srimati Jahnava-devi when she performed the festival at Khetari ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Formerly he was Arjuna, a friend of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma. He was the fifth among the twelve gopālas. He accompanied Śr..."

24 February 2021

• 13:0013:00, 24 February 2021 diff hist +2,452‎ N The pandita was in the top of a tree, and upon seeing the dancing of Nityananda he jumped down on the ground and proclaimed himself to be Angada, one of the devotees in the camp of Hanuman during the pastimes of Lord Ramacandra ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The pandita was in the top of a tree, and upon seeing the dancing of Nityananda he jumped down on the ground and proclaimed hi..."
• 12:4712:47, 24 February 2021 diff hist +2,250‎ N Pandita Purandara met Sri Nityananda Prabhu at Khadadaha. When Nityananda Prabhu visited this village, He danced very uncommonly, and His dancing captivated Purandara Pandita ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Paṇḍita Purandara met Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu at Khaḍadaha. When Nityānanda Prabhu visited this village, He danced ver..."
• 12:0512:05, 24 February 2021 diff hist +4,058‎ N The eldest son of Gauridasa Pandita was known as big Balarama, and the youngest was known as Raghunatha. The sons of Raghunatha were Mahesa Pandita and Govinda. Gauridasa Pandita’s daughter was known as Annapurna ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The eldest son of Gaurīdāsa Paṇḍita was known as big Balarāma, and the youngest was known as Raghunātha. The sons of R..."
• 10:5510:55, 24 February 2021 diff hist +4,237‎ N Some of the names of the descendants of Gauridasa Pandita are as follows: (17) Patuya Gopala, (18) Bada Jagannatha, (19) Nityananda, (20) Bhavi, (21) Jagadisa, (22) Raiya Krsnadasa and (221/2) Annapurna ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Some of the names of the descendants of Gauridasa Pandita are as follows: (17) Patuya Gopala, (18) Bada Jagannatha, (19) Nitya..."
• 10:4210:42, 24 February 2021 diff hist +7,606‎ N Some of the names of the descendants of Gauridasa Pandita are as follows: (9) Yadavacarya, (10) Hrdaya-caitanya, (11) Canda Haladara, (12) Mahesa Pandita, (13) Mukuta Raya, (14) Bhatuya Gangarama, (15) Auliya Caitanya, (16) Kaliya Krsnadasa ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Some of the names of the descendants of Gauridasa Pandita are as follows: (9) Yadavacarya, (10) Hrdaya-caitanya, (11) Canda H..."
• 10:1610:16, 24 February 2021 diff hist +4,264‎ N Some of the names of the descendants of Gauridasa Pandita are as follows: (1) Sri Nrsimha-caitanya, (2) Krsnadasa, (3) Visnudasa, (4) Bada Balarama dasa, (5) Govinda, (6) Raghunatha, (7) Badu Gangadasa, (8) Auliya Gangarama ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Some of the names of the descendants of Gauridasa Pandita are as follows: (1) Sri Nrsimha-caitanya, (2) Krsnadasa, (3) Visnuda..."
• 09:1009:10, 24 February 2021 diff hist +4,101‎ N It is stated in the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (128) that formerly he was Subala, one of the cowherd boyfriends of Krsna and Balarama in Vrndavana ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is stated in the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (128) that formerly he was Subala, one of the cowherd boyfriends of Kṛṣṇ..."

23 February 2021

• 14:5114:51, 23 February 2021 diff hist +4,670‎ N Five types of upper-class brahmanas are recognized by the surname Pippalai ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Five types of upper-class brahmanas are recognized by the surname Pippalai"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Kritika}} {{complete|ALL}}..."
• 14:4014:40, 23 February 2021 diff hist +5,158‎ N In this way, Kamalakara Pippalai became the worshiper of Lord Jagannatha, and since then his family members have been designated as Adhikari, which means - one who is empowered to worship the Lord.These Adhikaris belong to a respectable brahmana family ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In this way, Kamalākara Pippalāi became the worshiper of Lord Jagannātha, and since then his family members have been desig..."
• 14:2914:29, 23 February 2021 diff hist +5,238‎ N The next morning he met Kamalakara Pippalai, who was formerly an inhabitant of the village Khalijuli in the Sundaravana forest area of Bengal and was a pure Vaisnava, a great devotee of Lord Jagannatha; thus he immediately gave him charge of the worship ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The next morning he met Kamalakara Pippalai, who was formerly an inhabitant of the village Khalijuli in the Sundaravana forest..."
• 14:1714:17, 23 February 2021 diff hist +5,205‎ N When he became old, he was very anxious to hand over the worship to the charge of someone reliable, and in a dream he got permission from Jagannatha Prabhu to hand it over to a person whom he would meet the next morning ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"When he became old, he was very anxious to hand over the worship to the charge of someone reliable, and in a dream he got perm..."
• 14:0614:06, 23 February 2021 diff hist +5,297‎ N Dhruvananda went to Mahesa, where he saw the three deities - Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra - floating in the Ganges. He picked up all those deities and installed them in a small cottage, and with great satisfaction he executed the worship of Lord ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Thus Dhruvānanda went to Māheśa, where he saw the three deities—Jagannātha, Balarāma and Subhadrā—floating in the Ga..."
• 13:5513:55, 23 February 2021 diff hist +4,968‎ N This (wanting to offer food to Jagannathaji) being his (Dhruvananda) desire, one night Jagannathaji appeared to him in a dream and asked him to go to Mahesa on the bank of the Ganges and there start worship of Him in a temple ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"This being his desire, one night Jagannāthajī appeared to him in a dream and asked him to go to Māheśa on the bank of the..."
• 13:4013:40, 23 February 2021 diff hist +5,195‎ N The history of the Jagannatha temple in Mahesa is as follows. One devotee of the name Dhruvananda went to see Lord Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra at Jagannatha Puri, wanting to offer food to Jagannathaji that he had cooked with his own hands ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The history of the Jagannatha temple in Mahesa is as follows. One devotee of the name Dhruvananda went to see Lord Jagannatha,..."
• 13:2313:23, 23 February 2021 diff hist +4,790‎ N The members of this (Kamalakara Pippalai's) family still reside in the vicinity of the Mahesa village. Their family name is Adhikari, and they are a brahmana family ‎ Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The members of this family still reside in the vicinity of the Māheśa village. Their family name is Adhikārī, and they are..."