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11 September 2022
- 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..."