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21 September 2022
- 06:4106:41, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,953 Caitanya Mahaprabhu asked, "Why are you dissatisfied?" Sanatana Gosvami replied, - I am such a poor pandita that I do not even know the goal of life. I do not even know what is beneficial for me. I am simply being carried away by sense gratification No edit summary
- 06:4006:40, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,750 When Sanatana Gosvami approached Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he said, - The people in my neighborhood are calling me a pandita, and I am very unhappy because of this No edit summary
- 06:3906:39, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,667 Sanatana Gosvami was a great learned scholar, and he was called a pandita, which indicates that he was a learned brahmana No edit summary
20 September 2022
- 15:3715:37, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,802 God can be seen, as stated in Brahma-samhita (5.38), premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena - Govinda (Krsna) is always seen by the devotee whose eyes are anointed by the pulp of love No edit summary
- 15:3515:35, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,713 If we are devotees, lovers of God, the ointment of love will clear our eyes. In order to see God, we have to cleanse our eyes by wiping away the cataracts of material contamination No edit summary
- 15:3315:33, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,528 Although we may be eager to see God, we cannot see Him with these material eyes. Not only can we not see Him, but we cannot understand Him, although His name is there No edit summary current
- 15:3115:31, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,995 Understanding God means first of all understanding His name. Therefore from the beginning we should chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. God is not different from His name. Krsna's name and Krsna's person are the same No edit summary current
- 15:2715:27, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,902 Absolute - means that Krsna's name, form, place, dress, pastimes and everything are nondifferent from Him. Krsna is present in His name, but because we have no love for Him, we cannot see Him No edit summary current
- 13:5913:59, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,654 Those who are learned and intelligent look to the mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead for relief from the threefold miseries of material existence No edit summary current
- 13:5813:58, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,700 She (Goddess Durga) is so powerful that she can create and maintain. Prakrti, nature, can be very unkind. Mother Durga is often portrayed as chastising demons by piercing them with a trident No edit summary current
- 13:5713:57, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,625 We have no control over these threefold miseries. They are controlled by Krsna's maidservant, Goddess Durga, who is material nature. She is not independent of Krsna No edit summary current
- 13:5613:56, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,492 The soul is aloof from the body and mind, but he suffers due to material contamination No edit summary current
- 13:5113:51, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,473 Knowledge also begins by understanding the threefold miseries of the material world - adhyatmika, adhibhautika and adhidaivika No edit summary current
- 13:4813:48, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,564 Real knowledge, however, is Vedic knowledge, knowing oneself, what one is and what God is and understanding one's relationship with God, and one's duty No edit summary current
- 13:4713:47, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,549 One may study to be an electrician and earn his livelihood by repairing electric lines. This kind of knowledge is called silpa jnana No edit summary current
- 13:4613:46, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,570 There are different types of knowledge. We are interested in ordinary knowledge for economic benefit, but that is not actual knowledge. That is the art of livelihood No edit summary current
- 13:4513:45, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,849 This life is a preparation for the next, and if we want to enjoy our transcendental senses, we have to purify ourselves to return home, back to Godhead. For this purpose, Devahuti is submitting to her son just as a disciple submits to his master No edit summary current
- 13:4513:45, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,467 Krsna is so kind that if we want to become tigers, He will give us a tiger body. If we want to become devotees, He will give us the body of a devotee No edit summary current
- 13:4413:44, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,311 As long as we continue trying to satisfy our own senses, we have to accept another body No edit summary current
- 13:4213:42, 20 September 2022 diff hist +9,827 The bona fide spiritual master is a true Vedantist, for he actually knows Vedanta and the Vedas and understands the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna. The word veda means "knowledge," and anta means - last phase No edit summary current
- 13:4013:40, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,616 There is no question of destroying the senses or becoming desireless. Desire is a material activity, and becoming desireless is not possible. The senses must be purified in order for us to act through them transcendentally No edit summary current
- 13:4013:40, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,480 Bhakti-yoga does not require us to destroy our senses, but to purify them. When the senses are purified, we can serve Krsna No edit summary current
- 13:3913:39, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,684 We can serve Hrsikesa, the master of the senses, through the senses. We are part and parcel of Krsna, just as the hand is part and parcel of the body. Similarly, our senses are also part and parcel of the spiritual body of Krsna No edit summary current
- 13:3913:39, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,400 When we purify our senses, we can act in our original constitutional position and serve Krsna No edit summary current
- 13:3813:38, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,803 When we forget our position and try to satisfy ourselves, we become conditioned materially. When we forget that our duty is to serve Krsna, we fall into the material world and become implicated in personal sense gratification No edit summary current
- 13:3713:37, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,644 We living entities are eternal servants of God, and our duty is to help our master enjoy. Srimati Radharani is the topmost servant of Krsna, and Her business is always to keep Krsna pleased No edit summary current
- 13:3613:36, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,887 Krsna is very fond of Radharani because She renders the best service. Her sixty-four qualifications are mentioned in the Vedic literatures. Unfortunately, in the material world we are busy trying to enjoy our material senses No edit summary current
- 13:3513:35, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,807 Living entities in this material world are very busy trying to gratify their senses. In the street we see many dogs assembled for sex. This may seem very crude, but human beings are engaged in the same business, perhaps in a more elaborate way No edit summary current
- 13:3513:35, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,683 We should know that sense gratification is meant for animals, and that sense control is for human beings. By tapasya, penance, we can purify ourselves and regain our eternal life No edit summary current
- 13:3413:34, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,539 Actually our material senses are not our real senses. They are covered, just as the body is covered by clothes. Our real body is within the material body. Dehino 'smin yatha dehe - BG 2.13 No edit summary current
- 13:3313:33, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,481 The spiritual body is within the material body. The material body is changing, going through childhood, youth, then old age, and then it vanishes No edit summary current
- 13:3313:33, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,501 Although this is not our real body, we are engaged in sense gratification with it. However, for our own ultimate happiness, we should try to purify our senses No edit summary current
- 13:3013:30, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,352 We need only repeat what Krsna has said or what has been said about Krsna in the Vedic literatures No edit summary current
- 13:2913:29, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,379 Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted everyone in India to know the science of Krsna and preach Krsna consciousness. This is very simple No edit summary current
- 11:1611:16, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,895 Although Kapiladeva is her son, Devahuti does not hesitate to take instructions from Him. She does not say, "Oh, He is my son. What can He tell me? I am His mother, and I shall instruct Him." Instruction has to be taken from one who is in knowledge No edit summary current
- 11:1511:15, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,783 It doesn't matter what his position is, whether he is a son, a boy, a sudra, brahmana, sannyasi or grhastha. One should simply learn from one who knows. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's instruction No edit summary current
- 11:1511:15, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,694 Although Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself was a brahmana and a sannyasi, He took instructions from Ramananda Raya, who was a sudra and grhastha but nonetheless, very exalted spiritually No edit summary current
- 11:1411:14, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,710 When Caitanya Mahaprabhu saw that Ramananda Raya was hesitant to give instructions, the Lord said, "Why are you hesitating? Although you are a grhastha and are born in a sudra family, I am prepared to take lessons from you." - CC Madhya 8.128 No edit summary
- 11:1411:14, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,702 This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching. Whoever is qualified in Krsna consciousness can become a guru. His family or material identity does not matter. He simply must know the science No edit summary current
- 10:5810:58, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,789 When we consult an engineer, a doctor or a lawyer, we do not ask whether he is a brahmana or a sudra. If he is qualified, he can help with a particular subject. Similarly, if one knows the science of Krsna, he can be a guru No edit summary current
- 10:5710:57, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,584 Devahuti was taking lessons from her son because He knew the science of Krsna. Even if gold is in a filthy place, we should take it No edit summary current
- 10:5710:57, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,652 It is also stated in the Vedas that if a girl is highly qualified or beautiful, she can be accepted in marriage even though born in a lower family. Thus it is not birth that is important, but qualification No edit summary current
- 10:4810:48, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,911 The Vedas enjoin that we should not remain in darkness: tamasi ma jyotir gama. We are instructed to go to the light, and that light is the spiritual world, which is directly lighted by the effulgence, or bodily rays, of Krsna No edit summary current
- 10:4710:47, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,470 Na hanyate hanyamane sarire. As stated in Bhagavad-gita (2.20), there is neither birth nor death for the soul. The soul is not destroyed when the body is annihilated No edit summary current
- 10:4610:46, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,437 The soul puts bodies on and takes them off like clothes. This simple knowledge is instructed in the beginning of Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
- 10:4510:45, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,606 There are many big scholars and leaders who still cannot understand that the body is different from the person. This is because they do not study Bhagavad-gita in the proper way No edit summary
- 10:4410:44, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,721 No one is fully aware or convinced that the real person is not the body. This is called darkness, and when one is disgusted with this darkness, human life begins No edit summary current
- 10:4410:44, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,462 One who has become disgusted with material existence needs the instructions of a guru. Tasmad gurum prapadyeta jijnasuh sreya uttamam - SB 11.3.21 No edit summary current
- 10:4310:43, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,735 Being the wife of a great yogi, Devahuti understood her constitutional position; therefore she is placing her problem before her son, Kapiladeva, an incarnation of God No edit summary current
- 10:4010:40, 20 September 2022 diff hist +12,912 The Vedic literatures describe this material world as darkness. Actually it is dark, and therefore we require sunlight, moonlight and electricity. If it were not by nature dark, why would we require so many arrangements for artificial light No edit summary current