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20 September 2022
- 10:3510:35, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,606 Having nothing more to do with the material world, finally say, "I have become Narayana." Then they (impersonalist sannyasis) come to the stage of daridra-narayana - poor Narayana No edit summary current
- 10:3410:34, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,554 They (impersonalist sannyasis) become Narayana, but for want of anything better to do, for want of variegatedness, they take up material humanitarian activities No edit summary current
- 10:3410:34, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,800 Although they (impersonalist sannyasis) consider their wives mithya (false), they return. "You have already left. Why do you come back again?" the wives ask. This means that these so-called sannyasis have nothing to do No edit summary current
- 10:3210:32, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,712 We may build a nice spaceship and send it off into space, and the astronauts may go up there and fly in the impersonal sky, but eventually they will become tired and pray to God, - Please let us return to land No edit summary current
- 10:3210:32, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,434 Russian astronauts were simply missing Moscow while they were traveling in space. This impersonal traveling is actually very agitating No edit summary current
- 10:3110:31, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,427 Impersonal realization of the Absolute Truth cannot be permanent because one wants variety. A falldown is inevitable No edit summary current
- 10:3110:31, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,690 When one gentleman read my book Easy Journey to Other planets, he became very enthusiastic about going to other planets. "Oh, yes," I said, "we can go with this book." "Yes," the gentleman said, - then I shall come back No edit summary current
- 10:2910:29, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,629 The living entities are Brahman; Krsna is Para-brahman. Krsna is enjoying perpetual ananda, and, being part and parcel of Krsna, we also want ananda No edit summary current
- 10:2810:28, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,232 Ananda cannot be impersonal or void; ananda entails variety No edit summary current
- 10:2810:28, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,720 No one is simply interested in drinking milk and eating sugar, but with milk and sugar we can make a variety of foods - pera, barfi, ksira, rabri, dahi, and so on. There are hundreds of preparations. In any case, variety is required for enjoyment No edit summary current
- 10:2710:27, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,584 The last word of tattva jnana is to understand Krsna, who is full of variety. Kapiladeva is tattva-margagra-darsanam. He is an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 10:2710:27, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,621 He (Kapiladeva) will explain to His mother what tattva is, how one can approach the tattva jnana, and how one can actually enjoy tattva jnana. This is not simply dry speculation No edit summary current
- 10:2610:26, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,544 This Krsna consciousness philosophy includes spiritual variety. People sometimes misunderstand this variety to be material, and they hanker for nirvisesa, nirakara, void No edit summary current
- 10:2510:25, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,516 Our philosophy is not void; it is full of variety and transcendental bliss. This will later be specifically enunciated by Lord Kapiladeva No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,603 Our vision is of the same mountain, but due to our different positions we see haze, greenery or variegatedness. In the final stage, there are varieties - trees, animals, men, houses, and so on No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,808 The Absolute Truth is not without variety. Just as there is material variety, there is spiritual variety. Because the Mayavadi philosophers are seeing the Absolute Truth from a distance, they think that the Absolute Truth has no variety No edit summary current
- 10:2010:20, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,557 They (Mayavadi philosophers) consider variety to be material, but this is a misunderstanding. The Absolute Truth is described as variegated in Brahma-samhita - 5.29 No edit summary current
- 10:2010:20, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,679 There are Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual world, and there are devotees who are all liberated. These devotees are aksara, which means they do not fall down into the material world. They remain in the spiritual world of the Vaikunthas No edit summary current
- 10:1910:19, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,485 They (aksara) are also persons like us, but they are eternal persons, complete with full knowledge and bliss. That is the difference between them and us. That is tattva jnana No edit summary current
- 10:1810:18, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,671 Unless we understand the variegatedness of the Absolute Truth, there is a chance that we will fall down. It is not sufficient simply to stick to the indefinite, impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth No edit summary current
- 10:1810:18, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,719 Because the impersonalists are not allowed to enter the Vaikuntha planets, they simply remain in the Brahman effulgence. Thus they fall down again into material variety No edit summary
- 10:1710:17, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,693 We have seen many impersonalist sannyasis who first of all give up the world as false (brahma satyam jagan mithya). They consider themselves Brahman (aham brahmasmi), consider the world false - jagat is mithya No edit summary current
- 10:1610:16, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,801 Looking at a mountain from a distance, we may see a hazy cloud, and if we come nearer, we may see something green. If we actually climb the mountain, we will find many houses, trees and animals No edit summary current
- 10:1410:14, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,640 Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are not different. They are simply different aspects of the complete Godhead No edit summary current
- 10:1210:12, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,720 The words tattva-marga-darsanam are elucidated elsewhere in Srimad-Bhagavatam: brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate (SB 1.2.11). The Absolute Truth is understood differently according to the position of the student No edit summary current
- 10:0310:03, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,445 Bhakti is obtainable for a liberated person; it is not for the conditioned soul. How is this possible No edit summary current
- 10:0210:02, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,754 We must engage in the nine processes of devotional service, the first of which is hearing (sravana). Then, under the direction of the spiritual master and the sastras, one can immediately become a liberated person No edit summary current
- 10:0210:02, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,828 One doesn't have to endeavor separately to become liberated if he immediately engages in devotional service. One must have a firm conviction that he is engaged in Krsna's service and is free from all material contamination. This is imperative No edit summary current
- 09:5209:52, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,757 Like Arjuna, Devahuti was aware that she was before her spiritual master, as indicated in the following verse. Indeed, Lord Brahma had informed her that her son was a powerful incarnation No edit summary current
- 09:5109:51, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,400 The ultimate goal of the Absolute Truth is Krsna consciousness, devotional service. The liberated stage is not final No edit summary current
- 09:5009:50, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,526 If we simply understand that we are not the body, that we are spirit soul, our knowledge is insufficient. We must also act as Brahman; then our position will be fixed No edit summary current
- 09:4809:48, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,718 On the bank of the Bindu-sarovara Lake, Kapiladeva personally expounded Sankhya philosophy to His mother, Devahuti, just as Krsna personally expounded the knowledge of Bhagavad-gita to His friend Arjuna No edit summary current
- 09:4709:47, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,492 Lord Brahma is a jiva-tattva, a living being like us. If we become spiritually powerful, we can also have the post of Lord Brahma No edit summary current
- 09:4509:45, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,531 Sankaracarya, the Mayavadi impersonalist philosopher, accepts Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead - sa bhagavan svayam krsnah No edit summary current
- 09:4409:44, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,733 All the acaryas - Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu Svami, Nimbarka and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu - also accept Krsna as the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
- 09:3509:35, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,777 Kapiladeva is an incarnation of Krsna, and He gave instructions to His mother, Devahuti. We must distinguish between the two Kapilas. One Kapila is this Bhagavan Kapila, and the other Kapila is the atheist Kapila No edit summary current
- 09:3409:34, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,755 Bhagavan Kapila is also known as Devahuti-putra Kapila. Both Kapilas expounded Sankhya philosophy, but the atheist Kapila expounded it without understanding, perception or realization of God No edit summary current
- 09:3209:32, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,528 Kapiladeva was anxious that His mother not feel the absence of His father, and He was ready to take the best care of her and give her knowledge No edit summary current
- 09:2909:29, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,745 Women are inferior to men, and Vedic civilization is so perfect that men are given full charge of the women. It is therefore said: matuh priya-cikirsaya. The son is always ready to see that the mother is not unhappy No edit summary current
- 09:2109:21, 20 September 2022 diff hist +11,651 Mahabharata is called the fifth Veda. The four preceding Vedas are the Sama, Yajur, Rg and Atharva. The essence of Vedic knowledge, Bhagavad-gita, is given within the Mahabharata No edit summary current
18 September 2022
- 09:0909:09, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,406 Because women are supposed to be less intelligent, they should be given knowledge, and they should also follow this knowledge No edit summary current
- 09:0809:08, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,816 They should follow their father's instructions, their husband's instructions and the instructions of their grown, scholarly sons like Kapiladeva. In this way, their lives can be perfect. In all cases, women should always remain dependent No edit summary current
- 09:0709:07, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,912 Tasmin bindusare 'vatsid bhagavan kapilah kila. It is noteworthy that in this verse Kapiladeva is referred to as Bhagavan, which indicates that He possesses all wealth, fame, knowledge, beauty, strength and renunciation No edit summary current
- 09:0609:06, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,886 These six opulences are fully represented in Krsna; therefore Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam (SB 1.3.28)), and others are accepted as His expansions, or incarnations - visnu-tattva No edit summary
- 09:0509:05, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,674 In Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, Rupa Gosvami has analyzed the characteristics of Bhagavan. The first Bhagavan is Sri Krsna Himself, but some of His opulences are also bestowed upon Lord Brahma No edit summary current
- 08:5608:56, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,497 Devahuti was given to her grown son, Kapiladeva, and Kapiladeva was fully aware that He had to take care of His mother No edit summary current
- 08:5608:56, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,513 It is the duty of the father to protect his daughter until she attains puberty and is married to a suitable young man. The husband then takes care of the wife No edit summary current
- 08:5508:55, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,871 Generally a man should marry at around twenty-five years of age, and a girl should marry no later than sixteen. If this is the case, when the man is fifty years old, his eldest son should be around twenty-five, old enough to take charge of the mother No edit summary current
- 08:5408:54, 18 September 2022 diff hist +12,039 Kapiladeva was about twenty-five years old and was quite able to take charge of His mother, Devahuti. He knew that because His father left His mother in His charge, He should take care of her and always please her. Matuh priya-cikirsaya No edit summary current
- 08:5308:53, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,761 Kapiladeva was not irresponsible, but was always ready to please His mother. Kapiladeva was a brahmacari, and His mother took lessons from Him. That is the prerogative of the male No edit summary current
- 08:5108:51, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,984 Being a yogi, Kardama Muni strictly followed these principles; therefore as soon as Kapiladeva was grown, Devahuti was placed in His charge. Kardama Muni then left home. As stated in this verse: pitari prasthite 'ranyam matuh priya-cikirsaya No edit summary current
- 08:3808:38, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,503 When he gives up his home, he is called a vanaprastha, and after that he may take sannyasa No edit summary current
- 08:3308:33, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,688 By his (Kardama Muni's) wife, Devahuti, he had nine daughters, who were distributed to the prajapatis like Daksa Maharaja and many others. The only son of Kardama Muni was Kapiladeva, an incarnation of Krsna No edit summary
- 08:2808:28, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,714 These authorities should be followed if we want to approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead and understand the purpose of religious life. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah - CC Madhya 17.186 No edit summary current
- 08:2608:26, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,717 These mahajanas follow the principles set forth by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, in Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
- 08:2508:25, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,483 We cannot very easily understand the actual truth of religious systems, but if we follow these mahajanas, we can understand No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,524 Kapila Muni explained the glories of devotional service to His mother, Devahuti. If we follow Him, we may learn the truth of devotional service No edit summary current
- 08:2308:23, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,783 According to the system of varnasrama-dharma, one who is over fifty years of age must leave home, go to the forest and completely devote his life to spiritual realization. This is the actual varnasrama-dharma system No edit summary current
- 08:2208:22, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,301 It (varnasrama-dharma) is not a Hindu system, for the word "Hindu" is a name given by the Muslims and does not occur in any Vedic literature. However, the varnasrama-dharma is mentioned No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,724 He (Kardama Muni) also created a great spaceship as large as a small city. Modern airlines have prepared a 747, & although these are very big, Kardama Muni, by his yogic powers, was able to create a spaceship wherein there were lakes, palaces and gardens No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,826 This spaceship could also travel all over the universe. Modern scientists labor very hard to make a small spaceship to go to the moon, but Kardama Muni could create a great spaceship that could travel to all planets. This is possible by yogic powers No edit summary
- 08:1708:17, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,699 There are different siddhis, or yogic perfections - anima, laghima, prapti, and so on - and whatever yogis choose to do, they can do. That is the real yoga system No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,809 It is not that one becomes a yogi simply by pressing his nose and performing some gymnastics. One must actually attain the yogic siddhis. By these siddhis, the yogi can become very small or very large, very heavy or very light No edit summary current
- 08:1408:14, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,580 Whatever he (a yogi) wants, he can immediately produce in his hand, and he can travel wherever he desires. Kardama Muni was such a perfected siddhi-yogi No edit summary current
- 08:1208:12, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,549 Kardama Muni was a yogi living in a cottage, and Devahuti was a princess, a king's daughter. Not being used to work, she became very skinny No edit summary current
- 08:1008:10, 18 September 2022 diff hist +11,817 Being a great yogi, Kardama Muni was not very interested in family life. Nonetheless, he decided to marry, and Svayambhuva Manu brought his daughter Devahuti to him to serve as a wife No edit summary current
- 08:0608:06, 18 September 2022 diff hist +19,797 Srimad-Bhagavatam was compiled by Vyasadeva, who also compiled the Vedanta-sutra No edit summary
17 September 2022
- 14:4514:45, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,032 Generally the Mayavadis emphasize the commentary made on the Vedanta-sutra by Sankaracarya, the Sariraka-bhasya, but that is not the original commentary on Vedanta-sutra No edit summary current
- 14:4414:44, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,206 Transcendental knowledge is therefore very logical. According to the Vedic system, the acarya must understand Vedanta-sutra (also called Brahma-sutra) before he can be accepted as an acarya No edit summary
- 14:4214:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,083 We have to approach a spiritual master who is in the disciplic succession from Vyasadeva. Everyone may claim to be following Vyasadeva, but one must actually follow him No edit summary current
- 14:4214:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,993 Vyasadeva accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Arjuna also accepted Krsna as Para-brahman, the Supreme Person No edit summary current
- 14:4114:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,078 One may say that because Arjuna was a friend of Krsna's, he accepted Him in this way (as Supreme Person), but this is not the case. Arjuna gave evidence that Vyasadeva also accepted Krsna No edit summary current
- 14:4014:40, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,332 If we are actually interested in understanding, we must approach a representative of Vyasadeva like Maitreya. Maitreya is also addressed as bhagavan, although of course the Supreme Bhagavan is Krsna Himself (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam) - SB 1.3.28 No edit summary
- 14:3914:39, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,203 It is not possible to have cent per cent knowledge of Krsna. Not even Narayana Himself is capable of that. Yet those who follow Krsna's instructions fully are sometimes called Bhagavan No edit summary current
- 14:3814:38, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,823 There are many artificial Bhagavan's, but a real Bhagavan is one who knows what Krsna has taught No edit summary current
- 14:3714:37, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,935 Vidura was very eager to receive transcendental knowledge, and because of this, Maitreya was very pleased with him No edit summary current
- 14:3714:37, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,345 One can please the spiritual master simply by surrendering to him and rendering service, saying, - Sir, I am your most obedient servant. Please accept me and give me instructions No edit summary current
- 14:3614:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,450 Although Arjuna was a very intimate friend of Krsna's, before receiving Srimad Bhagavad-gita he surrendered himself, saying, sisyas te 'ham sadhi mam tvam prapannam: "Now I am Your disciple and a soul surrendered unto You. Please instruct me." - BG 2.7 No edit summary current
- 14:3614:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,304 This is the proper way to ask for knowledge. One does not approach the spiritual master with a challenging spirit. One should also be inquisitive to understand the spiritual science. It is not that one considers himself superior to the guru No edit summary
- 14:3514:35, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,279 One must first find a guru to whom one can surrender, and if this is not possible, one shouldn't waste his time. By surrendering to the proper person, one can very quickly come to understand transcendental knowledge No edit summary current
- 14:3114:31, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,367 Source is abhijna, cognizant. Matter is not cognizant; therefore the theory of modern science that life comes from matter is incorrect. The identity from whom everything emanates is abhijna, cognizant, which means He can understand No edit summary current
- 14:2714:27, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,391 Krsna states in Bhagavad-gita "I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me." The same conclusion is also given in Vedanta-sutra, wherein it is stated, janmady asya yatah - Brahman is He from whom everything emanates No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,279 Everything - includes living entities and inert matter. Both matter and the living entities come from Krsna. Indeed, the whole world is a combination of matter and spirit, prakrti and the living entity No edit summary current
- 14:2514:25, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,186 Material energy is inferior, and spiritual energy is superior. Why? Superior energy (jiva-bhuta), the living entity, is controlling material nature. Actually he is not controlling, but is trying to utilize it No edit summary current
- 14:2414:24, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,212 Srimad-Bhagavatam is a commentary on Vedanta-sutra. Vedanta-sutra explains that the Supreme is the source of everything, and the nature of that source is explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.1.1): janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas carthesv abhijnah svarat No edit summary
- 14:2114:21, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,025 It is not that we have to understand Krsna fully. That is not possible. We have no capacity to understand the unlimited. Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam - Bs. 5.33 No edit summary current
- 14:1914:19, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,953 With our limited knowledge we cannot understand the unlimited; indeed, even Krsna does not understand Himself No edit summary current
- 14:1814:18, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,166 His (Krsna's) attraction is unlimited, and to understand why He is so attractive, He became Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and took on the ecstatic emotions of Srimati Radharani - radha-bhava-dyuti No edit summary current
- 14:1714:17, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,924 If we can simply understand Krsna in part, that is our perfection. Therefore Krsna says: janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah - BG 4.9 No edit summary current
- 14:1614:16, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,286 If we misunderstand Krsna and take Him to be a human being like us, we become mudhas, fools. Krsna's body is not composed of material elements like ours, and if we think this way, we are mistaken No edit summary current
- 14:1514:15, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,993 The material nature belongs to Krsna, and He is its controller. We are under the control of material nature, and that is the difference No edit summary current
- 14:1514:15, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,186 One who has real knowledge knows that prakrti, material nature, is working under Krsna's direction. It is not possible to understand how all this is going on, but we can understand it in summary No edit summary current
- 14:1414:14, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,393 Janmady asya yato 'nvayad itaratas ca: (SB 1.1.1) everything emanates from the Supreme Absolute Truth, Krsna. This much knowledge is sufficient. We can then increase this knowledge to understand just how material nature is working under Krsna's direction No edit summary current
- 14:1314:13, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,320 Modern scientists mistakenly think that material nature is working independently and that things evolve by some chemical process only. However, life does not merely come from life or some chemical evolution No edit summary
- 14:1114:11, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,939 Ksetrajna is the proprietor of the ksetra (the body). The individual soul is actually not the proprietor but the occupant No edit summary current
- 14:1014:10, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,091 In a house, there is a tenant and a landlord. The tenant is the occupant, and the landlord is the proprietor. Similarly, the atma is simply the occupant of the body; the proprietor is Paramatma No edit summary current
- 14:1014:10, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,139 When the landlord tells the tenant to leave the house, the tenant must do so. Similarly, when the Paramatma says that we have to leave the body, we have to do so No edit summary current
- 14:0914:09, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,519 To receive Vedic knowledge, we must approach the proper guru. The guru's qualification is given in every sastra. In Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.3.21) it is said: One should not accept a guru unless one is inquisitive to know the ultimate goal of life No edit summary current
- 14:0714:07, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,312 One approaches a Mahatmaji and says, "I am suffering from this disease. Please help me." And the Mahatmaji says, "Yes, I have a mantra that will heal you and give you success. Give me a little money and take it." This is not a real guru No edit summary current
- 14:0614:06, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,244 One should approach a guru to learn about tattva, the Absolute Truth. One should not search out a guru to cure some material disease; rather, one requires a doctor No edit summary current