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02:3202:32, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ Devotional service is so perfect that simply by following the rules and regulations and executing them under the direction of the spiritual master, one is liberated, as it is said herein (in SB 3.33.10), from the clutches of maya, even in this body ‎No edit summary current
02:3002:30, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ Because of her association with her great husband, Maharaja Yayati, Devayani became purified, adopted the means of bhakti-yoga, and thus became liberated ‎No edit summary
02:2702:27, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ A liberated person no longer desires external material happiness. This state is called brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20), attaining which one is assured of going back to Godhead, back to home. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
02:1902:19, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ A devotee's life and duty are very well explained herein (SB 7.9.18). As soon as a devotee can chant the holy name and glories of the Supreme Lord, he certainly comes to the liberated position ‎No edit summary current
02:1502:15, 21 October 2023 diff hist +49‎ Anyone who becomes even slightly interested in krsna-katha is liberated. Kirtanad eva krsnasya mukta-sangah param vrajet (SB 12.3.51). Simply by chanting or repeating krsna-katha, one is liberated from the contamination of Kali-yuga ‎No edit summary current
02:1002:10, 21 October 2023 diff hist +94‎ If persons who are trying to be liberated hear such narrations as the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, then their path of liberation becomes very clear ‎No edit summary current
02:0702:07, 21 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Those who are not liberated from material bondage cannot understand transcendental devotional service. In Bhagavad-gita 7.3 it is clearly stated, yatatam api siddhanam ‎No edit summary current

18:5818:58, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ To become honest is also good karma. How to become a good man is described in the Bhagavad-gita very elaborately (BG 16.5): So if you become qualified with the daivi sampad (transcendental qualities), then, vimoksaya - you will be liberated ‎No edit summary current
18:5518:55, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ We shall find in the Bhagavad-gita, Tenth Chapter, that anyone who is engaged in that way is a liberated person. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
18:5318:53, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ When one is so liberated, he can really understand the transcendental features of the form of the Lord. Siva advises everyone to practice bhagavad-bhakti-yoga. By doing so one can become really liberated and enjoy spiritual bliss ‎No edit summary
18:4518:45, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ As it will be seen, actual devotional service begins after liberation. So in Bhagavad-gita it is said, brahma-bhuta. After being liberated, or being situated in the Brahman position, one's devotional service begins. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
17:4717:47, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ The remedial measures can be understood when one associates with persons who are liberated. It must be understood who is actually liberated. The liberated person is described in Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
17:4117:41, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ The liberated person is described in Bhagavad-gita: one who engages in uninterrupted devotional service to the Lord, having surpassed the stringent laws of material nature, is understood to be situated in Brahman ‎No edit summary current
17:3717:37, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ The faithful human being who is desirous of being liberated from the clutches of material existence can very easily take advantage of the Bhagavad-gita, and with this in view, the Lord instructed Arjuna as if Arjuna were in need of it ‎No edit summary current
17:2417:24, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Simply by fixing oneself in Krsna consciousness, engaging the senses in the service of the Lord, one is imperceptibly liberated. This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
17:0317:03, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ There are many philosophers who write comments on the Bhagavad-gita but have no faith in Krsna. They will never be liberated from the bondage of fruitive action. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
17:0117:01, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Out of hundreds of thousands of liberated persons, even one person is rarely found who can firmly fix his mind unto the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krsna, as declared by the Lord Himself in the Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
16:5816:58, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Liberation is open for everyone (samam carantam (SB 1.8.28)). In Bhagavad-gita Krsna does not say to Arjuna, "Only you may come to Me and become liberated." No, the Lord is available for everyone ‎No edit summary
16:5616:56, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15), "The real purpose of veda, knowledge, is to know Me." One who knows Krsna perfectly is liberated ‎No edit summary
16:5516:55, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ One's ignorance can be removed by the instruction of the Bhagavad-gita which teaches one to surrender unto Lord Sri Krsna in all respects and become liberated from the chained victimization of action and reaction, birth after birth. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
16:5216:52, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ In the Bhagavad-gita (4.9) the Lord promises that one who simply understands the mysteries of His transcendental birth and deeds will be liberated from the clutches of Maya and go back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
16:4916:49, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ In Bhagavad-gita the Lord affirms: anyone who wants to be liberated from the entanglement of this material world is given liberation by the Lord ‎No edit summary current
16:3816:38, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ In Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that His birth and deeds are transcendental and that anyone who is so fortunate as to know the transcendental nature of His birth and deeds will at once become liberated and eligible to return to the kingdom of God ‎No edit summary current
16:3416:34, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that one who knows the truth about Sri Krsna's descent and His various activities is at once liberated and does not have to fall again to this existence of birth and death after he leaves his present material body ‎No edit summary
16:3116:31, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Instruct everyone to follow the orders of Lord Sri Krsna as they are given in the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. In this way become a spiritual master and try to liberate everyone in this land ‎No edit summary current
16:2716:27, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ He (Lord Caitanya) doesn't want even mukti. Otherwise, if one is liberated, then according to Bhagavad-gita and every Vedic sastra, punar janma naiti, tyaktva deham punar janma naiti (BG 4.9). That is mukti ‎No edit summary current
16:1716:17, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Devotional service of the Lord is accepted in the Bhagavad-gita as the liberated stage. Therefore, brahmi-sthitih is liberation from material bondage. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
16:1516:15, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ As stated in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 12.5), kleso ‘dhikaratas tesam avyaktasakta-cetasam: impersonalists must work hard for many, many births, and only then will they perhaps be liberated ‎No edit summary
16:1216:12, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ As advised in Bhagavad-gita if one transcends these four processes and is actually liberated, one engages in devotional service. Then he is guaranteed not to fall to material existence again ‎No edit summary
16:0316:03, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ As explained in Bhagavad-gita, Fourth Chapter, anyone who understands the transcendental activities, the appearance and the disappearance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is to be considered liberated ‎No edit summary current
15:5615:56, 20 October 2023 diff hist 0‎ Any person, if he is fortunate enough to hear these teachings (of Bhagavad-gita) from Krsna or from His bona fide spiritual representative, is sure to become a liberated person and get out of the darkness of ignorance. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:5215:52, 20 October 2023 diff hist +45‎ Any person, if he is fortunate enough to hear these teachings (of Bhagavad-gita) from Krsna or from His bona fide spiritual representative, is sure to become a liberated person and get out of the darkness of ignorance. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary

23:3123:31, 21 May 2023 diff hist +19,195‎ Why have we taken so much land (in Mayapur)? Those who are seriously desirous - they will come and live with us. Association is very influential. If you associate with drunkards, you become drunk; if you associate with sadhus, then you become a sadhu ‎No edit summary current
23:2923:29, 21 May 2023 diff hist +3,842‎ Try to concentrate on these farm projects. Let the villagers come and hear, and distribute prasadam. In this way draw their sympathy and gradually they'll become our associates. Then they can come to live with us and work with us ‎No edit summary current
23:2723:27, 21 May 2023 diff hist +5,920‎ To live with devotees or to live in a temple means to associate with the sravana-kirtana process ‎No edit summary current
23:2523:25, 21 May 2023 diff hist +3,133‎ The man who lives with a wife has a great responsibility in maintaining the members of the other social orders - the brahmacaris, vanaprasthas and sannyasis ‎No edit summary current
23:2323:23, 21 May 2023 diff hist +2,371‎ The drug habit is killing the soul of the younger generation in the Western world. So if you live with the devotees, you will get strength to give up this bad habit ‎No edit summary current
23:1823:18, 21 May 2023 diff hist +6,405‎ You have to live with us. Then your friends will not ask you, "What about marijuana?" ‎No edit summary current
23:1323:13, 21 May 2023 diff hist +2,330‎ Regarding your request for some books, the best thing will be if you ask some able person to buy them for you. Or you may ask for the fare to come to Madras and live with the devotees of our Movement ‎No edit summary current
23:1023:10, 21 May 2023 diff hist +2,740‎ Out of the five kinds of liberations, achieving the same planet where the Lord resides and living with the Lord there is called salokya liberation ‎No edit summary
23:0723:07, 21 May 2023 diff hist +3,597‎ Our policy is to live with devotees. Immediately return and live with devotees and take care of the Deities and Tulsi. That is our main business. My Guru Maharaja condemned living alone in a lonely place ‎No edit summary current
22:5922:59, 21 May 2023 diff hist +6,230‎ Most rubbish civilization, modern misleading, soul-killing. Andha yathandhair upaniyamanah (SB 7.5.31). Very difficult to live with them. Still, we have to do this Krsna's business. So we have to do our business. Let the dogs bark on ‎No edit summary current
22:5122:51, 21 May 2023 diff hist +8,013‎ Krsna is the complete whole, and thus all plenary expansions and incarnations always live with Him ‎No edit summary current
22:4822:48, 21 May 2023 diff hist +12‎ It is recommended that a woman desiring to advance in Krsna consciousness peacefully live with a husband and that the couple should not separate under any condition ‎No edit summary current
22:4522:45, 21 May 2023 diff hist +3,035‎ It appears that Vasudeva, the father of Lord Krsna, had completely separate residential quarters where he lived with his eighteen wives, out of whom Srimati Devaki is the real mother of Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
22:1622:16, 21 May 2023 diff hist +5,390‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally admitted that a grhastha must live with a wife. Ksatriyas were even allowed to have many wives to encourage them in discharging the duties of government ‎No edit summary current
21:4421:44, 21 May 2023 diff hist +9,562‎ So Krsna is so friendly that He always lives with us just to turn our face towards Krsna. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese arjuna tisthati. What is His business? He is simply waiting for the time when we shall turn our face to Krsna. That is His business ‎No edit summary current

16:5916:59, 20 May 2023 diff hist +2,596‎ In Candapura lived Balarama Acarya and Yadunandana Acarya, the priests of these two personalities, and when Haridasa Thakura went there he lived with them ‎No edit summary current

18:3218:32, 17 May 2023 diff hist +4,471‎ If you live with the association of sadhu, devotee, then it will be quickly fruitful - And if you live with these ordinary men, then whatever you have got will be finished very soon ‎No edit summary current
18:0918:09, 17 May 2023 diff hist +5,437‎ If you are serious about Krsna consciousness, if you are serious about increasing attachment for Krsna, then you should come and live with the devotees ‎No edit summary current
18:0318:03, 17 May 2023 diff hist +2,837‎ If one always thinks of something, he certainly gets a related body after death. Maharaja Agnidhra was always thinking of Pitrloka, the place where his wife had returned. After his death he achieved that same planet, probably to live with her again ‎No edit summary
03:0103:01, 17 May 2023 diff hist +4,805‎ Even if he goes from forest to forest, one who is not self-controlled must always fear material bondage because he is living with six co-wives - the mind and knowledge-acquiring senses ‎No edit summary current

20:2120:21, 8 May 2023 diff hist +3,392‎ So don't become grhamedhis, simply having a wife and few children. That, cats and dogs they have also got. That is not required. You find inconvenience to live alone as brahmacari - all right, you take to a wife. Live with wife. Live responsibly ‎No edit summary current
16:5816:58, 8 May 2023 diff hist +4,881‎ I may not be liberated birth after birth, it doesn't matter. But I wish that, I wish to live with the devotees ‎No edit summary current
16:3416:34, 8 May 2023 diff hist +3,404‎ He (Lord Krsna) desires that all of them come to Him and live with Him, but going back to Godhead means that one must purify himself from material infections ‎No edit summary current
16:2616:26, 8 May 2023 diff hist +3,381‎ Puranjana used to live with his wife for sense enjoyment, and at night this very sense enjoyment was appreciated in different ways ‎No edit summary current
16:1916:19, 8 May 2023 diff hist +3,834‎ I have heard that your good wife, Patty is growing Srimate Tulasi devi there at your house with good success. That is another very auspicious sign. The Tulasi, she will not go to live with anyone nondevotee ‎No edit summary current
14:5514:55, 8 May 2023 diff hist +4,629‎ God is everywhere, but He has got a special planet, which is called Goloka Vrndavana. You can enter there directly and see God and live with Him, dance with Him, play with Him, eat with Him. That is the perfection of life ‎No edit summary

17:4217:42, 7 May 2023 diff hist +7,435‎ Gadadhara Pandita, in the last years of his life, also lived with Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Jagannatha Puri. There is no doubt, therefore, that Acyutananda was a disciple of Pandita Gadadhara ‎No edit summary current
16:4816:48, 7 May 2023 diff hist +3,665‎ Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, kita janma hao yatha tuya dasa. Thus he prays to take birth as an insignificant insect in the association of devotees. Because devotees are engaged in the service of the Lord, anyone who lives with them also lives in Vaikuntha ‎No edit summary current
16:4516:45, 7 May 2023 diff hist +3,599‎ Being a householder or living with a wife and children is never condemned, provided one lives according to the regulative principles of varnasrama-dharma ‎No edit summary current
16:4116:41, 7 May 2023 diff hist +4,366‎ At the mature age say after 50 years old age, everyone should separate from wife. Married life does not mean that one should continue to live with wife throughout the whole life ‎No edit summary current
16:3816:38, 7 May 2023 diff hist −9‎ Although a person may live with his wife and children happily in Krsna consciousness, he also observes the regulative principles followed in any temple. If there is no Krsna consciousness, the householder’s abode is called a grha-medhi’s house ‎No edit summary current

20:0720:07, 5 May 2023 diff hist +5,469‎ After fifty years of age, one should voluntarily give up family life and go to the forest. The best forest is Vrndavana, where one need not live with the animals but can associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who never leaves Vrndavana ‎No edit summary
19:5619:56, 5 May 2023 diff hist +6‎ A devotee does not live alone. Of course, everyone lives with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but because the devotee is engaged in His service, he actually does not live in any material condition ‎No edit summary current
19:4319:43, 5 May 2023 diff hist +6‎ A devotee always lives with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, engaging in His service, and therefore he is always transcendental to hellish or heavenly residences ‎No edit summary current
19:1319:13, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2,550‎ My last request to you both is that if you find such difficulty to live with your God-brothers, you can live with me ‎No edit summary current
19:1119:11, 5 May 2023 diff hist +4,408‎ My plan is that personally I shall try to retire from active participation, but I want a place where I can live with at least 15 devotees engaged in editorial work, recording work, photographic work, painting work, etc. ‎No edit summary current
19:0919:09, 5 May 2023 diff hist +3,861‎ It is only the question of understanding the process how to execute Krishna Consciousness. If you can therefore spare some time to live with me, it will be better. You appear to be a very intelligent boy and I hope you will learn the art quickly ‎No edit summary current
19:0619:06, 5 May 2023 diff hist +4,549‎ They could go out and make thousands of dollars a month as educators and skilled professional men, still they prefer to live with me and eat only a little rice from the floor, and sleep on the cold ground without cover ‎No edit summary current
19:0519:05, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2,641‎ There is no worry. I am still prepared to accept you as my original disciple and if there is anything wrong, I am prepared to try and correct it so that your life may not be spoiled. Please therefore come here immediately and live with me ‎No edit summary current
19:0319:03, 5 May 2023 diff hist +4,327‎ So far as you writing you are lonely I think that there is no need for this. Such sentiments of wishing for me to be there is nice but a girl is meant for living with her husband and not her father ‎No edit summary current
19:0019:00, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2‎ My intention of calling him is that he expressed a strong desire to live with me in Montreal, so I wish to keep him with me at least for some time and train him to act as secretary ‎No edit summary current
18:5818:58, 5 May 2023 diff hist +3,387‎ If you are more serious about Krsna Consciousness then you should not only read our books and literatures with due care, but also if possible you should come here and live with me for some time ‎No edit summary current
18:5718:57, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2‎ If you are sincere to our line of action, please come here to Los Angeles and live with me for some time ‎No edit summary current
18:5518:55, 5 May 2023 diff hist +1,779‎ If you actually want to give me service, then you can live with me. I want your service ‎No edit summary current
18:5218:52, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2‎ I think you should without further delay try to become devotees as the others are doing and live with us and practise the regulative principles of brahmacary life ‎No edit summary current
18:4918:49, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2,418‎ I hope you are chanting regularly at least 16 rounds. Sometimes Maya disturbs us but that does not mean any serious drawback. So if you feel too much uneasy, you can come and live with me for some time, and everything will be set up ‎No edit summary current
18:4818:48, 5 May 2023 diff hist +1,880‎ Here in Bombay we have a nice spot. We are now in possession. It is just like a garden house. I shall be glad if you come here and live with me for some time ‎No edit summary current
18:4618:46, 5 May 2023 diff hist +2‎ Don't be implicated in sinful activities. Be God conscious and live here with us comfortably, take your food. We have got this nice palace ‎No edit summary current
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08:0808:08, 4 December 2022 diff hist +27,783‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Krsna Himself, but He is Krsna accepting the propensities of Radharani. Radharani is always feeling separation from Krsna, and similarly, in the position of Radharani. Lord Caitanya was always feeling that separation ‎No edit summary current
08:0408:04, 4 December 2022 diff hist +17,286‎ By this attitude of service (chanting Hare Krsna), God will reveal Himself. You cannot understand God by your endeavor. Only if God reveals Himself ‎No edit summary current
08:0108:01, 4 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ By the mercy of the spiritual master one is benedicted by the mercy of Krsna. Without the grace of the spiritual master no one can make any advancement. Therefore I should always remember the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current

13:2113:21, 2 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ By the ascending process one is elevated by knowledge acquired by himself. In this way one thinks - I don't care for any authorities or books. I will attain knowledge myself by meditation, philosophy, etc. In this way I will understand God ‎No edit summary current
13:1513:15, 2 December 2022 diff hist +36,212‎ By studying Bhagavad-gita under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, we can remove these doubts and make definite progress ‎No edit summary current
12:3612:36, 2 December 2022 diff hist +24,977‎ By seeing Krsna, we will not understand Him, but by listening carefully to His teachings, we can come to the platform of understanding ‎No edit summary current
12:2612:26, 2 December 2022 diff hist +15,335‎ By intelligence, you can understand that although the body is changed, the soul is there. The same soul which was existing in the body of the child is still continuing in the body of the old man ‎No edit summary current
12:2012:20, 2 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ By hearing the words of Lord Krsna and following them carefully, we will attain not only peace in the world, but the supreme peace - param santim ‎No edit summary current
12:1712:17, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ By good work we may get a good birth in an aristocratic or wealthy family, and by bad work we may take birth even in the animal kingdom or in degraded human families ‎No edit summary current
12:1512:15, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ By engaging in the transcendental service of Krsna, we actually get out of the cycle of birth and death. But because the fire of knowledge is not burning in our minds, we accept material existence as happiness ‎No edit summary current
12:1212:12, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ By chanting and hearing of Krsna we can actually associate with Him, for He is absolute and nondifferent from His names, qualities, forms and pastimes ‎No edit summary current
12:0712:07, 2 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ By accepting Krsna in this spirit (as said in BG 9.27), we can attain complete knowledge. If, however, we do not accept Krsna and interpret Bhagavad-gita in our own way, then everything will be spoiled ‎No edit summary current
11:5611:56, 2 December 2022 diff hist +13,984‎ Brahma-samhita states that if one takes to the ascending process and travels at the speed of mind and wind for millions of years, he will still end up not knowing ‎No edit summary current
11:5311:53, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Both Krsna and Rama mean the supreme pleasure, and Hara is the supreme pleasure energy of the Lord, changed to Hare (Hah-ray) in the vocative. The supreme pleasure energy of the Lord helps us to reach the Lord ‎No edit summary current
11:5011:50, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Bhagavan, Lord Krsna, says that, out of many, many millions of people, one may understand it. But still, the knowledge is there. If you want to understand it, it is not difficult. You can understand it ‎No edit summary current
11:4611:46, 2 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ Bhagavad-gita itself gives some information about the succession of spiritual masters. (Which) Lord Sri Krsna says - in BG 4.1-3 ‎No edit summary
11:4311:43, 2 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Beyond intelligence, they do not know what exists. But here in the Bhagavad-gita you can find this ‎No edit summary
11:3911:39, 2 December 2022 diff hist +17,810‎ Because Krsna was God, He demanded (BG 18.66): "Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me." But people misunderstood Him. Therefore Krsna again came as a guru and taught people how to surrender to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
11:3611:36, 2 December 2022 diff hist +5,456‎ Because Krsna hasn't got this temporary body, therefore He is not suffering from these things (disease, old age and etc.). Therefore Krsna, you will see always, young man. You will never see Krsna's picture as old man, because He is eternal body ‎No edit summary current

11:3211:32, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ At the utmost we can only gratify our personal whims by some pseudo-adaptation of this (Meditation) system ‎No edit summary current
11:2811:28, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ At the end of Bhagavad-gita (18.66) Sri Krsna advises Arjuna: "Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear." This is the most confidential part of knowledge ‎No edit summary current
11:2611:26, 1 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ At least three times a day I should offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
11:2211:22, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ At every moment, every second, every day, every hour, the body is changing, so the last change is when one cannot act with the body, and so he has to take another one ‎No edit summary current
11:1211:12, 1 December 2022 diff hist −3‎ As you are married, there is no need of separation as you are practicing artificially. You must live just like a respectable married couple and earn money as a Grhastha, and spend 50% for Krishna - that is the real program ‎No edit summary current
10:5210:52, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ As we associate with Krsna, He helps us to understand Him and dispels the darkness of ignorance with the light of knowledge. Krsna is sitting within our hearts acting as guru ‎No edit summary current
10:5010:50, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ As soon as we become a little inclined toward Him, He begins to give favorable instructions from within our hearts so that we can gradually make progress ‎No edit summary current
10:4710:47, 1 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ As soon as there is some personal interpretation (in the carried message of authority), the message is lost and the instructions become offensive. A person who interprets the scriptures according to his own whims should be immediately rejected ‎No edit summary current
10:4410:44, 1 December 2022 diff hist 0‎ As soon as a boy and girl are married, they want an apartment. Then they have children. And when they have children, they want social recognition - society, friendship, and love. In this way their material attachment goes on increasing ‎No edit summary current
10:4010:40, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ As long as we have the body, we must eat to maintain it, and we must sleep in order to give it rest. We cannot expect to negate these activities, but the Vedic literatures do give us guidelines for regulation in eating, sleeping, mating, etc ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ As living spiritual souls, we are all originally Krsna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter from time immemorial, our consciousness is now adulterated by the material atmosphere ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 1 December 2022 diff hist +36,192‎ As far as the science of God is concerned, Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, advises us to go to a person to whom we can surrender ‎No edit summary current
10:2810:28, 1 December 2022 diff hist +24,488‎ As Arjuna, we should accept Krsna as the SP of Godhead and do as He says (BG 9.27): O son of Kunti, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me ‎No edit summary
10:2610:26, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Arjuna was thinking that controlling the mind was simply not possible for him. Are we then to assume that what was impossible for Arjuna in a more advanced age is possible for us in this degenerate age ‎No edit summary current
10:2010:20, 1 December 2022 diff hist +11,799‎ Arjuna was renowned as a great warrior and administrator. He was such an intelligent man that he could understand Bhagavad-gita within one hour, whereas at the present moment great scholars cannot even understand it in the course of a lifetime ‎No edit summary current
10:1710:17, 1 December 2022 diff hist +25,394‎ Arjuna was Krsna's constant friend, so when Krsna went to His abode, Arjuna was overwhelmed, but just by remembering His teachings he got relief from the pains of separation. Thus whenever we feel separation, it is best to remember the teachings ‎No edit summary current
10:1410:14, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Arjuna says that he accepts all that Krsna has said to him because Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead - BG 18.73 ‎No edit summary current
10:1110:11, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Arjuna says that controlling this mind is more difficult than stopping the wind from blowing. One can imagine a man stretching out his arms trying to stop a hurricane ‎No edit summary current
10:0810:08, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Arjuna heard explanation of meditational system of yoga, all this being conducted in a secluded place alone - he replied: O Madhusudana, the system of yoga, You have summarized appears impractical & unendurable to me, for the mind is restless & unsteady ‎No edit summary current
10:0510:05, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Are we to despair the mind's ever being controlled? No, it can be controlled, and the process is this Krsna consciousness. The mind must be fixed always in Krsna. Insofar as the mind is absorbed in Krsna it has attained the perfection of yoga ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Are we to assume that Arjuna is simply not sufficiently qualified to control his mind? The actual fact is that we cannot begin to understand the immense qualifications of Arjuna ‎No edit summary current
09:5709:57, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Anyone who is a representative of Krsna - if he takes (charity), that is perfection ‎No edit summary current
09:4809:48, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Anyone knows that an unbridled horse is dangerous to ride. He can go in any direction at any speed, and his rider is likely to come to some harm. Insofar as the mind is unbridled, Krsna agrees with Arjuna that the yoga system is very difficult work indeed ‎No edit summary current
09:4509:45, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Anyone can take part in vibrating this transcendental sound without any previous qualification. In a more advanced stage, of course, one is not expected to commit offenses on grounds of spiritual understanding ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 1 December 2022 diff hist +5,734‎ Ananta-rupam. Adyam, He (Krsna) is the original person. Purana-purusam, the oldest person, because He is the original. Nava-yauvanam ca, but He is still young man. You have seen the picture of Krsna. You will never see Krsna as old man ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 1 December 2022 diff hist −4‎ Although the sadhus do not mind if they are insulted, Krsna does not tolerate any insult to them. As stated in the Ninth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, Krsna is alike to all, but He is especially inclined to His devotees - BG 9.29 ‎No edit summary current

15:4715:47, 30 November 2022 diff hist +15,201‎ Although Prahlada was only five years old, by advancement in knowledge he was imparting perfect instructions to his classmates. Some may find these instructions unpalatable ‎No edit summary current
15:4315:43, 30 November 2022 diff hist −4‎ Although Krsna is neutral to all, for one who is constantly engaged in Krsna consciousness, who is spreading the message of Bhagavad-gita, He gives special protection ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 30 November 2022 diff hist +27,164‎ Although Krsna delineates the meditational yoga system in the Sixth Chapter, He does not stress it nor encourage Arjuna to pursue it as his path ‎No edit summary current
15:3415:34, 30 November 2022 diff hist +5,020‎ Although He (Krsna) assumes so many varieties of visnu-tattva, still, advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam adyam purana-purusam nava-yauvanam ca. Therefore visnu-tattva is, never looks like old man. Nava-yauvanam. Always young. Krsna always young ‎No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 30 November 2022 diff hist +26,960‎ All these requirements (for disciplining the body), however, can essentially be broken down into four basic rules: no illicit sexual connection, no intoxication, no meat-eating and no gambling ‎No edit summary current
15:2415:24, 30 November 2022 diff hist −4‎ All the information necessary is set forth in Bhagavad-gita, and a sane man will take advantage of this knowledge ‎No edit summary

09:5709:57, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,154‎ There must be ideal, first-class men to act as advisors, second-class men to act as administrators, third-class men to produce food and protect cows, and fourth-class men who obey the three higher classes of society ‎No edit summary current
09:5609:56, 22 September 2022 diff hist +9,030‎ The scientific proposal is that there is first class man and there is tenth class man, but everyone can be utilized for the ultimate goal of life. That is classless. And that means everyone can become Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
09:5609:56, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,420‎ They (the American people) must divide their society into first-class men, second-class men, third-class men and fourth-class men. Since they are now creating only men who are less than fourth class, how can they avoid the dangers of a criminal society ‎No edit summary
09:5509:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,675‎ These boys and girls, American boys and girls, they're being taught, instructed to become first-class, intelligent man. This is the movement ‎No edit summary current
09:5309:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +10,026‎ The organized society should be that there should be first-class men, brahmana. They would give advice to the second-class men, the administrators. And the administrator class of men, they will see that everyone is following the religious principles ‎No edit summary current
09:5309:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,971‎ The four classes of men are there, still. But the third-class, fourth-class man is taking the place of first class. And the first-class man is kicked out, "Go out. Don't talk of God." This is the position at the present moment ‎No edit summary current
09:5209:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,248‎ The first-class men are called brahmana, most learned scholar. Learned scholar means, as I was explaining, one who has complete knowledge of God. That is learned scholar ‎No edit summary current
09:5209:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,972‎ The first-class faithful men are the Vaisnavas and the brahmanas, then the ksatriyas, then the vaisyas, then the sudras, then the mlecchas, the yavanas and at last the candalas ‎No edit summary current
09:5109:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,992‎ Suppose you are in this Krsna conscious society. Now, you cannot expect that all the members of the society will be first-class men. How can we expect? We are collecting members of the society from all classes of men ‎No edit summary current
09:5109:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +10,986‎ So far we are concerned we are trying to train first class men. How much great responsibility we have to follow regulative principles, chant the beads, live with personal character etc ‎No edit summary current
09:4909:49, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,050‎ The perfect civilization, Krsna has giving idea, there must be first-class, second-class, third-class, fourth-class. And less than fourth-class, fifth-class. So, first-class man is described, samo damah tapah saucam ksantir arjavam ‎No edit summary current
09:4609:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,043‎ One big man came. So I talked about first-class men, and he admitted. So he said at the last moment, "Now let me go and engage myself in fourth-class activities." So everyone is engaged in fourth-class activities, and we are trying to make first-class men ‎No edit summary current
09:4509:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,180‎ Occupational duties are described in the religious scriptures. If one analyzes them, he can fully understand their qualities & faults and then give them up completely to render service unto the S P of God. Such a person is considered a first-class man ‎No edit summary current
09:4509:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,883‎ Lord says to Uddhava, "My dear Uddhava, any person who takes shelter of Me in complete surrender and follows My instructions, giving up all occupational duties, is to be considered the first-class man" ‎No edit summary current
09:4409:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,321‎ Krsna consciousness movement means we are trying to create some first-class men ‎No edit summary current
09:4309:43, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,219‎ In our sastra charity is recommended to be given to the high-class men, brahmanas and Vaisnavas. They know how to spend money ‎No edit summary current
09:4109:41, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,364‎ Ideal is that man must be first-class ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,149‎ I am very glad to hear that the building work is going on with full speed, including both day & night shifts of workers. Do not worry, I am sending you two first-class men from England, both of them have got good experience in engineering & building work ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 22 September 2022 diff hist +2,892‎ For the satisfaction of the tongue they are risking their own life and committing sinful life to suffer later on. Therefore the first-class man's first duty is to samah, controlling the mind ‎No edit summary current
09:3609:36, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,675‎ First-class man will think that "I want to eat something to keep myself fit. If by natural products I can keep myself fit, why shall I kill another animal?" ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,692‎ First-class man is lazy intelligent. Just like you'll see the high-court judges. They're very lazy and most intelligent. That is first-class man. They are doing everything very soberly ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 22 September 2022 diff hist +3,549‎ First class-man is lazy intelligent. He knows the value of life, and soberly he is thinking. Just like all our great saintly persons. They were living in the forest, meditation, tapasya, and writing books ‎No edit summary current
09:3309:33, 22 September 2022 diff hist +9,287‎ You go to the airport, any high-class standard man. They search out the pocket. So nobody is believable. So this is the result of modern education. You cannot find out an ideal character man ‎No edit summary current
09:3209:32, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,477‎ Why monarchy? You can continue democracy, but the legislators should be first-class men who has knowledge, not these rascals ‎No edit summary current
09:3109:31, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,374‎ Krsna consciousness movement is trying to create at least one section first-class men so that people may see, "Oh, here are ideal men" ‎No edit summary current
09:3109:31, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,168‎ He is certainly a first-class man who awakens and understands, either by himself or from others, the falsity and misery of this material world and thus leaves home and depends fully on the Personality of Godhead residing within his heart ‎No edit summary current
09:2909:29, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,908‎ Because there is no first-class man to take charge of the woman, they are declaring independence. All the men are doing that. They keep girlfriend, make her pregnant, and go away ‎No edit summary current
09:2809:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +7,285‎ At the present moment, there is no intelligent class of men. All laborer, worker class of men, fourth class. No first class, second class. Therefore society is in chaotic condition. There is no brain ‎No edit summary current
09:2609:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,106‎ First-class man means ‎No edit summary current
09:2509:25, 22 September 2022 diff hist +5,980‎ My request to persons who have joined this Krsna consciousness movement, they should very carefully keep them as first-class men ‎No edit summary current
09:2509:25, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,021‎ No society can improve in transcendental knowledge without the guidance of such first-class men, and no brain can assimilate the subtle form of knowledge without fine brain tissues ‎No edit summary current
09:2409:24, 22 September 2022 diff hist +16,837‎ First-class man (Letters) ‎No edit summary current
09:2309:23, 22 September 2022 diff hist +9,016‎ According to the Vedic system it is said, janmana jayate sudrah: one is born of a material father and mother as a sudra. The purpose of life, however, is to become a brahmana, a first-class man ‎No edit summary current
09:2309:23, 22 September 2022 diff hist +4,841‎ Nowadays first-class man means ‎No edit summary current
09:2109:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +117,870‎ First-class man (Lectures) ‎No edit summary current
09:2009:20, 22 September 2022 diff hist +40,279‎ First-class man (Conversations, 1976 - 1977) ‎No edit summary current
09:1909:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +113,003‎ First-class man (Conversations, 1975) ‎No edit summary current
09:1809:18, 22 September 2022 diff hist +25,491‎ First-class man (Conversations, 1972 - 1974) ‎No edit summary current
09:1709:17, 22 September 2022 diff hist +13,598‎ First-class man (Books) ‎No edit summary current
09:1009:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,383‎ We don't need to change our position to become a guru. All we have to do is follow in the disciplic succession stemming from Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
09:1009:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,293‎ One may think, - I am illiterate and have no education. I was not born in a very high family. How can I become a guru ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,291‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that it is not very difficult. Yare dekha, tare kaha 'krsna'-upadesa: (CC Madhya 7.128) - Simply speak whatever Krsna speaks. Then you become a guru ‎No edit summary current
09:0809:08, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,384‎ Whoever speaks what Krsna has not spoken is not a guru but a rascal. A guru only speaks what Krsna has spoken. This is the sastric injunction ‎No edit summary current
09:0809:08, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,497‎ People are in darkness, and they have to be enlightened. We have finally come from the animal kingdom to the human form, and now this human form gives us the opportunity to get out of the cycle of birth and death ‎No edit summary current
09:0709:07, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,446‎ The mission of this Krsna consciousness society is to awaken people to their original consciousness ‎No edit summary current
09:0709:07, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,461‎ Jiva jaga, jiva jaga, gauracanda bale'. The word gauracanda refers to Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who tells the living entity, "Get up! Get up! How long will you continue to sleep?" Kota nidra yao maya-pisacira kole ‎No edit summary current
09:0709:07, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,183‎ The same is stated here (Jiva jaga, jiva jaga). It is the prime business of human beings to connect again with the Supreme Soul ‎No edit summary current
09:0609:06, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,578‎ The purpose of yoga is to awaken to Krsna consciousness and connect oneself again with Krsna. That is adhyatmika-yoga. Yoga does not mean showing some mystic magic ‎No edit summary current
09:0609:06, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,780‎ There are many yogis and many different types of yoga systems, and all of these are discussed in Bhagavad-gita. There is hatha-yoga, karma-yoga, jnana-yoga and raja-yoga; however, the real yoga system is meant for reviving our connection with Krsna ‎No edit summary current
09:0509:05, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,557‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu has advised: amara ajnaya guru hana tara' ei desa (CC Madhya 7.128). Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructed people to learn from Him and then go teach people within their own villages ‎No edit summary current
09:0509:05, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,704‎ It is said: yoga adhyatmikah pumsam. Adhyatmikah: we are living entities, souls. It is not that we are disconnected from Krsna, but we have simply forgotten Him. It is not possible to be disconnected, but it is possible to be covered ‎No edit summary current
09:0409:04, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,205‎ There is yoga, and there is yogamaya. Yogamaya means forgetfulness. First of all we have to understand what is the soul ‎No edit summary current
09:0409:04, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,379‎ At the present moment, people are in such darkness that they do not even understand the soul. Therefore Bhagavad-gita (2.13) first of all teaches what the soul is ‎No edit summary
08:5908:59, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,622‎ Kapiladeva is referred to as Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Bhagavan makes no mistakes. Narayanah paro 'vyaktat: even Sankaracarya says that - Bhagavan, Narayana, does not belong to this material world ‎No edit summary current
08:5908:59, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,319‎ When we speak of Bhagavan, or when the sastras refer to Bhagavan, we refer to Him who is above material understanding ‎No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,570‎ As stated here, sri-bhagavan uvaca. It does not say vyasadeva uvaca or kapiladeva uvaca. Similarly, in Bhagavad-gita, Vyasadeva says, sri-bhagavan uvaca. Bhagavan refers to Him who is above the defects of this material world ‎No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,595‎ Bhagavan is not subject to the four deficiencies of the living entities. Being imperfect, living entities are illusioned and subject to commit mistakes. They also have the tendency to cheat others ‎No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,265‎ When one who has no knowledge tries to become a teacher or preacher, he is actually cheating others ‎No edit summary current
08:5608:56, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,317‎ Since we ourselves do not possess perfect knowledge, we simply try to teach what Sri Bhagavan says. We do not manufacture our own teachings ‎No edit summary current
08:5508:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,537‎ So-called scholars and learned men manufacture their own teachings and give their opinions. In the West especially, we find much philosophical speculation and mental gymnastics, but such philosophy can never be perfect ‎No edit summary current
08:5508:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,705‎ We have to take our ideas from Bhagavan; then they will be perfect. We read Bhagavad-gita because it is perfect. There is no mistake in it; there is no illusion in it; there is no cheating in it. Nor is it delivered by one whose senses are imperfect ‎No edit summary current
08:5408:54, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,469‎ God knows everything, but we do not know what is God. That is our position. Our position is not knowing. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati (BG 18.61). Isvara, God, Krsna, is situated in everyone's heart ‎No edit summary current
08:5408:54, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,580‎ Sarvasya caham hrdi sannivistah: "I have entered into everyone's heart." (BG 15.15) The Supreme Lord refers not only to the hearts of human beings but to those of animals and everything else ‎No edit summary current
08:5308:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,548‎ The Supreme Lord is within the atom as Paramatma, and therefore He is also within the individual soul. Being within everything, He knows everything. Since He knows everything, we have to take lessons from Him ‎No edit summary current
08:5208:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,543‎ This Krsna consciousness philosophy is very easy because we do not manufacture ideas. We take the ideas and the words delivered by the Supreme Person, Krsna, or His incarnation or representative ‎No edit summary current
08:5208:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,426‎ If we take what Bhagavan says as perfect knowledge, we receive perfect knowledge. For receiving this knowledge, there is a disciplic succession - parampara ‎No edit summary current
08:5108:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,537‎ His (Krsna's) representative does not say anything which Krsna Himself does not say. It is very easy to be a representative, but one cannot be a representative of Krsna if one tries to interpret Krsna's words in a whimsical way ‎No edit summary current
08:5108:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,222‎ There is no authority superior to Sri Krsna, and if we stick to this principle, we can become gurus ‎No edit summary current
08:4808:48, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,786‎ Krsna is not alone, but is always with His friends, either the gopis or the cowherd boys, or with His mother and father. We never find Krsna alone. He may be with Radharani or with His devotees ‎No edit summary current
08:4708:47, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,541‎ He (Krsna) is like a king or president. When one says that the king or president is coming, it is understood that he is not coming alone. He comes with His secretaries, ministers and many others ‎No edit summary current
08:4608:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,628‎ The word yoga means "connection," and atma means "soul" and sometimes "mind" or "body." The material body has nothing to do with the Supreme Being because the Supreme Being is completely spiritual. He has no material covering ‎No edit summary current
08:4608:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,285‎ One who thinks that Krsna, the Supreme Being, has a material covering is himself covered by maya ‎No edit summary current
08:4508:45, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,418‎ Krsna does not say that He comes as an ordinary living being. Rather, His advent is totally transcendental. Janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah - BG 4.9 ‎No edit summary current
08:4408:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,388‎ We have to learn how Krsna takes His birth, which is not ordinary. If it were ordinary, why should we observe the Janmastami ceremony? His birth is divyam, divine ‎No edit summary current
08:4108:41, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,500‎ Krsna is the original Supreme Being, the original spirit soul. We are simply minute parts and parcels of Krsna. If we connect with Krsna, we are illuminated just as Krsna is illuminated ‎No edit summary current
08:4008:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,202‎ If we fall down from Krsna, our spiritual power and illumination are extinguished ‎No edit summary current
08:4008:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,508‎ The word yoga means connecting or linking with that original source. Yoga is the Sanskrit word meaning "connection," and viyoga means - disconnection ‎No edit summary current
08:3608:36, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,507‎ On one side there is happiness, and on the other side there is distress. Both happiness and distress are actually illusions. In summer, water is happiness, but in winter it is distress ‎No edit summary current
08:3508:35, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,676‎ The water is the same, but at one time it brings happiness and at another time it brings distress. When a son is born, he brings happiness, but when he dies, he brings distress. In either case, the son is the same ‎No edit summary current
08:3408:34, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,371‎ This material world is the world of duality, and we cannot understand happiness without distress or distress without happiness. This is therefore called the relative world ‎No edit summary current
08:3308:33, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,663‎ Generally yoga is practiced to acquire some material profit. There are eight kinds of yogic perfection (siddhis): anima, laghima, prapti, isitva, vasitva, mahima, prakamya and kamavasayita ‎No edit summary current
08:2808:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,238‎ Spiritual happiness is above these dualities, and that spiritual happiness is the perfection of yoga. Yoga adhyatmikah ‎No edit summary current
08:2808:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,443‎ Yoga is the happiness of the soul, and the individual soul can be happy when it is with the Supersoul, the Supreme Soul ‎No edit summary current
08:2708:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,312‎ Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13). There is the Supreme Soul, or the supreme living being, and there are many individual souls, individual beings ‎No edit summary current
08:2708:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,324‎ We are many, but the principal living being is one, Krsna. He is the fire, and we are the sparks from that fire ‎No edit summary current
08:2608:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,594‎ The sparks are illuminated when they are with the original fire, but if the sparks no longer associate with the original fire, they are extinguished. Similarly, our real happiness is in enjoying with the Supreme Being. Happiness is being in His company ‎No edit summary current
08:2108:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,452‎ A real yogi can become smaller than the smallest, lighter than the lightest and bigger than the biggest. Whatever he wants he can produce immediately in his hand ‎No edit summary current
08:2008:20, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,593‎ He (a real yogi) can even create a planet. These are some of the yoga-siddhis, but here it is stated that the supreme yoga system does not aim at material happiness or relief from distresses caused by material inconvenience ‎No edit summary
08:1808:18, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,402‎ Everyone is trying to get out of material distress and gain some happiness. In any case, when something is material, there is only so-called happiness and so-called distress ‎No edit summary current
08:1708:17, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,425‎ The attempt in this material world to maximize happiness and minimize distress is called the struggle for existence ‎No edit summary current
08:1608:16, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,414‎ If you can get Krsna to smile upon you just once, your life's goal is fulfilled. Thus smiling, Kapiladeva began to enlighten His mother ‎No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,559‎ When Kapiladeva or His representative sees someone a little interested, he becomes very glad and thanks him. When Kapiladeva saw His mother interested, He thanked her from within, not openly ‎No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,370‎ Kapiladeva was very glad, and He began to speak. Kapiladeva was an incarnation of God and was a young boy; therefore His face was very beautiful ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,317‎ When He answered this question, He became even more beautiful, and He smiled because He was pleased at His mother's question ‎No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,265‎ Krsna is also very beautiful, but when a devotee serves Him and comes to Him, He becomes even more beautiful ‎No edit summary current
08:1308:13, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,602‎ When a devotee with all his heart and soul serves Krsna, dresses Him in nice garments and gives Him a flower, Krsna smiles ‎No edit summary current
08:1108:11, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,891‎ When a student hears spiritual subjects attentively, the spiritual master becomes very happy. Kapiladeva was very happy to see His mother eager to understand spiritual subject matters. He therefore thanked His mother for her inquiry ‎No edit summary current
08:1008:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,695‎ It is regrettable that in India, where these literatures are available, people are not interested. They are interested in Marxist literature but not Srimad-Bhagavatam, and this is India's misfortune ‎No edit summary current
08:0908:09, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,451‎ If the mango is tasted by the parrot, it becomes doubly tasty. The word suka means parrot, and Sukadeva Gosvami spoke Srimad-Bhagavatam. It is therefore more relishable from his lips ‎No edit summary
08:0408:04, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,391‎ Generally people are interested in things that give immediate pleasure. We want to taste something tasty to the tongue, regardless of whether it is edible or not ‎No edit summary current
07:2907:29, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,530‎ People should not waste their time associating with crows; they should associate with swans. When garbage is thrown out, crows and dogs come to see what is there, but no sane man will go ‎No edit summary current
07:2907:29, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,715‎ Those who are interested in trying to get pleasure out of this material world are actually chewing the chewed. Punah punas carvita-carvananam (SB 7.5.30). If one picks up a piece of sugarcane which has already been chewed, he is a fool ‎No edit summary current
07:2807:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,549‎ We must know that the juice has already been taken out of that sugarcane. What will one get by chewing it? However, there are animals who are simply interested in chewing the chewed ‎No edit summary current
07:2707:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,679‎ Material life means chewing the chewed. A father educates his son to earn a livelihood, get married and settle down, but he himself already knows that by doing this he has not become satisfied. Why, then, is he engaging his son in this same business ‎No edit summary current
07:2707:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,232‎ A real father is one who does not allow his son to chew the chewed ‎No edit summary current
07:2607:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,681‎ Pita na sa syaj janani na sa syat... na mocayed yah samupeta-mrtyum: one should not become a father or a mother unless one is able to save his children from the impending clutches of death. That is the duty of the father and mother. How can this be done ‎No edit summary current
07:2607:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,350‎ A father and mother should educate their son in Krsna consciousness. Then he can be saved. They should educate the son in such a way that there is no pavarga ‎No edit summary current
07:2507:25, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,663‎ If we do not go forward to liberation, we promote a civilization of cats and dogs. Eating, sleeping, mating, defending, fearing and dying are all experienced by cats and dogs, but human life is meant for another purpose ‎No edit summary current
07:2407:24, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,449‎ Of course we have to maintain the body; it is not that we should neglect it. But we should not unnecessarily engage in the maintenance of the body ‎No edit summary current
07:2407:24, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,593‎ From the Vedas we can receive education of all kinds. On a mango tree, there are ripened mangoes and green mangoes. The Srimad-Bhagavatam is the ripened mango of the desire tree of Vedic knowledge: nigama-kalpa-taror galitam phalam - SB 1.1.3 ‎No edit summary
07:2107:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,474‎ One may ask, - How is it that in the modern age these Europeans and Americans of the Krsna consciousness movement do not take interest in newspapers ‎No edit summary current
07:2107:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,653‎ Newspapers are very popular in the West. Each day the papers are published in three or four editions, and they are all selling. However, these American boys and girls who have come to Krsna consciousness have stopped reading newspapers ‎No edit summary current
07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,725‎ They (American boys and girls) do not know what is happening from day to day, and it does not matter. All of this is a waste of time. It is better that they read literatures like Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita. Why waste one's valuable time ‎No edit summary
07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,471‎ Kapiladeva was very glad that His mother was interested only in spiritual advancement. This material world is called pavarga, and to nullify it is called apavarga ‎No edit summary current
07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,538‎ In this material world, people are laboring very hard simply to earn some money. This creates a hellish situation, and this is the way of material life ‎No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,323‎ The questions are raised by Devahuti, and the answers are given by Kapiladeva. That is apavarga-vardhanam ‎No edit summary current
07:1607:16, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,541‎ As far as material maintenance is concerned, the sastras never stress it. Rather, they say that one's maintenance will come automatically ‎No edit summary current
07:1307:13, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,506‎ Transcendentalists are not interested in worldly talks. Indeed, worldly talks are very disgusting to them, and they avoid the company of those who talk about nonsensical worldly affairs ‎No edit summary current

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