User contributions for Madana Mohana
6 February 2023
- 10:2410:24, 6 February 2023 diff hist +6,426 If this (Varnasrama) system is neglected & the qualities & divisions of society are not considered, the result will be brahma-vit-ksatra-sudranam yo bali bhavita nrpah: the so-called caste system of brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya & sudra will be meaningless No edit summary current
- 10:2210:22, 6 February 2023 diff hist +8,966 Krsna does not say that. He says "according to quality and work." He never says "according to birth." So this so-called caste system in India is a false notion of catur-varnyam, the system of four social divisions No edit summary current
- 10:0310:03, 6 February 2023 diff hist +3,810 All the sannyasis in the Krsna consciousness movement, who are preaching all over the world, are regular brahmana-sannyasis. Thus the so-called caste brahmanas should not object to offering them respectful obeisances No edit summary current
- 09:5009:50, 6 February 2023 diff hist +3,666 Even though a politician may be allowed to take birth in his so-called homeland, he still has to undergo suffering due to his sinful activities in his previous life No edit summary current
- 09:4309:43, 6 February 2023 diff hist +6,197 To prepare oneself for the better next life, one must get out of one's so-called home. The system of varnasrama-dharma, or sanatana-dharma, prescribes retirement from family encumbrances as early as possible after one has passed fifty years of age No edit summary current
- 09:4109:41, 6 February 2023 diff hist +3,740 The material world, created by this external energy, becomes the so-called home of the conditioned soul No edit summary current
- 09:3409:34, 6 February 2023 diff hist +5,971 Actually, the conditioned souls, in ignorance in this material world, are simply guided by sex life, and as soon as they get the opportunity for sex life, they become attached to so-called home, motherland, children, wealth and opulence No edit summary current
3 February 2023
- 12:0412:04, 3 February 2023 diff hist +5,034 Within this material world, everything is nonpermanent, temporary. Anything you take, it has got its creation, it stays for some time, it produces some by-products, then it grows, and then it dwindles, and then it vanishes No edit summary current
- 11:5511:55, 3 February 2023 diff hist +4,381 Who else but the gross materialists will neglect such transcendental thought and take to the nonpermanent names only, seeing the mass of people fallen in the river of suffering as the consequence of accruing the result of their own work No edit summary current
- 11:3611:36, 3 February 2023 diff hist +25 We don't wish to die, because in actuality we are permanent. Nor do we want to grow old or be diseased, because these are all external or nonpermanent states No edit summary current
- 11:3111:31, 3 February 2023 diff hist +4,130 We are delivering the genuine goods to the human society on behalf of God, Krishna. If someone wants to check us, it is for the time being only and not permanent situation No edit summary current
- 11:2911:29, 3 February 2023 diff hist +6,265 Those who have realized the Absolute Truth, they have concluded that the matter has no permanent existence and spirit soul has no annihilation. These two things would be understood No edit summary current
- 11:2711:27, 3 February 2023 diff hist −19 Those who are completely in ignorance are called sudras. And those who are less than that are animals or animal life. However, these designations are not permanent. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:2411:24, 3 February 2023 diff hist +2,254 Those ostentatious penances and austerities which are performed in order to gain respect, honor and reverence are said to be in the mode of passion. They are neither stable nor permanent. BG 17.18 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 11:1311:13, 3 February 2023 diff hist +15,219 The world or the cosmic creation is not false, as maintained by the Mayavada school. It simply has no permanent existence. A nonpermanent thing cannot be called false altogether. But the conception that the material body is the self is certainly wrong No edit summary current
- 11:0811:08, 3 February 2023 diff hist +3,686 The street or road of your American cities, it looks so nice, so many lights and so many night-illuminating signboards. But we should always remember that this nice situation is not permanent settlement. Any moment I'll have to give up everything No edit summary current
- 11:0211:02, 3 February 2023 diff hist +25 The problem, then, is how to get out, just as you try to get out of a fever. The fevered condition is not your permanent life. Permanent life is enjoyment, but due to the fever you cannot enjoy life No edit summary current
- 10:5410:54, 3 February 2023 diff hist +18,505 The neophyte should also read and hear Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam. If we simply try to see and don't listen, the results will not be permanent No edit summary
- 10:5010:50, 3 February 2023 diff hist +2,164 The living entity is eternal, but because of his accepting nonpermanent things, misidentifying his interest, he is put into ignorance, and therefore he suffers material pangs No edit summary current
- 10:4610:46, 3 February 2023 diff hist +14,661 The incarnation of Hamsa and Mohini are not permanent, but Kapila, Dattatreya, Rsabha, Dhanvantari and Vyasa are five eternal forms, and they are more celebrated No edit summary current
- 10:3910:39, 3 February 2023 diff hist +20,461 The impersonalist's position in the spiritual world is nonpermanent, for out of loneliness he will attempt to acquire some association. Because he does not associate personally with the Supreme Lord, he has to return again to the world No edit summary current
- 10:3810:38, 3 February 2023 diff hist +3,983 The field is a nonpermanent material thing. However, the ksetrajna, the knower of the field, its proprietor, is different. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 10:3510:35, 3 February 2023 diff hist +10,922 The external energy means we are captivated by the external energy. But the external energy is not permanent. The internal energy is permanent. The spiritual world is permanent, and we are also permanent No edit summary current
- 10:3310:33, 3 February 2023 diff hist +2 The devotees who are fully engaged in spreading the Krsna consciousness movement, more than ten thousand men and women all over the world, have no steady or permanent occupation, yet we actually see that they are maintained very opulently No edit summary current
- 10:2810:28, 3 February 2023 diff hist +26,953 The above quoted verse from Bhagavad-gita indicates that one who has conquered the mind and has overcome all attachment to nonpermanent things can be absorbed in thought of the Paramatma No edit summary current
- 10:2310:23, 3 February 2023 diff hist +3,354 They (the demoniac) have no knowledge and cannot tell that they are heading the wrong way. Accepting nonpermanent things, such demoniac people create their own God, create their own hymns and chant accordingly. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 3 February 2023 diff hist +8,486 They (material measures of protection) may be beneficial temporarily, but they afford no permanent benefit No edit summary current
- 10:1910:19, 3 February 2023 diff hist +3,522 These visible objects like wife, children and property are like dreams and mental concoctions. Actually what we see has no permanent existence. It is sometimes seen and sometimes not No edit summary current
- 10:1310:13, 3 February 2023 diff hist +3,059 There may be some temporary reactions to such propaganda, but there are no permanent effects. Therefore such activities are a waste of time No edit summary current
- 10:1210:12, 3 February 2023 diff hist +25 There are many instances. Just like Bharata Maharaja, he got the body of a deer. There are so many instances. So it is not a permanent settlement that once you have got this human form of body we cannot glide down. We can glide down No edit summary
- 10:1010:10, 3 February 2023 diff hist −19 Such arrangements (of being worshiped by subordinates) artificially made by the performance of penances are considered to be in the mode of passion. The results are temporary; they can be continued for some time, but they are not permanent. BG 1972 pur No edit summary current
2 February 2023
- 17:1917:19, 2 February 2023 diff hist +5,086 Sri Krsna advises in Bhagavad-gita (BG 2.14): O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons No edit summary current
- 17:1717:17, 2 February 2023 diff hist +2 So long we are seated on the chariot of the untrained mind, unbridled mind, the mind will drag me to things which are nonpermanent. But my whole business is that I am permanent, I am eternal No edit summary current
- 17:0817:08, 2 February 2023 diff hist +2 Rupa Gosvami, our predecessor acarya, he left his ministership, government post, and became a mendicant. He was living underneath a tree every night. Not permanently underneath a tree: tonight one tree, next night another tree No edit summary
- 16:2416:24, 2 February 2023 diff hist +2,125 Penance performed out of pride and for the sake of gaining respect, honor and worship is said to be in the mode of passion. It is neither stable nor permanent No edit summary current
- 16:2316:23, 2 February 2023 diff hist +20,182 O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of heat and cold, happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons - BG 2.14 No edit summary current
- 16:2116:21, 2 February 2023 diff hist +3,403 O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. BG 2.14 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 16:2016:20, 2 February 2023 diff hist +3,239 O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons No edit summary current
- 16:1816:18, 2 February 2023 diff hist +1,974 O demons, as monkeys, jackals and dogs are unsteady in their sexual relationships and want newer and newer friends every day, women who live independently seek new friends daily. Friendship with such a woman is never permanent No edit summary current
- 15:5615:56, 2 February 2023 diff hist +4,837 On a theatrical stage someone takes the part of enemy to the proprietor of the stage, although the play is for a short time and there is no permanent enmity between the servant and the proprietor No edit summary current
- 15:3515:35, 2 February 2023 diff hist −19 One should properly use the assets of life and not squander them for purposes that have no permanent value No edit summary
- 15:3115:31, 2 February 2023 diff hist +5,534 One has to become thoroughly callous to such nonpermanent activities and turn his intention instead to the regulative principles of devotional service No edit summary current
- 15:2815:28, 2 February 2023 diff hist +2 Of these incarnations (lila-avataras), Hamsa and Mohini are neither permanent nor very well known, but They are listed among the prabhava-avataras No edit summary current
- 15:2615:26, 2 February 2023 diff hist +15,242 Nothing here is permanent; therefore everything is called illusory. Actually we do not understand this; we take all this as permanent. The fact is, however, that only Krsna is permanent. Krsna's material energy is not permanent No edit summary current
- 15:2215:22, 2 February 2023 diff hist +2 Mystic powers can make a yogi materially powerful and thus give temporary relief from the miseries of birth, death, old age & disease, as other material sciences can also do, but mystic powers can never be a permanent source of relief from these miseries No edit summary current
- 15:2015:20, 2 February 2023 diff hist +2,154 Merging into the existence of the Absolute is as temporary as living in the celestial kingdom. Both of them are controlled by time; neither position is permanent No edit summary current
- 15:1715:17, 2 February 2023 diff hist +5,888 Lord Siva, and Lord Buddha is incarnation of Krsna. So they come for particular purpose, to benefit the whole world. But that is for the time being. That is not permanent. The permanent solution is matam ca vasudevasya No edit summary current
- 14:5814:58, 2 February 2023 diff hist +3,201 Lord Krsna advised Arjuna: O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons No edit summary current
- 14:5614:56, 2 February 2023 diff hist +3,490 Less intelligent men worship the demigods and the result of such worship is not permanent. Krishna Consciousness is permanent, and the living entities are also permanent No edit summary current
- 14:5014:50, 2 February 2023 diff hist +5,819 Krsna tells Arjuna in Bhagavad-gita (2.14): O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons No edit summary current
- 14:4814:48, 2 February 2023 diff hist +51,163 Krsna describes the material universe as a nonpermanent place full of miseries. Why, then, would He seek pleasure in the material form? He is the Supersoul, the supreme spirit, and His pleasure is beyond the material conception No edit summary current
- 14:4314:43, 2 February 2023 diff hist −21 Just like we have got this form, human form of life. It is not permanently I shall be able to enjoy. Just like you have got a particular dress now. It is not permanent. You can change your dress any moment No edit summary current
1 February 2023
- 16:2716:27, 1 February 2023 diff hist −32 Just like in dream at night we also work. So this is gross dream and that is subtle dream. But real life is spiritual life. But we foolish people, we are taking this life as permanent life, permanent settlement. It is not permanent settlement No edit summary current
- 16:2016:20, 1 February 2023 diff hist +2 It may be very nice to be a rich man or a beautiful man, but how long shall we remain such? That is not our permanent life No edit summary current
- 16:1816:18, 1 February 2023 diff hist −23 It is our experience that happiness derived from material enjoyment, that is not permanent. That we can understand. But happiness of identifying oneself with Brahman, aham brahmasmi No edit summary
- 16:1616:16, 1 February 2023 diff hist +4,423 It is confirmed in BG 2.14 - O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons No edit summary current
- 15:5615:56, 1 February 2023 diff hist +9,086 In the material world we are situated in asat, a nonpermanent situation. When a child has lost his father and mother, he is always in a fearful condition. He cries in the street, - Where is my father? Where is my mother No edit summary current
- 15:5215:52, 1 February 2023 diff hist +10,579 In the material world, however, sex enjoyment becomes distasteful after a few minutes only, and it is never permanent. Because Krsna appears very much sexually inclined, He is called the new Cupid in the spiritual world No edit summary current
- 15:4915:49, 1 February 2023 diff hist +52,967 In the Bhagavad-gita Krsna describes the material universe as a nonpermanent place full of miseries. Why, then, would He seek pleasure in matter? He is the Supersoul, the supreme spirit, and His pleasure is beyond the material conception - CC Intro No edit summary
- 15:4615:46, 1 February 2023 diff hist +5,684 In the Bhagavad-gita (7.23) it is clearly stated that the results derived from worshiping the demigods are not permanent No edit summary current
- 15:4315:43, 1 February 2023 diff hist +2 Instead of having eternal, blissful, knowledgeable life, we have got this body which is non-eternal, non-permanent and always miserable in condition, and not blissful. Always miserable and always in ignorance No edit summary current
- 15:3515:35, 1 February 2023 diff hist −9 He gets a skyscraper building, throughout his whole life laboring. But he cannot stay there. He'll be kicked out. Is it not ass? Is he not an ass? He cannot stay there. Anitya samsare. Anitya. Because it is not the permanent settlement No edit summary current
- 15:2715:27, 1 February 2023 diff hist +3,117 Here the so-called love is not permanent, but when you love Krsna it is permanent exchange of loving humor or mellow No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 1 February 2023 diff hist +2 Great rsis or demigods can hardly approach Brahmaloka, and as stated in Bhagavad-gita, Brahmaloka is not a permanent residence No edit summary
- 11:0511:05, 1 February 2023 diff hist +2 Everything material is like a dream because it actually has no permanent existence No edit summary current
- 11:0211:02, 1 February 2023 diff hist +7,780 Even though one is promoted to the higher planetary system for enjoyment and a long duration of life, still that is not a permanent settlement No edit summary
- 10:5910:59, 1 February 2023 diff hist +4,958 Even if he (spirit soul) goes up to the Svargaloka, he will find no permanent abode for his hankering soul. The hankering soul must be satisfied by the perfect scientific process of perfect devotional service No edit summary current
- 10:5610:56, 1 February 2023 diff hist −17 Elevation to the higher planets or to a higher life status is never permanent. One must again come down to be submerged in the water. All this is constantly going on in this material existence No edit summary
- 10:4910:49, 1 February 2023 diff hist −9 Desire means you have to accept different types of body. It is . . . you cannot make any permanent settlement. That is not possible. And that is also your fault No edit summary current
- 10:4610:46, 1 February 2023 diff hist +26,933 By training the mind, one actually attains tranquility, for the mind is always dragging us over nonpermanent things, just as an unbridled horse will pull a chariot on a perilous course No edit summary current
- 10:4410:44, 1 February 2023 diff hist −9 By somehow or other, you have come to accept a body from the American family. Now this will be changed. You do not know what is your next body. So this is changing. This is not my permanent settlement No edit summary current
- 10:2010:20, 1 February 2023 diff hist +4,443 Because worship in terms of the body is temporary, it does not bear any permanent fruit. But worship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead gives immense benefit No edit summary current
- 10:1810:18, 1 February 2023 diff hist +3,787 Because the demigods themselves are temporary, their benedictions are also temporary & have no permanent value. Those who aspire for such benedictions have a poor fund of knowledge - tad bhavaty alpa-medhasam No edit summary current
- 10:1610:16, 1 February 2023 diff hist +5,463 Because the demigods are all materialistically conditioned souls, although they are situated in very exalted positions, their benedictions cannot be permanent. permanent benediction is spiritual benediction, since a spirit soul is eternal No edit summary
- 10:1410:14, 1 February 2023 diff hist +3,812 Because the body is temporary, not permanent, one cannot expose the body to being devoured by a tiger or killed by an enemy. All precautions should be taken to protect the body No edit summary current
- 10:1010:10, 1 February 2023 diff hist +3,620 At night when we dream of tigers and snakes, they are not actually present, but we are afraid because we are affected by what we envision in our dreams. Everything material is like a dream because it actually has no permanent existence No edit summary current
27 January 2023
- 15:3015:30, 27 January 2023 diff hist +7,322 Asat means will not exist, temporary. So you cannot expect permanent happiness in temporary world. That is not possible No edit summary current
- 15:2115:21, 27 January 2023 diff hist +3,355 Anywhere you go within this material world, either the moon planet or sun planet or Brahmaloka, Krsna says, abrahma-bhuvanal lokah punar avartino 'rjuna (BG 8.16). Even if you go to the Brahmaloka, that is also not permanent settlement No edit summary
- 15:1515:15, 27 January 2023 diff hist +25 Anitya samsara. You cannot live here. You have to give up this place. But still, you are thinking to make it a permanent settlement. That is not possible No edit summary current
- 15:1215:12, 27 January 2023 diff hist +25 Although we are permanent and eternal, somehow or other we have become attracted to nonpermanent things. But the mind can be easily trained if it is simply fixed on Krsna No edit summary current
- 15:1015:10, 27 January 2023 diff hist +2,983 Although they (the demoniac) are always full of anxieties on account of accepting nonpermanent things, they still continue to engage in such activities out of illusion. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 15:0415:04, 27 January 2023 diff hist +26,425 Although Sankara was attempting to cover the Supreme Lord by his Mayavadi philosophy, he was simply following the order of the Supreme Lord. It should be understood that his teachings were a timely necessity but not a permanent fact No edit summary current
- 14:5614:56, 27 January 2023 diff hist +3,725 Although Sankara attempted to cover the Supreme Lord by his Mayavada philosophy, he was simply following the order of the Supreme Lord. It should be understood that his teachings were a timely necessity but not a permanent fact No edit summary current
- 14:3714:37, 27 January 2023 diff hist +5,219 Activities performed for the satisfaction of Krsna are permanent and good, but asat activity, although sometimes celebrated as philanthropy, altruism, nationalism, this "ism" or that "ism," will never produce any permanent result and is therefore all bad No edit summary current
- 14:3414:34, 27 January 2023 diff hist +5,675 According to the laws of nature, which are backed by the Lord, nothing can be permanent within this material world; therefore everyone should be allowed to take shelter of the Absolute in order to be saved No edit summary current
- 12:1412:14, 27 January 2023 diff hist +2 According to the Gita, one whose brain substance is very small is interested in temporary things. We are eternal, so why should we be interested in temporary things? No one wants a nonpermanent situation No edit summary current
- 11:5911:59, 27 January 2023 diff hist +4,283 According to one's activities of piety in different degrees, one obtains different standards of life, but none of them are permanent, and therefore they are all impure No edit summary current
- 11:5711:57, 27 January 2023 diff hist +7,079 Accepting nonpermanent things, such demoniac people create their own God, create their own hymns and chant accordingly. The result is that they become more and more attracted to two things - sex enjoyment and accumulation of material wealth No edit summary current
26 January 2023
- 11:0711:07, 26 January 2023 diff hist +1,588 Upon hearing this, Satyaraja said, "How can I recognize a Vaisnava? Please let me know what a Vaisnava is. What are his common symptoms" No edit summary current
- 11:0511:05, 26 January 2023 diff hist +3,249 The servant must know what is God, what does He do, how He is satisfied: these things should be preached to them. How one is accepted as God, what are the symptoms: these things they should learn No edit summary current
- 11:0111:01, 26 January 2023 diff hist +2,185 The inhabitant of Kulina-grama said, "Please let me know who is actually a Vaisnava and what his symptoms are." Understanding his mind, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu smiled and gave the following reply No edit summary current
- 10:5710:57, 26 January 2023 diff hist +6,569 Only the bona fide devotees can know Him by His specific symptoms, and out of many, many such symptoms, one symptom is mentioned here in this verse (SB 2.7.26), that the Lord is sita-krsna-kesah, or one who is observed always with beautiful black hair No edit summary current
21 January 2023
- 16:1616:16, 21 January 2023 diff hist +4,167 We are simply dreaming. With few pots we are simply dreaming that "These pots will be increased into so many pots, so many pots, so many pots," then finished. Don't make imagination No edit summary current
- 16:1416:14, 21 January 2023 diff hist +4,823 This covering is simply something like a hallucination or a dream. In Bhagavad-gita (BG 2.62) it is also said, sangat sanjayate kamah. Simply by association we create artificial material necessities. Dhyayato visayan pumsah sangas tesupajayate No edit summary current
- 16:1016:10, 21 January 2023 diff hist +4,238 Just as in a dream we may create so many things, which actually have no existence, so when we are awake we shall see that everything is simply a dream. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 16:0816:08, 21 January 2023 diff hist +4,678 I planned that "I must go to America." Yes. That was the reason. Otherwise, generally they go to London. I did not go to London. I was simply dreaming, "How to go to New York?" No edit summary current
- 16:0416:04, 21 January 2023 diff hist +4,261 A man may see a tiger swallowing him in a dream, and he may cry for this calamity. Actually there is no tiger and there is no suffering; it is simply a case of dreams. In the same way, all calamities of life are said to be dreams No edit summary current
- 16:0216:02, 21 January 2023 diff hist +3,677 Actually the living being has no connection with this material enjoyment nor with lusty desires. He is simply imagining or dreaming while asleep No edit summary current
- 15:3615:36, 21 January 2023 diff hist +4,127 There are many redundant churches because the Christian people are gradually deviating from their religious beliefs on account of stereotype presentation of the Bible by sophisticated priests No edit summary current
- 14:5414:54, 21 January 2023 diff hist +6,017 ISKCON is a bona fide religious society strictly following the principles described in the Vedic scriptures and practiced in India for thousands of years. Our basic beliefs are as follows No edit summary current
- 14:5014:50, 21 January 2023 diff hist +7,058 Foolish creatures, especially in this age of Kali, instead of knowing God scientifically, make propaganda against religious belief & the existence of God, even though they are always bound by God's laws by the symptoms of birth, death, old age & disease No edit summary current
- 14:2314:23, 21 January 2023 diff hist +3,220 When the eyes lose their power to see color or form due to morbid affliction of the optic nerve, the sense of sight becomes deadened. The living entity, who is the seer of both the eyes and the sight, loses his power of vision No edit summary current
- 14:2014:20, 21 January 2023 diff hist +2,359 When everything existed in darkness, the Lord desired to see Himself and all that was created. Then the eyes, the illuminating god Sun, the power of vision and the object of sight all became manifested No edit summary current
- 14:1814:18, 21 January 2023 diff hist +5,777 The sun controls the power of our vision, we can see the sun because the sun has its body, and the sunlight is useful only because we have eyes No edit summary current
- 14:1614:16, 21 January 2023 diff hist +2,441 The Lord, out of His causeless mercy, first desired to see Himself and all the creation as well, and thus the sun became manifested, the power of vision for all living entities became possible, and the objects of vision were also manifested No edit summary current
- 14:1314:13, 21 January 2023 diff hist +4,026 Such liberated persons as Vyasadeva are perfect not only by the power of vision and wisdom, but also in aural reception, in thinking, feeling and all other sense activities No edit summary current
- 14:1014:10, 21 January 2023 diff hist +2,569 O spiritually powerful one, you can understand the movements of eternal time, which is the controlling form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Because you are a self-realized person, you can see everything by the power of mystic vision No edit summary current
- 14:0614:06, 21 January 2023 diff hist +5,635 Isvara, the Supreme Lord, is situated in everyone's heart. One has to see. One has to develop that visionary power, how to see God within the heart. That is wanted. That is called yoga system No edit summary
- 12:1212:12, 21 January 2023 diff hist +3,145 We have seen in the history of India that Aurangzeb killed his brother and nephews and imprisoned his father to fulfill political ambitions. There have been many similar instances, and Kamsa was the same type of king No edit summary current
- 12:0912:09, 21 January 2023 diff hist +6,985 Vasudeva talked with Kamsa in such an illuminating way, Kamsa became very much pleased, and his guilt for killing his nephews subsided. With the permission of his sister Devaki and brother-in-law Vasudeva, he returned to his home with a relieved mind No edit summary current
- 11:5211:52, 21 January 2023 diff hist +4,490 Kamsa had killed many of his own nephews, yet Jarasandha did not take notice, but because Krsna had killed His maternal uncle, Kamsa, Jarasandha tried to criticize Him No edit summary current
- 11:4711:47, 21 January 2023 diff hist +3,012 Kamsa did not hesitate to kill his nephews and imprison his sister and his father. For demons to do such things is not astonishing. Nonetheless, although Kamsa was a demon, he was aware that Lord Visnu cannot be killed, and thus he attained salvation No edit summary current
- 11:4611:46, 21 January 2023 diff hist +18,592 Kamsa believed Vasudeva's word that he would bring all the sons so that if he wanted he could kill them. Vasudeva thought, "Let me save the present situation. After all, if Kamsa later gets a nephew, he may forget this envy." But Kamsa never forgot No edit summary current
- 11:4311:43, 21 January 2023 diff hist +6,156 I (Kamsa) have acted just like a demon in killing my own nephews - your children - and thereby I have given up all consideration of our intimate relationship. I do not know what will be the result of these envious acts of mine No edit summary current
- 11:3911:39, 21 January 2023 diff hist +3,584 As soon as the sons of Devaki were killed, they would return to their original place. The devotees wanted to see this also. Generally speaking, no one kills his own nephews, but Kamsa was so cruel that he did so without hesitation No edit summary current
- 11:2611:26, 21 January 2023 diff hist +2,748 You are sannyasi and the people will automatically respect you. So be ideal in behavior following strictly the rules and regulations No edit summary current
- 11:2311:23, 21 January 2023 diff hist +18,160 The ideal sannyasi was Lord Caitanya Himself, and we can learn from His life that He was very strict in regards to women. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:1211:12, 21 January 2023 diff hist +3,119 The ideal sannyasi strictly follows the ways practiced by the Gosvamis No edit summary current
- 10:4610:46, 21 January 2023 diff hist +5,065 Srila Madhvacarya, the original acarya for those who belong to the Madhva-Gaudiya-sampradaya No edit summary current
- 10:4210:42, 21 January 2023 diff hist +29 Lord Rudra, or Lord Siva, is the original acarya of the Vaisnava sampradaya called the Rudra-sampradaya. Rudra-gitena indicates that under the disciplic succession of Lord Rudra, the Pracetas achieved spiritual success No edit summary
- 10:3310:33, 21 January 2023 diff hist +8,423 When the gopis arrived, Lord Balarama glanced over them with loving eyes. Being overjoyed, the gopis, who had so long been mortified on account of Krsna's and Balarama's absence, began to ask about the welfare of the two brothers No edit summary current
- 10:3010:30, 21 January 2023 diff hist +7,714 The hearts of us poor queens are all dried up, and our bodies are skinny because we are now devoid of loving affairs with Madhupati. Are you (river), like us, dry and without beauty because you are devoid of Krsna’s loving glance No edit summary current
- 10:2710:27, 21 January 2023 diff hist +2,551 They hold Their flutes to Their mouths and glance lovingly upon the residents of Vrndavana. For those who have eyes, we think there is no greater object of vision No edit summary current
- 10:2210:22, 21 January 2023 diff hist +6,478 One girl said to another, "My dear friend, it is very difficult to guess what kind of pious activities these queens have performed, for they are always enjoying the smiling face and loving glances of Krsna" No edit summary current
- 10:1510:15, 21 January 2023 diff hist +8 It is at this stage (of madhura-rati) that Krsna and the damsels of Vraja glanced at one another, for on this platform there is an exchange of loving glances, motions of the eyes, pleasant words, attractive smiles, etc No edit summary current
- 09:4909:49, 21 January 2023 diff hist +3,898 By the arrangement of the Supreme Lord, low-grade living beings like bugs and mosquitoes suck the blood of human beings and other animals. Such insignificant creatures are unaware that their bites are painful to the human being No edit summary current
20 January 2023
- 15:3815:38, 20 January 2023 diff hist +6 They (the sahajiya class) do not know that humility and meekness are appropriate when one's own honor is insulted but not when Lord Visnu or the acaryas are blasphemed. In such cases one should not be humble and meek but must act No edit summary current
- 15:3415:34, 20 January 2023 diff hist +3,574 Kasyapa warned his wife that because Lord Siva would see their sex indulgence, the time was not appropriate No edit summary current
- 15:3315:33, 20 January 2023 diff hist +7,824 I am glad that you have admitted about the GBC members not very appropriately discharging their duty. I do not mind this discrepancy but you should be alert; you and all GBC members No edit summary current
- 15:3115:31, 20 January 2023 diff hist +2,317 Humility and meekness are not appropriate when the acaryas are blasphemed No edit summary current
- 15:2915:29, 20 January 2023 diff hist +2,259 He (The demigod Pusa) could not use his teeth for eating, since he had laughed at Lord Siva, deriding him by showing his teeth. In other words, it was not appropriate for him to have teeth, for he had used them against Lord Siva No edit summary current
- 15:2715:27, 20 January 2023 diff hist −38 Being addicted to stealing, the thief began making plans to steal the other pilgrims' baggage, but he thought - I'm going on a pilgrimage, so it doesn't seem appropriate that I should steal this baggage. No, I shall not do it No edit summary current
- 15:2115:21, 20 January 2023 diff hist +1,782 After speaking to them in this way, I bade them farewell. As I was leaving, Sanatana told Me, 'It is not appropriate for one to be followed by a crowd of thousands when going to Vrndavana' No edit summary current
- 15:1415:14, 20 January 2023 diff hist +2,628 When a person blames himself for committing an inappropriate action, his feeling is called guilt No edit summary current
- 15:1315:13, 20 January 2023 diff hist +3,697 The devotee said, "My dear kadamba tree, do not be worried. Just after defeating the Kaliya snake in the Yamuna River, Krsna will come and satisfy your desire." This is an instance of inappropriate hopelessness in ecstatic love for Krsna No edit summary current
- 15:1015:10, 20 January 2023 diff hist +3,140 Sanatana Gosvami had adopted the dress of a paramahamsa; therefore it was inappropriate for him to wear the saffron cloth on his head No edit summary current
- 15:0815:08, 20 January 2023 diff hist +1,599 Of course, a sannyasi or brahmana may beg for up to five gandas, but why should he be granted the inappropriate sum of 200,000 kahanas of conchshells No edit summary current
- 15:0215:02, 20 January 2023 diff hist +12,764 The great scripture Srimad-Bhagavatam, compiled by Maha-muni Vyasadeva from four original verses, describes the most elevated and kindhearted devotees and completely rejects the cheating ways of materially motivated religiosity No edit summary
- 14:5814:58, 20 January 2023 diff hist +1,573 One of the bhagavatas is the great scripture Srimad-Bhagavatam, and the other is the pure devotee absorbed in the mellows of loving devotion No edit summary current
- 14:5314:53, 20 January 2023 diff hist +12,840 He (one German scholar who became a devotee) came to India not to learn the methods of the yogis’ mystic powers but to learn the path of transcendental loving service to the Supreme Lord, as mentioned in the great scripture Srimad-Bhagavatam No edit summary current
- 14:5114:51, 20 January 2023 diff hist +4,734 Great scripture Srimad-Bhagavatam No edit summary current
- 14:4714:47, 20 January 2023 diff hist +51,129 Although all these great scriptures are on the absolute level, for the sake of comparitive study Caitanya-caritamrta is considered to be on the highest platform. Every verse in it is perfectly composed No edit summary current
- 14:4514:45, 20 January 2023 diff hist +52,863 Although all these great scriptures (BG and SB) are on the same absolute level, for the sake of comparative study the Caitanya-caritamrta is considered to be on the highest platform. Every verse in it is perfectly composed - CC Intro No edit summary
- 14:4014:40, 20 January 2023 diff hist +4,562 These debts must be paid, that is important business. Along with our preaching and propaganda work, we must also give attention to financial matters, otherwise the whole thing will collapse and it will be a farce No edit summary current
- 14:3714:37, 20 January 2023 diff hist +3,173 I know the BBT, Negotiations with Dai Nippon and financial matters are being taken care of even though Karandhara has left his post. Your desire to give me relief from having to worry about these matters shows that you have understood my desires No edit summary current
- 14:3214:32, 20 January 2023 diff hist +3,902 We can still purge out from the state all the activities of immorality introduced by the personality of Kali if we are determined to take action like Maharaja Pariksit No edit summary current
- 14:3014:30, 20 January 2023 diff hist +3,845 It is very difficult for such inexperienced persons (who desire elevation to the heavenly planets) to be situated in the determined action of Krsna consciousness. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 12:2612:26, 20 January 2023 diff hist +26,677 We must always remember that the Supreme Lord has His creative function and that the infinitesimal living entities have their creative functions also. It is not that their creative function is lost when they are liberated and enter into the Supreme No edit summary current
- 12:1912:19, 20 January 2023 diff hist +8,054 The Supreme Lord inspired the secondary creator, Brahma, in order that Brahma could carry out his creative functions. So, the supreme intelligence behind all creations is the Absolute Godhead, Sri Krsna No edit summary current
- 12:1712:17, 20 January 2023 diff hist +8,934 The Supreme Lord inspired Brahma, the secondary creator, and enabled him to carry out his creative functions. In this way the Supreme Lord is the supervising engineer; the real mind behind all creative agents is the Absolute Personality of Godhead No edit summary
- 12:1612:16, 20 January 2023 diff hist +4,646 The sound vibration created by the flute of Krsna caused Lord Brahma, who was sitting on the lotus flower for the creative function, to become astonished No edit summary current
- 12:1512:15, 20 January 2023 diff hist +1,955 The Rsi Maitreya said: The Lord thus heard about the suspension of the progressive creative functions of the universe due to the noncombination of His potencies, such as the mahat-tattva No edit summary current
- 12:1212:12, 20 January 2023 diff hist +26,646 The creative function of the living entity is properly manifested in the liberated state. If the living entity's activities are manifest even when he is materially conditioned, then how is it possible for his activities to stop when he attains liberation No edit summary current
- 12:1012:10, 20 January 2023 diff hist +4,006 Any creative function in the universe always has a direct connecting link with the Lord No edit summary current
- 12:0412:04, 20 January 2023 diff hist +43,788 In the first verse of Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said that the Supreme Lord inspired a secondary creator, Brahma, and enabled him to carry out his creative functions. In this way the Supreme Lord is the supervising engineer No edit summary current
- 12:0212:02, 20 January 2023 diff hist +32 Fully satisfied by the answers of the sage Maitreya, Vidura wanted to understand the remaining portions of the creative function of the Lord, and he took the clue from the previous topics No edit summary current
- 11:2411:24, 20 January 2023 diff hist +5,780 When a man dies, he is called dead, but when he again appears in a subtle form not visible to our present vision and yet acts, such a dead body is called a ghost No edit summary current
- 11:1711:17, 20 January 2023 diff hist −3 We have got this gross body, and when the gross body is finished, then I keep myself in this mental body. That is called ghostly body No edit summary current
- 10:2810:28, 20 January 2023 diff hist +4,131 Those who are very sinful & attached to their family, house, village or country do not receive a gross body made of material elements but remain in a subtle body, composed of mind, ego, intelligence. Those who live in such subtle bodies are called ghosts No edit summary current
- 10:0910:09, 20 January 2023 diff hist +4,034 Sometimes, because of too much sinful activity, the living entity does not get a material gross body, but hovers on the subtle platform. This is called ghostly life No edit summary current
19 January 2023
- 15:2615:26, 19 January 2023 diff hist +3,068 Lalayanti. Sometimes a mother lifts her child, and when the child falls in her hands, the child laughs, and the mother also enjoys pleasure. Yasoda used to do this, but this time Krsna became very heavy, and she could not bear His weight No edit summary current
- 15:1215:12, 19 January 2023 diff hist +2,953 By our calculation, a universe may be very, very heavy, but because the Lord is ananta (unlimited), He feels the weight to be no heavier than a mustard seed No edit summary current
- 15:1015:10, 19 January 2023 diff hist +1,383 Due to the Lord's heavy weight, the boat began to tilt. It began filling up with water and was on the verge of sinking No edit summary current
- 15:0415:04, 19 January 2023 diff hist −13 A drowning man with a heavy weight on his head is sure to go down more swiftly than those who have no heavy weight No edit summary current
- 11:5011:50, 19 January 2023 diff hist +1,396 I was greatly pleased to have the garland signifying the order of the Lord, and then and there I commenced to write this book No edit summary current
- 10:4510:45, 19 January 2023 diff hist +1,489 I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) was greatly pleased to have the garland signifying the order of the Lord, and then and there I commenced to write this book (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta) No edit summary current
- 10:4210:42, 19 January 2023 diff hist +8,810 In this verse SB 10.2.32 where such persons (who say that whatever process one accepts will lead to the same goal) are referred to as vimukta-maninah, signifying that although they think they have attained the highest perfection, in fact they have not No edit summary current
- 10:2410:24, 19 January 2023 diff hist +39,184 A tridandi-sannyasi carries three dandas, signifying kaya-mano-vakya-body, mind and words. All of these should be offered to Visnu, and then one can begin devotional service No edit summary current
18 January 2023
- 15:4015:40, 18 January 2023 diff hist +6,613 To take the jewel from the child, Krsna approached, stood before him. When the nurse taking care of Rksa's child saw Krsna standing before her, she was afraid, thinking He might take away the valuable Syamantaka jewel, and she cried out loudly in fear No edit summary current
- 15:3815:38, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,489 The conditioned soul is sometimes illusioned and afraid. Sometimes he cries loudly out of fear. Sometimes he is happy maintaining his family, and sometimes he is overjoyed and sings melodiously No edit summary current
- 15:3515:35, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4 These (sometimes laughing, sometimes weeping, sometimes crying out very loudly, sometimes singing, and sometimes dancing and forgetting himself) are the signs of becoming intoxicated in devotional service. This stage, called the atmarama stage No edit summary current
- 15:3315:33, 18 January 2023 diff hist −13 Sometimes he (whose heart becomes slackened while chanting the holy name, he becomes almost like a madman) laughs, sometimes he weeps, sometimes he cries out very loudly, sometimes he sings, and sometimes he dances and forgets himself No edit summary current
- 15:0815:08, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,046 I will advise you to chant on your lips since you become tired chanting out loud. Also you can sit and hear your Godbrothers chanting. And you can also hear tapes No edit summary current
- 15:0315:03, 18 January 2023 diff hist +8,021 His (person who is full KC) heart becomes slackened while chanting the holy name, he becomes almost like a madman, and he does not care for any outward social conventions. Thus sometimes he laughs, sometimes he weeps, sometimes he cries out very loudly No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,895 The Lord is also perpetually happy, and if we associate with the Lord, cooperate with Him, take part in His association, then also we become happy. The Lord descends on this mortal world to show His pastimes in Vrndavana full of happiness No edit summary current
- 14:2314:23, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,323 The illusory human civilization that perpetually endeavors for happiness through material advancement is rejected by Prahlada Maharaja and those who strictly follow in his footsteps No edit summary
- 14:1214:12, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,714 The absolute happiness or the perpetual happiness or the greatest happiness is that which is enjoyed by supernatural senses No edit summary current
- 14:1014:10, 18 January 2023 diff hist +3,411 In this world, family life is exactly like a blazing fire in the forest. There is not the least happiness, and gradually one becomes more and more implicated in unhappiness. In household life, there is nothing favorable for perpetual happiness No edit summary current
- 14:0614:06, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,644 Conditioned souls seek after perpetual happiness in all places - not only on this earth but also on other planets throughout the universe - because constitutionally a spiritual spark, as he is, can travel to any part of God's creation No edit summary
- 14:0314:03, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,927 By other processes he (conditioned soul) can reach anywhere, but even if he reaches the highest planet, he cannot attain that perpetual happiness for which he is searching life after life No edit summary
- 13:5613:56, 18 January 2023 diff hist +15,543 You have got a tendency for sex life, take for example. This is your tendency. But if you can check it, that is your success No edit summary current
- 13:5413:54, 18 January 2023 diff hist +10 You have already mentioned the exemplary character of Lord Jesus Christ that he sacrificed everything for God. This example should be taken. The process should be to follow the example, not to imitate the exact activities No edit summary current
- 13:4313:43, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,492 You cannot change your destiny. Now, take for example, there are so many agricultural improvement. Does it mean that there is no person who is needy? There are so many needy person. But has the agricultural education improved their lot? No No edit summary current
- 13:3813:38, 18 January 2023 diff hist +9,244 You cannot avoid the natural occurrence of various social divisions. Nature's caste system will remain. Take, for example, the brahminical quality of truthfulness. All over the world, wherever you go, you'll find at least one person who is truthful No edit summary current
- 12:2612:26, 18 January 2023 diff hist −11 We are Krsna conscious. Now take any religion and take their highest conclusion - it is there in Krsna consciousness. Take for example Buddhism. They say nonviolence. Oh, we are nonviolent. Christianism, love of God No edit summary current
- 11:4911:49, 18 January 2023 diff hist −11 The modern people, they do not know. They do not know it that material condition cannot be changed. Take, for example, the pig. His body is meant for eating stool. So you cannot induce him to eat halava. That cannot be. He'll not accept it No edit summary current
- 11:4411:44, 18 January 2023 diff hist +6,075 Take the example of a dead man. The senses, the hands, the nose, the sense organs, and everything is there, but now he cannot enjoy. The dead body, it cannot enjoy. Why? This requires intelligence No edit summary current
- 11:4111:41, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,418 Take that example of the habit, if someone is smoking out of habit. So again. So is he free in that smoking, or is it..., has he completely surrendered his freedom? No edit summary current
- 11:3911:39, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,756 Take for example Buddhism. They say nonviolence. Oh, we (persons in Krsna consciousness) are nonviolent No edit summary current
- 11:3711:37, 18 January 2023 diff hist −15 Take for example, buddhi. Buddhi means intelligence. And what is that intelligence? Real intelligence? Real intelligence is, to know, to understand that, "Krsna is the Supreme, and I am part and parcel." No edit summary current
- 11:3411:34, 18 January 2023 diff hist +3,305 Take advantage of Prthu Maharaja's example No edit summary current
- 11:3011:30, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,012 Our different centers are meant for organizing a group of pure devotees so that neophyte visitors may take examples from them and thus become attached to Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 11:2811:28, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,309 Our acharya Bhaktivinode Thakura was the perfect householder and we should take his example. How nice a householder he was and how nice children he produced; one of them is my Guru Maharaja. That is the example No edit summary current
- 11:2511:25, 18 January 2023 diff hist +28 No one can manufacture anything. Take, for example eatables for the nonvegetarians, like meats, etc., none of which can be manufactured by men. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:2311:23, 18 January 2023 diff hist +28 No one can manufacture anything. Take, for example, all the eatables of human society. These eatables include grains, fruits, vegetables, milk, sugar, etc., for the persons in the mode of goodness. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:1911:19, 18 January 2023 diff hist +10,019 Neither the King (Pariksit) nor the great speaker of the Bhagavatam jumped up like the organizers; both of them proceeded systematically, so that both future readers and hearers might take lessons from the example of the procedure of reciting it No edit summary
- 11:1111:11, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,827 Krsna said, "My dear gopi friends, you may know from Me that it is My energies only which are acting everywhere. Take, for example, an earthen pot. It is nothing but a combination of earth, water, air, fire and sky" No edit summary current
- 11:0611:06, 18 January 2023 diff hist +6,403 Isvara means controller or the powerful man who controls. Take for example the president or the king. So there are many isvaras, or controllers. You are also isvara; I am also isvara No edit summary current
- 11:0411:04, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,764 If we follow the Krsna conscious path... Now, take for example our wedding ceremonies. Now, the first thing that we take, the Ganapati, there is Ganasyainava, and there is various other deities that we have to respect. Now, what happens in his case? No edit summary current
- 10:5810:58, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,098 From the earth, many varieties of manifestations take place. Take, for example, a big skyscraper manifested from the earth. When it is dismantled, the manifestation becomes again unmanifested and remains as atoms in the ultimate stage. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 10:5310:53, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,063 Even in this fallen age if the rulers, governors and presidents take advantage of Prthu Maharaja's example, there will certainly be a reign of peace and prosperity throughout the world No edit summary current
- 10:3410:34, 18 January 2023 diff hist −11 Any scripture of any country, not only of this BG, but any scripture, they are aiming simply how to get us back to Godhead. That is the purpose. take for example any of the great religious reformer or acaryas of any country, like, Jesus or Buddha No edit summary current
- 10:2310:23, 18 January 2023 diff hist +6,472 Good, or piety, that is God's frontage, and evil means God's back side. So taking this example, the chest or the back of my body, they are equal No edit summary current
- 10:0810:08, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,652 When the artificially dressed personality of Kali saw that to fight Maharaja Pariksit was beyond his ability, he bowed down his head like a subordinate and gave up his royal dress No edit summary current
- 10:0610:06, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,182 The royal dress of the personality of Kali is artificial No edit summary current
- 10:0410:04, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,598 The royal dress is suitable for a king or ksatriya, but when a lower-class man artificially dresses himself as a king, his real identity is disclosed by the challenge of a bona fide ksatriya like Maharaja Pariksit No edit summary current
- 10:0110:01, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,925 The purpose of Your appearance is to kill the followers of the demoniac rulers of the world, who are in the dress of royal princes but are actually demons. I (Vasudeva) am sure that You (Krsna) will kill all of them and their followers and soldiers No edit summary current
- 09:5809:58, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,447 The elected show-bottle executive head, as representative of a degraded public, cannot be equal with a strong king like Maharaja Pariksit. The dress or style of royal order does not count. It is one's actions which are counted No edit summary current
- 09:5509:55, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,033 She thought of Him in the calm and quiet atmosphere of Vrndavana, dressed as a cowherd boy. But at Kuruksetra He was in a royal dress and was accompanied by elephants, horses and crowds of men. Thus the atmosphere was not congenial for Their meeting No edit summary current
17 January 2023
- 16:0516:05, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,051 Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya suggested, "On that Ratha-yatra festival day, after dancing before the Lord, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu will enter the Gundica garden. At that time you (King Prataparudra) should go there alone, without your royal dress" No edit summary current
- 16:0316:03, 17 January 2023 diff hist +1,778 On that Ratha-yatra festival day, after dancing before the Lord, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu will enter the Gundica garden. At that time you should go there alone, without your royal dress No edit summary current
- 16:0116:01, 17 January 2023 diff hist −13 Maharaja Yudhisthira to become spiritually pure, at once gave up his royal opulence, relinquishing his royal dress and garments No edit summary current
- 15:5915:59, 17 January 2023 diff hist +1,857 Here at Kuruksetra You are dressed like a royal prince, accompanied by great warriors, but in Vrndavana You appeared just like an ordinary cowherd boy, accompanied only by Your beautiful flute No edit summary current
- 15:5715:57, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,418 Following Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya's instructions, the King had given up his royal dress. He now entered the garden in the dress of a Vaisnava No edit summary current
- 15:5515:55, 17 January 2023 diff hist +25 Being village girls, they (the gopis) were not very much attracted to the field of Kuruksetra, where Krsna was present with elephants, horses and royal dress. Indeed, they did not very much appreciate Krsna in that atmosphere No edit summary current
- 15:2015:20, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,949 Where is this consciousness of surrender come in human life? At what stage it can come? No edit summary current
- 15:1615:16, 17 January 2023 diff hist −14 When our consciousness is actually in the clear stage, we can understand our particular relationship with Krsna No edit summary current
- 15:0815:08, 17 January 2023 diff hist +36 The state of contaminated consciousness is compared to dream consciousness, and Krsna consciousness is compared to the awakened stage of life. Actually, as stated in Bhagavad-gita, the only absolute enjoyer is Krsna No edit summary
- 14:5714:57, 17 January 2023 diff hist +3,110 The human being is endowed with a higher, advanced stage of consciousness for getting relief from the existence of material miseries, but due to his ignorance he thinks that his higher consciousness is meant for advancing in the material comforts of life No edit summary
- 14:5514:55, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,518 The highest stage of spiritual consciousness is Krsna consciousness. KC means, "I am Krsna's," that's all. Krsna says, "All these living entities, they are My part and parcel." So you have to understand this relationship with Krsna, that you are Krsna's No edit summary current
- 14:4814:48, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,820 Suppose you are sleeping, and if I vibrate some sound, you can hear and can wake up. No other method will act. Similarly, at the present moment it is our sleeping stage. Therefore this transcendental vibration will awaken to spiritual consciousness No edit summary current
- 14:3014:30, 17 January 2023 diff hist −10 One should execute his spiritual activities in the svarupa-gata stage of consciousness. He should also chant such spiritual mantras as om namo bhagavate vasudevaya and the cin-mayi Gayatri No edit summary current
- 14:1314:13, 17 January 2023 diff hist +7,137 In the phenomenal manifestation there are three stages: the stage of consciousness, the stage of semiconsciousness in dreaming, and the stage of unconsciousness. But Your (Krsna's) Lordship is transcendental to all these material stages of existence No edit summary current
- 14:0414:04, 17 January 2023 diff hist +7,967 In the beginning of life, every living entity is food conscious. A child or an animal is satisfied only by getting nice food. This stage of consciousness, in which the goal is to eat sumptuously, is called anna-maya No edit summary current
- 14:0014:00, 17 January 2023 diff hist +9 If we act on the level of consciousness, then we can overcome the fruitive result of good work or bad work. It is a transcendental stage No edit summary current
- 13:5213:52, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,432 First the soul has covered consciousness, then he reaches the stage of budding consciousness, then blossoming consciousness, and finally fully blossomed consciousness No edit summary current
- 13:4313:43, 17 January 2023 diff hist +3,693 Different living beings are situated in different consciousness, Some are satisfied in the matter of eating and sleeping, they are on the annamoya stage No edit summary current
- 13:3213:32, 17 January 2023 diff hist +13,800 Bhakti means the activities of the liberated stage. That is not material things. So this Krsna consciousness movement is little difficult to understand because these activities are for the persons who have already attained moksa No edit summary current
- 13:2313:23, 17 January 2023 diff hist −13 A child or an animal is satisfied only by getting nice food. This stage of consciousness, in which the goal is to eat sumptuously, is called anna-maya No edit summary current
- 12:1612:16, 17 January 2023 diff hist +8,010 After this stage (prana-maya), when one is situated on the mental platform, his consciousness is called mano-maya No edit summary current
- 12:0112:01, 17 January 2023 diff hist +5,049 The surabhi cow said, "Therefore, You (Krsna) are our Indra, You are the supreme father of the whole cosmic manifestation, and You are the protector and elevator of all the cows, brahmanas, demigods and others who are pure devotees of Your Lordship" No edit summary current
- 11:5811:58, 17 January 2023 diff hist −1 One should directly approach Krsna, for that will save time and energy. For example, if there is a possibility of going to the top of a building by the help of an elevator, why should one go by the staircase, step by step? BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:4311:43, 17 January 2023 diff hist +5,576 You can say: "Why Krsna is so partial to the sadhus?" No. He gives protection to everyone. Without His protection, nobody can live. That's a fact. But He gives special protection to the sadhu, to the devotees. That is natural No edit summary
- 11:4011:40, 17 January 2023 diff hist +38 The word parama-kalyana is significant because Krsna, in any of His incarnations, appears in order to protect the sadhus (paritranaya sadhunam) - BG 4.8 No edit summary current
- 11:3711:37, 17 January 2023 diff hist +8,875 The sadhu, who is a great devotee of the Lord, they might be tolerant. You can crucify him, can do any misbehavior to him. He's never angry. But God will never tolerate. We must always remember that. He has got special protection No edit summary current
- 11:2611:26, 17 January 2023 diff hist −2 In India, for instance, when people were over-indulging in animal slaughter, Lord Buddha came to establish ahimsa, nonviolence to all living entities. Similarly, in the above-quoted verse BG 4.8, Sri Krsna says that He comes in order to protect the sadhus No edit summary current
- 11:1611:16, 17 January 2023 diff hist +5,503 Under the circumstances (in BG 2.13), it is admitted that Lord Krsna is the Supreme Lord, superior in position to the living entity, Arjuna, who is a forgotten soul deluded by maya. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:1411:14, 17 January 2023 diff hist +3,278 This transcendental knowledge (the arts of music, dance, dressing, decorations relished by god) is unknown to the forgotten conditioned souls No edit summary current
- 11:0911:09, 17 January 2023 diff hist +3,157 This sort of punishment (dunk someone and thrusting him completely underwater, and when he is almost suffocated take him out of the water and allow him to breathe and then again dunk him to suffocate) inflicted upon the forgotten soul by Yamaraja No edit summary current
- 10:2610:26, 17 January 2023 diff hist −13 The fallen and forgotten souls are detached from the transcendental loving service of the Lord. The living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord, and they are eternally servitors of the Lord No edit summary current
- 10:1810:18, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,589 By reestablishing relationship with God, even the most forgotten soul is roused up to the sense of spiritual life, and thus being initiated by the bhakti-vedantas, the people in general gradually progress on the path of transcendental realization No edit summary
- 09:5609:56, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,527 The river will flow profusely to fertilize the land; the oceans will supply sufficient quantities of minerals, pearls and jewels; the forest will supply sufficient wood, drugs and vegetables No edit summary current
- 09:5309:53, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,017 The ocean of Caitanya Mahaprabhu became filled with the jewels of the knowledge of pure devotional service No edit summary current
- 09:4809:48, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,376 The oceans and seas are meant for producing jewels, but in Kali-yuga the oceans are mainly being utilized for fishing. Sudras and poor men were allowed to fish, but the higher classes like the ksatriyas and vaisyas would gather pearls, jewels and coral No edit summary current
- 09:4509:45, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,358 The ocean, which is the source of all valuable jewels, supplied the upper and lower portions of a yellow silken garment. The predominating deity of the water, Varuna, presented flower garlands surrounded by six-legged bumblebees, drunken with honey No edit summary current
- 09:4209:42, 17 January 2023 diff hist −6 The flow of river waters fertilizes the fields, and there is more than what we need. Minerals are produced in the hills, and the jewels in the ocean No edit summary current
- 09:3809:38, 17 January 2023 diff hist +8,565 There (in the large palace within the water of the Karana Ocean) were many thousands of pillars and columns made of valuable jewels, and the glaring effulgence of those columns was so beautiful that Arjuna was charmed by it No edit summary current
- 09:3609:36, 17 January 2023 diff hist −26 Prabodhananda Sarasvati has composed in his Caitanya-candramrta (34): The advent of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is just like an expanding ocean of nectar. One who does not collect the valuable jewels within this ocean is certainly the poorest of the poor No edit summary
- 09:3409:34, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,310 Oceans and seas produce pearls, coral and valuable jewels so that fortunate law-abiding people can utilize them. Similarly, the hills are full of chemicals so that when rivers flow down from them the chemicals spread over the fields to fertilize No edit summary current
- 09:2609:26, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,000 King Prthu was presented with various gifts from the general populace and predominating deities of all planets. The oceans and seas were full of valuable jewels and pearls, and the hills were full of chemicals and fertilizers No edit summary current