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27 October 2023
- 16:3816:38, 27 October 2023 diff hist +53 All glories to Sri Caitanya, who acted as the eastern horizon where the sun of the atmarama verse rose. He manifested its rays in the form of different meanings and thus eradicated the darkness of the material world. May He protect the universe No edit summary current
- 16:3116:31, 27 October 2023 diff hist +53 After hearing the atmarama verse, Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya addressed Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu - My dear Sir, please explain this verse. I have a great desire to hear Your explanation of it No edit summary current
25 October 2023
- 18:2118:21, 25 October 2023 diff hist −67 When Lord Caitanya explained this atmarama verse (SB 1.7.10) to Srila Sanatana Gosvami, He described sixty-one meanings, and all of them point toward the devotional service of the Lord No edit summary
- 18:1718:17, 25 October 2023 diff hist −13 Caitanya told Sanatana Gosvami: I was just like a madman in describing this Atmarama verse in so many ways. Do not mind if I have said something mad. But if someone becomes a madman like Me, he can understand the real meaning of Srimad-Bhagavatam No edit summary
- 18:0418:04, 25 October 2023 diff hist +53 In the atmarama verse of the SB, it is said that those who are already situated on the platform of self-realization are attracted by the transcendental qualities of Krsna. This means that Krsna's qualities are not material but pure and transcendental No edit summary
- 17:5217:52, 25 October 2023 diff hist +45 As stated in the Bhagavad-gita (4.8), the Lord and His eternal associates, who are also liberated souls like the Lord, come down on this earth at certain intervals No edit summary current
- 17:4517:45, 25 October 2023 diff hist +45 According to the Bhagavad-gita, only one who is already on the liberated platform can become an uttama-adhikari devotee and see every living being as his own brother. This vision cannot be had by politicians, who are always after some material gain No edit summary current
- 17:4217:42, 25 October 2023 diff hist +45 One has to follow the prescribed rules and regulations of religious principles in order to rise up to the platform of knowledge because by knowledge and devotion only can one liberate himself from the clutches of maya (illusion). BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 17:4017:40, 25 October 2023 diff hist +45 One who is absorbed in the thought of bodily conceptions cannot understand his situation. BG was spoken to liberate one from the bodily conception of life, and Arjuna put himself in this position in order to receive this information. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary
- 17:3817:38, 25 October 2023 diff hist +45 They (people in general) should come out of it (conditional life) and be Krsna conscious and liberate themselves to transfer to the spiritual world. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
24 October 2023
- 21:4521:45, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49 Those who are thinking that "I am now liberated simply by some volumes of philosophical speculation," so Bhagavata says, "No, your intelligence is not yet purified because you have not yet approached Krsna" No edit summary current
- 21:3721:37, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49 The inhabitants of the Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual sky are all liberated souls. In Srimad-Bhagavatam we are informed that their bodily features are exactly like God's No edit summary
- 21:2921:29, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49 The Srimad-Bhagavatam confirms that it is not possible for one to become liberated by cultivation of empiric philosophical speculation. Simply knowing that one is not matter but spirit soul, or Brahman, does not purify one's intelligence No edit summary
- 21:2521:25, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49 The Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.2.32) states, Persons who are falsely puffed up, thinking they have become liberated simply by understanding their constitutional position as Brahman, or spirit soul, are factually still contaminated No edit summary
- 21:1621:16, 24 October 2023 diff hist +26 That such a (saintly) person gradually becomes liberated and enters the kingdom of God is confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam, Fifth Canto, Fifth Chapter, verse 2 No edit summary
- 21:0921:09, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49 Sukadeva Gosvami was a liberated soul from the very beginning of his birth, and his father taught him Srimad-Bhagavatam No edit summary
- 21:0821:08, 24 October 2023 diff hist +53 There are many conversions in Vedic literature. For instance, in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 1.7.10) the famous Atmarama verse is especially meant for those who are attracted to self-realization and liberated from all material attachments No edit summary current
- 20:5220:52, 24 October 2023 diff hist −53 According to the Visva-prakasa Sanskrit dictionary, there are seven synonyms for the word atmarama, which are as follows: (1) Brahman (the Absolute Truth), (2) body, (3) mind, (4) endeavor, (5) endurance, (6) intelligence and (7) personal habits No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 20:5020:50, 24 October 2023 diff hist −53 As factually stated by Nanda Maharaja (in Chapter 8 of SB Canto 10), Garga Muni, being a devotee, had no needs. Similarly, when Krsna comes He has no needs, for He is purna, atmarama No edit summary Tag: Manual revert
- 20:4620:46, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu recommended that in order to relish the real taste of Srimad-Bhagavatam, one should take instruction from the person bhagavatam. Srimad-Bhagavatam is relishable even by a liberated person No edit summary current
- 20:4420:44, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49 Regarding persons attached to the impersonal Brahman, Srimad-Bhagavatam says, "My dear Lord, those who think of themselves as liberated by mental speculation are not yet purified of the contamination of material nature" No edit summary
- 20:4220:42, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49 Lord Caitanya elaborated on these teachings of Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 10.87.30) by pointing out that there are two kinds of living entities - the eternally liberated and the eternally conditioned No edit summary current
- 20:4020:40, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49 It was admitted by Sukadeva Gosvami that although he was liberated from within the very womb of his mother, it was only after relishing Srimad-Bhagavatam that he became a great devotee No edit summary current
- 20:3520:35, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49 It is stated in the Srimad-Bhagavatam that if one actually wants to be liberated he must render service to the devotees; but one who associates with materialistic people is on the path leading to the darkest region of existence. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 20:3020:30, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49 In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 10.2.32) it is said that due to their poor fund of knowledge, the jnanis are not actually liberated. They simply think that they are liberated No edit summary
- 20:2720:27, 24 October 2023 diff hist +49 In the Sixth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam we read that when the Vaikuntha-dutas came to take Ajamila, they were four-handed and very beautiful. In the spiritual world, there are four-handed living entities, and they are all nitya-mukta, eternally liberated No edit summary
- 20:2220:22, 24 October 2023 diff hist +94 In Srimad-Bhagavatam you have said that... It's stated that Vyasadeva was afraid when Suta Gosvami was born that he would leave home because he was already a liberated soul No edit summary current
- 01:5401:54, 24 October 2023 diff hist −43 According to Vedic civilization, this giving up of home by vanaprastha and sannyasa is compulsory. But people are so attached to their homes that even up to the point of death they do not like to retire from home life No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 01:5201:52, 24 October 2023 diff hist −19 Acceptance of service rendered by a woman may appear very pleasing, but one should be very cautious in accepting such service because it is clearly said that woman is the gateway to death, or forgetfulness of one's self No edit summary current
- 01:5001:50, 24 October 2023 diff hist +1 According to a Bengali proverb, whatever spiritual progress one makes in life will be tested at the time of death No edit summary current
- 01:3601:36, 24 October 2023 diff hist +1 According to the Vedic system, a dead body is set on fire, but before death there is another fire, or fever, which is called prajvara, or visnu-jvara No edit summary current
- 01:2701:27, 24 October 2023 diff hist +43 According to Vedic civilization, this giving up of home by vanaprastha and sannyasa is compulsory. But people are so attached to their homes that even up to the point of death they do not like to retire from home life No edit summary
- 01:2401:24, 24 October 2023 diff hist +43 According to the Vedic system, a dead body is set on fire, but before death there is another fire, or fever, which is called prajvara, or visnu-jvara No edit summary
- 01:2301:23, 24 October 2023 diff hist +43 According to a Bengali proverb, whatever spiritual progress one makes in life will be tested at the time of death No edit summary
- 01:2101:21, 24 October 2023 diff hist +36 Acceptance of service rendered by a woman may appear very pleasing, but one should be very cautious in accepting such service because it is clearly said that woman is the gateway to death, or forgetfulness of one's self No edit summary
23 October 2023
- 19:0319:03, 23 October 2023 diff hist +44 Acceptance of service rendered by a woman may appear very pleasing, but one should be very cautious in accepting such service because it is clearly said that woman is the gateway to death, or forgetfulness of one's self No edit summary
- 18:3618:36, 23 October 2023 diff hist +53 When Lord Caitanya explained this atmarama verse (SB 1.7.10) to Srila Sanatana Gosvami, He described sixty-one meanings, and all of them point toward the devotional service of the Lord No edit summary
- 18:3418:34, 23 October 2023 diff hist +53 This verse (SB 1.7.10) had been previously explained to a great Vedantist known as Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya. After taking lessons from Lord Caitanya, Sanatana Gosvami referred to this incident and prayed to the Lord to again explain the Atmarama verse No edit summary
- 18:3118:31, 23 October 2023 diff hist +53 The words in the atmarama verse (SB 1.7.10) are atmaramah, ca, munayah, nirgranthah, api, urukrame, kurvanti, ahaitukim, bhaktim, ittham-bhuta-gunah and harih No edit summary current
- 18:2718:27, 23 October 2023 diff hist +53 The SB (1.7.10) states, Although those who are atmarama, self-satisfied, are liberated from all material contamination, they are still attracted by the pastimes of the Supreme Lord, and thus they engage themselves in His transcendental service No edit summary
- 18:2418:24, 23 October 2023 diff hist +53 The Lord always gives instructions to such exalted devotees to inform them how they can remain fixed in devotional service. Similarly, it is stated in the atmarama verse - SB 1.7.10 No edit summary current
- 18:2318:23, 23 October 2023 diff hist +53 The atmarama verse (SB 1.7.10) was discussed at Naimisaranya at a meeting of many great sages, headed by Saunaka Rsi No edit summary
- 18:2018:20, 23 October 2023 diff hist +53 Atmaramanam, self-satisfied. There are two kinds of men: atmarama and apasyatam atma-tattvam (SB 2.1.2) - one who does not know what is the soul and what is the business of the soul No edit summary current
- 18:1818:18, 23 October 2023 diff hist +53 As factually stated by Nanda Maharaja (in Chapter 8 of SB Canto 10), Garga Muni, being a devotee, had no needs. Similarly, when Krsna comes He has no needs, for He is purna, atmarama No edit summary
- 18:0918:09, 23 October 2023 diff hist +53 Caitanya discussed the Atmarama verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam with Prakasananda Sarasvati. Lord Caitanya's admirer, the Maharastriya brahmana, related that the Lord explained this verse in sixty-one different ways No edit summary
- 17:5117:51, 23 October 2023 diff hist +53 According to the Visva-prakasa Sanskrit dictionary, there are seven synonyms for the word atmarama, which are as follows: (1) Brahman (the Absolute Truth), (2) body, (3) mind, (4) endeavor, (5) endurance, (6) intelligence and (7) personal habits No edit summary
- 17:3917:39, 23 October 2023 diff hist 0 Actually, there is no death. The vital force always exists with the soul and when the soul is awakened from so-called sleep, he can see his eleven friends, or the active senses and the mind with their various desires (wives). The vital life-force remains No edit summary current
- 17:3717:37, 23 October 2023 diff hist +1 Actually, there is no death. The vital force always exists with the soul and when the soul is awakened from so-called sleep, he can see his eleven friends, or the active senses and the mind with their various desires (wives). The vital life-force remains No edit summary
- 17:2917:29, 23 October 2023 diff hist +43 According to Vedic scripture, the sinful persons are taken to the superintendent of death, and there, according to his different volumes or proportion of sinful activities, a living entity is punished No edit summary Tag: Reverted
- 17:2717:27, 23 October 2023 diff hist +43 Actually, there is no death. The vital force always exists with the soul and when the soul is awakened from so-called sleep, he can see his eleven friends, or the active senses and the mind with their various desires (wives). The vital life-force remains No edit summary
- 17:1117:11, 23 October 2023 diff hist +94 In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, in Bhagavad-gita, everything is there about Krsna. Anyone can understand if he's little intelligent. And as soon as you understand Krsna, then you are liberated person No edit summary
- 17:0417:04, 23 October 2023 diff hist +94 Bhagavata-dharma, or the religious principle described in SB, of which the Bhagavad-gita is a preliminary study, is meant for liberated persons of the highest order, who attribute very little value to the sense gratification of pretentious religiosity No edit summary
21 October 2023
- 03:5403:54, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49 How a devotee becomes the greatest of all transcendentalists is stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 6.14.5):There are many liberated souls and perfected souls, but out of all of them he who is a devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is best No edit summary
- 03:0303:03, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49 One can be liberated from all adverse circumstances simply by seriously engaging in devotional service. How this devotional service develops and becomes mature is explained here - in SB 3.27.21 No edit summary
- 03:0003:00, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49 Kirtanad eva krsnasya mukta-sangah param vrajet: (SB 12.3.51) Chant the Lord's holy name and you'll be liberated No edit summary
- 02:5602:56, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49 It is stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 10.2.32) that a person who gives up the transcendental loving service of the Supreme Lord and superficially considers himself liberated, never attains to liberation No edit summary current
- 02:5402:54, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49 It is said, mahat-sevam dvaram ahur vimukteh: (SB 5.5.2) if one wants to progress on the path of liberation, he should associate with mahatmas, or liberated devotees No edit summary
- 02:5002:50, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49 In this age of Kali it is a great ocean of faults. But still, there is one sublime gain. What is that? Now, kirtanad eva krsnasya (SB 12.3.51). Simply by krsna-kirtana, kirtanad eva krsnasya mukta-sangah, he becomes liberated No edit summary
- 02:4502:45, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49 In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 12.3.51) it is said, kirtanad eva krsnasya mukta-sangah param vrajet: “Simply by chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, or Lord Krsna’s name, one is liberated and goes back home, back to Godhead.” No edit summary
- 02:4202:42, 21 October 2023 diff hist +94 Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Sri Krsna as they are given in Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land - CC Madhya 7.128 quotes in SB 10.2.19 No edit summary current
- 02:3202:32, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49 Devotional service is so perfect that simply by following the rules and regulations and executing them under the direction of the spiritual master, one is liberated, as it is said herein (in SB 3.33.10), from the clutches of maya, even in this body No edit summary current
- 02:3002:30, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49 Because of her association with her great husband, Maharaja Yayati, Devayani became purified, adopted the means of bhakti-yoga, and thus became liberated No edit summary
- 02:2702:27, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49 A liberated person no longer desires external material happiness. This state is called brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20), attaining which one is assured of going back to Godhead, back to home. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 02:1902:19, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49 A devotee's life and duty are very well explained herein (SB 7.9.18). As soon as a devotee can chant the holy name and glories of the Supreme Lord, he certainly comes to the liberated position No edit summary current
- 02:1502:15, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49 Anyone who becomes even slightly interested in krsna-katha is liberated. Kirtanad eva krsnasya mukta-sangah param vrajet (SB 12.3.51). Simply by chanting or repeating krsna-katha, one is liberated from the contamination of Kali-yuga No edit summary current
- 02:1002:10, 21 October 2023 diff hist +94 If persons who are trying to be liberated hear such narrations as the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, then their path of liberation becomes very clear No edit summary current
- 02:0702:07, 21 October 2023 diff hist +45 Those who are not liberated from material bondage cannot understand transcendental devotional service. In Bhagavad-gita 7.3 it is clearly stated, yatatam api siddhanam No edit summary current
20 October 2023
- 18:5818:58, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 To become honest is also good karma. How to become a good man is described in the Bhagavad-gita very elaborately (BG 16.5): So if you become qualified with the daivi sampad (transcendental qualities), then, vimoksaya - you will be liberated No edit summary current
- 18:5518:55, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 We shall find in the Bhagavad-gita, Tenth Chapter, that anyone who is engaged in that way is a liberated person. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 18:5318:53, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 When one is so liberated, he can really understand the transcendental features of the form of the Lord. Siva advises everyone to practice bhagavad-bhakti-yoga. By doing so one can become really liberated and enjoy spiritual bliss No edit summary
- 18:4518:45, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 As it will be seen, actual devotional service begins after liberation. So in Bhagavad-gita it is said, brahma-bhuta. After being liberated, or being situated in the Brahman position, one's devotional service begins. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 17:4717:47, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 The remedial measures can be understood when one associates with persons who are liberated. It must be understood who is actually liberated. The liberated person is described in Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
- 17:4117:41, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 The liberated person is described in Bhagavad-gita: one who engages in uninterrupted devotional service to the Lord, having surpassed the stringent laws of material nature, is understood to be situated in Brahman No edit summary current
- 17:3717:37, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 The faithful human being who is desirous of being liberated from the clutches of material existence can very easily take advantage of the Bhagavad-gita, and with this in view, the Lord instructed Arjuna as if Arjuna were in need of it No edit summary current
- 17:2417:24, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 Simply by fixing oneself in Krsna consciousness, engaging the senses in the service of the Lord, one is imperceptibly liberated. This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
- 17:0317:03, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 There are many philosophers who write comments on the Bhagavad-gita but have no faith in Krsna. They will never be liberated from the bondage of fruitive action. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 17:0117:01, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 Out of hundreds of thousands of liberated persons, even one person is rarely found who can firmly fix his mind unto the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krsna, as declared by the Lord Himself in the Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
- 16:5816:58, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 Liberation is open for everyone (samam carantam (SB 1.8.28)). In Bhagavad-gita Krsna does not say to Arjuna, "Only you may come to Me and become liberated." No, the Lord is available for everyone No edit summary
- 16:5616:56, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15), "The real purpose of veda, knowledge, is to know Me." One who knows Krsna perfectly is liberated No edit summary
- 16:5516:55, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 One's ignorance can be removed by the instruction of the Bhagavad-gita which teaches one to surrender unto Lord Sri Krsna in all respects and become liberated from the chained victimization of action and reaction, birth after birth. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 16:5216:52, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 In the Bhagavad-gita (4.9) the Lord promises that one who simply understands the mysteries of His transcendental birth and deeds will be liberated from the clutches of Maya and go back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 16:4916:49, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 In Bhagavad-gita the Lord affirms: anyone who wants to be liberated from the entanglement of this material world is given liberation by the Lord No edit summary current
- 16:3816:38, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 In Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that His birth and deeds are transcendental and that anyone who is so fortunate as to know the transcendental nature of His birth and deeds will at once become liberated and eligible to return to the kingdom of God No edit summary current
- 16:3416:34, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that one who knows the truth about Sri Krsna's descent and His various activities is at once liberated and does not have to fall again to this existence of birth and death after he leaves his present material body No edit summary
- 16:3116:31, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Sri Krsna as they are given in the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land No edit summary current
- 16:2716:27, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 He (Lord Caitanya) doesn't want even mukti. Otherwise, if one is liberated, then according to Bhagavad-gita and every Vedic sastra, punar janma naiti, tyaktva deham punar janma naiti (BG 4.9). That is mukti No edit summary current
- 16:1716:17, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 Devotional service of the Lord is accepted in the Bhagavad-gita as the liberated stage. Therefore, brahmi-sthitih is liberation from material bondage. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 16:1516:15, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 As stated in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 12.5), kleso ‘dhikaratas tesam avyaktasakta-cetasam: impersonalists must work hard for many, many births, and only then will they perhaps be liberated No edit summary
- 16:1216:12, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 As advised in Bhagavad-gita if one transcends these four processes and is actually liberated, one engages in devotional service. Then he is guaranteed not to fall to material existence again No edit summary
- 16:0316:03, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 As explained in Bhagavad-gita, Fourth Chapter, anyone who understands the transcendental activities, the appearance and the disappearance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is to be considered liberated No edit summary current
- 15:5615:56, 20 October 2023 diff hist 0 Any person, if he is fortunate enough to hear these teachings (of Bhagavad-gita) from Krsna or from His bona fide spiritual representative, is sure to become a liberated person and get out of the darkness of ignorance. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 15:5215:52, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45 Any person, if he is fortunate enough to hear these teachings (of Bhagavad-gita) from Krsna or from His bona fide spiritual representative, is sure to become a liberated person and get out of the darkness of ignorance. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
21 May 2023
- 23:3123:31, 21 May 2023 diff hist +19,195 Why have we taken so much land (in Mayapur)? Those who are seriously desirous - they will come and live with us. Association is very influential. If you associate with drunkards, you become drunk; if you associate with sadhus, then you become a sadhu No edit summary current
- 23:2923:29, 21 May 2023 diff hist +3,842 Try to concentrate on these farm projects. Let the villagers come and hear, and distribute prasadam. In this way draw their sympathy and gradually they'll become our associates. Then they can come to live with us and work with us No edit summary current
- 23:2723:27, 21 May 2023 diff hist +5,920 To live with devotees or to live in a temple means to associate with the sravana-kirtana process No edit summary current
- 23:2523:25, 21 May 2023 diff hist +3,133 The man who lives with a wife has a great responsibility in maintaining the members of the other social orders - the brahmacaris, vanaprasthas and sannyasis No edit summary current
- 23:2323:23, 21 May 2023 diff hist +2,371 The drug habit is killing the soul of the younger generation in the Western world. So if you live with the devotees, you will get strength to give up this bad habit No edit summary current
- 23:1823:18, 21 May 2023 diff hist +6,405 You have to live with us. Then your friends will not ask you, "What about marijuana?" No edit summary current
- 23:1323:13, 21 May 2023 diff hist +2,330 Regarding your request for some books, the best thing will be if you ask some able person to buy them for you. Or you may ask for the fare to come to Madras and live with the devotees of our Movement No edit summary current
- 23:1023:10, 21 May 2023 diff hist +2,740 Out of the five kinds of liberations, achieving the same planet where the Lord resides and living with the Lord there is called salokya liberation No edit summary
- 23:0723:07, 21 May 2023 diff hist +3,597 Our policy is to live with devotees. Immediately return and live with devotees and take care of the Deities and Tulsi. That is our main business. My Guru Maharaja condemned living alone in a lonely place No edit summary current
- 22:5922:59, 21 May 2023 diff hist +6,230 Most rubbish civilization, modern misleading, soul-killing. Andha yathandhair upaniyamanah (SB 7.5.31). Very difficult to live with them. Still, we have to do this Krsna's business. So we have to do our business. Let the dogs bark on No edit summary current
- 22:5122:51, 21 May 2023 diff hist +8,013 Krsna is the complete whole, and thus all plenary expansions and incarnations always live with Him No edit summary current
- 22:4822:48, 21 May 2023 diff hist +12 It is recommended that a woman desiring to advance in Krsna consciousness peacefully live with a husband and that the couple should not separate under any condition No edit summary current
- 22:4522:45, 21 May 2023 diff hist +3,035 It appears that Vasudeva, the father of Lord Krsna, had completely separate residential quarters where he lived with his eighteen wives, out of whom Srimati Devaki is the real mother of Lord Krsna No edit summary current
- 22:1622:16, 21 May 2023 diff hist +5,390 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally admitted that a grhastha must live with a wife. Ksatriyas were even allowed to have many wives to encourage them in discharging the duties of government No edit summary current
- 21:4421:44, 21 May 2023 diff hist +9,562 So Krsna is so friendly that He always lives with us just to turn our face towards Krsna. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese arjuna tisthati. What is His business? He is simply waiting for the time when we shall turn our face to Krsna. That is His business No edit summary current
20 May 2023
- 16:5916:59, 20 May 2023 diff hist +2,596 In Candapura lived Balarama Acarya and Yadunandana Acarya, the priests of these two personalities, and when Haridasa Thakura went there he lived with them No edit summary current
17 May 2023
- 18:3218:32, 17 May 2023 diff hist +4,471 If you live with the association of sadhu, devotee, then it will be quickly fruitful - And if you live with these ordinary men, then whatever you have got will be finished very soon No edit summary current
- 18:0918:09, 17 May 2023 diff hist +5,437 If you are serious about Krsna consciousness, if you are serious about increasing attachment for Krsna, then you should come and live with the devotees No edit summary current
- 18:0318:03, 17 May 2023 diff hist +2,837 If one always thinks of something, he certainly gets a related body after death. Maharaja Agnidhra was always thinking of Pitrloka, the place where his wife had returned. After his death he achieved that same planet, probably to live with her again No edit summary
- 03:0103:01, 17 May 2023 diff hist +4,805 Even if he goes from forest to forest, one who is not self-controlled must always fear material bondage because he is living with six co-wives - the mind and knowledge-acquiring senses No edit summary current
8 May 2023
- 20:2120:21, 8 May 2023 diff hist +3,392 So don't become grhamedhis, simply having a wife and few children. That, cats and dogs they have also got. That is not required. You find inconvenience to live alone as brahmacari - all right, you take to a wife. Live with wife. Live responsibly No edit summary current
- 16:5816:58, 8 May 2023 diff hist +4,881 I may not be liberated birth after birth, it doesn't matter. But I wish that, I wish to live with the devotees No edit summary current
- 16:3416:34, 8 May 2023 diff hist +3,404 He (Lord Krsna) desires that all of them come to Him and live with Him, but going back to Godhead means that one must purify himself from material infections No edit summary current
- 16:2616:26, 8 May 2023 diff hist +3,381 Puranjana used to live with his wife for sense enjoyment, and at night this very sense enjoyment was appreciated in different ways No edit summary current
- 16:1916:19, 8 May 2023 diff hist +3,834 I have heard that your good wife, Patty is growing Srimate Tulasi devi there at your house with good success. That is another very auspicious sign. The Tulasi, she will not go to live with anyone nondevotee No edit summary current
- 14:5514:55, 8 May 2023 diff hist +4,629 God is everywhere, but He has got a special planet, which is called Goloka Vrndavana. You can enter there directly and see God and live with Him, dance with Him, play with Him, eat with Him. That is the perfection of life No edit summary
7 May 2023
- 17:4217:42, 7 May 2023 diff hist +7,435 Gadadhara Pandita, in the last years of his life, also lived with Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha Puri. There is no doubt, therefore, that Acyutananda was a disciple of Pandita Gadadhara No edit summary current
- 16:4816:48, 7 May 2023 diff hist +3,665 Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, kita janma hao yatha tuya dasa. Thus he prays to take birth as an insignificant insect in the association of devotees. Because devotees are engaged in the service of the Lord, anyone who lives with them also lives in Vaikuntha No edit summary current
- 16:4516:45, 7 May 2023 diff hist +3,599 Being a householder or living with a wife and children is never condemned, provided one lives according to the regulative principles of varnasrama-dharma No edit summary current
- 16:4116:41, 7 May 2023 diff hist +4,366 At the mature age say after 50 years old age, everyone should separate from wife. Married life does not mean that one should continue to live with wife throughout the whole life No edit summary current
- 16:3816:38, 7 May 2023 diff hist −9 Although a person may live with his wife and children happily in Krsna consciousness, he also observes the regulative principles followed in any temple. If there is no Krsna consciousness, the householder’s abode is called a grha-medhi’s house No edit summary current
5 May 2023
- 20:0720:07, 5 May 2023 diff hist +5,469 After fifty years of age, one should voluntarily give up family life and go to the forest. The best forest is Vrndavana, where one need not live with the animals but can associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who never leaves Vrndavana No edit summary
- 19:5619:56, 5 May 2023 diff hist +6 A devotee does not live alone. Of course, everyone lives with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but because the devotee is engaged in His service, he actually does not live in any material condition No edit summary current
- 19:4319:43, 5 May 2023 diff hist +6 A devotee always lives with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, engaging in His service, and therefore he is always transcendental to hellish or heavenly residences No edit summary current
- 19:1319:13, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2,550 My last request to you both is that if you find such difficulty to live with your God-brothers, you can live with me No edit summary current
- 19:1119:11, 5 May 2023 diff hist +4,408 My plan is that personally I shall try to retire from active participation, but I want a place where I can live with at least 15 devotees engaged in editorial work, recording work, photographic work, painting work, etc. No edit summary current
- 19:0919:09, 5 May 2023 diff hist +3,861 It is only the question of understanding the process how to execute Krishna Consciousness. If you can therefore spare some time to live with me, it will be better. You appear to be a very intelligent boy and I hope you will learn the art quickly No edit summary current
- 19:0619:06, 5 May 2023 diff hist +4,549 They could go out and make thousands of dollars a month as educators and skilled professional men, still they prefer to live with me and eat only a little rice from the floor, and sleep on the cold ground without cover No edit summary current
- 19:0519:05, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2,641 There is no worry. I am still prepared to accept you as my original disciple and if there is anything wrong, I am prepared to try and correct it so that your life may not be spoiled. Please therefore come here immediately and live with me No edit summary current
- 19:0319:03, 5 May 2023 diff hist +4,327 So far as you writing you are lonely I think that there is no need for this. Such sentiments of wishing for me to be there is nice but a girl is meant for living with her husband and not her father No edit summary current
- 19:0019:00, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2 My intention of calling him is that he expressed a strong desire to live with me in Montreal, so I wish to keep him with me at least for some time and train him to act as secretary No edit summary current
- 18:5818:58, 5 May 2023 diff hist +3,387 If you are more serious about Krsna Consciousness then you should not only read our books and literatures with due care, but also if possible you should come here and live with me for some time No edit summary current
- 18:5718:57, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2 If you are sincere to our line of action, please come here to Los Angeles and live with me for some time No edit summary current
- 18:5518:55, 5 May 2023 diff hist +1,779 If you actually want to give me service, then you can live with me. I want your service No edit summary current
- 18:5218:52, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2 I think you should without further delay try to become devotees as the others are doing and live with us and practise the regulative principles of brahmacary life No edit summary current
- 18:4918:49, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2,418 I hope you are chanting regularly at least 16 rounds. Sometimes Maya disturbs us but that does not mean any serious drawback. So if you feel too much uneasy, you can come and live with me for some time, and everything will be set up No edit summary current
- 18:4818:48, 5 May 2023 diff hist +1,880 Here in Bombay we have a nice spot. We are now in possession. It is just like a garden house. I shall be glad if you come here and live with me for some time No edit summary current
- 18:4618:46, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2 Don't be implicated in sinful activities. Be God conscious and live here with us comfortably, take your food. We have got this nice palace No edit summary current
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4 December 2022
- 08:0808:08, 4 December 2022 diff hist +27,783 Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Krsna Himself, but He is Krsna accepting the propensities of Radharani. Radharani is always feeling separation from Krsna, and similarly, in the position of Radharani. Lord Caitanya was always feeling that separation No edit summary current
- 08:0408:04, 4 December 2022 diff hist +17,286 By this attitude of service (chanting Hare Krsna), God will reveal Himself. You cannot understand God by your endeavor. Only if God reveals Himself No edit summary current
- 08:0108:01, 4 December 2022 diff hist 0 By the mercy of the spiritual master one is benedicted by the mercy of Krsna. Without the grace of the spiritual master no one can make any advancement. Therefore I should always remember the spiritual master No edit summary current
2 December 2022
- 13:2113:21, 2 December 2022 diff hist 0 By the ascending process one is elevated by knowledge acquired by himself. In this way one thinks - I don't care for any authorities or books. I will attain knowledge myself by meditation, philosophy, etc. In this way I will understand God No edit summary current
- 13:1513:15, 2 December 2022 diff hist +36,212 By studying Bhagavad-gita under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, we can remove these doubts and make definite progress No edit summary current
- 12:3612:36, 2 December 2022 diff hist +24,977 By seeing Krsna, we will not understand Him, but by listening carefully to His teachings, we can come to the platform of understanding No edit summary current
- 12:2612:26, 2 December 2022 diff hist +15,335 By intelligence, you can understand that although the body is changed, the soul is there. The same soul which was existing in the body of the child is still continuing in the body of the old man No edit summary current
- 12:2012:20, 2 December 2022 diff hist 0 By hearing the words of Lord Krsna and following them carefully, we will attain not only peace in the world, but the supreme peace - param santim No edit summary current
- 12:1712:17, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4 By good work we may get a good birth in an aristocratic or wealthy family, and by bad work we may take birth even in the animal kingdom or in degraded human families No edit summary current
- 12:1512:15, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4 By engaging in the transcendental service of Krsna, we actually get out of the cycle of birth and death. But because the fire of knowledge is not burning in our minds, we accept material existence as happiness No edit summary current
- 12:1212:12, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4 By chanting and hearing of Krsna we can actually associate with Him, for He is absolute and nondifferent from His names, qualities, forms and pastimes No edit summary current
- 12:0712:07, 2 December 2022 diff hist 0 By accepting Krsna in this spirit (as said in BG 9.27), we can attain complete knowledge. If, however, we do not accept Krsna and interpret Bhagavad-gita in our own way, then everything will be spoiled No edit summary current
- 11:5611:56, 2 December 2022 diff hist +13,984 Brahma-samhita states that if one takes to the ascending process and travels at the speed of mind and wind for millions of years, he will still end up not knowing No edit summary current
- 11:5311:53, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4 Both Krsna and Rama mean the supreme pleasure, and Hara is the supreme pleasure energy of the Lord, changed to Hare (Hah-ray) in the vocative. The supreme pleasure energy of the Lord helps us to reach the Lord No edit summary current
- 11:5011:50, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4 Bhagavan, Lord Krsna, says that, out of many, many millions of people, one may understand it. But still, the knowledge is there. If you want to understand it, it is not difficult. You can understand it No edit summary current
- 11:4611:46, 2 December 2022 diff hist 0 Bhagavad-gita itself gives some information about the succession of spiritual masters. (Which) Lord Sri Krsna says - in BG 4.1-3 No edit summary
- 11:4311:43, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4 Beyond intelligence, they do not know what exists. But here in the Bhagavad-gita you can find this No edit summary
- 11:3911:39, 2 December 2022 diff hist +17,810 Because Krsna was God, He demanded (BG 18.66): "Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me." But people misunderstood Him. Therefore Krsna again came as a guru and taught people how to surrender to Krsna No edit summary current
- 11:3611:36, 2 December 2022 diff hist +5,456 Because Krsna hasn't got this temporary body, therefore He is not suffering from these things (disease, old age and etc.). Therefore Krsna, you will see always, young man. You will never see Krsna's picture as old man, because He is eternal body No edit summary current
1 December 2022
- 11:3211:32, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 At the utmost we can only gratify our personal whims by some pseudo-adaptation of this (Meditation) system No edit summary current
- 11:2811:28, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 At the end of Bhagavad-gita (18.66) Sri Krsna advises Arjuna: "Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." This is the most confidential part of knowledge No edit summary current
- 11:2611:26, 1 December 2022 diff hist 0 At least three times a day I should offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master No edit summary current
- 11:2211:22, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 At every moment, every second, every day, every hour, the body is changing, so the last change is when one cannot act with the body, and so he has to take another one No edit summary current
- 11:1211:12, 1 December 2022 diff hist −3 As you are married, there is no need of separation as you are practicing artificially. You must live just like a respectable married couple and earn money as a Grhastha, and spend 50% for Krishna - that is the real program No edit summary current
- 10:5210:52, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 As we associate with Krsna, He helps us to understand Him and dispels the darkness of ignorance with the light of knowledge. Krsna is sitting within our hearts acting as guru No edit summary current
- 10:5010:50, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 As soon as we become a little inclined toward Him, He begins to give favorable instructions from within our hearts so that we can gradually make progress No edit summary current
- 10:4710:47, 1 December 2022 diff hist 0 As soon as there is some personal interpretation (in the carried message of authority), the message is lost and the instructions become offensive. A person who interprets the scriptures according to his own whims should be immediately rejected No edit summary current
- 10:4410:44, 1 December 2022 diff hist 0 As soon as a boy and girl are married, they want an apartment. Then they have children. And when they have children, they want social recognition - society, friendship, and love. In this way their material attachment goes on increasing No edit summary current
- 10:4010:40, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 As long as we have the body, we must eat to maintain it, and we must sleep in order to give it rest. We cannot expect to negate these activities, but the Vedic literatures do give us guidelines for regulation in eating, sleeping, mating, etc No edit summary current
- 10:3710:37, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 As living spiritual souls, we are all originally Krsna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter from time immemorial, our consciousness is now adulterated by the material atmosphere No edit summary current
- 10:3510:35, 1 December 2022 diff hist +36,192 As far as the science of God is concerned, Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, advises us to go to a person to whom we can surrender No edit summary current
- 10:2810:28, 1 December 2022 diff hist +24,488 As Arjuna, we should accept Krsna as the SP of Godhead and do as He says (BG 9.27): O son of Kunti, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me No edit summary
- 10:2610:26, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 Arjuna was thinking that controlling the mind was simply not possible for him. Are we then to assume that what was impossible for Arjuna in a more advanced age is possible for us in this degenerate age No edit summary current
- 10:2010:20, 1 December 2022 diff hist +11,799 Arjuna was renowned as a great warrior and administrator. He was such an intelligent man that he could understand Bhagavad-gita within one hour, whereas at the present moment great scholars cannot even understand it in the course of a lifetime No edit summary current
- 10:1710:17, 1 December 2022 diff hist +25,394 Arjuna was Krsna's constant friend, so when Krsna went to His abode, Arjuna was overwhelmed, but just by remembering His teachings he got relief from the pains of separation. Thus whenever we feel separation, it is best to remember the teachings No edit summary current
- 10:1410:14, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 Arjuna says that he accepts all that Krsna has said to him because Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead - BG 18.73 No edit summary current
- 10:1110:11, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 Arjuna says that controlling this mind is more difficult than stopping the wind from blowing. One can imagine a man stretching out his arms trying to stop a hurricane No edit summary current
- 10:0810:08, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 Arjuna heard explanation of meditational system of yoga, all this being conducted in a secluded place alone - he replied: O Madhusudana, the system of yoga, You have summarized appears impractical & unendurable to me, for the mind is restless & unsteady No edit summary current
- 10:0510:05, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 Are we to despair the mind's ever being controlled? No, it can be controlled, and the process is this Krsna consciousness. The mind must be fixed always in Krsna. Insofar as the mind is absorbed in Krsna it has attained the perfection of yoga No edit summary current
- 10:0210:02, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 Are we to assume that Arjuna is simply not sufficiently qualified to control his mind? The actual fact is that we cannot begin to understand the immense qualifications of Arjuna No edit summary current
- 09:5709:57, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 Anyone who is a representative of Krsna - if he takes (charity), that is perfection No edit summary current
- 09:4809:48, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 Anyone knows that an unbridled horse is dangerous to ride. He can go in any direction at any speed, and his rider is likely to come to some harm. Insofar as the mind is unbridled, Krsna agrees with Arjuna that the yoga system is very difficult work indeed No edit summary current
- 09:4509:45, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 Anyone can take part in vibrating this transcendental sound without any previous qualification. In a more advanced stage, of course, one is not expected to commit offenses on grounds of spiritual understanding No edit summary current
- 09:4009:40, 1 December 2022 diff hist +5,734 Ananta-rupam. Adyam, He (Krsna) is the original person. Purana-purusam, the oldest person, because He is the original. Nava-yauvanam ca, but He is still young man. You have seen the picture of Krsna. You will never see Krsna as old man No edit summary current
- 09:3709:37, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4 Although the sadhus do not mind if they are insulted, Krsna does not tolerate any insult to them. As stated in the Ninth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, Krsna is alike to all, but He is especially inclined to His devotees - BG 9.29 No edit summary current
30 November 2022
- 15:4715:47, 30 November 2022 diff hist +15,201 Although Prahlada was only five years old, by advancement in knowledge he was imparting perfect instructions to his classmates. Some may find these instructions unpalatable No edit summary current
- 15:4315:43, 30 November 2022 diff hist −4 Although Krsna is neutral to all, for one who is constantly engaged in Krsna consciousness, who is spreading the message of Bhagavad-gita, He gives special protection No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 30 November 2022 diff hist +27,164 Although Krsna delineates the meditational yoga system in the Sixth Chapter, He does not stress it nor encourage Arjuna to pursue it as his path No edit summary current
- 15:3415:34, 30 November 2022 diff hist +5,020 Although He (Krsna) assumes so many varieties of visnu-tattva, still, advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam adyam purana-purusam nava-yauvanam ca. Therefore visnu-tattva is, never looks like old man. Nava-yauvanam. Always young. Krsna always young No edit summary current
- 15:2815:28, 30 November 2022 diff hist +26,960 All these requirements (for disciplining the body), however, can essentially be broken down into four basic rules: no illicit sexual connection, no intoxication, no meat-eating and no gambling No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 30 November 2022 diff hist −4 All the information necessary is set forth in Bhagavad-gita, and a sane man will take advantage of this knowledge No edit summary
22 September 2022
- 09:5709:57, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,154 There must be ideal, first-class men to act as advisors, second-class men to act as administrators, third-class men to produce food and protect cows, and fourth-class men who obey the three higher classes of society No edit summary current
- 09:5609:56, 22 September 2022 diff hist +9,030 The scientific proposal is that there is first class man and there is tenth class man, but everyone can be utilized for the ultimate goal of life. That is classless. And that means everyone can become Krsna conscious No edit summary current
- 09:5609:56, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,420 They (the American people) must divide their society into first-class men, second-class men, third-class men and fourth-class men. Since they are now creating only men who are less than fourth class, how can they avoid the dangers of a criminal society No edit summary
- 09:5509:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,675 These boys and girls, American boys and girls, they're being taught, instructed to become first-class, intelligent man. This is the movement No edit summary current
- 09:5309:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +10,026 The organized society should be that there should be first-class men, brahmana. They would give advice to the second-class men, the administrators. And the administrator class of men, they will see that everyone is following the religious principles No edit summary current
- 09:5309:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,971 The four classes of men are there, still. But the third-class, fourth-class man is taking the place of first class. And the first-class man is kicked out, "Go out. Don't talk of God." This is the position at the present moment No edit summary current
- 09:5209:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,248 The first-class men are called brahmana, most learned scholar. Learned scholar means, as I was explaining, one who has complete knowledge of God. That is learned scholar No edit summary current
- 09:5209:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,972 The first-class faithful men are the Vaisnavas and the brahmanas, then the ksatriyas, then the vaisyas, then the sudras, then the mlecchas, the yavanas and at last the candalas No edit summary current
- 09:5109:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,992 Suppose you are in this Krsna conscious society. Now, you cannot expect that all the members of the society will be first-class men. How can we expect? We are collecting members of the society from all classes of men No edit summary current
- 09:5109:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +10,986 So far we are concerned we are trying to train first class men. How much great responsibility we have to follow regulative principles, chant the beads, live with personal character etc No edit summary current
- 09:4909:49, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,050 The perfect civilization, Krsna has giving idea, there must be first-class, second-class, third-class, fourth-class. And less than fourth-class, fifth-class. So, first-class man is described, samo damah tapah saucam ksantir arjavam No edit summary current
- 09:4609:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,043 One big man came. So I talked about first-class men, and he admitted. So he said at the last moment, "Now let me go and engage myself in fourth-class activities." So everyone is engaged in fourth-class activities, and we are trying to make first-class men No edit summary current
- 09:4509:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,180 Occupational duties are described in the religious scriptures. If one analyzes them, he can fully understand their qualities & faults and then give them up completely to render service unto the S P of God. Such a person is considered a first-class man No edit summary current
- 09:4509:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,883 Lord says to Uddhava, "My dear Uddhava, any person who takes shelter of Me in complete surrender and follows My instructions, giving up all occupational duties, is to be considered the first-class man" No edit summary current
- 09:4409:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,321 Krsna consciousness movement means we are trying to create some first-class men No edit summary current
- 09:4309:43, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,219 In our sastra charity is recommended to be given to the high-class men, brahmanas and Vaisnavas. They know how to spend money No edit summary current
- 09:4109:41, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,364 Ideal is that man must be first-class No edit summary current
- 09:4009:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,149 I am very glad to hear that the building work is going on with full speed, including both day & night shifts of workers. Do not worry, I am sending you two first-class men from England, both of them have got good experience in engineering & building work No edit summary current
- 09:3709:37, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,892 For the satisfaction of the tongue they are risking their own life and committing sinful life to suffer later on. Therefore the first-class man's first duty is to samah, controlling the mind No edit summary current
- 09:3609:36, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,675 First-class man will think that "I want to eat something to keep myself fit. If by natural products I can keep myself fit, why shall I kill another animal?" No edit summary current
- 09:3509:35, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,692 First-class man is lazy intelligent. Just like you'll see the high-court judges. They're very lazy and most intelligent. That is first-class man. They are doing everything very soberly No edit summary current
- 09:3509:35, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,549 First class-man is lazy intelligent. He knows the value of life, and soberly he is thinking. Just like all our great saintly persons. They were living in the forest, meditation, tapasya, and writing books No edit summary current
- 09:3309:33, 22 September 2022 diff hist +9,287 You go to the airport, any high-class standard man. They search out the pocket. So nobody is believable. So this is the result of modern education. You cannot find out an ideal character man No edit summary current
- 09:3209:32, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,477 Why monarchy? You can continue democracy, but the legislators should be first-class men who has knowledge, not these rascals No edit summary current
- 09:3109:31, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,374 Krsna consciousness movement is trying to create at least one section first-class men so that people may see, "Oh, here are ideal men" No edit summary current
- 09:3109:31, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,168 He is certainly a first-class man who awakens and understands, either by himself or from others, the falsity and misery of this material world and thus leaves home and depends fully on the Personality of Godhead residing within his heart No edit summary current
- 09:2909:29, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,908 Because there is no first-class man to take charge of the woman, they are declaring independence. All the men are doing that. They keep girlfriend, make her pregnant, and go away No edit summary current
- 09:2809:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,285 At the present moment, there is no intelligent class of men. All laborer, worker class of men, fourth class. No first class, second class. Therefore society is in chaotic condition. There is no brain No edit summary current
- 09:2609:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,106 First-class man means No edit summary current
- 09:2509:25, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,980 My request to persons who have joined this Krsna consciousness movement, they should very carefully keep them as first-class men No edit summary current
- 09:2509:25, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,021 No society can improve in transcendental knowledge without the guidance of such first-class men, and no brain can assimilate the subtle form of knowledge without fine brain tissues No edit summary current
- 09:2409:24, 22 September 2022 diff hist +16,837 First-class man (Letters) No edit summary current
- 09:2309:23, 22 September 2022 diff hist +9,016 According to the Vedic system it is said, janmana jayate sudrah: one is born of a material father and mother as a sudra. The purpose of life, however, is to become a brahmana, a first-class man No edit summary current
- 09:2309:23, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,841 Nowadays first-class man means No edit summary current
- 09:2109:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +117,870 First-class man (Lectures) No edit summary current
- 09:2009:20, 22 September 2022 diff hist +40,279 First-class man (Conversations, 1976 - 1977) No edit summary current
- 09:1909:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +113,003 First-class man (Conversations, 1975) No edit summary current
- 09:1809:18, 22 September 2022 diff hist +25,491 First-class man (Conversations, 1972 - 1974) No edit summary current
- 09:1709:17, 22 September 2022 diff hist +13,598 First-class man (Books) No edit summary current
- 09:1009:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,383 We don't need to change our position to become a guru. All we have to do is follow in the disciplic succession stemming from Sri Krsna No edit summary current
- 09:1009:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,293 One may think, - I am illiterate and have no education. I was not born in a very high family. How can I become a guru No edit summary current
- 09:0909:09, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,291 Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that it is not very difficult. Yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna'-upadesa: (CC Madhya 7.128) - Simply speak whatever Krsna speaks. Then you become a guru No edit summary current
- 09:0809:08, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,384 Whoever speaks what Krsna has not spoken is not a guru but a rascal. A guru only speaks what Krsna has spoken. This is the sastric injunction No edit summary current
- 09:0809:08, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,497 People are in darkness, and they have to be enlightened. We have finally come from the animal kingdom to the human form, and now this human form gives us the opportunity to get out of the cycle of birth and death No edit summary current
- 09:0709:07, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,446 The mission of this Krsna consciousness society is to awaken people to their original consciousness No edit summary current
- 09:0709:07, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,461 Jiva jaga, jiva jaga, gauracanda bale'. The word gauracanda refers to Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who tells the living entity, "Get up! Get up! How long will you continue to sleep?" Kota nidra yao maya-pisacira kole No edit summary current
- 09:0709:07, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,183 The same is stated here (Jiva jaga, jiva jaga). It is the prime business of human beings to connect again with the Supreme Soul No edit summary current
- 09:0609:06, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,578 The purpose of yoga is to awaken to Krsna consciousness and connect oneself again with Krsna. That is adhyatmika-yoga. Yoga does not mean showing some mystic magic No edit summary current
- 09:0609:06, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,780 There are many yogis and many different types of yoga systems, and all of these are discussed in Bhagavad-gita. There is hatha-yoga, karma-yoga, jnana-yoga and raja-yoga; however, the real yoga system is meant for reviving our connection with Krsna No edit summary current
- 09:0509:05, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,557 Caitanya Mahaprabhu has advised: amara ajnaya guru hana tara' ei desa (CC Madhya 7.128). Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructed people to learn from Him and then go teach people within their own villages No edit summary current
- 09:0509:05, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,704 It is said: yoga adhyatmikah pumsam. Adhyatmikah: we are living entities, souls. It is not that we are disconnected from Krsna, but we have simply forgotten Him. It is not possible to be disconnected, but it is possible to be covered No edit summary current
- 09:0409:04, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,205 There is yoga, and there is yogamaya. Yogamaya means forgetfulness. First of all we have to understand what is the soul No edit summary current
- 09:0409:04, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,379 At the present moment, people are in such darkness that they do not even understand the soul. Therefore Bhagavad-gita (2.13) first of all teaches what the soul is No edit summary
- 08:5908:59, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,622 Kapiladeva is referred to as Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Bhagavan makes no mistakes. Narayanah paro 'vyaktat: even Sankaracarya says that - Bhagavan, Narayana, does not belong to this material world No edit summary current
- 08:5908:59, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,319 When we speak of Bhagavan, or when the sastras refer to Bhagavan, we refer to Him who is above material understanding No edit summary current
- 08:5808:58, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,570 As stated here, sri-bhagavan uvaca. It does not say vyasadeva uvaca or kapiladeva uvaca. Similarly, in Bhagavad-gita, Vyasadeva says, sri-bhagavan uvaca. Bhagavan refers to Him who is above the defects of this material world No edit summary current
- 08:5708:57, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,595 Bhagavan is not subject to the four deficiencies of the living entities. Being imperfect, living entities are illusioned and subject to commit mistakes. They also have the tendency to cheat others No edit summary current
- 08:5708:57, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,265 When one who has no knowledge tries to become a teacher or preacher, he is actually cheating others No edit summary current
- 08:5608:56, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,317 Since we ourselves do not possess perfect knowledge, we simply try to teach what Sri Bhagavan says. We do not manufacture our own teachings No edit summary current
- 08:5508:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,537 So-called scholars and learned men manufacture their own teachings and give their opinions. In the West especially, we find much philosophical speculation and mental gymnastics, but such philosophy can never be perfect No edit summary current
- 08:5508:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,705 We have to take our ideas from Bhagavan; then they will be perfect. We read Bhagavad-gita because it is perfect. There is no mistake in it; there is no illusion in it; there is no cheating in it. Nor is it delivered by one whose senses are imperfect No edit summary current
- 08:5408:54, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,469 God knows everything, but we do not know what is God. That is our position. Our position is not knowing. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati (BG 18.61). Isvara, God, Krsna, is situated in everyone's heart No edit summary current
- 08:5408:54, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,580 Sarvasya caham hrdi sannivistah: "I have entered into everyone's heart." (BG 15.15) The Supreme Lord refers not only to the hearts of human beings but to those of animals and everything else No edit summary current
- 08:5308:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,548 The Supreme Lord is within the atom as Paramatma, and therefore He is also within the individual soul. Being within everything, He knows everything. Since He knows everything, we have to take lessons from Him No edit summary current
- 08:5208:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,543 This Krsna consciousness philosophy is very easy because we do not manufacture ideas. We take the ideas and the words delivered by the Supreme Person, Krsna, or His incarnation or representative No edit summary current
- 08:5208:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,426 If we take what Bhagavan says as perfect knowledge, we receive perfect knowledge. For receiving this knowledge, there is a disciplic succession - parampara No edit summary current
- 08:5108:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,537 His (Krsna's) representative does not say anything which Krsna Himself does not say. It is very easy to be a representative, but one cannot be a representative of Krsna if one tries to interpret Krsna's words in a whimsical way No edit summary current
- 08:5108:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,222 There is no authority superior to Sri Krsna, and if we stick to this principle, we can become gurus No edit summary current
- 08:4808:48, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,786 Krsna is not alone, but is always with His friends, either the gopis or the cowherd boys, or with His mother and father. We never find Krsna alone. He may be with Radharani or with His devotees No edit summary current
- 08:4708:47, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,541 He (Krsna) is like a king or president. When one says that the king or president is coming, it is understood that he is not coming alone. He comes with His secretaries, ministers and many others No edit summary current
- 08:4608:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,628 The word yoga means "connection," and atma means "soul" and sometimes "mind" or "body." The material body has nothing to do with the Supreme Being because the Supreme Being is completely spiritual. He has no material covering No edit summary current
- 08:4608:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,285 One who thinks that Krsna, the Supreme Being, has a material covering is himself covered by maya No edit summary current
- 08:4508:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,418 Krsna does not say that He comes as an ordinary living being. Rather, His advent is totally transcendental. Janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah - BG 4.9 No edit summary current
- 08:4408:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,388 We have to learn how Krsna takes His birth, which is not ordinary. If it were ordinary, why should we observe the Janmastami ceremony? His birth is divyam, divine No edit summary current
- 08:4108:41, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,500 Krsna is the original Supreme Being, the original spirit soul. We are simply minute parts and parcels of Krsna. If we connect with Krsna, we are illuminated just as Krsna is illuminated No edit summary current
- 08:4008:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,202 If we fall down from Krsna, our spiritual power and illumination are extinguished No edit summary current
- 08:4008:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,508 The word yoga means connecting or linking with that original source. Yoga is the Sanskrit word meaning "connection," and viyoga means - disconnection No edit summary current
- 08:3608:36, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,507 On one side there is happiness, and on the other side there is distress. Both happiness and distress are actually illusions. In summer, water is happiness, but in winter it is distress No edit summary current
- 08:3508:35, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,676 The water is the same, but at one time it brings happiness and at another time it brings distress. When a son is born, he brings happiness, but when he dies, he brings distress. In either case, the son is the same No edit summary current
- 08:3408:34, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,371 This material world is the world of duality, and we cannot understand happiness without distress or distress without happiness. This is therefore called the relative world No edit summary current
- 08:3308:33, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,663 Generally yoga is practiced to acquire some material profit. There are eight kinds of yogic perfection (siddhis): anima, laghima, prapti, isitva, vasitva, mahima, prakamya and kamavasayita No edit summary current
- 08:2808:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,238 Spiritual happiness is above these dualities, and that spiritual happiness is the perfection of yoga. Yoga adhyatmikah No edit summary current
- 08:2808:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,443 Yoga is the happiness of the soul, and the individual soul can be happy when it is with the Supersoul, the Supreme Soul No edit summary current
- 08:2708:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,312 Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13). There is the Supreme Soul, or the supreme living being, and there are many individual souls, individual beings No edit summary current
- 08:2708:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,324 We are many, but the principal living being is one, Krsna. He is the fire, and we are the sparks from that fire No edit summary current
- 08:2608:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,594 The sparks are illuminated when they are with the original fire, but if the sparks no longer associate with the original fire, they are extinguished. Similarly, our real happiness is in enjoying with the Supreme Being. Happiness is being in His company No edit summary current
- 08:2108:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,452 A real yogi can become smaller than the smallest, lighter than the lightest and bigger than the biggest. Whatever he wants he can produce immediately in his hand No edit summary current
- 08:2008:20, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,593 He (a real yogi) can even create a planet. These are some of the yoga-siddhis, but here it is stated that the supreme yoga system does not aim at material happiness or relief from distresses caused by material inconvenience No edit summary
- 08:1808:18, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,402 Everyone is trying to get out of material distress and gain some happiness. In any case, when something is material, there is only so-called happiness and so-called distress No edit summary current
- 08:1708:17, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,425 The attempt in this material world to maximize happiness and minimize distress is called the struggle for existence No edit summary current
- 08:1608:16, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,414 If you can get Krsna to smile upon you just once, your life's goal is fulfilled. Thus smiling, Kapiladeva began to enlighten His mother No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,559 When Kapiladeva or His representative sees someone a little interested, he becomes very glad and thanks him. When Kapiladeva saw His mother interested, He thanked her from within, not openly No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,370 Kapiladeva was very glad, and He began to speak. Kapiladeva was an incarnation of God and was a young boy; therefore His face was very beautiful No edit summary current
- 08:1408:14, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,317 When He answered this question, He became even more beautiful, and He smiled because He was pleased at His mother's question No edit summary current
- 08:1408:14, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,265 Krsna is also very beautiful, but when a devotee serves Him and comes to Him, He becomes even more beautiful No edit summary current
- 08:1308:13, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,602 When a devotee with all his heart and soul serves Krsna, dresses Him in nice garments and gives Him a flower, Krsna smiles No edit summary current
- 08:1108:11, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,891 When a student hears spiritual subjects attentively, the spiritual master becomes very happy. Kapiladeva was very happy to see His mother eager to understand spiritual subject matters. He therefore thanked His mother for her inquiry No edit summary current
- 08:1008:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,695 It is regrettable that in India, where these literatures are available, people are not interested. They are interested in Marxist literature but not Srimad-Bhagavatam, and this is India's misfortune No edit summary current
- 08:0908:09, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,451 If the mango is tasted by the parrot, it becomes doubly tasty. The word suka means parrot, and Sukadeva Gosvami spoke Srimad-Bhagavatam. It is therefore more relishable from his lips No edit summary
- 08:0408:04, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,391 Generally people are interested in things that give immediate pleasure. We want to taste something tasty to the tongue, regardless of whether it is edible or not No edit summary current
- 07:2907:29, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,530 People should not waste their time associating with crows; they should associate with swans. When garbage is thrown out, crows and dogs come to see what is there, but no sane man will go No edit summary current
- 07:2907:29, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,715 Those who are interested in trying to get pleasure out of this material world are actually chewing the chewed. Punah punas carvita-carvananam (SB 7.5.30). If one picks up a piece of sugarcane which has already been chewed, he is a fool No edit summary current
- 07:2807:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,549 We must know that the juice has already been taken out of that sugarcane. What will one get by chewing it? However, there are animals who are simply interested in chewing the chewed No edit summary current
- 07:2707:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,679 Material life means chewing the chewed. A father educates his son to earn a livelihood, get married and settle down, but he himself already knows that by doing this he has not become satisfied. Why, then, is he engaging his son in this same business No edit summary current
- 07:2707:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,232 A real father is one who does not allow his son to chew the chewed No edit summary current
- 07:2607:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,681 Pita na sa syaj janani na sa syat... na mocayed yah samupeta-mrtyum: one should not become a father or a mother unless one is able to save his children from the impending clutches of death. That is the duty of the father and mother. How can this be done No edit summary current
- 07:2607:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,350 A father and mother should educate their son in Krsna consciousness. Then he can be saved. They should educate the son in such a way that there is no pavarga No edit summary current
- 07:2507:25, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,663 If we do not go forward to liberation, we promote a civilization of cats and dogs. Eating, sleeping, mating, defending, fearing and dying are all experienced by cats and dogs, but human life is meant for another purpose No edit summary current
- 07:2407:24, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,449 Of course we have to maintain the body; it is not that we should neglect it. But we should not unnecessarily engage in the maintenance of the body No edit summary current
- 07:2407:24, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,593 From the Vedas we can receive education of all kinds. On a mango tree, there are ripened mangoes and green mangoes. The Srimad-Bhagavatam is the ripened mango of the desire tree of Vedic knowledge: nigama-kalpa-taror galitam phalam - SB 1.1.3 No edit summary
- 07:2107:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,474 One may ask, - How is it that in the modern age these Europeans and Americans of the Krsna consciousness movement do not take interest in newspapers No edit summary current
- 07:2107:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,653 Newspapers are very popular in the West. Each day the papers are published in three or four editions, and they are all selling. However, these American boys and girls who have come to Krsna consciousness have stopped reading newspapers No edit summary current
- 07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,725 They (American boys and girls) do not know what is happening from day to day, and it does not matter. All of this is a waste of time. It is better that they read literatures like Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita. Why waste one's valuable time No edit summary
- 07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,471 Kapiladeva was very glad that His mother was interested only in spiritual advancement. This material world is called pavarga, and to nullify it is called apavarga No edit summary current
- 07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,538 In this material world, people are laboring very hard simply to earn some money. This creates a hellish situation, and this is the way of material life No edit summary current
- 07:1707:17, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,323 The questions are raised by Devahuti, and the answers are given by Kapiladeva. That is apavarga-vardhanam No edit summary current
- 07:1607:16, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,541 As far as material maintenance is concerned, the sastras never stress it. Rather, they say that one's maintenance will come automatically No edit summary current
- 07:1307:13, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,506 Transcendentalists are not interested in worldly talks. Indeed, worldly talks are very disgusting to them, and they avoid the company of those who talk about nonsensical worldly affairs No edit summary current
- 07:1207:12, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,685 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu advised His disciples: gramya-katha na sunibe. The word gramya refers to that pertaining to one's village, society or neighborhood. People are interested in talking about gramya-katha No edit summary current
- 07:1107:11, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,606 Newspapers, for instance, are filled with gramya-katha. There is no spiritual understanding in them. In the United States there are many newspapers, and simply to publish the New York Times many trees have to be killed No edit summary current
- 07:1107:11, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,510 Now there is a paper scarcity. Why are they uselessly killing trees just for gramya-katha? They are only interested in making a profit No edit summary current
- 07:1007:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,734 There is, another kind of katha-krsna-katha. There are literatures which may be nicely presented from the literary point of view, but if there is no glorification of the Supreme Lord, they are useless No edit summary current
- 07:1007:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,464 Worldly literatures are like places where crows take pleasure. In the bird society, there are crows and swans, and crows are interested in places where filthy things are thrown No edit summary current
- 07:0907:09, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,602 Swans prefer nice clear water with lotus flowers, and it is in such places that they take their pleasure. Similarly, there are men who are like crows and men like swans. That is a natural division No edit summary current
- 07:0907:09, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,704 According to an old English proverb, Birds of a feather flock together. Crows mix with crows, and swans mix with swans. Since devotees are like swans (hamsas), a most advanced devotee is called paramahamsa No edit summary current
- 07:0807:08, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,174 The paramahamsas are not interested in subjects fit for crows No edit summary current
- 07:0707:07, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,823 A person who is interested in inquiring about transcendental subjects, krsna-katha, makes a paramahamsa very glad. Therefore Kapiladeva was very glad to hear that His mother was eager to receive information on how to be delivered from material bondage No edit summary current
- 07:0707:07, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,523 Caitanya Mahaprabhu advised His disciples never to eat palatable food, never to talk about village topics and never to read ordinary novels, poems and newspapers No edit summary current
- 07:0507:05, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,485 Those who are sat are thus transcendentalists advanced in spiritual life, and when they hear questions from those who want to understand spiritual life, they become very happy No edit summary current
- 06:5906:59, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,690 When a person advances in bhakti-yoga, he will automatically become detached from material attractions No edit summary current
- 06:5806:58, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,146 There are many American and European boys and girls in this KC movement who have been born in countries where they can enjoy a good deal of material affluence, but they consider this material happiness and affluence like garbage in the street No edit summary current
- 06:5806:58, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,875 Because they are devotees of Vasudeva, they are no longer attached to these material things. This is the result of bhakti-yoga, which enables one to be detached from material enjoyment No edit summary current
- 06:5706:57, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,919 Detachment is the sign that one is advancing in bhakti-yoga. Bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra ca (SB 11.2.42). That is the test of advancing in bhakti. If we are advanced, we are no longer attached to material enjoyment No edit summary current
- 06:5606:56, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,597 It is not that we think ourselves great devotees and then go ahead and enjoy material things No edit summary current
- 06:5506:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,031 Since our only business is to take shelter of Krsna, Devahuti says, - I am taking shelter of You so that You can cut my attachment to this material life. Why should You do this? Because I am Your eternal servant No edit summary current
- 06:5406:54, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,755 Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, anadi karama-phale, padi 'bhavarnava-jale, taribare na dekhi upaya. If we are thrown into the ocean, there is a great struggle, even if we may be very great swimmers No edit summary current
- 06:5406:54, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,988 When one sees something superior, he immediately rejects that which is inferior. Actually we cannot bring all this about by our own endeavor; therefore we have to take shelter of Krsna, and He will help No edit summary current
- 06:5306:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,747 Even if we are nonviolent and hurt no one, there will be trouble. However, if somehow or other we manage to reach the shore, we will find peace No edit summary current
- 06:5306:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,902 There is peace even if we are an inch out of the water. Tava pada-pankaja-sthita-dhuli sadrsam vicintaya (Siksastaka 5). If somehow or other we become one of the particles of dust at Krsna's lotus feet, we will be liberated No edit summary current
- 06:5206:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,872 We may be a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian for fifty or sixty years, or at the utmost one hundred, but again we have to take birth and be something else No edit summary current
- 06:5206:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,780 We are thinking in terms of these religious designations, which are called asad-dharma, meaning that they may change at any moment. But what is our real dharma No edit summary current
- 06:5106:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,632 Real dharma is sad-dharma, that which will not change, and this sad-dharma necessitates surrendering unto Krsna. This dharma will continue eternally No edit summary current
- 06:5106:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,947 There are many propounders of sad-dharma, but actually the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the best propounder because He knows the reality. It is therefore said of the Gosvamis: nana-sastra-vicaranaika-nipunau sad-dharma-samsthapakau No edit summary current
- 06:5006:50, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,023 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's direct disciples, the Gosvamis, tried to establish sad-dharma, and we are trying to follow in their footsteps by establishing real dharma throughout the world with this Krsna consciousness movement No edit summary
- 06:4606:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,593 Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya was a great logician, and he composed a hundred verses to Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current
- 06:4406:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,094 The Krsna consciousness movement preaches that everything belongs to Krsna & that everything should be utilized for Krsna's benefit. He is the beneficiary of everything, & it is to our benefit that we come to this knowledge. Isavasyam idam sarvam - ISO 1 No edit summary current
- 06:1106:11, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,569 If one realizes that everything belongs to Krsna, one becomes the greatest mahatma No edit summary current
- 06:1106:11, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,850 Being a mahatma does not mean that one wears a big beard and a particular type of dress. No, this awareness must be there. Whatever we have should be offered to Krsna No edit summary current
- 06:1106:11, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,016 If we have first-class food, we should offer it to Him. If we have nothing, we can offer Him a leaf, a flower, a little water or fruit. This can he collected by anyone anywhere without having to pay money No edit summary current
- 06:1006:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,978 The point is that we should offer something to Krsna with devotion. It is not that Krsna is hungry and is asking for food. No, He is feeding everyone, supplying everyone with all the necessities: eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman - Katha Upanisad 2.2.13 No edit summary current
- 06:0906:09, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,039 What, then, is He requesting? He is asking for bhakti, devotion, because He wants us to love Him. We are suffering in this material world, entangled in the tree of material existence, moving from one branch to another, and because of this we are suffering No edit summary
- 06:0906:09, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,857 Krsna does not want us to suffer, jumping like monkeys from branch to branch. We must come to Him and surrender to Him. When we come to this knowledge, we become perfect in knowledge No edit summary current
- 06:0806:08, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,923 When we take shelter at the lotus feet of Krsna, we are no longer debtors to anyone. Na kinkaro nayam rni (SB 11.5.41). Krsna assures us, 'aham tvam sarva-papebhyo moksayisyami: "I'll give you all relief." (BG 18.66) This is what we actually want No edit summary current
- 06:0806:08, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,889 Vairagya-vidya-nija-bhakti-yoga (CC Madhya 6.254). Bhakti-yoga is the science of detachment. This verse was composed by Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya when he understood that Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 06:0606:06, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,828 The external energy is this material world, the internal energy is the spiritual world, and the marginal energy is the living entity. The living entity is marginal because he can remain in the material world or the spiritual world No edit summary current
- 06:0506:05, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,619 Bhagavad-gita describes two types of living entities, ksara and aksara, those living in the material world and those in the spiritual world No edit summary current
- 06:0506:05, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,701 It is essential that we disassociate ourselves from this tree by detachment. Cutting down this tree is very difficult, but it is possible with the weapon of detachment No edit summary
- 06:0306:03, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,705 There is a Bengali proverb that states: "I'll catch the fish, but I will not touch the water." That type of intelligence is required No edit summary current
- 06:0306:03, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,868 In America we see many old men on the beach who have retired from their business to waste their time trying to catch fish. They are not very cautious, and they touch the water No edit summary current
- 06:0206:02, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,652 The real dharma is set forth by Sri Krsna when He says: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja (BG 18.66). All other dharmas are simply forms of cheating No edit summary current
- 06:0206:02, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,818 Those who have fallen into the material world are attracted by the tree of samsara, the banyan tree of material existence described in Bhagavad-gita - Fifteenth Chapter No edit summary current
- 06:0106:01, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,845 We may have many great temples, but we should not be attached to them. It is for Krsna's sake that we construct temples, but we must understand that the temples are Krsna's property No edit summary current
- 06:0006:00, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,746 Our mission is to teach people that everything belongs to Krsna. Only a thief will occupy something belonging to another and claim it to be his No edit summary current
- 05:5805:58, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,015 Although we are not paying the bill, we are taking advantage of the sunlight and the sun's heat. If we take advantage of electricity, we have to pay the bill, but we don't pay the sun bill. This means that we are actually indebted to the sun-god, Vivasvan No edit summary current
- 05:5705:57, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,169 The King of heaven, Indra, is supplying water in the form of rain. Rascals say that all this comes about by nature, but they do not know that nature is controlled. If we don't pay our debts by performing sacrifices, there will certainly be a scarcity No edit summary
- 05:5505:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,858 We do not care for our Father; however, nature is nonetheless working under His direction. If we do not care for Him, nature will reduce her supply, for nature will not allow demons to flourish No edit summary current
- 05:5505:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,905 Demons are always subject to be punished, and great demons like Ravana and Hiranyakasipu are personally punished by the Lord. Otherwise, ordinary demons are punished by the laws of material nature No edit summary current
- 05:5405:54, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,908 Krsna does not need to come to punish the petty demons, but when there are great demons like Ravana, Hiranyakasipu and Kamsa, the Lord comes as Lord Ramacandra, Lord Nrsimha-deva or Sri Krsna to punish them No edit summary current
- 05:5405:54, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,670 If we do not want to be punished, we have to follow the rules and regulations (sad-dharma). Dharma means "the laws given by God." Dharmam tu saksad bhagavat-pranitam - SB 6.3.19 No edit summary current
- 05:5305:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,961 The laws are given by Bhagavan and are written in books like Manu-samhita and other Vedic literatures. According to the law, we have to obey the government, and according to dharma, we have to obey Krsna, God No edit summary
- 05:5205:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,822 We cannot manufacture our laws at home, and we cannot manufacture dharma. If one tries, he is simply cheating the public. Such false dharmas are kicked out of Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.1.2): dharmah projjhita No edit summary
- 05:5205:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,938 We must accept the principles of Bhagavad-gita, which constitute the ABC'S of dharma. Actually, we only have to accept the principle of surrender unto Krsna, but this acceptance comes after many, many births No edit summary current
- 05:5105:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,940 It is not very easy, for only after many births of struggle does one come to his real perfection and surrender unto Krsna. At this time he understands perfectly that Vasudeva, Krsna, is everything No edit summary current
- 05:5105:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,735 This is the greatest lesson of Bhagavad-gita, Everything is Krsna's energy, and whatever we see is but an exhibition of two types of energy No edit summary
- 05:5005:50, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,019 Everyone knows that the sun has two types of energy - heat and light. Similarly, Krsna has an external energy and an internal energy, and He also has a marginal energy, which is a mixture of the other two No edit summary current
- 05:4705:47, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,136 Because we have given up Krsna's service, we have become servants of so many things. We are obliged to serve our parents, wife, children, country and so forth. We are indebted to many people and to the demigods who give heat and light No edit summary current
- 05:4605:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,145 Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is everyone's real shelter (saranam saranyam). Everyone is seeking shelter because we are all constitutionally servants. Originally we are servants of God; therefore it is our nature to take His shelter No edit summary current
- 05:4505:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,952 Some seek an occupation or the service of a great man; others seek the service of the government or whatever. In any case, the ultimate shelter is Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary
- 05:4505:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,116 Being Krsna's incarnation, Kapiladeva is also a shelter. Krsna has unlimited forms and unlimited incarnations. It is said in Srimad-Bhagavatam that His incarnations are expanding continuously, like waves in the ocean. Indeed, we cannot even count them No edit summary current
- 05:4405:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,889 In Brahma-samhita it is said: Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam (Bs. 5.33). In India there are many thousands of temples, and within these temples there are arca-vigrahas, Deities. All these Krsnas are nondifferent; they are one No edit summary current
- 05:4405:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,972 Krsna resides in Vaikuntha and also in the temple. The Krsnas are not different, although they are ananta, unlimited. Krsna is also the witness within everyone's heart, and He is seeing all of our activities No edit summary
- 05:4305:43, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,030 We cannot hide anything from Him, and we receive the results of our karma because the witness is Krsna Himself within the heart. How, then, can we avoid Him? Without Krsna's permission, we cannot do anything No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 22 September 2022 diff hist +21,287 Why does Krsna give us permission to do something wrong? He does so because we persist. Actually He does not tell us to do anything other than surrender unto Him. We want to do something, & Krsna may sanction it, but we go ahead & do it at our own risk No edit summary current
- 05:4005:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,657 Krsna is not responsible. However, we should know that without the sanction of Krsna, we cannot do anything. That is a fact No edit summary current
- 05:4005:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,739 We are constitutionally servants of Krsna. Even though we may declare ourselves independent, we are not. Rather, we are servants falsely declaring that we are independent No edit summary current
- 05:3905:39, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,512 Self-realization is understanding that we are dependent on the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 05:3705:37, 22 September 2022 diff hist +10,958 He (Krsna) clearly says, bhaktya mam abhijanati: (BG 18.55) "Only by devotional service can I be understood." If we want to know Krsna as He is, we have to accept the process of bhakti. It is this bhakti process that Kapiladeva will reveal to Devahuti No edit summary current
- 05:3205:32, 22 September 2022 diff hist +10,712 If I am the master of anger, I can control my anger, and if I am the master of my desires, I can control my desires. In any case, I am a servant, and my service should be transferred to Krsna. That is the perfection of life No edit summary current
21 September 2022
- 08:3908:39, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,532 We may temporarily make some compromises, but ultimately the material world is full of misery No edit summary current
- 08:3808:38, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,736 We are very much attached to this material world, but according to the Vedic system, renunciation is compulsory, for when one reaches the age of fifty, he renounces his family life No edit summary current
- 08:3808:38, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,556 Nature gives warning, - You are now past fifty. That's all right. You have fought in this material world. Now stop this business No edit summary current
- 08:3708:37, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,956 Children play on the beach and make houses out of sand, but after a while the father comes and says, "Now, my dear children, time is up. Stop this business and come home." This is the business of the guru - to teach his disciples detachment No edit summary current
- 08:3608:36, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,880 The world is not our place; our place is Vaikunthaloka. Krsna also comes to remind us of this. The dharma, or order, of the Supreme Person is to become His devotee and always think of Him No edit summary current
- 08:3608:36, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,713 Krsna says: "Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, offer obeisances and worship Me." (BG 9.34) In this way, Krsna opens the door, but we unfortunately do not accept Him No edit summary current
- 08:3508:35, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,131 Krsna tells Arjuna, "Because you are My friend, I am revealing to you the most confidential dharma." What is that? "Simply surrender unto Me." This is the dharma taught by the SPG, and Krsna's incarnation and His devotee will teach the same dharma No edit summary current
- 08:3408:34, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,857 We are all after happiness, but we do not know how to enjoy happiness. We want to enjoy our senses, but it is not possible with these covered false senses. The senses must be opened, and that is the process of purification No edit summary current
- 08:3408:34, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,903 We are thinking of ourselves according to so many false material identifications, but we should take Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's advice: jivera 'svarupa' haya-krsnera 'nitya-dasa.' We must come to understand, - I am the eternal servant of Krsna No edit summary current
- 08:3308:33, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,872 After all, our senses are employed for the satisfaction of somebody - either for ourselves or for someone else. That is kama, krodha, lobha and matsara - illusion. If we are not serving our own lusty desires (kama), we are serving anger - krodha No edit summary current
- 08:3108:31, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,899 In any case, we will not be allowed to stay here, and although we are attached to all this, everything will be taken away at death. Whatever post we are occupying - be it president or Lord Brahma - we are occupying temporarily No edit summary current
- 08:3008:30, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,918 We may be here five years, ten years, one hundred years or five million years. Whatever, our position is limited. Our position in the material world is not eternal, but we are eternal. Why, then, should we be illusioned by the noneternal No edit summary current
- 08:2908:29, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,807 In the morning, when the sun arises, the darkness of night immediately goes away. Similarly, when God or His incarnation comes, the darkness of material life is dissipated No edit summary current
- 08:2908:29, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,919 When Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, came, Arjuna's illusion was dispelled. He was thinking, "Why should I fight with my relatives?" Actually the whole world is going on under this conception of "my" and - mine No edit summary current
- 08:2708:27, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,937 On a train, people may argue and fight over a seat, but one who knows that he will only be on the train for two or three hours thinks, - Why should I fight? I shall only be here for a short while No edit summary current
- 08:2708:27, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,670 One person thinks in this way, and the other person is ready to fight, thinking that his seat is permanent. No one will be allowed to stay within this material world No edit summary current
- 08:2708:27, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,663 Everyone will have to change his body and position, and as long as one remains here, he will have to fight and struggle for existence. This is the way of material life No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,972 We are bound tightly by the modes of material nature, and yet we are thinking that we are independent. This is simply foolishness No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,192 It is said that all the people in the material world are blinded by the darkness of ignorance. When people are blind, out of their ignorance they say, - There is no God. I cannot see God No edit summary current
- 08:2308:23, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,626 God comes as Krsna or Kapiladeva and says, "Here I am. See My features. I am a person. I play the flute and enjoy Myself in Vrndavana. Why can't you see Me?" Thus God comes, explains Himself and leaves behind His instruction, Bhagavad-gita No edit summary
- 08:2308:23, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,328 People are so foolish that they claim not to understand God. If we try to see God through the instructions given to Devahuti by Lord Kapila, our lives will be successful No edit summary
- 08:2208:22, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,767 Devahuti is accepting her son, Kapila, as her guru. He consequently tells her how to solve all material problems. Material life is nothing but sex attraction. Pumsah striya mithuni-bhavam etam - SB 5.5.8 No edit summary current
- 08:2108:21, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,901 As soon as people join to satisfy their sex desire, the attraction becomes greater and greater. An apartment is needed for privacy, and then one has to earn a livelihood and acquire some land No edit summary current
- 08:2008:20, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,760 At the time of death Krsna comes and takes away everything - house, land, wife, children, friends, reputation and whatever. Then we have to begin another life No edit summary current
- 08:2008:20, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,471 It is not that we simply die and finish everything. We are living eternally No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,161 Everyone should know what is Bhagavan and take lessons from Bhagavan. Lord Kapila is Bhagavan, and He personally instructed His mother in Sankhya philosophy No edit summary current
- 08:1708:17, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,976 By this knowledge we can develop or awaken our dormant love for God. Then we can see God when our eyes are anointed with love for Him No edit summary
- 08:1708:17, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,114 We can see God everywhere and at all times. We will see God and nothing but God. We will see God not only within our hearts. If we go to the ocean, we will see God No edit summary
- 08:1608:16, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,325 If one is a little thoughtful, he will see that the great ocean stays in its place. The ocean has received its orders not to go beyond such and such a limit No edit summary current
- 08:1608:16, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,952 Any intelligent man can see God while walking down the beach. However, this requires a little intelligence No edit summary
- 08:1608:16, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,034 People who are asses, mudhas, duskrtis, cannot see God, but those who are intelligent can see God everywhere because God is omnipresent No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,271 He (God) is within the universe and within our heart, and He is even within the atom. Why are we saying that we cannot see Him? God says, - Try to see Me in this way, but if you are too dull, then try to see Me another way No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,327 What is the easy way? Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita, "I am the taste of water." Is there anyone who has not tasted water? He also says, "I am the light of the sun." Is there anyone who has not seen sunshine? Then why are people saying, - I have not seen God No edit summary
- 08:1408:14, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,164 First of all we have to try to see God. It is as easy as ABCD. When we see God everywhere, we will see the personal God. Then we will understand No edit summary
- 08:1408:14, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,021 Bhagavan pumsam isvarah. Bhagavan is isvara, the controller. We are not independent. No one can actually say, - I am independent No edit summary current
- 08:1208:12, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,929 Yasodamayi got Krsna as her son, and she was always anxious that He not be in danger. Thus she was always protecting Him No edit summary current
- 08:1208:12, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,079 Actually Krsna protects the entire universe, but Yasoda was giving protection to Krsna. This is Vaisnava philosophy No edit summary current
- 08:1108:11, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,448 Yasoda became mad when she saw Krsna taken away by the Trnavarta demon. However, Krsna became so heavy that the demon could not fly in the sky, and thus the demon fell to the earth and died. Yasoda immediately said, - God has saved my Krsna No edit summary current
- 08:1108:11, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,972 She (Yasoda) began to thank some other God, some devata. She did not know that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 08:1008:10, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,418 If she (Yasoda) had thought of Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the relationship between mother and son would have been destroyed. Therefore Krsna was playing just like an ordinary child, and Mother Yasoda was treating Him as her son No edit summary current
- 08:1008:10, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,394 Krsna's friends, the cowherd boys, did not consider Him the Supreme Lord either. The gopis even used to chastise Krsna. If a devotee can have such a relationship with Krsna, why should he want to become one with God No edit summary current
- 08:0908:09, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,384 It is better to be God's father, God's controller. This is bhakti-marga, the path of devotional service. A devotee does not want to be equal to God or one with God. He simply wants to render service No edit summary
- 08:0908:09, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,022 In order to understand the Absolute Truth, we have to understand the meaning of Bhagavan No edit summary current
- 08:0708:07, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,274 Everyone wants to take something from the father. One is always saying, "Father, give me this. Father, give me that." However, accepting the Supreme Lord as one's son means rendering service No edit summary current
- 08:0608:06, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,940 People today do not even know the meaning of God, so there is no question of surrender No edit summary current
- 08:0508:05, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,170 There are also those who are scholarly and well educated, but their knowledge is taken away by maya, illusion. Although they may superficially hold degrees, they have no real knowledge No edit summary current
- 08:0408:04, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,187 They are also asuras, demons who simply defy God, saying, - I am God, you are God. Why are you searching for God? There are many Gods loitering in the street. Take care of them No edit summary current
- 08:0308:03, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,114 It is not surprising that newspapers report that faith in a personal God is decreasing. Nonetheless, God is a person. Ya adyo bhagavan No edit summary current
- 08:0208:02, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,243 We all have some relationship with Krsna, but presently that is covered. Therefore we have to revive it. Simple appreciation of the Supreme is called santa-rasa No edit summary current
- 08:0108:01, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,277 When one appreciates the Supreme fully, he wishes to render some service, and that is called dasya. When one becomes more intimate, he becomes a friend of Krsna's, and that is called sakhya No edit summary current
- 08:0008:00, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,145 When one is more advanced, he wants to render service to Krsna as a father or a mother, and this is vatsalya. Being a father or a mother means serving the son No edit summary current
- 07:5207:52, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,190 The Christian conception of God as the Supreme Father is not very perfect because if we conceive of God as a father, our position will be to take things from Him No edit summary current
- 06:5606:56, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,330 Foolish philosophers say that the universe automatically came into being by nature. They say that in the beginning there was a chunk, and this cosmic manifestation came out of that chunk of matter No edit summary current
- 06:5606:56, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,214 Where did this chunk come from? The fact is that there must be a brain, a leader, behind anything organized. We have information of this leader from the Vedas: nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam - Katha Upanisad 2.2.13 No edit summary current
- 06:5506:55, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,842 The Supreme Lord is eternal, and we are also eternal. But the Supreme Lord is one, and we are many No edit summary current
- 06:5506:55, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,352 The Supreme Lord is very great, and we are very small. He is all-pervading and infinite, and we are finite and infinitesimal. Even if we analyze the creation, we will find that not everyone is on the same level No edit summary current
- 06:5406:54, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,183 One person is more intelligent or opulent than another. If we analyze things in this way, we will come to the demigods, and among them we will find that the most important demigod is Lord Brahma No edit summary current
- 06:5206:52, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,446 We actually see that the present generation is not as strong as the previous. People also have short memories. We also understand that sometimes people are killed while other people pass by, not caring. Thus mercy is also diminishing No edit summary current
- 06:5206:52, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,509 Because everything is diminishing, God consciousness is diminishing also; therefore it is natural to receive news that faith in a personal God is diminishing. In BG (7.15), one who does not accept a personal God is described as a mudha, a fool No edit summary current
- 06:4906:49, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,621 One who feels the need to cross the dark ocean of nescience, which is material existence, requires a guru. It is not the guru's task to supply gold and medicine No edit summary current
- 06:4906:49, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,619 It has become a fashion to keep a guru as if he were a dog or a cat. This is of no use. We must inquire about that portion of God's creation which is beyond this darkness No edit summary current
- 06:4806:48, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,375 The Upanisads and Bhagavad-gita describe another world, beyond this material nature No edit summary current
- 06:4706:47, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,558 It is not possible for us to go to that paravyoma by material means. It is impossible to penetrate the material universe unless one understands Krsna No edit summary current
- 06:4706:47, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,855 One can be enlightened by the mercy of God because Krsna Himself comes to give us information. If He does not come personally, He sends His devotee, or He leaves behind Him Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
- 06:4606:46, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,675 We are so foolish that we do not take advantage of them (devotees of God and Bhagavad-gita). We do not take advantage of His devotee, who hankers to give this knowledge, sacrificing everything No edit summary current
- 06:4606:46, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,428 By Krsna's mercy one can receive the bhakti-lata-bija, the seed of devotional service No edit summary current
- 06:4506:45, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,744 Unless one is free from the reactions of sin, one cannot understand bhakti or Bhagavan. Therefore we must act piously by giving up illicit sex, intoxication, meat-eating and gambling No edit summary current
- 06:4506:45, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,681 If we lead a pious life, we can understand God. This Krsna consciousness movement is engaged in training people to this end so that their lives will be successful No edit summary current
- 06:4306:43, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,123 She (Devahuti) said, - My dear Kapila, You have come as my son, but You are my guru because You can inform me how I can cross the ocean of nescience, which is the material world No edit summary current
- 06:4206:42, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,033 He (Sanatana Gosvami) did not approach Him to get some gold or some medicine. He went to find out his real self-interest. This is the real purpose for approaching a guru. Devahuti approached Lord Kapiladeva in the same way No edit summary current
- 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