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13:5413:54, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,836‎ Because a pure devotee has no thought other than Krsna, he is naturally always joyful. He does not lament for any material loss or gain because he is full in service of the Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
13:5113:51, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,182‎ A pure devotee of the Lord never thinks of himself as the proprietor of his home. He surrenders everything unto the supreme control of the Lord, and thus he has no fear for maintaining his family or protecting the interests of his family ‎No edit summary current
13:4913:49, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,480‎ A pure devotee of Lord Krsna never desires to be promoted to the heavenly planets, or even to Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrndavana, because he has no desire for his own personal satisfaction ‎No edit summary
13:4613:46, 11 February 2023 diff hist +42‎ A pure devotee like Uddhava has no material afflictions because he engages constantly in the transcendental loving service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
13:4413:44, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,442‎ A pure devotee is niskincana; he has no material desire to enjoy the material world. One has to take shelter of such a pure devotee in order to attain his qualities ‎No edit summary current
13:4213:42, 11 February 2023 diff hist +42‎ A pure devotee is anyabhilasita-sunyam (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.11). He has no desire for material profit, nor does the Lord induce him to try to profit materially. When a devotee needs something, the Supreme Personality of Godhead supplies it ‎No edit summary
13:3813:38, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,124‎ A pure devotee actually has no problems for himself; wherever he is he can read books like Krsna Books and chant Hare Krsna, get some prasadam and always think of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
13:3313:33, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,151‎ A pure devotee has no way of sensing happiness except by seeing that Krsna is happy in every respect. If Krsna becomes happy by giving him distress, such a devotee accepts that unhappiness as the greatest of all happiness ‎No edit summary current
13:2813:28, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,579‎ A pure devotee has no plans other than those for the Lord’s service. He is not interested in attaining success in mundane activities ‎No edit summary current
13:2713:27, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,730‎ A pure devotee has no interest but to act on behalf of the Supreme Lord. When one has even a tinge of personal interest, his devotion is mixed with the three modes of material nature ‎No edit summary current
13:2513:25, 11 February 2023 diff hist +12,671‎ A pure devotee has no demand from the Lord. His only concern is to serve the Lord sincerely and seriously, and he is not at all concerned about what will happen in the future ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,176‎ A pure devotee has nothing to do with mundane religiosity, economic development, sense gratification, or salvation, nor is he concerned whether his standard of material existence is the highest or the lowest. To him, heaven and hell are of equal value ‎No edit summary current
13:1913:19, 11 February 2023 diff hist +7,745‎ A pure devotee has none of the tinges of the above contaminations (becoming a religious man, a rich man, a first-class enjoyer or becoming God himself), which are the influence of material desires, impersonal speculations and attainment of mystic powers ‎No edit summary current
13:1713:17, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,750‎ A pure devotee engaged in the service of Lord Krsna has no desire for his personal sense gratification, and thus he never accepts anything for that purpose ‎No edit summary current
12:0012:00, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,299‎ Although the pure devotee does not follow all the regulative principles of varnasrama, he worships the lotus feet of Krsna. Therefore he naturally has no tendency to commit sin ‎No edit summary current
11:5311:53, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,319‎ After being baffled in his material enjoyment, the impersonalist may desire to merge into the existence of the Lord, but a pure devotee of the Lord has no such desire. Therefore a pure devotee is really bhagavad-dharmi ‎No edit summary current
11:3611:36, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,892‎ Yudhisthira Maharaja and his brothers the Pandavas were all engaged in the service of the Lord Sri Krsna, and they had very little attraction for the illusory happiness of this material world ‎No edit summary current
11:1111:11, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,830‎ Unobstructed happiness is called brahma-saukhya, spiritual happiness. Although we may get some so-called happiness in this material world, that happiness is temporary. The foolish materialists cannot understand this ‎No edit summary
11:0511:05, 11 February 2023 diff hist +2,476‎ Unless one comes to the platform of actual experience, one cannot realize what is pain and what is happiness in this material world ‎No edit summary current
11:0311:03, 11 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ Under the circumstances, they must come down to realize happiness in these varieties of material world. Because they found it better happiness by taking in politics and on political movements or opening school, hospitals ‎No edit summary current
10:5410:54, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,385‎ The yoga system which relates to the Lord and the individual soul, which is meant for the ultimate benefit of the living entity, and which causes detachment from all happiness and distress in the material world, is the highest yoga system ‎No edit summary current
10:3910:39, 11 February 2023 diff hist +81,352‎ The worker with a desire to enjoy the fruits of his work is hankering after transient material happiness, and such a worker is rewarded with worldly or heavenly happiness within the material worlds ‎No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 11 February 2023 diff hist +24,300‎ The whole Vedic civilization is based on the understanding that destiny allows only a certain amount of material happiness in this world, and that our efforts should therefore be directed toward self-realization ‎No edit summary
10:3010:30, 11 February 2023 diff hist −15‎ The sage Rsabhadeva told his sons that once they purified their existence they would have unlimited happiness. We are all intended to attain peace and happiness, but whatever peace and happiness we find in this material world is limited ‎No edit summary current
10:1410:14, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,010‎ The happiness and distress of the material world of duality are both mistaken ideas ‎No edit summary current
10:0910:09, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,272‎ The conditioned soul is always engaged in laying out plans for happiness within the material world, even up to the end of the universal limit ‎No edit summary current
09:3109:31, 11 February 2023 diff hist +15,674‎ The asuras are always fighting to overcome these impediments, and by the illusory power of material nature the foolish living entities work very hard within this material world and take this to be happiness. This is called maya ‎No edit summary current
09:2709:27, 11 February 2023 diff hist +2,657‎ They (conditioned souls) are continuously making plans to live here (material world) peacefully and happily. Such is the material world ‎No edit summary current
09:2409:24, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,364‎ These fools (who make elaborate political, social and cultural plans) are trying to turn the material world into sukhalayam, a place of happiness, not knowing how everything acts by the arrangement of material nature, which works in her own way ‎No edit summary current

15:5515:55, 10 February 2023 diff hist +6‎ There are so many scientists, philosophers and big leaders, but they do not know wherefrom they have come, nor do they know why they are busy within this material world to obtain a position of so-called happiness ‎No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 10 February 2023 diff hist +4,325‎ Remembering those (cursing) words, he (Siva) was sorry at heart, although to please his wife he smiled. In Bhagavad-gita it is said that a liberated person is always in mental equilibrium in both the distress and the happiness of this material world ‎No edit summary current
15:0215:02, 10 February 2023 diff hist +3,255‎ Of course, one may say that he is not disturbed by material happiness, but he does not know that just after one enjoys so-called material happiness, material distress will follow. This is the law of the material world ‎No edit summary current
14:5414:54, 10 February 2023 diff hist +4,635‎ My Lord, due to Your illusory energy, all living beings in this material world have forgotten their real constitutional position, and out of ignorance they are always desirous of material happiness in the form of society, friendship and love ‎No edit summary current
14:5014:50, 10 February 2023 diff hist +2,689‎ Material existence consists of pious and impious fruitive activities. As long as one is engaged in any kind of activity other than devotional service, it will result in the happiness and distress of this material world ‎No edit summary current
14:4714:47, 10 February 2023 diff hist +13,961‎ Material enjoyment includes activities such as great sacrifices for auspicious activity, charity, austerity, elevation to the higher planetary system, and even living happily within the material world ‎No edit summary current
14:0914:09, 10 February 2023 diff hist +4,401‎ Materialists think that sexual indulgence is the greatest happiness in this material world, and therefore they make elaborate plans to satisfy their senses, especially the genitals ‎No edit summary current
14:0714:07, 10 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ Krsna has advised that this material happiness and distress, they are on account of this body. They come and go. They do not stay. So long we are in this material world, this happiness and distress will come and go ‎No edit summary current
14:0514:05, 10 February 2023 diff hist +3,317‎ Just as a deer, because of ignorance, cannot see the water within a well covered by grass, but runs after water elsewhere, the living entity covered by the material body doesn't see the happiness within himself, but runs after happiness in material world ‎No edit summary current
13:5413:54, 10 February 2023 diff hist +6,066‎ In this material world, a householder's life brings all kinds of happiness in religion, economic development, sense gratification and the begetting of children, sons and grandsons. After that, one may desire liberation as well as material reputation ‎No edit summary current
13:4913:49, 10 February 2023 diff hist +6,111‎ In the material world people do not know what real happiness is. Sukham atyantikam yat tad buddhi-grahyam atindriyam (BG 6.21). Real happiness must be appreciated by one's transcendental senses ‎No edit summary current
13:4613:46, 10 February 2023 diff hist +8,446‎ In the material world happiness means ‎No edit summary current
13:4413:44, 10 February 2023 diff hist +4,022‎ In the material world even Brahma, the highest created being, seeks the favor of Laksmi for happiness ‎No edit summary current
10:5310:53, 10 February 2023 diff hist +8,132‎ In the material world, so-called happiness is the result of one's own work. One can become a rich man by dint of one's own hard labor, and there are always fear and doubts as to the duration of such acquired happiness ‎No edit summary current
10:4510:45, 10 February 2023 diff hist +2,966‎ In the material world, in any form of life, there is some so-called happiness and so-called distress. No one invites distress in order to suffer, but still it comes ‎No edit summary current
10:4310:43, 10 February 2023 diff hist +3,032‎ In the material world, everyone is trying to get some material happiness, but as soon as we get some material happiness, there is also material distress ‎No edit summary current
10:2910:29, 10 February 2023 diff hist +6,264‎ Illusory material world happiness means ‎No edit summary current
10:1810:18, 10 February 2023 diff hist +7,174‎ Here in the material world whatever we consider happiness, that is limited ‎No edit summary current

15:5115:51, 9 February 2023 diff hist +3,618‎ Everyone in this material world trying to mitigate or trying to become free from the distress. Duhkhasya. Atyantika-duhkha-nivrtti. Atyantika means supreme. The struggle for existence in this material world is everyone is trying to get some happiness ‎No edit summary current
15:4915:49, 9 February 2023 diff hist +5,218‎ Everyone in this material world is distressed by miserable conditions, but Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati says that this world is full of happiness. How is this possible ‎No edit summary current
15:4215:42, 9 February 2023 diff hist +6,113‎ Even old man, eighty years old, he is also going to the club. Because in the material world the happiness means wine and women. That's all ‎No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 9 February 2023 diff hist +3,051‎ Deluded by ignorance, the living entity wanders in the forest of this material world, enjoying the happiness and distress resulting from his past deeds, everywhere and at all times. (Therefore, neither you nor I am to be blamed for this incident) ‎No edit summary current
15:0415:04, 9 February 2023 diff hist +7,477‎ Both the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the jivas enter into this material world. The Paramatma, or Supreme Personality of Godhead, is worshipable because He has arranged for the happiness of the living entity in the material world ‎No edit summary current
14:5814:58, 9 February 2023 diff hist +2,668‎ Before giving up this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and check the force of desire and anger, he is well situated and is happy in this world ‎No edit summary current
14:5614:56, 9 February 2023 diff hist +2,581‎ Before giving up this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and check the force of desire and anger, he is a yogi and is happy in this world. BG 5.23 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
14:5114:51, 9 February 2023 diff hist +5,003‎ Because the devotee knows Vasudeva, he knows everything within the creation of Vasudeva (vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah). Such a devotee does not give much value to the highest standard of happiness within this material world ‎No edit summary current
14:4714:47, 9 February 2023 diff hist +7,533‎ Because it is the material world, no one can enjoy any kind of happiness without inebriety. Material enjoyment means inebriety, whereas spiritual enjoyment means pure enjoyment under the protection of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
14:4414:44, 9 February 2023 diff hist +4,143‎ A person who is overly affected materially may take advantage of this movement and become intimately associated with it. In this way the confused and frustrated inhabitants of this material world may find the highest happiness in association with devotees ‎No edit summary current
14:4214:42, 9 February 2023 diff hist +13,592‎ A man in perfect knowledge knows that one cannot be happier than he is destined to be. In this material world, everyone is destined to suffer a certain amount of distress and enjoy a certain amount of happiness ‎No edit summary
12:1612:16, 9 February 2023 diff hist −13‎ A karmi tries to he happy within this material world by changing from one body to another. His objective is bodily comfort, either in this planet or in another ‎No edit summary
12:1312:13, 9 February 2023 diff hist +46‎ A devotee accepts the distress of this material world as happiness only due to the causeless mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
12:0712:07, 9 February 2023 diff hist +4,417‎ As one mistakenly considers a flower garland to be a snake or experiences happiness & distress in a dream, so, in the material world, by a lack of careful consideration, we differentiate between happiness & distress, considering one good & the other bad ‎No edit summary current
12:0512:05, 9 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ As for Prahlada Maharaja, he was not at all unhappy, for although he was in the material world, he was full of Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
12:0312:03, 9 February 2023 diff hist +6,545‎ An intelligent devotee, instead of being entangled by the happiness of this material world in the form of a beautiful wife, material opulence and children, desires to be immediately transferred back home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
12:0012:00, 9 February 2023 diff hist −12‎ Any living entity who is within this material world, they have come here with that two principles - iccha, dvesa. Iccha means they want to be happy with material enjoyment and "What is God? I am God." These two things ‎No edit summary
11:4211:42, 9 February 2023 diff hist +4,608‎ Although the material world is only a shadow of the spiritual world, the materially encaged living entities seek spiritual happiness here in a form perverted by materialistic attachment ‎No edit summary current
11:0811:08, 9 February 2023 diff hist +4,538‎ Although qualitatively one with the Lord, the living being, due to contamination of the material world, is pervertedly manifested, he experiences so-called happiness and distress in the material world ‎No edit summary current
11:0311:03, 9 February 2023 diff hist +4,361‎ All the demigods felt relieved when Hiranyakasipu was dead, for they could easily think of the Lord. They could then receive the results of sacrifices and become happy even though in the material world ‎No edit summary current
10:5510:55, 9 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ All happiness in the material world has a beginning and an end, but happiness in Krsna is unlimited, and there is no end. In order to get this happiness we simply have to sacrifice a little time and chant Hare Krsna ‎No edit summary current

16:1216:12, 8 February 2023 diff hist +7,498‎ Yayati is the son of Maharaja Nahusa, and he became the emperor of the world due to his elder brother's becoming a great and liberated saintly mystic ‎No edit summary current
16:1016:10, 8 February 2023 diff hist +6,299‎ Without hesitation, she (hunchback) caught the rear part of His cloth, began to pull it. She smiled flirtatiously & admitted that she was agitated by lusty desires. She forgot that she was on the street & before the elder brother of Krsna & His friends ‎No edit summary current
16:0916:09, 8 February 2023 diff hist +2,475‎ When Vidura was invited by his elder brother (Dhrtarastra) for consultation, he entered the house and gave instructions which were exactly to the point. His advice is well known, and instructions by Vidura are approved by expert ministers of state ‎No edit summary current
16:0716:07, 8 February 2023 diff hist +3,981‎ When Rukmini was going to be married to Sisupala by the choice of her elder brother, she wrote the above letter to Krsna requesting Him to kidnap her. This is an instance of impudence in ecstatic love for Krsna ‎No edit summary current
16:0516:05, 8 February 2023 diff hist +2,228‎ When Nabhaga went to his father and said, "My dear father, my elder brothers have given you as my share of property," the father replied, "My dear son, do not rely upon their cheating words. I am not your property ‎No edit summary current
16:0416:04, 8 February 2023 diff hist +1,545‎ When Lord Krsna appeared, He (Balarama) became His elder brother to serve Him to His heart's content and make Him enjoy all sorts of happiness ‎No edit summary current
16:0216:02, 8 February 2023 diff hist +4,912‎ When Lord Krsna, along with His elder brother Balarama and sister Subhadra, came to Kuruksetra in a chariot on the occasion of a solar eclipse, many mystic yogis also came ‎No edit summary current
15:5915:59, 8 February 2023 diff hist +2,475‎ When Krsna appears, all His plenary expansions and other incarnations appear with Him. This is elaborately explained in Caitanya-caritamrta. This time, Baladeva would appear before Krsna as Krsna's elder brother ‎No edit summary current
15:5815:58, 8 February 2023 diff hist +3,515‎ When Krishna appeared on the earth Pradyumna appeared as His son born of Rukmini. The immediate expansion of Krishna is Baladeva who appeared as elder brother of Krishna and Baladeva expands Himself further as Sankarsana, Vasudeva, Pradyumna, Aniruddha ‎No edit summary current
15:5415:54, 8 February 2023 diff hist +4,629‎ We see that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself accepted sannyasa and approved of the sannyasa of His elder brother, Visvarupa. It is clearly said here (in CC Adi 15.14), bhala haila, - visvarupa sannyasa karila pitr-kula, matr-kula, - dui uddharila ‎No edit summary
15:5215:52, 8 February 2023 diff hist +12,071‎ We have heard from our father that his elder brother in the village had a cloth shop, and there were rats... ‎No edit summary current
15:4315:43, 8 February 2023 diff hist +5,762‎ We can simply imagine how fierce the fighting was - Lord Siva with his valiant sons on one side, and Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and His elder brother, Sri Balaramaji, on the other ‎No edit summary current
15:4115:41, 8 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ Visvarupa was the elder brother of Gaurahari, Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 8 February 2023 diff hist +3,815‎ Vidura was very much attached to his elder brother (Dhrtarastra), and all along he tried to guide him on the right path ‎No edit summary current
15:3715:37, 8 February 2023 diff hist +3,654‎ Vidura was anxious to know whether, after winning back their own kingdom from the hands of Duryodhana, the younger brothers were still living happily under the care of the elder brothers ‎No edit summary
15:1815:18, 8 February 2023 diff hist +3,804‎ Vidura wanted to impress upon his elder brother that fighting with the Pandavas was fraught with many dangers because they were supported by Krsna, who had conquered, even in His childhood ‎No edit summary current
15:1615:16, 8 February 2023 diff hist +2,830‎ Vidura left the protection of his elder brother Dhrtarastra, went traveling everywhere to sacred places and met Maitreya at Hardwar ‎No edit summary current
14:5814:58, 8 February 2023 diff hist +2,910‎ Vidura did not ask about the welfare of his elder brother because there was no chance of his well-being, only news of his gliding down to hell. Vidura was a sincere well-wisher for Dhrtarastra, and he had a thought about him in the corner of his heart ‎No edit summary current
14:5714:57, 8 February 2023 diff hist +3,184‎ Vidura belonged to the royal family of the Kauravas, and although he knew that all the family members were destroyed at the Battle of Kuruksetra, he nonetheless wanted to see his elder brother, Dhrtarastra, to see if he could deliver him from maya ‎No edit summary current
14:5514:55, 8 February 2023 diff hist +5,163‎ Vidura advised his elder brother Dhrtarastra to concentrate his mind and worship only Krsna ‎No edit summary current
14:5414:54, 8 February 2023 diff hist +5,658‎ Vidura, while trying to detach his elder brother, Dhrtarastra, from his familial attachments, said, "My dear brother, you just fix your mind on the lotus feet of Krsna, who is worshiped with beautiful erudite verses by great sages and saintly persons" ‎No edit summary current
14:5314:53, 8 February 2023 diff hist +2,939‎ Vasudeva's sister Kunti was the wife of Pandu, Vidura's elder brother, and in that sense also, Vasudeva was brother-in-law to Vidura. Kunti was younger than Vasudeva, and it was the duty of the elder brother to treat younger sisters as daughters ‎No edit summary current
14:5114:51, 8 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ Upon learning that his elder brother (Sanatana) had been arrested by the Nawab, Rupa Gosvami sent information that ten thousand coins were being held in the custody of a grocer in Gauda (Bengal) and that this money could be used as ransom for his brother ‎No edit summary
14:5014:50, 8 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ Upon hearing Sanatana Gosvami, the Nawab became very angry and said, "Your elder brother lives like a hunter, and if you also retire from the administration, everything will be finished" ‎No edit summary
14:4914:49, 8 February 2023 diff hist −13‎ Unfortunately, her (Rukmini's) elder brother Rukmi was envious of Krsna and therefore wanted her to be offered to Sisupala. When Rukmini became aware of this, she was greatly aggrieved ‎No edit summary current
14:4714:47, 8 February 2023 diff hist +1,827‎ Understanding that Lord Caitanya had accepted the renounced order of life, Sacimata, crying, said to the Lord, "My darling Nimai, do not be cruel like Visvarupa, Your elder brother" ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 8 February 2023 diff hist +6,200‎ To please Rukmini, Balarama personally untied Rukmi, and to further please her, Balarama, as the elder brother of Krsna, spoke some words of chastisement. "Krsna, Your action is not at all satisfactory" ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 8 February 2023 diff hist +3,430‎ The younger brothers of Yudhisthira observed that the age of Kali had already arrived throughout the world & that the citizens of the kingdom were already affected by irreligious practice. Therefore they decided to follow their elder brother ‎No edit summary current
14:4214:42, 8 February 2023 diff hist +6,173‎ The whole catastrophe of the defeat was due to the envious nature of Rukmini's elder brother Rukmi ‎No edit summary current
14:3914:39, 8 February 2023 diff hist +1,630‎ The sons of Daksa followed their elder brothers. Not attempting to produce children, they engaged themselves in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
14:3814:38, 8 February 2023 diff hist +4,037‎ The sacrifice (undertaken by the sages of Naimisaranya) was to continue for one thousand years, and it is understood that in the beginning some of the contemporaries of Baladeva, the elder brother of Lord Krsna, also visited the sacrificial place ‎No edit summary current
12:3612:36, 8 February 2023 diff hist +5,649‎ The other gopi continued, "Here the vibration of the flute was heard, and Krsna, along with His elder brother, Sri Balarama, enjoyed the atmosphere in our company. Thus the environment of Vrndavana constantly reminds us of Krsna and Balarama" ‎No edit summary
12:3212:32, 8 February 2023 diff hist +1,320‎ The Lord said, "Now go to Vrndavana and stay there, you (Rupa Gosvami) may send here your elder brother, Sanatana" ‎No edit summary
12:3012:30, 8 February 2023 diff hist +1,565‎ The Lord continued, Your father and his elder brother are both related as brothers to My grandfather, Nilambara Cakravarti. Therefore I consider them My grandfathers ‎No edit summary current
12:2812:28, 8 February 2023 diff hist +27‎ The Lord (Caitanya) was so magnanimous that He immediately embraced Sikhi Mahiti, exclaiming - You are the elder brother of Murari! - Being thus embraced, Sikhi Mahiti felt ecstatic transcendental bliss ‎No edit summary current
12:2512:25, 8 February 2023 diff hist +3,045‎ The Kumaras are described herein (in SB 4.22.6) as the elder brothers of Lord Siva. When the Kumaras were born out of the body of Lord Brahma, they were requested to get married and increase the population ‎No edit summary current
12:1412:14, 8 February 2023 diff hist +6,380‎ The gopis said, "Now, how shall we live even for a moment if He (Krsna) goes away from us? At the end of the day, in the evening, along with His elder brother Balarama, Krsna would return home with His friends" ‎No edit summary
12:1112:11, 8 February 2023 diff hist +3,490‎ The five brothers are known in the world as regular brothers. The three elder Pandavas took care of the younger brothers, just as the eyelid takes care of the eye ‎No edit summary current
12:0912:09, 8 February 2023 diff hist +7,809‎ The fight was actually between Duryodhana and Yudhisthira. Arjuna was fighting on behalf of his elder brother, Yudhisthira. Because Krsna and Arjuna were on the side of Yudhisthira, Yudhisthira's victory was certain. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
12:0712:07, 8 February 2023 diff hist +5,701‎ The father of Dhruva Maharaja, King Uttanapada, ruled over the universe because his elder brother, Priyavrata, practiced austerity from the very beginning of his life ‎No edit summary current
12:0312:03, 8 February 2023 diff hist +2,661‎ The elder brothers of Nanda Maharaja were Upananda and Abhinanda ‎No edit summary current
12:0012:00, 8 February 2023 diff hist +5,718‎ The cuckoos there sing nicely in five kinds of tunes. Krsna, the reservoir of pleasure, blowing His flute, accompanied by His elder brother Balarama and the other cowherd boys and the cows, entered the beautiful forest of Vrndavana to enjoy the atmosphere ‎No edit summary current
11:5511:55, 8 February 2023 diff hist +9,155‎ They (the Queens) were especially surprised to see that Lord Krsna had embraced him exactly as He embraced His elder brother, Balaramaji, because Lord Krsna used to embrace only Rukmini or Balarama, and no one else ‎No edit summary
11:5311:53, 8 February 2023 diff hist +2,731‎ They (Raghunatha dasa’s father and uncle) used to call him (Nilambara Cakravarti) Dada Cakravarti, addressing him as an elder brother brahmana. Raghunatha dasa, however, was almost the same age as Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
11:5011:50, 8 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ Ten thousand coins were deposited for expenditures incurred by his (Rupa Gosvami's) elder brother, Sanatana Gosvami ‎No edit summary
11:3611:36, 8 February 2023 diff hist +17,735‎ Sri Vallabha and his elder brothers Sri Rupa and Sanatana came from Candradvipa to the village in the Maldah district of Bengal known as Ramakeli. It is in this village that Srila Jiva Gosvami took birth, accepting Vallabha as his father ‎No edit summary
11:3511:35, 8 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ Sri Ramadasa was the second son of Sivananda Sena. It is stated in the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (145) that the two famous parrots named Daksa and Vicaksana in krsna-lila became the elder brothers of Kavi-karnapura, namely Caitanya dasa and Ramadasa ‎No edit summary current
11:3311:33, 8 February 2023 diff hist +13,189‎ Sri Krsna knew that His elder brother, Lord Baladeva, was arranging her (Subhadra's) marriage elsewhere, and since He did not dare to go against the arrangement of Baladeva, He advised Arjuna to kidnap Subhadra ‎No edit summary current
11:2811:28, 8 February 2023 diff hist +2,581‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s elder brother was named Visvarupa. He left home before Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and accepted the sannyasa order under the name of Sankararanya Svami ‎No edit summary current
11:2611:26, 8 February 2023 diff hist +1,596‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "Srila Rupa Gosvami's elder brother, whose name is Sanatana Gosvami, is such a wise and learned scholar that no one is equal to him" ‎No edit summary
11:2311:23, 8 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ Sri Baladeva is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. He is equal in supremacy to the Supreme Godhead, yet wherever Krsna appears, Sri Baladeva appears as His brother, sometimes elder and sometimes younger ‎No edit summary current
11:2211:22, 8 February 2023 diff hist +2,066‎ Srila Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King, in Kimpurusa-varsa the great devotee Hanuman is always engaged with the inhabitants of that land in devotional service to Lord Ramacandra, the elder brother of Laksmana and dear husband of Sitadevi ‎No edit summary current
11:2011:20, 8 February 2023 diff hist +2,817‎ Srila Sanatana Gosvami, the elder brother of Srila Rupa Gosvami, was a most important minister in the government of Hussain Shah, the ruler of Bengal, and he was considered a most brilliant gem in that assembly ‎No edit summary
11:1811:18, 8 February 2023 diff hist +5,312‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami states that his elder brother (Sanatana Gosvami) has compiled Hari-bhakti-vilasa for the guidance of the Vaisnavas, and therein has mentioned many rules and regulations to be followed by the Vaisnavas ‎No edit summary

15:2515:25, 7 February 2023 diff hist +5,654‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami begins his great book by offering his respectful obeisances unto Sri Sanatana Gosvami, who is his elder brother and spiritual master, and he prays that Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu may be very pleasing to him ‎No edit summary
15:2315:23, 7 February 2023 diff hist +7,909‎ Somewhere Lord Krsna was found discussing the ultimate auspicious activity for the entire human society with His elder brother, Lord Balarama ‎No edit summary current
15:2115:21, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,705‎ Sometimes when Lord Krsna's elder brother, Lord Balarama, felt tired after playing and lay His head on the lap of a cowherd boy, Lord Krsna Himself served Him by massaging His feet ‎No edit summary current
15:2015:20, 7 February 2023 diff hist +3,242‎ Sisupala was selected as her (Rukmini's) bridegroom by Rukmini's elder brother, although King Bhismaka wanted his daughter to be married to Krsna. Rukmini invited Krsna to take her away from the clutches of Sisupala ‎No edit summary current
15:1815:18, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,453‎ Since your father and his elder brother are younger brothers of Nilambara Cakravarti, I may joke about them in this way ‎No edit summary current
15:1715:17, 7 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ Since I have come here I did not hear from you. Hope you are doing well with full cooperation of your elderly God brothers ‎No edit summary current
15:1315:13, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,033‎ She (Rukmini) did not want it to be at the loss of her elder brother (Rukmi), who, after all, loved his young sister and wanted to hand her over to one who, according to his own calculations, was a better man ‎No edit summary current
15:1015:10, 7 February 2023 diff hist +2,947‎ Saunaka Rsi inquired about Vidura, who was a great devotee and friend of Lord Krsna and who gave up the company of his elder brother because the latter, along with his sons, played tricks against the desires of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
15:0815:08, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,654‎ Rupa Gosvami remained in Mathura and Vrndavana for one month in the association of Subuddhi Raya. After that, he left Vrndavana to search for his elder brother, Sanatana Gosvami ‎No edit summary
15:0615:06, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,157‎ Rupa and I (Sanatana) are his (Anupama's) elder brothers. He stayed with us continuously ‎No edit summary
15:0415:04, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,438‎ Rukmi, the elder brother of Krsna's first wife, Rukmini, was greatly harassed and insulted in his fight with Krsna, but on the request of Rukmini his life was spared. Since then Rukmi held a great grudge against Krsna and was always inimical toward Him ‎No edit summary current
14:5914:59, 7 February 2023 diff hist +4,819‎ O my (Vasudeva) Lord (Krsna), Lord of the demigods, after hearing the prophecy that You would take birth in our (Vasudeva's and Devaki's) home and kill him, this uncivilized Kamsa killed so many of Your elder brothers - SB 10.3.22 ‎No edit summary current
14:5614:56, 7 February 2023 diff hist +5,739‎ On hearing this, the S P of Godhead, Krsna, replied, “Akrura, I shall surely come to your home with My elder brother, Balarama, but only after killing all the demons who are envious of the Yadu dynasty. In this way I shall please all My relatives ‎No edit summary current
14:5414:54, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,856‎ Only for the sake of living in the heavenly planets, you killed my elder brother - a self-realized, sinless, qualified brahmana who had been appointed your chief priest ‎No edit summary current
14:5314:53, 7 February 2023 diff hist +2,188‎ One cannot enjoy sovereignty or perform an agnihotra-yajna in the presence of one's elder brother, or else one becomes a usurper, known as parivetta ‎No edit summary current
14:5114:51, 7 February 2023 diff hist +7,290‎ Once when Krsna came before Lord Balarama, He was anxious to offer His respects to His elder brother, but at that time Balarama's club was lowered down upon Krsna's lotus feet ‎No edit summary current
14:4114:41, 7 February 2023 diff hist +2,378‎ Once, when there was no rainfall in the kingdom for twelve years and the King consulted his learned brahminical advisors, they said, "You are faulty for enjoying the property of your elder brother" ‎No edit summary current
14:3714:37, 7 February 2023 diff hist +4,563‎ Once, when He (Lord Krsna) was engaged in tending the calves in the forest along with His elder brother, Balarama, a demon named Bakasura appeared, and Krsna at once bifurcated the demon's beak ‎No edit summary current
14:3614:36, 7 February 2023 diff hist +7,619‎ Observing the inauspicious signs, the cowherd men, including Maharaja Nanda, became very anxious out of fear. At the same time they were informed that Krsna had gone to the pasturing ground without His elder brother, Balarama ‎No edit summary current
14:2814:28, 7 February 2023 diff hist +4,880‎ Nidhipati Pippalai tried his best to bring his elder brother home, but he would not return. Under these circumstances, Nidhipati Pippalai, with all his family members, came to Mahesa to reside ‎No edit summary current
14:2214:22, 7 February 2023 diff hist +2,156‎ Nabhaga inquired, "My dear brothers, what have you given to me as my share of our father's property?" His elder brothers answered, "We have kept our father as your share" ‎No edit summary current
14:2014:20, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,368‎ My elder brother, Visvarupa, has taken sannyasa and gone to South India. Now I must go search for Him ‎No edit summary current
14:1714:17, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,254‎ My dear sir, my father and his elder brother are your brothers. All brothers always fight about something ‎No edit summary current
14:1614:16, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,828‎ My dear Raghunatha dasa, your father and his elder brother are just like worms in stool in the ditch of material enjoyment, for the great disease of the poison of material enjoyment is what they consider happiness ‎No edit summary current
14:1414:14, 7 February 2023 diff hist +2,528‎ My (Krsna's) elder brother, Balarama, has joined them (in plotting complain against Krsna). Actually, I have not done this (eating dirt). Take My words as true. Do not be angry and chastise Me ‎No edit summary current
14:1214:12, 7 February 2023 diff hist +2,260‎ May Parasurama protect me on the tops of mountains, and may the elder brother of Bharata, Lord Ramacandra, along with His brother Laksmana, protect me in foreign countries ‎No edit summary
14:0914:09, 7 February 2023 diff hist +27‎ Lord Sri Krsna, along with His elder brother, Sri Baladeva, and other cowherd boys of the vicinity, entered the beautiful forest, accompanied by the cows, to display transcendental pastimes with His eternal friends ‎No edit summary current
14:0714:07, 7 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ Lord Krsna also had many uncles. As stated by Srila Rupa Gosvami in his Brhat Sri Sri Radha-krsna-ganoddesa-dipika (32), upanando ‘bhinandas ca pitrvyau purva-jau pituh: The elder brothers of Nanda Maharaja were Upananda and Abhinanda ‎No edit summary
14:0614:06, 7 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ Lord Krsna, along with His elder brother, Lord Baladeva, lived at Vrndavana in this auspicious (rainy) season ‎No edit summary current
14:0514:05, 7 February 2023 diff hist +3,614‎ Lord Krsna's gentle behavior before His so-called superiors such as His father, grandfather and elder brother, His amiable behavior with His so-called wives, friends and contemporaries, His behavior as a child before His mother Yasoda ‎No edit summary current
14:0314:03, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,139‎ Krsna was always very silent about His love affairs with Radharani, so much so that Baladeva, Krsna's elder brother and constant companion, could not understand the transformations of Krsna on account of His gravity ‎No edit summary current
14:0114:01, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,632‎ Krsna spoke to His elder brother Balarama as follows, "My dear brother, You are superior to all of us, and Your lotus feet are worshiped by the demigods. Just see how these trees, full with fruits and flowers, have bent down to worship Your lotus feet" ‎No edit summary current
12:1212:12, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,677‎ Krsna saw the two chariots present before Him and immediately addressed His elder brother, Balarama, who is also known as Sankarsana ‎No edit summary current
12:1112:11, 7 February 2023 diff hist +4,480‎ Krsna said, "Therefore I think your mothers, your fathers, your elder brothers and even your sons, and what to speak of your husbands, must be very anxious to find you" ‎No edit summary current
12:0912:09, 7 February 2023 diff hist +7,204‎ Krsna said, "As they were washing My cheeks, My dear elder brother, for at least one moment I completely lost Myself" ‎No edit summary current
12:0712:07, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,222‎ Krsna replied, "My elder brother, Balarama, while playing with Me today, became angry, and therefore He has joined with the other boys to complain against Me. They have all combined together to complain so you will be angry and chastise Me" ‎No edit summary
12:0512:05, 7 February 2023 diff hist +3,938‎ Krsna first of all offered respect to His spiritual master, then to His father and then to His elder brother, Balarama. In this way Lord Krsna, the lotus-eyed, was completely happy and pure at heart in all of His dealings ‎No edit summary current
12:0412:04, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,315‎ Krsna continued, "While I was kidnapping you (Rukmini), your elder brother Rukmi violently protested and fought with Me. As a result of the fight, I defeated him mercilessly and disfigured his body" ‎No edit summary current
12:0212:02, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,790‎ Krsna continued, "There is one difficulty, and that is that My elder brother, Sri Balarama, does not believe My version that the jewel is with you (Akrura)" ‎No edit summary current
12:0112:01, 7 February 2023 diff hist +5,642‎ Krsna continued, "My dear beautiful princess, you (Rukmini) know that all the members of the princely order, including Sisupala, Salva, Jarasandha, Dantavakra and even your elder brother Rukmi, are My enemies; they do not like Me at all" ‎No edit summary current
11:5611:56, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,551‎ Krsna continued, "I can understand that the marriage of Rukmini with Sisupala has been arranged by her elder brother in a spirit of animosity toward Me; so I am determined to give a good lesson to all of these princes" ‎No edit summary current
11:5511:55, 7 February 2023 diff hist +7,768‎ Krsna appeared along with Balarama (Baladeva), who is known as His elder brother. Balarama is the origin of Sankarsana, of the quadruple expansion. Balarama is also the plenary expansion of Krsna ‎No edit summary
11:5111:51, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,620‎ Krsna addressed Balarama, "My dear elder brother, best among the Aryans, You are the Lord of the universe, and, specifically, You are the protector of the Yadu dynasty" ‎No edit summary current
11:5011:50, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,692‎ King Yayati then requested Puru, who was younger than these three brothers but more qualified, "My dear son, do not be disobedient like your elder brothers, for that is not your duty" ‎No edit summary current
11:4611:46, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,586‎ Kamsa had eight brothers, headed by Kanka, all of them younger than he, and when they learned that their elder brother had been killed, they combined together and rushed toward Krsna in great anger to kill Him ‎No edit summary current
11:4111:41, 7 February 2023 diff hist +2,814‎ Jambavati inquired, "Who is this person who has come with the demigods and is laughing with them?" Kalindi replied, "He is my elder brother, Yamaraja, the superintendent of death" ‎No edit summary current
11:1011:10, 7 February 2023 diff hist +5,245‎ I understand that You (Krsna) have appeared in order to kill the uncivilized Kamsa and his followers. But knowing that You were to appear in order to kill him and his followers, he has already killed so many of Your predecessors, Your elder brothers ‎No edit summary current
11:0611:06, 7 February 2023 diff hist −13‎ I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Srila Rupa Gosvami along with his elder brother Sanatana Gosvami, as well as Raghunatha Dasa and Raghunatha Bhatta, Gopala Bhatta, and Srila Jiva Gosvami. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary
11:0211:02, 7 February 2023 diff hist +3,469‎ I hope you will read our books attentively and you should ask guidance in understanding Krsna Consciousness from your elder God-brothers ‎No edit summary current
11:0011:00, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,299‎ It was an open secret that Rukmini was meant to be married to Krsna but that her elder brother Rukmi had arranged her marriage to Sisupala ‎No edit summary current
10:5810:58, 7 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ It is said that Sankararanya was the sannyasa name of Srila Visvarupa, who was the elder brother of Visvambhara - the original name of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
10:5510:55, 7 February 2023 diff hist +3,300‎ In Vrndavana You also have Your father's elder brothers, Your father's younger brothers, maternal uncles, husbands of Your father's sisters and many cowherd men. There are also cowherd boyfriends, and You eat twice a day, morning and evening ‎No edit summary current
10:5310:53, 7 February 2023 diff hist +5,768‎ In this way Sri Krsna, along with His elder brother Balarama, passed the childhood age known as kaumara and stepped into the age of pauganda, from the sixth year up to the tenth ‎No edit summary current
10:5210:52, 7 February 2023 diff hist +4,393‎ In this second division of Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu the author offers his respectful obeisances unto "Sanatana." This Sanatana can be interpreted as either Sri Krsna Himself or as Sanatana Gosvami, the elder brother and spiritual master of Rupa Gosvami ‎No edit summary
10:5010:50, 7 February 2023 diff hist +7,489‎ In the presence of all the damsels of Vraja, He presented the valuable jewel (resembling a conchshell) to His elder brother, Balarama ‎No edit summary current
10:4810:48, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,147‎ In plain words she (hunchback woman) proposed that Krsna come to her home and satisfy her lusty desires. Krsna, of course, felt a little bit embarrassed in front of His elder brother, Balarama, but He knew that the girl was simple and attracted ‎No edit summary current
10:3410:34, 7 February 2023 diff hist +2,032‎ In Kimpurusa-varsa the great devotee Hanuman is always engaged with the inhabitants of that land in devotional service to Lord Ramacandra, the elder brother of Laksmana and dear husband of Sitadevi ‎No edit summary current
10:3110:31, 7 February 2023 diff hist +3,350‎ If SubalaVilasa wants to marry that African girl, I have no objection but whether she wants to marry him? Also, take the consent of her parents and elder brothers ‎No edit summary current
10:2810:28, 7 February 2023 diff hist +2,133‎ If I, Lord Brahma, and your elder brothers, the great saints and sages, cannot understand the limits of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is full of various energies, who else can understand them ‎No edit summary current
10:2110:21, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,564‎ He said, "Your father's elder brother is less intelligent. He enjoys 800,000 coins, but since I am also a shareholder, he should give some portion of it to me ‎No edit summary current
10:2010:20, 7 February 2023 diff hist −13‎ He (Yayati) is the son of Maharaja Nabusa, and he became the emperor of the world due to his elder brother's becoming a great and liberated saintly mystic ‎No edit summary current
10:1810:18, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,897‎ He (Vrtrasura's elder brother) was your (Indra's) spiritual master, but although you entrusted him with the performance of your sacrifice, you later mercilessly severed his heads from his body the way one butchers an animal ‎No edit summary current
10:1210:12, 7 February 2023 diff hist +6,103‎ He (Vidura) always criticized his elder brother for his policy of encouragement to his sons, and at the same time he was always alert in giving special protection to the Pandavas ‎No edit summary current
10:1110:11, 7 February 2023 diff hist +4,240‎ He (Vidura) accepted out of his own mercy what was offered to him by Maharaja Yudhisthira, but the purpose of living in the palace was to deliver his elder brother, Dhrtarastra, who was too much materially attached ‎No edit summary current
10:0910:09, 7 February 2023 diff hist +3,791‎ He (Krsna) lived there for eleven years and completed all His fascinating pastimes of childhood, boyhood and adolescence with His elder brother, Lord Baladeva, His first expansion ‎No edit summary
10:0610:06, 7 February 2023 diff hist +7,992‎ He (Devala) met Maharaja Yudhisthira after the Battle of Kuruksetra, and he was the elder brother of Dhaumya, the priest of the Pandava family ‎No edit summary current
10:0410:04, 7 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ He (Caitanya's elder brother Visvarupa) traveled all over the country and finally went to Pandarapura, where He passed away after attaining perfection ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 7 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ Here (in CC Madhya 11.146) the Lord is addressing Damodara Pandita, who is different from Svarupa Damodara. Damodara Pandita is the elder brother of Sankara ‎No edit summary
09:5709:57, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,654‎ For the pastimes of the Ratha-yatra ceremony, Lord Jagannatha got aboard one car, and His sister, Subhadra, and elder brother, Balarama, got aboard two other cars ‎No edit summary current
09:4309:43, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,396‎ Footsteps of his elder brothers ‎No edit summary current
09:4109:41, 7 February 2023 diff hist +1,467‎ Every day, the Muslim would chastise Raghunatha dasa and tell him, "Bring your father and his elder brother. Otherwise you will be punished" ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 7 February 2023 diff hist +4,993‎ Even Balarama, the elder brother of Krsna, sometimes unknowingly offered respect to Him ‎No edit summary current
09:3809:38, 7 February 2023 diff hist +3,920‎ Duty of the elder brother ‎No edit summary current
09:3609:36, 7 February 2023 diff hist +4,560‎ During the fratricidal war of Kuruksetra, Vidura repeatedly implored his elder brother to do justice to the sons of Pandu, but Duryodhana did not like such interference by his uncle, and thus he practically insulted Vidura ‎No edit summary current

16:0716:07, 6 February 2023 diff hist +8,110‎ Devala met Maharaja Yudhisthira after the Battle of Kuruksetra, and he was the elder brother of Dhaumya, the priest of the Pandava family ‎No edit summary current
16:0516:05, 6 February 2023 diff hist +8‎ Dear Krsna, why are You so restless that You have eaten dirt in a solitary place? This complaint has been lodged against You by all Your playmates, including Your elder brother, Balarama. How is this - SB 10.8.34 ‎No edit summary current
16:0316:03, 6 February 2023 diff hist +5,911‎ Canura continued, "Because of Your Krsna's) strength, it behooves You to compete with the strongest wrestlers amongst us. I therefore wish to wrestle with You, and Your elder brother, Balarama, will wrestle with Mustika" ‎No edit summary current
16:0016:00, 6 February 2023 diff hist +1,513‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu used to address Nityananda Prabhu as His elder brother, whereas Nityananda Prabhu addressed Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as His Lord ‎No edit summary current
15:5915:59, 6 February 2023 diff hist +1,387‎ By killing many living entities, your elder brother has destroyed all Bengal. Now here you are destroying all my plans ‎No edit summary current
15:5515:55, 6 February 2023 diff hist +1,374‎ Becoming angry with Sanatana Gosvami, the Nawab said, "Your elder brother is acting just like a plunderer" ‎No edit summary
15:4915:49, 6 February 2023 diff hist +9,353‎ Balarama and Baladeva are different names for the same expansion of Krsna. He is Krsna's elder brother ‎No edit summary
15:4715:47, 6 February 2023 diff hist +4,030‎ Baladeva, or Balarama, is the elder brother of Krsna. He is an expansion of the Godhead Himself, and therefore to be considered and incarnation of God, as explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
15:4615:46, 6 February 2023 diff hist +4,572‎ A small child, when he begins to walk, he requires the help of his elder brother or sister or father or mother to catch, and one step, one step, one step, one step... But when he begins to walk independently, then he doesn't require any help ‎No edit summary
15:4415:44, 6 February 2023 diff hist +3,132‎ A small child, he knows that "I shall become like my elder brother. I shall get this body, next body." And these people, they cannot understand that there is next body. That means their civilization is less than a child's civilization ‎No edit summary
15:4015:40, 6 February 2023 diff hist −13‎ A brother aware of the principles of religion follows in the footsteps of his elder brothers. Because of being highly elevated, such a pious brother gets the opportunity to associate and enjoy with demigods like the Maruts ‎No edit summary current
15:3615:36, 6 February 2023 diff hist +3,932‎ At the time of Aniruddha's marriage, when we were all playing chess, there was another fight with your brother Rukmi on a controversial verbal point, and My elder brother, Balarama, finally killed him ‎No edit summary current
15:3215:32, 6 February 2023 diff hist +7,948‎ Arjuna was fighting on behalf of his elder brother, Yudhisthira. Because Krsna and Arjuna were on the side of Yudhisthira, Yudhisthira's victory was certain ‎No edit summary current
15:3115:31, 6 February 2023 diff hist +4,043‎ Arjuna is referred to as Dhananjaya in this verse (BG 1.15) because he helped his elder brother in fetching wealth when it was required by the king to make expenditures for different sacrifices. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 6 February 2023 diff hist +4,002‎ Although Vidura did not inherit the property of his father (the brother of Bhismadeva), still he was given sufficient state property by Dhrtarastra, the elder brother of Vidura ‎No edit summary current
15:2715:27, 6 February 2023 diff hist +5,949‎ Although Santanu, being younger, was not eligible to occupy the throne, he disregarded his elder brother (Devapi). Consequently, there was no rainfall for twelve years ‎No edit summary current
15:2515:25, 6 February 2023 diff hist +3,512‎ Although Lord Baladeva appeared before the birth of Lord Krsna and is therefore Krsna's worshipable elder brother, He used to act as Krsna's eternal servitor ‎No edit summary current
15:2415:24, 6 February 2023 diff hist +6,064‎ All their (the gopis) guardians forbade them to go to Krsna, but they disregarded them. Being young girls, they were protected either by husbands, elder brothers or fathers ‎No edit summary current
15:2215:22, 6 February 2023 diff hist +6,360‎ All of the relatives of King Bhismaka decided that Rukmini should be given in marriage to Krsna. But her elder brother Rukmi, despite the desire of the others, arranged for her marriage with Sisupala ‎No edit summary current
15:2015:20, 6 February 2023 diff hist +5,144‎ Akrura continued, "I am Your surrendered servant. Please do not try to avoid me. Please, come along with me, with Your elder brother (Balarama) and cowherd boyfriends, and sanctify my house" ‎No edit summary current
15:1715:17, 6 February 2023 diff hist +6,172‎ After this incident ( Vidyadhara's deliverance), on a very pleasant night Krsna and His elder brother, Balarama, who are inconceivably powerful, went into the forest of Vrndavana ‎No edit summary current
13:5213:52, 6 February 2023 diff hist +3,294‎ While passing over the mountainous region from Mexico to Caracas, we actually saw so many mountains that we doubt whether their height, length and breadth have been properly measured ‎No edit summary current
13:4713:47, 6 February 2023 diff hist +2,164‎ The width and height of all these mountains is 2,000 yojanas (16,000 miles). Sumeru, a mountain of solid gold shining as brilliantly as fire, is surrounded by these eight mountains ‎No edit summary current
13:4613:46, 6 February 2023 diff hist +2,223‎ Sumeru Mountain is like the pericarp of the lotuslike Bhu-mandala planetary system. The mountain's height is the same as the width of Jambudvipa - or, in other words, 100,000 yojanas (800,000 miles) ‎No edit summary current
13:4413:44, 6 February 2023 diff hist +2,447‎ Standing like flagstaffs on the summits of these four mountains are a mango tree, a rose apple tree, a kadamba tree and a banyan tree. Those trees are calculated to have a width of 100 yojanas (800 miles) and a height of 1,100 yojanas (8,800 miles) ‎No edit summary current
13:4113:41, 6 February 2023 diff hist +2,294‎ On the four sides of the great mountain known as Sumeru are four mountains-Mandara, Merumandara, Suparsva and Kumuda - which are like its belts. The length and height of these mountains are calculated to be 10,000 yojanas (80,000 miles) ‎No edit summary current
13:3913:39, 6 February 2023 diff hist +4,852‎ One of the cowherd boys said, "Its (the snake's) mouth appears to be like a big mountain cave, and its height cannot be estimated. The chin is also raised just like a mountain summit" ‎No edit summary current
13:3613:36, 6 February 2023 diff hist +2,202‎ Of that, 16,000 yojanas (128,000 miles) are within the earth, and therefore the mountain's height above the earth is 84,000 yojanas (672,000 miles). The mountain's width is 32,000 yojanas (256,000 miles) at its summit and 16,000 yojanas at its base ‎No edit summary current
13:3413:34, 6 February 2023 diff hist +2,839‎ Lengthwise, they extend east and west to the beaches of the ocean of salt water. Going from south to north, the length of each mountain is one tenth that of the previous mountain, but the height of them all is the same ‎No edit summary current
13:3013:30, 6 February 2023 diff hist +5,396‎ Kimpurusa-varsa is situated north of the great Himalaya Mountain, which is eighty thousand miles in length and height and which covers sixteen thousand miles in width. These parts of the world were also conquered by Arjuna ‎No edit summary
12:0712:07, 6 February 2023 diff hist +2,576‎ In the middle of that island is a great mountain named Manasottara, which forms the boundary between the inner side and the outer side of the island. Its breadth and height are 10,000 yojanas (80,000 miles) ‎No edit summary current
11:5111:51, 6 February 2023 diff hist +1,413‎ You are the most neutral among My associates. This is very good, for without being neutral one cannot protect religious principles ‎No edit summary current
11:4911:49, 6 February 2023 diff hist +9,644‎ Without being neutral one cannot protect religious principles ‎No edit summary current
11:4411:44, 6 February 2023 diff hist +5,178‎ The Lord is the personality of religious principles. In three millenniums religious principles are protected by three kinds of spiritual culture, namely austerity, cleanliness and mercy. The Lord is called tri-yuga in that way also ‎No edit summary current
11:4111:41, 6 February 2023 diff hist +1,886‎ The elderly brahmana prayed, "My dear Lord Gopala, I have taken shelter of Your lotus feet, and therefore I request You to please protect my religious principles from disturbance and at the same time save my kinsmen from dying" ‎No edit summary current
11:4011:40, 6 February 2023 diff hist +3,451‎ Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: O King, for the sake of protecting the cows, brahmanas, demigods, devotees, the Vedic literature, religious principles, and principles to fulfill the purpose of life, the SPG accepts the forms of incarnations ‎No edit summary current
11:3311:33, 6 February 2023 diff hist +2,717‎ One must protect his body by all means; then he may protect his religious principles and thereafter his possessions. This is the natural desire of all living entities. No one wants to give up his body unless it is forcibly given away ‎No edit summary current
11:2911:29, 6 February 2023 diff hist +42,424‎ O Dharma, protector of religious principles, all noble and sublime qualities are eternally manifested in the person of Krsna, & devotees & transcendentalists who aspire to become faithful also desire to possess such transcendental qualities - SB 1.16.29 ‎No edit summary current
11:1311:13, 6 February 2023 diff hist +2,345‎ Now that Sri Krsna, the Absolute Truth, the master of all mystic powers, has departed for His own abode, please tell us by whom religious principles are presently protected ‎No edit summary current
11:0911:09, 6 February 2023 diff hist +4,817‎ May Kalkideva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who appeared as an incarnation to protect religious principles, protect me from the dirt of the age of Kali ‎No edit summary current
11:0411:04, 6 February 2023 diff hist +5,047‎ In three millenniums religious principles are protected by three kinds of spiritual culture, namely austerity, cleanliness and mercy ‎No edit summary current
11:0211:02, 6 February 2023 diff hist +1,787‎ He said, "My Lord, You are the protector of brahminical culture, and You are also very merciful. Therefore, kindly show Your great mercy by protecting the religious principles of us two brahmanas" ‎No edit summary
10:5910:59, 6 February 2023 diff hist +3,653‎ From the Lord's personal activities, human society should learn how to give protection specifically to the brahmanas and cows. Then the protection of religious principles, fulfillment of the aim of life and protection of Vedic knowledge can be achieved ‎No edit summary current
10:5710:57, 6 February 2023 diff hist +4,132‎ Dhruva Maharaja was endowed with all godly qualities; he was very respectful to the devotees of the Supreme Lord and very kind to the poor and innocent, and he protected religious principles ‎No edit summary current
10:5510:55, 6 February 2023 diff hist +14‎ As stated in Bhagavad-gita, whenever there is a discrepancy in the discharge of religious principles, the Lord descends on the surface of the earth to protect religious principles and to annihilate the miscreant ‎No edit summary current
10:4710:47, 6 February 2023 diff hist +5,966‎ Thousands of years ago there was no bar to learning or preaching the transcendental science because of inferior birth. The rigidity of the so-called caste system in Hindu society became prominent within only one hundred years or so ‎No edit summary current
10:4310:43, 6 February 2023 diff hist +6‎ The rigidity of the so-called caste system in Hindu society became prominent within only one hundred years or so when the number of dvija-bandhus, or disqualified men in the families of higher castes, increased ‎No edit summary current
10:3910:39, 6 February 2023 diff hist +7,059‎ The Lord is worshiped as brahmanya-deva. The Lord is very fond of devotees, or brahmanas. This does not refer to so-called caste brahmanas, but to qualified brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
10:3810:38, 6 February 2023 diff hist +7,035‎ The Lord is very fond of devotees, or brahmanas. This does not refer to so-called caste brahmanas, but to qualified brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
10:3610:36, 6 February 2023 diff hist +5,565‎ The European and American devotees in the Krsna consciousness movement are sometimes accepted as brahmanas, but the so-called caste brahmanas are very much envious of them ‎No edit summary
10:3410:34, 6 February 2023 diff hist +9,464‎ System of four social divisions, according to quality and work, is ordained by Me." But the difficulty is that this so-called caste system has come in, on account of the false notion that in order to be a brahmana, one must be the son of a brahmana ‎No edit summary current
10:3210:32, 6 February 2023 diff hist +2,785‎ Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura remarks that although the brahmana (who cooked for Lord Caitanya) did not belong to a superior community, he fearlessly chastised so-called caste brahmanas because he was situated on the platform of pure ds ‎No edit summary current
10:3010:30, 6 February 2023 diff hist +5,143‎ So-called caste systems and national divisions are artificial. According to our Vaisnava philosophy, these are all external bodily designations ‎No edit summary current
10:2610:26, 6 February 2023 diff hist +5,285‎ In this age there are many so-called caste brahmanas and caste Gosvamis who, taking advantage of the sastra and of the innocence of people in general, claim to be brahmanas and Vaisnavas by hereditary right ‎No edit summary current
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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