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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
• 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

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• 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
• 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
• 14:0414:04, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,949‎ The Vedic conclusion is the understanding of Krsna. Vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: "By all the Vedas, I am to be known." - BG 15.15 ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0114:01, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,235‎ It is stated that Vidura heard from Maitreya Rsi, and that Maitreya Rsi was very pleased. Unless one satisfies his guru, one cannot receive proper knowledge. That is quite natural ‎No edit summary
• 14:0114:01, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,268‎ If one receives his guru properly and seats him comfortably, and if the guru is pleased with one's behavior, the guru can speak very frankly and freely, and this will be very beneficial to the student ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,505‎ By going to a spiritual master and asking for his instructions and then not following them, one simply wastes his time. Nor should one approach the spiritual master with a challenging spirit, but should go with the aim of rendering service ‎No edit summary
• 13:5913:59, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,228‎ The word nipat means "to fall down," and pra means "without reservation." Transcendental knowledge is based on pranipata. Therefore Krsna says: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja. (BG 18.66) - Just surrender unto Me ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,222‎ Just as we surrender unto Krsna, we have to surrender unto His representative, the spiritual master. The guru is Krsna's external representative, and the internal guru is Krsna Himself situated in everyone's heart ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,248‎ It is not that Krsna is simply in Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrndavana. He is everywhere; He is even within the atom. Goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhutah (Bs. 5.37). That is the definition of Paramatma, the Supersoul ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,253‎ I am atma, a spiritual soul, and you are atma. We are all situated locally, you within your body and I within mine, but the Paramatma is situated everywhere. That is the difference between atma and Paramatma ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5513:55, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,366‎ Those who are mistaken say that there is no difference between them (atma and paramatma), but there is a difference. They are one in the sense that both are cognizant and both are living entities, but they are different quantitatively ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,236‎ There are different divisions for the body: the head, the arms, the belly and the legs. Without the four corresponding divisions, no society can be conducted very well. There will simply be chaos ‎No edit summary
• 13:5013:50, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,859‎ If one actually wants to understand spiritual life and spiritual knowledge, one has to approach a guru ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5013:50, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,209‎ The various yoga systems are given for the machine of the body, but the process of bhakti is transcendental to mechanical arrangements. It is therefore called tad-vijnana, transcendental to material understanding ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4913:49, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,141‎ In hatha-yoga one undergoes various physical disciplines, but the real purpose is to understand Visnu, the Supreme ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,238‎ Brahmany upasamasrayam. According to Mundaka Upanisad (1.2.12), tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet - In order to understand that transcendental science, one must approach a bona fide spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,305‎ The Upanisads inform us that the guru is one who has received knowledge by hearing the Vedas. Srotriyam brahma-nistham (MU 1.2.12). The Vedas are called sruti, and the bona fide guru is in the line of hearing from the disciplic succession ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,282‎ As stated in Bhagavad-gita (4.2), evam parampara-praptam. A bona fide guru does not impart some self-styled, concocted knowledge; his knowledge is standard and received from the parampara system ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0510:05, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,896‎ He (a spiritual master) is also firmly fixed in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead - brahma-nistham ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0510:05, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,224‎ These are his (a spiritual master's) two qualifications: he must have heard the Vedic knowledge through the disciplic succession, and he must be established in service to the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 17 September 2022 diff hist +19,872‎ He (a spiritual master) does not have to be a very learned scholar, but he must have heard from the proper authority ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,290‎ God gives us the ears to hear, and simply by hearing we may become great preachers. We don't need Ph.D.'s or academic examinations. One may even remain in his position; no changes are necessary ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,399‎ For this purpose there is the varnasrama-dharma, composed of four varnas and four asramas. Unless society is divided into these eight categories, it is simply an animal civilization. There must be some systematized, regulated arrangement ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0010:00, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,170‎ For those who are attached to this bodily machine, the yoga system is recommended. One who is overly attached to the bodily conception is taught to concentrate the mind by some physical gymnastics ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,130‎ He simply studies the mechanical arrangement of the body, which is a machine (yantra) made by nature. The body is actually stated in Bhagavad-gita (18.61) to be a machine ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5609:56, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,244‎ The word tad-vijnana refers to transcendental knowledge, not material knowledge. A medical practitioner may have material knowledge of the body, but he has no knowledge of the spirit soul within ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,432‎ If one goes to a ditchdigger to repair a dictating machine, he cannot help. He may know how to dig ditches, but not repair a machine. Therefore the sastras enjoin that if one wants transcendental knowledge, one must approach the proper person ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 17 September 2022 diff hist +20,316‎ Transcendental knowledge is not very difficult, but the process must be known. Sometimes a dictating machine or a typewriter may not work, but if we go to a technician who knows the machine, he can immediately repair it. The process must be known ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,320‎ First of all we must receive the information from authorities; then we can speak the truth. One first has to learn how to describe the Absolute Truth, Bhagavan - His actions, His mercy and His compassion upon all living beings ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4409:44, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,092‎ Sravanam kirtanam (SB 7.5.23), hearing and chanting, are the beginning of bhakti, devotional service. Therefore it is said: tani me sraddadhanasya kirtanyany anukirtaya. The word anukirtaya means to follow the parampara system ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4309:43, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,012‎ If one blind man tries to lead another, what is the result? If both the leaders and followers are blind, they will all fall in a ditch, for they are all bound by their nature ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4209:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,171‎ There were Napoleon, Hitler, Gandhi, Nehru and many others, but they could not ultimately prevail. This is durasaya. The ultimate goal of life is to understand Visnu, yet people are going on blindly trying to satisfy their senses ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +21,873‎ In world history we see that there have been many leaders who have died working hard. They could not adjust things properly, despite all their hard efforts ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,105‎ Today no one knows the object of human life; therefore although the foolish people of this age are trying to be happy, their hopes will never be fulfilled. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum durasayah - SB 7.5.31 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 17 September 2022 diff hist +21,629‎ The king was worshiped because he was a rajarsi, both a king and a sage ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3808:38, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,081‎ The Supreme Lord is more anxious to give us education and enlightenment than we are to receive them. He gives us His literature, His devotees and the parampara system, but it is up to us to take advantage of these ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3708:37, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,041‎ The Krsna consciousness movement is intended to give society the proper understanding of the Absolute Truth. We are not presenting a manufactured, bogus philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3608:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +21,878‎ Why should we unnecessarily waste our time concocting some philosophy? There is so much to be learned that has already been given by the supreme authority ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 17 September 2022 diff hist +21,719‎ All we have to do is take this Vedic literature, try to learn it and distribute it. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mission ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4207:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +21,876‎ It is the duty of everyone, especially one born in the land of Bharatavarsa, India, to make his life successful by taking advantage of this Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4107:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +21,800‎ Unfortunately, we are simply trying to learn technology, and that is our misfortune. Real education means solving all life's problems ‎No edit summary
• 07:3907:39, 17 September 2022 diff hist +22,046‎ Transcendental education means learning how to gain relief from the entanglement of material life. This is made possible by learning about the Lord's transcendental activities ‎No edit summary current

16 September 2022

• 09:5309:53, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,903‎ When there are dharmasya glanih, discrepancies in dharma, Krsna or His incarnation personally comes. It is therefore said: yad yad vidhatte bhagavan. Although He comes, He has no anxiety ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5209:52, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,138‎ He (Krsna) comes by His internal potency, and He does not take help from anyone. He possesses a variety of energies, all of which work correctly and perfectly - parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca ‎No edit summary
• 09:5209:52, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,005‎ Impersonalists cannot understand how everything is being carried out perfectly because they cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead: mohitam nabhijanati mam ebhyah param avyayam ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,210‎ Being covered by the three modes of material nature, one cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. However, the Supreme Lord reveals Himself to His devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,984‎ It is our business to understand Krsna in truth; then our lives will be successful. It is not that we can succeed by understanding Krsna superficially. It is therefore stated here: tani me sraddadhanasya kirtanyany anukirtaya ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,750‎ The word anukirtaya, as we have initially pointed out, means that we should not manufacture anything. The word anu means - to follow ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,696‎ The bhagavat-tattva, or Bhagavan, can be understood only by the parampara system, the system of disciplic succession ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4609:46, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,961‎ The ultimate goal of all activity is the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord, Visnu. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum (SB 7.5.31). Foolish people do not know that their ultimate interest is the satisfaction of Visnu ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4309:43, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,078‎ Foolish people say that there is no brain behind the universe, but this is due to ignorance. By taking information from the sastras, the scriptures, we can understand who that brain is ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4209:42, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,064‎ We see His energies working in this material world all the time. There is thunder and rain, and from rain comes the food we enjoy. This process is outlined in Bhagavad-gita - 3.14 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,850‎ The origin of everything is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Through yajna, sacrifice, we have to satisfy the Supreme Person ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,041‎ Yajnas can be executed when human society is regulated according to the varnasrama-dharma, the system of four social orders (varnas) and four spiritual orders - asramas ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,175‎ There are four varnas (brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra) and four asramas (brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa). These varnas and asramas have their respective duties ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,923‎ Sri Krsna has nothing to do personally. It is His energy that acts. When an important man wants to get something done, he simply tells his secretary, who does everything ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,231‎ There are the jiva-prakrti, the para prakrti expansions, who belong to Krsna's superior energy. In any case, Krsna is always svacchandatma - without anxiety. Even if He is killing a demon, He experiences no anxiety ‎No edit summary current

15 September 2022

• 10:5510:55, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,873‎ The Gosvamis and Krsna Himself tell us that since everything belongs to Krsna, everything should be utilized for His purpose ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5410:54, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,994‎ This creation emanates from Bhagavan, the Supreme Lord, who is without anxiety. Krsna very pleasantly associates with His consort Srimati Radharani and enjoys playing His flute ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5410:54, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,234‎ The original Krsna does not go anywhere; He never takes a step away from Vrndavana. The other activities performed by Krsna are performed in the Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Aniruddha or Pradyumna forms ‎No edit summary
• 10:5310:53, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,116‎ Krsna expands as Sankarsana, Narayana, Visnu, Maha-Visnu, Garbhodakasayi Visnu and Ksirodakasayi Visnu. God can expand Himself in many, many forms ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5310:53, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,870‎ He (Krsna) is the adi-purusa, the original soul of all. Govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami: Lord Brahma says that he is not adi-purusa but that Govinda, Krsna, is the adi-purusa ‎No edit summary
• 10:5210:52, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,031‎ This Krsna has many expansions (advaitam acyutam anadim). He has no beginning, but He is the beginning of everything. He has expanded Himself in many forms. The visnu-tattva consists of bhagavat-tattva-svamsa, the personal expansions ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5210:52, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,761‎ We are also Krsna's forms, but we are vibhinnamsa, separated expansions. We are the expansions of the energies ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,851‎ The demigods have many activities, but Krsna is always peaceful. The Krsna who engages in killing demons is Vasudeva Krsna, not the original Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,959‎ We cannot say that the sunshine is false and that the sun is true. If the sun is true, the sunshine is also true. Similarly, we do not say that the material universe is false. It may be temporary, but it is not false ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,197‎ The Mayavadi philosophers say, brahma satyam jagan mithya: "The Supreme Truth is real, whereas the world is false" - but Vaisnavas do not use the word mithya (false), because God, the Supreme Brahman, is truth, and nothing false can emanate from the truth ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4310:43, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,744‎ If we prepare an earring from gold, the earring is also gold. We cannot say that the earring is false ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4310:43, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,729‎ The Vaisnava philosophers accept the world as temporary, but not false, as the Mayavadi philosophers do ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4210:42, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,832‎ The world (jagat) has emanated from the Supreme; therefore it is not mithya, but it is temporary. That is also explained in Bhagavad-gita (8.19): bhutva bhutva praliyate ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4110:41, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,015‎ The material world comes into existence, remains for some time, and is then annihilated. It is not false, for it can be utilized to realize the Supreme Truth. This is Vaisnava philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4010:40, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,935‎ The world is temporary, but we must use it for spiritual purposes. If something is used for the ultimate truth, the Absolute Truth, it becomes integral with the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3910:39, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,082‎ The word mumuksubhih refers to those who aspire for mukti, liberation. When one becomes disgusted with material engagement, one wants to destroy everything that has anything to do with the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,158‎ The Vaisnava says, prapancikataya buddhya hari-sambandhi-vastunah. Everything has some relationship with the Supreme Person, the Absolute Truth. For instance, a microphone is made of metal, but what is metal? It is another form of earth ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,225‎ Sri Krsna says: "Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego - all together these comprise My separated material energies." All of these are Krsna's energies, and if Krsna is the source of them, how can they be untrue? They are not ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3610:36, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,045‎ A Vaisnava will never say that metal has no connection with Krsna. It is a product of one of His energies, just as this material world is a product of the sun ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3310:33, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,932‎ Although he (managing director) sits in his office without disturbance, he is not very happy because he is always thinking about how to do this or that, how to manage this affair or that ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3210:32, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,682‎ This is material nature, and therefore it is said that there is always anxiety in the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3210:32, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,894‎ When Hiranyakasipu, the father of prahlada Maharaja, asked his son, - My dear boy, what is the best thing you have learned from your teachers ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3110:31, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,924‎ Prahlada Maharaja immediately replied, tat sadhu manye 'sura-varya dehinam sada samudvigna-dhiyam asad-grahat (SB 7.5.5). "I have learned that materialists have accepted the asad guna." Asat means - that which is not ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3010:30, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,970‎ We should not remain on this platform, but should go to the platform of sat (om tat sat). This is the Vedic injunction. The material world is asad-vastu; it cannot possibly remain ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3010:30, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,840‎ In the material world, everything will ultimately be vanquished. Whatever exists in the material world exists only for some time. It is temporary ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,842‎ Yato imani bhutani jayante: the Supreme Absolute Truth is He from whom everything is emanating. If everything is emanating from the Absolute Truth, nothing can actually be false ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2610:26, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,906‎ If we organize a business, we have many anxieties. The managing director or proprietor of the business particularly has many anxieties ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2310:23, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,876‎ There are saktyavesa-avataras, guna-avataras and svayam-avataras, and these are all described in Srimad-Bhagavatam. All these avataras, or incarnations, are svacchandatma, free from care and anxiety ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1710:17, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,074‎ Before the creation there was no Brahma or Siva. There was only Krsna. Krsna therefore says, aham adir hi devanam (BG 10.2). He is the creator of all demigods and all other living entities ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1610:16, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,304‎ After the cosmic manifestation is created, the living entities are placed in it. In the Vedas it is stated that in the beginning there was neither Brahma nor Siva, but only Narayana (eko narayana asit). Narayana is also another plenary expansion of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1510:15, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,767‎ The beginning is sravanam kirtanam, hearing and chanting. One must be very eager to hear and chant ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,994‎ We have to learn from the scriptures that Krsna is the origin of all. Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam: (SB 1.3.28) all the visnu-tattvas and incarnations are but plenary expansions or expansions of the plenary expansions of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,891‎ We can understand the pastimes of the Lord by following one or some of the authorized devotional processes ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,909‎ We have to speak or chant about the holy activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but first we have to hear about them ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,872‎ When we speak of Visnu, we mean Krsna. Krsna is the origin of the visnu-tattva - that is, Visnu is an expansion of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,229‎ Nine basic processes of devotional service - hearing & chanting about the Supreme Lord, remembering Him, serving His lotus feet, worshiping Him, offering prayers to the Lord, acting as His servant, becoming His friend, & surrendering everything to Him ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 15 September 2022 diff hist +25,868‎ Concerning Kapiladeva, Saunaka Rsi says, kapilas tattva-sankhyata. Kapila is the Supreme Person; therefore He can explain the Absolute Truth. Actually only Bhagavan can know the true position of the ultimate truth. No one else can know it ‎No edit summary current

14 September 2022

• 13:3713:37, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,387‎ The easiest way to go to the Vaikunthalokas is: janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah (BG 4.9). Simply try to understand Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3713:37, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,716‎ Why does He come? What are His activities? Where does He come from? Why does He come in the form of a human being? We only have to try to understand this and study Krsna as He explains Himself in Bhagavad-gita. What is the difficulty ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3613:36, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,502‎ God personally explains Himself as He is, and if we accept Bhagavad-gita as it is, we shall no longer have to transmigrate. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti - BG 4.9 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3513:35, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,598‎ We shall no longer have to endure birth and death, for we can attain our spiritual bodies (sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1)) and live happily in Krsna's family. Krsna is providing for us here, and He will also provide for us there ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,428‎ We should know that our happiness is in returning home, back to Godhead, where we can eat, drink and be merry in Krsna's company ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3113:31, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,494‎ Everything is present in Vaikunthaloka. There we can have an eternal, blissful life full of knowledge (sac-cid-ananda). It is not compulsory for us to rot in this material world ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2913:29, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,404‎ In this life we enjoy or suffer the results of our past karma, and in the same way we are creating further karma for our next body ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2813:28, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,360‎ We should work in such a way that we will not get another material body, How can this be done? We simply have to try to understand Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,358‎ There are many types of yogis, but he who is devoted to Krsna is the topmost yogi. Sri Krsna is far above all yogic processes ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,850‎ In India there are many yogis who display some magical feats. They can walk on water, make themselves very light or very heavy and so forth. But what is this compared to Krsna's yogic mystic powers? By His potencies, great planets are floating in space ‎No edit summary
• 13:2313:23, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,556‎ Who can manage to float even a small stone in the air? Sometimes a yogi may show a little mystic power by manufacturing some gold, and we are so foolish that we accept him as God ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,672‎ We forget that the real yogi, the Supreme Lord Himself, has created millions of gold mines and is floating them in space. Those who are Krsna conscious are not befooled by yogis who claim to be Bhagavan ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,775‎ A Krsna conscious person wants only to serve the foremost yogi, Yogesvara (varimnah sarva-yoginam). Because we are trying to become His devotees, we accept the Supreme Lord, Yogesvara, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 13:2013:20, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,645‎ It is due to one's work that one becomes a criminal and is therefore put in jail. It is not compulsory for everyone to go to jail. As living entities, we have our proper place in Vaikunthaloka ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1813:18, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,515‎ Yas tv indragopam athavendram aho sva-karma (Bs. 5.54). From Lord Indra to indragopa, an insignificant insect, everyone is reaping the consequences of his karma. We are creating our own karma, our next body, in this life ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1713:17, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,563‎ We come onto this planet to enjoy or suffer life for a few days - fifty or a hundred years - but Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, does not come for that purpose (na mam karmani limpanti) - BG 4.14 ‎No edit summary
• 13:1613:16, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,635‎ There is a Bengali proverb: Dry cow dung is used for fuel, and it is said that when the dry cow dung is being burned, the soft cow dung is laughing, saying, - Oh, you are being burned, but I am safe ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1513:15, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,421‎ It is further stated, na hy asya varsmanah: "No one is greater than Him." No one is greater than Bhagavan or equal to Him. Everyone is inferior ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1413:14, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,363‎ According to Caitanya-caritamrta (CC Adi 5.142), ekale isvara krsna, ara saba bhrtya. There is only one master - Krsna. All others are subservient ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1413:14, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,557‎ Beginning with Lord Brahma, Visnu, Mahesvara, Indra, Candra and all the demigods (there are thirty-three million demigods) and the middle and lower species. Everyone is bhrtya, or servant ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1313:13, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,625‎ When Krsna orders, "My dear Mr. So-and-So, now please give up your place and leave,', one must go. Therefore everyone is a servant. This is the position of Lord Brahma and the ant as well ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,385‎ When Dharmaraja asked Maharaja Yudhisthira what the most wonderful thing in the world was, Maharaja Yudhisthira replied: ahany ahani bhutani gacchantiha yamalayam. ‎No edit summary
• 13:1013:10, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,315‎ Bhagavan, the Supreme Lord, is not in this (conditioned) position. It is therefore said: bhagavan atma-mayaya ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0813:08, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,657‎ Every moment people are dying, but those who are living are thinking, 'My friend has died, but I shall live forever. - (Mahabharata, Vana-parva 313.116) Soft cow dung thinks the same way. This is typical of conditioned beings ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,739‎ Real knowledge means knowing that however great one may be, the four principles of material life are present: birth, old age, disease and death. These exist in the highest planetary system (Brahmaloka) and in the lowest - Patalaloka ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,391‎ Foolish people are unaware of the miserable conditions of material life. Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (13.9), janma-mrtyu jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,375‎ One cannot say, "My dear death, please give me some time to adjust." There is no adjustment; one must immediately get out ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,579‎ Krsna states in Bhagavad-gita (10.34), mrtyuh sarva-haras caham: "I am all-devouring death." Krsna comes as death and plunders everything - bank balance, skyscrapers, wife, children and whatever ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,627‎ Eventually everyone will dry up and be thrown in the fire. That is a fact. We may survive for a few years, but we cannot avoid death. In fact, it is said, - As sure as death ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,329‎ What is the result of death? One loses everything - all honor, money, position and material life itself ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,783‎ It (soft cow dung) does not know that when it dries out, it will be thrown into the fire too. We may laugh because President Nixon is in trouble, and we may think ourselves very safe because we have a big bank balance, but actually no one is safe ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,314‎ Tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovidah. The word kovidah means "intelligent." An intelligent person should try to attain shelter at the lotus feet of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,261‎ Human life is actually meant for getting in touch with the lotus feet of Krsna. That should be our only business ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,421‎ Within this one universe, there are fourteen planetary systems, and the living entities are wandering in different bodily forms on different planets ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,669‎ Sometimes we may think we are very fortunate, just as President Nixon was thinking, "I am very fortunate. I have become the president of the United States." Then he soon realized that he was most unfortunate. Actually this is the situation for everyone ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,607‎ Throughout the world there are problems everywhere. One country has one type of problem, and another country has another. There is strife within governments themselves, and even presidents are fraught with problems ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5212:52, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,678‎ The Krsna consciousness movement is an attempt to make people fortunate. In this age, everyone is unfortunate (manda-bhagyah), but now we are trying to reverse the situation ‎No edit summary
• 12:5112:51, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,867‎ It was Caitanya Mahaprabhu who said to Rupa Gosvami - The living entity is wandering up & down, from one planet to another, & he is very fortunate if by the mercy of the spiritual master & Krsna Himself he can get the seed of devotional service to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4912:49, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,783‎ Everyone is thinking, "May my child live happily" or "May I get so much money." We do not ask or pray for catastrophes, yet they come without invitation. Similarly, whatever happiness is there for our enjoyment will also come without our asking for it ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,658‎ Our actual endeavor should be to attain happiness; that is our real struggle for existence. According to the sastras: tal labhyate duhkhavat. The word duhkhavat indicates that although we do not want misery, misery comes anyway ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4512:45, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,538‎ We should not worry about eating and sleeping, for the needs of the body are already arranged. We do not have to work independently to maintain the body ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4412:44, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,790‎ According to karma, the living entity sometimes goes up & sometimes goes down. He wanders in this way, thinking how he can become materially happy & satisfy his senses. The sastras say that we should not do this, we should endeavor to understand Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4312:43, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,289‎ The word upari indicates the higher planetary systems. There are seven higher planetary systems, and we are in the middle system, in Bhurloka ‎No edit summary current
• 12:4012:40, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,789‎ In Bhagavad-gita, Krsna never says, "Do this or that, and I will then maintain you." Rather, He states that not only will He maintain us, but He will also protect us from the results of sin, from sinful karma (BG 18.66). All of this assurance is there ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3712:37, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,584‎ In our Krsna consciousness movement, we have over a hundred centers, and Krsna is maintaining them all. None of our devotees are employed for independent incomes, yet they are all being maintained ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,541‎ Those who are devotees of the Lord and have taken shelter at His lotus feet, leaving everything aside simply to render service unto Him, will certainly be cared for ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2706:27, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,926‎ We cannot conceive how many living entities are being maintained by the Supreme Lord. All the great elephants, all the small ants, all the 8,400,000 species of life are maintained by Bhagavan. Why do we worry that He will not maintain us ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2506:25, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,463‎ There is no limit to the jivas; no one can count them. The word ananta means that they are without limit. All these jivas, living entities, are being maintained by the Supreme One ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2406:24, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,294‎ Nitya, bhagavan, is the singular, and nityanam are the plural jivas, or living beings. Nityo nityanam: we are many, but God is one ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2306:23, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,333‎ The word bhaga means "opulence," and van means "one who possesses." All the opulences of the creation are present in Bhagavan ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2006:20, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,389‎ In the previous verse (SB 3.25.1), the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Devahuti-putra Kapiladeva has been explained as bhagavan atma-mayaya ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,679‎ If we hear about Krsna, we become purified. Hearing about Krsna means associating with Krsna. In this way we may perfect our lives ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3205:32, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,495‎ We need only hear about Krsna. That's all. We have therefore opened all these centers of Krsna consciousness throughout the world ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3205:32, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,660‎ It is our great fortune that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Krsna Himself, has appeared and given us a very easy process by which we can understand Krsna. What is that process ‎No edit summary
• 05:3105:31, 14 September 2022 diff hist +25,711‎ Understanding Krsna is therefore not so easy. As stated by Krsna, out of many thousands one person may become a siddha, a self-realized being. And out of many siddhas, one may be able to understand Krsna ‎No edit summary current

13 September 2022

• 10:2210:22, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,523‎ Krsna comes at intervals or sends His representative, the pure devotee. Sometimes He comes personally, and sometimes He sends His incarnation ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,303‎ We have to accept a certain type of body because we are forced to do so, but this is not the case with Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 10:2110:21, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,749‎ Presently I may have a human form, but in the future I cannot demand a human form. We receive bodies in the next life according to karma, not will. One cannot demand to be a high-court judge unless one has been educated for the job ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2010:20, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,765‎ One must become qualified. If one qualifies himself, one may become a devata, a demigod like Indra or Candra, or one can become a dog or a cat. That depends on one's karma, or activities (karmana daiva-netrena) - SB 3.31.1 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,991‎ When Krsna or His incarnation come, they do not depend on karma for their bodies. The Supreme Lord is above karma and is fully independent. It is therefore said, atma-mayaya. The Supreme Lord comes by His own energy, not by the external energy or by force ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,420‎ Kapiladeva is an incarnation of the Supreme Person, Krsna. Therefore it is stated: kapilas tattva-sankhyata bhagavan atma-mayaya ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,753‎ When the governor visits the prison, he is not forced to do so. He is not to be considered a condemned person; rather, he goes by his own good will just to see how things are going on ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1510:15, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,273‎ Vedic knowledge is the mother, and the spiritual master is the father ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,670‎ When one is twice-born (dvija), he receives a sacred thread from the spiritual master and begins to learn about spiritual life. He is then allowed to read the Vedic literatures. In this way one becomes a son of Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1310:13, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,606‎ Nigama-kalpa-taror galitam phalam: (SB 1.1.3) Srimad-Bhagavatam is the essence of Vedic culture. It is a wish-fulfilling tree, and we can take whatever we want from it ‎No edit summary
• 10:1210:12, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,494‎ Vedic knowledge is perfect, and if we want to come to know it, we must take shelter of a bona fide guru (tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet) - MU 1.2.12 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1010:10, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,485‎ Unfortunately, in this age everything is mismanaged. People forget the aim of life, and at such a time the Supreme Lord Himself comes ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,463‎ The Supreme Lord descends out of compassion because He is more anxious to have us return home, back to Godhead, than we are to go ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,512‎ Because we are in ignorance, we do not know anything about the kingdom of God. We know nothing about how to get there or how to become happy. We have forgotten all this ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0510:05, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,592‎ The word dvija means "twiceborn." One is first born through the womb of a mother, and one's next birth is given by the spiritual master and Vedic knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,617‎ When one comes to detest material enjoyment, one can understand that he has advanced spiritually. Spiritual life does not mean taking sannyasa and then smoking or drinking tea ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,716‎ One must actually come to detest material life. One comes to lose interest in material activities and becomes interested only in the understanding of God, the Supreme Being, and His service ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 13 September 2022 diff hist +26,045‎ Hogs work hard day and night simply eating stool, and because stool contains chemicals, hypophosphates, the hog gets strength, becomes very fat and enjoys sex. In any case, human life is meant not for imitating the life of a hog but for tapasya, austerity ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0110:01, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,844‎ The society of varnasrama-dharma - composed of brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas, sudras, grhasthas, vanaprasthas, brahmacaris and sannyasis - is meant to elevate people gradually to the perfect stage of understanding God ‎No edit summary
• 10:0110:01, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,498‎ When one goes to school, he begins with the first grade, then progresses to the second, third and so forth. In this way one makes progress ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,536‎ They (disciples of Krsna Consciousness) are simply interested in sitting on the floor and learning about Krsna consciousness. Why is this? They have actually rejected the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,399‎ People are saying, "Can you show me God?" while not realizing that they are seeing God daily at every moment ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,425‎ Because people are foolish in this age, they cannot understand that when we perceive the energy of the Lord, we can feel the presence of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,773‎ The young devotees in the Krsna consciousness movement are presently worshiping Krsna. What are the signs of a devotee? The actual sign of a devotee is that he is no longer interested in material enjoyment: bhaktih paresanubhavo viraktir anyatra ca ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4609:46, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,890‎ Acaryopasanam: this information (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam) is not concocted, but is accepted by the acaryas in the disciplic succession. Although an impersonalist, Sankaracarya has accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 09:4509:45, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,661‎ So have Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu Svami, Nimbarka and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His followers. They all accept Krsna as the Supreme, just as Arjuna himself did. This is the simplest method ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,370‎ There is no need to speculate, "What is God? Where is God?" Why foolishly go on searching? Here is God - Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,584‎ We may think that Krsna cannot be seen, but Krsna can appear in the form of His energy. Of course, a stone is not God, but a stone is another one of God's energies ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,606‎ Heat and light are not fire, but without fire there cannot be heat or light. In that sense, heat and light are nondifferent from fire. This material world is like the heat and light of the supreme fire ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,834‎ Consequently many people are surprised to see how Americans and Europeans have become such great devotees and are dancing in ecstasy. How is it they are so advanced? They have taken the information seriously: krsnas tu bhagavan svayam - SB 1.3.28 ‎No edit summary
• 09:3709:37, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,831‎ On this earth we have created so many dharmas - Hindu dharma, Muslim dharma, Christian dharma. These are all manufactured dharmas, but real dharma is attained when we come to the conclusion that Sri Krsna is everything ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,616‎ The sun is situated in one place, and its light and heat expand throughout the entire solar system. As soon as we perceive light and heat, we can understand that the sun is there ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,498‎ Since light and heat can be perceived by everyone, Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (7.8), prabhasmi sasi-suryayoh - I am the light of the sun and the moon ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0508:05, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,524‎ Presently there is a different God on every street, but Krsna is not that kind of God. He is the Supreme God. As Krsna Himself states in Bhagavad-gita - 7.7 ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0408:04, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,414‎ The purpose of this Krsna consciousness movement is to inform everyone that no one is superior to Krsna, God ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0408:04, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,587‎ Many young Americans and Europeans are fortunate and know nothing of any hodgepodge god, they have taken this bona fide Krsna consciousness movement seriously ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0308:03, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,950‎ Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam: (SB 1.3.28) Bhagavan, God, means Sri Krsna. We have simply presented this information, saying, "Here is God. Sri Krsna." Because they have taken this seriously, many young Americans and Europeans are advancing in KC ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,601‎ The Krsna consciousness movement is meant for the propagation of this message. We are not preaching a particular sectarian religious system but a real religion, dharma ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5707:57, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,678‎ The simplest definition of dharma is that dharma is the order of the Supreme Being. Since the Supreme Being, God, is one, His order must be one. How, then, can there be different dharmas? It is not possible ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,499‎ Gold is gold. If a Christian possesses some gold, does it become Christian gold? Gold is gold whether possessed by a Hindu, a Muslim or a Christian ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5507:55, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,610‎ According to the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, dharma means surrendering unto that Supreme Being. This is bhagavata-dharma, and everyone should be taught how to surrender unto God ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5407:54, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,206‎ God is one; there cannot be two Gods. When there is competition, there is no God ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5207:52, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,892‎ Understanding one's spiritual identity is called dharma. The ultimate goal of dharma is enunciated by Sri Krsna Himself in BG (18.66). Sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja: - Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me ‎No edit summary current
• 07:5107:51, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,332‎ Unless one is enlightened by spiritual knowledge, he remains animalistic ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4807:48, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,726‎ We are all Brahman, spirit soul, but somehow or other we have come in contact with these material elements (bhumir apo 'nalo vayuh (BG 7.4)), and we have acquired bodily coverings. Consequently we think, "I am this body." This is ignorance ‎No edit summary current
• 07:4607:46, 13 September 2022 diff hist +25,357‎ Gold is gold, even if it is covered with some dirt, which can certainly be removed ‎No edit summary current

11 September 2022

• 10:2710:27, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,448‎ After hearing Bhagavad-gita, Arjuna addressed Krsna as param brahma param dhama (BG 10.12), - the Supreme Brahman and supreme abode ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2610:26, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,784‎ Every person is actually Brahman, spirit soul. We are not actually the body. Awareness of aham brahmasmi ("I am Brahman") is actual self-realization. According to Vedic culture, one must understand that he is Brahman, not the body ‎No edit summary
• 10:2510:25, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,895‎ We should not remain in ignorance like cats and dogs, thinking, "I am this body, I am American, I am Indian, I am brahmana, I am ksatriya, I am Hindu, I am Muslim," and so on. These are all bodily designations ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2210:22, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,526‎ Arjuna was in perfect knowledge, yet Krsna instructed him for our benefit. Arjuna requested Krsna's instructions, which are set forth for all human society ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,652‎ Yet there are mahatmas, great souls, who can understand Krsna. Arjuna could understand that although Krsna was playing the part of his friend, He was nonetheless the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1110:11, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,607‎ After his son grew up, Kardama Muni, being a strict follower of the Vedas, left home and put his wife in the charge of his grown son, Kapiladeva ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,810‎ It is not that one should rot in this material world throughout one's whole life. Pancasordhvam vanam vrajet. According to the Vedic injunctions, there are four asramas and four varnas, and these used to be followed very strictly ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,887‎ Some hundreds & thousands years ago Lord Krsna appeared as Devahuti-putra Kapiladeva. His father's name was Kardama Muni. After Kapiladeva grew up, His father, according to the Vedic system, retired, took sannyasa & left home to cultivate spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,586‎ Since everyone in this age is an unintelligent, unfortunate and disturbed sudra, how can anyone understand the Absolute Truth or the aim of life ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,656‎ This process is not Caitanya Mahaprabhu's invention, but is advised by the sastras, the puranas. The process for this Kali-yuga is very simple. One need only chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0110:01, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,945‎ The characteristics of this age predicted by Srimad-Bhagavatam are already being experienced to some degree. Since Kali-yuga is a very miserable age, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is Sri Krsna Himself, advises everyone simply to chant Hare Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 10:0010:00, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,452‎ According to Srimad-Bhagavatam there will eventually be no rain and consequently a scarcity of food. The governments will also levy very heavy taxes ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,575‎ The word manda means both slow and bad, and everyone in this age is either bad or slow or a combination of both. People are unfortunate and disturbed by so many things ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,707‎ Actually human life is meant for understanding spiritual values, but because everyone in this age is a sudra, no one is interested. People have forgotten life's real purpose ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,335‎ The people in this age are very short-lived and slow in understanding spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,827‎ It is said that at the present moment in Kali-yuga everyone is a sudra (kalau sudra-sambhavah), and it is very difficult in this age to find qualified brahmanas, for they are very rare. There is practically not a single qualified brahmana in this age ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 11 September 2022 diff hist +25,808‎ According to the Vedic conception, there must be men in society who are factually brahmanas, capable of expounding the real truth. If everyone becomes a sudra, the Absolute Truth cannot be understood ‎No edit summary current