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22 September 2022
- 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