User contributions for Madana Mohana

17 August 2023

• 13:3313:33, 17 August 2023 diff hist +4,484‎ To become angry in such a grave situation was not unnatural for the King (Maharaja Pariksit), but because the King himself was not less than a great saint, his becoming angry and taking action were astonishing ‎No edit summary
• 13:3213:32, 17 August 2023 diff hist +2,951‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said: O Maharaja Pariksit, descendant of Maharaja Bharata, I shall now describe the dynasty of Puru, in which you were born, in which many saintly kings appeared, and from which many dynasties of brahmanas began ‎No edit summary
• 13:3013:30, 17 August 2023 diff hist +4,159‎ Such was the case with other rajarsis (saintly kings), like Maharaja Yudhisthira and Maharaja Pariksit. They were all exemplary personalities on account of their being alert in discharging their prime duty ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2813:28, 17 August 2023 diff hist +3,535‎ O Your Majesty, best of all saintly kings, because you (King Pariksit) are greatly attracted to topics of Vasudeva, it is certain that your intelligence is firmly fixed in spiritual understanding, which is the only true goal for humanity - SB 10.1.15 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2713:27, 17 August 2023 diff hist +3,135‎ O saintly King (Pariksit), I (Sukadeva Gosvami) was certainly situated perfectly in transcendence, yet I was still attracted by the delineation of the pastimes of the Lord, who is described by enlightened verses ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 17 August 2023 diff hist +3,411‎ Maharaja Pariksit was rajarsi-sattama, the best of all saintly kings, and Sukadeva Gosvami was muni-sattama, the best of munis. Both of them were elevated because of their common interest in krsna-katha ‎No edit summary
• 13:2113:21, 17 August 2023 diff hist +21,971‎ Formerly the kings (rajas) were great saintly persons. They were not ordinary people engaged in drinking and dancing. They were all rsis (sages), up to the time of Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 17 August 2023 diff hist +7,096‎ Although they were in royal order, they were very saintly persons. There are many examples, just like Maharaja Yudhisthira, Maharaja Pariksit. They were emperor of the world, but still, so pious, so religious, and so advanced in transcendent knowledge ‎No edit summary

16 August 2023

• 14:5614:56, 16 August 2023 diff hist +3,231‎ The little brahmana wanted to show his prowess in destruction, and he had the audacity to punish such a great king as Maharaja Pariksit. He wanted to take the place of Lord Krsna after His departure ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5514:55, 16 August 2023 diff hist +5,373‎ The great yogi Durvasa, under the influence of this Rudra principle (the Rudra principle of anger and passion), picked a quarrel with Maharaja Ambarisa, and a brahmana boy exhibited the Rudra principle by cursing the great King Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5414:54, 16 August 2023 diff hist +5,176‎ The great yogi Durvasa, under the influence of this Rudra (anger) principle, picked a quarrel with Maharaja Ambarisa, and a brahmana boy exhibited the Rudra principle by cursing the great King Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5114:51, 16 August 2023 diff hist +3,870‎ Sukadeva Gosvami, the son of Vyasadeva, in his turn delivered the Bhagavatam to the great Emperor Pariksit, who sat surrounded by sages on the bank of the Ganges, awaiting death without taking food or drink ‎No edit summary
• 14:4714:47, 16 August 2023 diff hist +9,494‎ Pariksit Maharaja was a great king, emperor of the world, very pious devotee, all qualified. So sometimes he went to the forest for hunting. The hunting is allowed to the Ksatriyas, kings, royals ‎No edit summary
• 14:4514:45, 16 August 2023 diff hist +7,258‎ One must follow in the footsteps of great kings like Maharaja Ambarisa or Maharaja Pariksit and hear it (Srimad-Bhagavatam) from a bona fide representative of Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary
• 14:4014:40, 16 August 2023 diff hist +6,422‎ It is the duty of a transcendentalist to help persons who desire real salvation and to support the cause of salvation. One might note that Sukadeva Gosvami never met Maharaja Pariksit while he was ruling as a great king ‎No edit summary
• 14:2814:28, 16 August 2023 diff hist +13,247‎ First he (Sukadeva Gosvami) explained it before Maharaja Pariksit, the great king. A short history of Maharaja Pariksit is that he was a very pious king, but unfortunately by some of his acts he was cursed by a brahmana boy to die within seven days ‎No edit summary
• 14:2714:27, 16 August 2023 diff hist +4,680‎ Both of them were on the same level, although it appeared that Maharaja Pariksit was a great king accustomed to royal facilities whereas Sukadeva Gosvami was a typical renouncer of the world, so much so that he did not even put a cloth on his body ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2614:26, 16 August 2023 diff hist +6,176‎ A child of a Brahmin, a son of a Brahmin, was so powerful that he could curse a great king like Maharaja Pariksit that "You have insulted my father. So that snake will bite you within seven days, and you will die." This was the version ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1714:17, 16 August 2023 diff hist +2,557‎ Maharaja Pariksit, although born in a family of great devotees, the Pandavas, and although securely trained in transcendental attachment for the association of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1514:15, 16 August 2023 diff hist +3,675‎ How was the great emperor Pariksit, who was a highly intelligent and great devotee, born in that womb? How did his death take place, and what did he achieve after his death? ‎No edit summary
• 14:1214:12, 16 August 2023 diff hist +3,637‎ He (Yudhisthira) was happy to learn from the learned brahmanas that by astrological calculations the child (Pariksit) would be born a first-grade devotee of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1114:11, 16 August 2023 diff hist +4,641‎ He (Maharaja Pariksit) was born in a family of such devotees as the Pandavas, and just to continue the dynasty and show them special favor, the Lord specifically saved Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0914:09, 16 August 2023 diff hist +5,995‎ From Abhimanyu, Maharaja Pariksit was born, and Maharaja Pariksit had four sons - Janamejaya, Srutasena, Bhimasena and Ugrasena ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0714:07, 16 August 2023 diff hist +4,339‎ By way of being born in a family of devotees, he (Maharaja Pariksit) automatically came in touch with Krsna, and after being so contacted he constantly remembered Him ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 16 August 2023 diff hist +6,996‎ While Sukadeva Gosvami was narrating the history of Vrkasura, he addressed Maharaja Pariksit as Bharata, referring to King Pariksit’s birth in a family of devotees ‎No edit summary
• 14:0314:03, 16 August 2023 diff hist +3,240‎ The sages assembled in the forest of Naimisaranya inquired from Suta Gosvami about the birth of Maharaja Pariksit, but in the course of the narration other topics like the release of the brahmastra by the son of Drona were narrated ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0214:02, 16 August 2023 diff hist +3,288‎ The sages assembled in the forest of Naimisaranya inquired from Suta Gosvami about the birth of Maharaja Pariksit, but in the course of the narration other topics like the Pandavas' visit to the place where Bhismadeva was lying were narrated ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0114:01, 16 August 2023 diff hist +3,278‎ The sages assembled in the forest of Naimisaranya inquired from Suta Gosvami about the birth of Maharaja Pariksit, but in the course of the narration other topics like his (Drona's) punishment by Arjuna and Queen Kuntidevi's prayers were narrated ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5413:54, 16 August 2023 diff hist +3,343‎ The sages assembled in the forest of Naimisaranya inquired from Suta Gosvami about the birth of Maharaja Pariksit, but in the course of the narration other topics like Bhismadeva's prayers and thereafter the Lord's departure for Dvaraka were discussed ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 16 August 2023 diff hist +5,010‎ Thereupon, when all the good signs of the zodiac gradually evolved, the heir apparent of Pandu (Pariksit), who would be exactly like him in prowess, took birth ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4713:47, 16 August 2023 diff hist +2,549‎ Suta Gosvami was equally anxious to describe Maharaja Pariksit's wonderful birth and death, and this verse is stated by Suta Gosvami to increase the interest of the sages of Naimisaranya ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4613:46, 16 August 2023 diff hist +4,178‎ Suta Gosvami said: Now I shall begin the transcendental narration of the Lord Krsna & topics of the birth, activities & deliverance of King Pariksit, the sage amongst kings, as well as topics of the renunciation of the worldly order by the sons of Pandu ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4213:42, 16 August 2023 diff hist +12,998‎ Subhadra was duly married with Arjuna, and Abhimanyu was born of Subhadra. At the premature death of Abhimanyu, Subhadra was very mortified, but on the birth of Pariksit she was happy and solaced ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3213:32, 16 August 2023 diff hist +4,560‎ So his son would become famous in the world as Pariksit (examiner) because he would come to examine all human beings in his search after that personality whom he saw before his birth. Thus he would come to constantly contemplate Him ‎No edit summary
• 13:2913:29, 16 August 2023 diff hist +5,224‎ Maharaja Pariksit was not only a great ksatriya emperor, but also a great devotee of the Lord. Thus he cannot take his birth at any inauspicious moment ‎No edit summary
• 13:2713:27, 16 August 2023 diff hist +5,265‎ Maharaja Pariksit was more than that because he had been a great devotee of the Lord since his previous birth, and as such he took his birth in an imperial family of the Kurus, and especially that of the Pandavas ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2613:26, 16 August 2023 diff hist +3,989‎ Maharaja Pariksit was a great devotee of the Lord from his very birth, and so was Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary
• 13:2513:25, 16 August 2023 diff hist +4,019‎ Maharaja Pariksit was already aware of all this information due to his accumulated piety and birth in a high family of devotees, Vaisnavas, and thus he was not at all interested in the material planets ‎No edit summary
• 13:2413:24, 16 August 2023 diff hist +4,922‎ Maharaja Pariksit then began to rule over the world as a great devotee of the Lord under the instructions of the best of the twice-born brahmanas. He ruled by those great qualities which were foretold by expert astrologers at the time of his birth ‎No edit summary
• 13:2213:22, 16 August 2023 diff hist +5,729‎ King Yudhisthira, who was very satisfied with the birth of Maharaja Pariksit, had the purificatory process of birth performed. Learned brahmanas, headed by Dhaumya and Krpa, recited auspicious hymns ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2113:21, 16 August 2023 diff hist +2,511‎ It is said that Maharaja Pariksit is a great first-class devotee of the Lord and that his birth and activities are all wonderful. Please tell us about him ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 16 August 2023 diff hist +30‎ He (Pariksit) is addressed herein as the maha-bhagavata, or the greatest of the fortunates because he took his birth in the family of Maharaja Yudhisthira ‎No edit summary
• 13:1913:19, 16 August 2023 diff hist +4,952‎ He (Maharaja Pariksit) took his birth just to be known as the great hero of Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1713:17, 16 August 2023 diff hist +5,092‎ Expert jataka-vipras (good astrologers who could tell all the future history of a born child simply by the astral calculations of the time) were present during the birth of Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1713:17, 16 August 2023 diff hist +4,639‎ At the time of Maharaja Pariksit's birth, the expert astrologer-brahmanas foretold some of his qualities. Maharaja Pariksit developed all those qualities, being a great devotee of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1513:15, 16 August 2023 diff hist +6,086‎ At the last stage of his life he (Pariksit) was cursed by a brahmana boy to die within seven days. So within seven days he had to prepare himself for the next birth. So he was little perplexed ‎No edit summary current

12 August 2023

• 14:3314:33, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,082‎ Your plan for bringing Lord Jagannatha to Atlanta is also approved by me, provided there are sufficient Brahmans and other suitable arrangements ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3114:31, 12 August 2023 diff hist +2,790‎ You may get yourself married, provided that you can meet the responsibility of grhastha life. If you marry you will have to work to provide for your wife and family and try to spend at least 50% for Krishna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2914:29, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,316‎ You have written to say that a devotee can do anything for Lord Krishna; this is right provided such action is sanctioned directly by Krishna or his Bona fide representative ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2814:28, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,706‎ You can turn this material world into Vrndavana provided you agree to fulfill the desires of Krsna. That is Vrndavana. And if you want to fulfill your own desires, that is material. This is the difference between material and spiritual ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2814:28, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,414‎ You can serve Krsna in any capacity-provided you want to serve. And if you want to engage Krsna for your service, that is blunder ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2614:26, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,849‎ You can get Guru's grace also, provided you take it ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2514:25, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ You can become a devotee of Krsna, you can think of Krsna always, provided you have developed love for Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2414:24, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,203‎ You can ask me freely to make devotees initiated for first initiation provided they are enthusiastic and following the rules, but be very cautious before awarding second initiation, even though you have a need for brahmanas in the temple ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1,815‎ You are welcome to join us at any moment provided you do so in your original status. You have to immediately leave India for working outside ‎No edit summary
• 14:2214:22, 12 August 2023 diff hist +7,374‎ You are trying to make economic development, but how we can develop economic development provided there is no material supplied by God? ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1714:17, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,887‎ Yes, if there are African girls also who want to join us, and if they get the consent of their elder family members to live with us, they may live in the temple provided there is separate place for them so that boys and girls will not mix freely ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1614:16, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,444‎ When you have entered into devotional service, bhakti-yoga, bhakti-marga, your success is assured, provided you are enthusiastic and patient. Not that "Immediately I want a child," "Immediately I become fully Krsna consciousness and perfect." No ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1514:15, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,177‎ Well, everyone is in a bona fide disciplic succession provided he keeps that tradition, keeps that tradition. Apani acari prabhu jive sikhaila. One must behave that "I belong to this disciplic succession. I must keep myself fit for the post" ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1414:14, 12 August 2023 diff hist +6,897‎ We can take part in everything, politics, sociology or philanthropism, altruism, there are so many things they have discovered, provided by taking part in that department of activities we advance our Krsna consciousness. Otherwise reject. Don't take part ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1314:13, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,658‎ We can have all the transcendental light of the Supreme Brahman, Sri Krsna, from the recitation of Srimad-Bhagavatam, provided it is received through the medium of the transparent spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1214:12, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,479‎ We are not cheap, we want to speak something, but there must be good accommodations provided. There must be speaker system, and there must be good publicity beforehand so that many may know of us and come. This is very important ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1114:11, 12 August 2023 diff hist +8,127‎ Thoughts of feelings of love for Krishna is not ego-projected, or emotional, provided it is conformed by Spiritual Master ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1114:11, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,630‎ Those who are devotees of the Lord are not afraid of any condition of life, provided there is constant engagement in the service of the Lord. It is said of the narayana-para, or those who are devotees of Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1014:10, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ This potency (to purify hundreds and thousands of men by his vibration) is within every living being, provided he chants the Hare Krsna maha-mantra offenselessly and without material motives ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0914:09, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ They (Real Devotees of Bhakti-yoga) are prepared to undergo all kinds of tribulation, provided they can make progress in the realization of the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0814:08, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,831‎ There will be no botheration for you of family life, provided it is carried on in full Krishna Consciousness. Follow this idea and you will be happy ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0714:07, 12 August 2023 diff hist +44,721‎ There is no question of vegetarian, nonvegetarian. Even nonvegetarian, he is eating sinful things, provided he is not offering to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0614:06, 12 August 2023 diff hist +11,920‎ There is no question of overpopulation. God can supply you more than you want, provided you become God conscious, Krsna conscious. That is the way ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,984‎ There is no harm in worshiping the demigods, provided that one's aim is to return home, back to Godhead. Generally people go to the demigods for material benefit ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 12 August 2023 diff hist +7,595‎ There is no harm in coeducation in the schools and colleges, provided the boys and girls are duly married, and in case there is any intimate connection between a male and female student, they should be married properly without illicit relation ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0314:03, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,405‎ There is no bar for chanting this transcendental sound by anyone, provided it is received through Narada's representative, coming down by the chain of disciplic succession, or the parampara system ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0214:02, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,492‎ There are different transcendental activities of the Lord, and each and every one of them is competent to bestow the desired result, provided the hearing process is perfect ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0114:01, 12 August 2023 diff hist +7,632‎ The system is required provided if you make progress towards the realization of the Supreme. But if you simply follow a system but do not make advance in the matter of realizing the Supreme, then, according to SB it is simply labor of love ‎No edit summary
• 14:0014:00, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ The spiritual sound, it is released from many, many millions and millions and trillions of miles away, still it can be heard, provided you have got the machine to capture it. That is bhagavata-prema ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 12 August 2023 diff hist +9,550‎ The monarchs were all chivalrous personalities, and therefore monarchy should be maintained provided the monarch is regularly trained in the occupational duties of a king ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 12 August 2023 diff hist +10,008‎ The mind does not dissolve, it changes its quality, or rather, it becomes purified. No, thoughts of feelings of love for Krishna is not ego-projected, or emotional, provided it is confirmed by Spiritual Master ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 12 August 2023 diff hist +6,355‎ The menstrual period prolongs at least for 5 days, so after this 5 days, one can have sex life provided he desires to get a child. And as soon as the wife is pregnant, no more sex life, until the child is born and is grown up at least for 6 months ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5613:56, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,352‎ The Lord is merciful even to the women, sudras and dvija-bandhus, provided they agree to visit the temple of worship in different forms made for them. Such temple visitors are not idolaters, as alleged by some men with a poor fund of knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5413:54, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,441‎ The Lord accepts only foodstuffs which are within the range of fruits, flowers, leaves and liquids, provided they are offered in complete devotional service. Devotional service is the only criterion for a bona fide offering to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5313:53, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,734‎ The king or government may levy taxes upon the citizens in various ways provided the king is able to give full protection to his subjects to assure the security of their life and property ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5313:53, 12 August 2023 diff hist +7,494‎ The difficulty will be the Mohammadans will not agree to shave their heads and beards. Our principle is anyone can live with us provided he becomes clean shaved, dresses like us, follows the regulative principles and chants the beads regularly ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,090‎ The best thing is if you come and live with us for some time and learn thoroughly the Krsna science. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu said anyone can become a guru in the matter of teaching about Krsna, provided he or she thoroughly learns the Krsna science ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5113:51, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ Suffering condition of the living entity, and he can be rescued by the mercy of sadhu, saintly persons, the scriptures and the spiritual master. They are prepared to bestow their mercy upon everyone, provided people like to take their instruction & mercy ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5113:51, 12 August 2023 diff hist +2,035‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam is the record of bhagavat-katha, topics about the pastimes of the Lord. What Vidura was anxious to hear from Maitreya we can also hear five thousand years later, provided we are very eager ‎No edit summary
• 13:5013:50, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,420‎ Sridhara Maharaja on account of his uncertain health condition will not be able to take any active part in celebrating the ceremony, but he has promised to come provided his health permits ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4913:49, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ Some so-called philosophers, they say that "We can adopt any process. It leads to the same goal." That's all right, provided you make progress. Then you'll reach to the same goal ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4813:48, 12 August 2023 diff hist +2,260‎ So people will take it provided you are ideal ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4713:47, 12 August 2023 diff hist +6,964‎ So many rascals come, they challenge, "Can you show me God?" So... Yes. We can show you God, provided you have got the eyes. God can be seen by different type of eyes. Not these eyes. That is stated in the sastra ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4613:46, 12 August 2023 diff hist +2,677‎ So far the marriage proposed for 29th August, I have no objection provided they are firmly in agreement never to separate and are willing to sign such a statement. This was done recently by Rupanuga Prabhu and you can get the wording from him ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4513:45, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,439‎ So far I am concerned, although I am getting old, I guarantee I shall give you two tapes daily provided you guarantee to finish printing two tapes daily. That will encourage me more and more ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,475‎ So far as leaving your karmi job, I have no objection provided there is no scarcity of money for running the temple. Then you can devote yourself full time to pushing on this movement and developing St. Louis center ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4313:43, 12 August 2023 diff hist +8,231‎ Sex life is not bad, provided it is executed according to the religious principles ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4113:41, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,603‎ Sethji wants to contribute two Pair of Deities provided the freight is paid by somebody else. So I agree to this proposal. Kindly arrange to send at least two Pairs of Radha Krishna Deities, brass, as per specification given to you before ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4013:40, 12 August 2023 diff hist +7,452‎ Sannyasa means you can become a sannyasi even with your, this coat-pant. It doesn't matter, provided you have dedicated your life for the service of God. That is called sannyasa ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3313:33, 12 August 2023 diff hist +8,876‎ Samo damah, brahminical first qualification, can be practiced provided you agree to undergo tapasya, tapah. And it is not very difficult ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3213:32, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,111‎ Regarding your tendency to become angry in public, that is alright provided there is positive reaction ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3113:31, 12 August 2023 diff hist +9,412‎ Regarding your enemy, Mr. Lust: I have noted the difficulties, but we should always remember that Krishna is stronger than any demon, and Mr. Lust, or his father or his grandfather, nobody can do anything provided we take shelter of Krishna very tightly ‎No edit summary
• 13:3013:30, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,964‎ Outlines of thought are already there. You read one line, you can speak half an hour. They are so full of meaning. Provided you can express the meanings ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2913:29, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ Our bread is provided, whether we go to church or not. That is not a problem, for no one is dying in the streets of starvation, nor do we find a bird, beast, or even an ant dying of starvation. Food is there, and one need not bother about it ‎No edit summary
• 13:2813:28, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,596‎ One can beget hundreds of children and enjoy the celestial pleasure of sexual intercourse, provided he is able to train the children in God consciousness. Otherwise begetting children is on the level of the swine ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2713:27, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,235‎ Now, if you cooperate, then I can change the whole thing in your country. This Krsna consciousness movement is so nice. Provided you cooperate ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 12 August 2023 diff hist +6,282‎ Nothing is bad provided it is meant for Krsna's satisfaction. Atah pumbhir dvija-srestha varnasrama-vibhagasah. The varnasrama-vibhaga must be there ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 12 August 2023 diff hist +9,068‎ Nobody can be claimed to be liberated by chanting Hare Krsna mantra. Hare Krsna mantra will give you, give you relief from all sinful activities, provided you don't commit it again ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2113:21, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,590‎ No work is condemned. Every work is dignified provided it is meant for Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,023‎ Mantras and the process of devotional service have special power, provided they are received from the authorized person ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,378‎ Lord Caitanya advises that one receive transcendental knowledge from anyone - whether a brahmana or a sudra, a householder or a sannyasi - provided that person is factually conversant with the science of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1913:19, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,002‎ Liberation can be attained within a second, provided we abide by the order of Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 13:1813:18, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ Krsna will give you all protection, provided you remain, I mean to say, adhere to the lotus feet of Krsna. Mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam taranti te (BG 7.14). The maya will not touch you. You'll be happy ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1713:17, 12 August 2023 diff hist +2,147‎ Krsna is ready to help you from within and without provided you are anxious to get that help ‎No edit summary
• 13:1613:16, 12 August 2023 diff hist +8,016‎ Krsna is always ready to help us, provided we are also ready to cooperate with Him. If we cooperate with Him, what Krsna desires, if we want to do little, immediately Krsna will help you. If you work one percent, Krsna will help you ten percent ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1513:15, 12 August 2023 diff hist +7,358‎ Krsna can be seen always, provided you want to see God. But we don't want to see God. That is the difficulty ‎No edit summary
• 11:1211:12, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,913‎ Krsna bhajana is so magnanimous, so exalted, in any position you can become the greatest guru, provided you follow the footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1111:11, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,326‎ Krishna can be served from any position, provided one is willing to serve Him. Krishna can be served and approached by businessmen, by lawyers, by scientists, by artists, by musicians, by philosophers, even by thieves and rogues; everyone. He is so kind ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1011:10, 12 August 2023 diff hist +6,634‎ Krishna being the center all competition and jealousies for serving Krishna the best is always Absolute provided such jealousies do not come down to the material plane ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0911:09, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,631‎ Just as a calf can derive milk from a cow, all living entities - including animals, birds, bees, reptiles and aquatics - can receive their respective foods from the planet earth, provided that human beings are not asat, or adhrta-vrata ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0811:08, 12 August 2023 diff hist +6,042‎ It will be great service, provided you write nicely the right things ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0711:07, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,391‎ It is not that only sannyasis, vanaprasthas and brahmacaris can reach Krsna. A grhastha, a householder, can also reach Krsna, provided he becomes a pure devotee without material desires. An example of this is cited in the next verse - SB 7.15.68 ‎No edit summary
• 11:0611:06, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ It is not necessary that one has to learn Sanskrit. He can be made good provided he fully surrenders to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0011:00, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1,953‎ It does not take Krsna even a second to offer anything we desire provided such thing is engaged in the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5910:59, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ In the word raja-mahisi, the syllables ra and ma appear in two separate words, but because they somehow or other appear together, the holy name rama will act, provided there are no offenses ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5710:57, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,769‎ In special cases, a girl is allowed to marry more than one man, provided she is able to treat her husbands equally. This is not possible for an ordinary woman ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5010:50, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,839‎ In business circle there is a popular English saying that you can earn more by sitting in one place than by travelling in many places provided you can sit down in a place with due consideration ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4810:48, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,566‎ Impossible thing can be made possible by the grace of Krsna. That is possible - Krsna is all powerful - provided we are serious and sincere. That is the main business. We must be very serious and sincere. Then Krsna will give you intelligence ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4710:47, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,857‎ If someone wants to work there are so many things. So eternally I want to remain your guide provided you want to accept me ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,743‎ If one always chants the holy name of Krsna, gradually one is freed from all reactions of sinful life, provided he chants offenselessly and does not commit more sinful activities on the strength of chanting the Hare Krsna mantra ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ If he fails to find out a good master, then he's street dog. Dog's life is good, provided he gets a good master. So therefore we have decided to become dog of Krsna, the best master ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,243‎ I never discourage marriage, providing it is for Krsna's service and not for simply sex life. It is always meant for a higher purpose. In God's creation there is male and female even in the spiritual world and there is purpose for such creation ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4310:43, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,340‎ I have also received word from Karandhara about the book distribution program. It is very encouraging. So our books will have to be produced in great numbers. On our own press, they can do so, provided it is economically sound proposal ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4210:42, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,569‎ I can kick out all those stumbling blocks immediately, provided you accept my guidance ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4110:41, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,841‎ However if there is a good bargain and you think it is wise, I have no objection if you purchase the Allen farm, provided everyone agrees and there is sufficient money available ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4010:40, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,571‎ How God is dead? You are under so much control, how God is dead? You can say that there is no government, provided there is nobody to check you. But if you are in every step checked, how you can say there is no government. That is another foolishness ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,362‎ Hindus generally are not so liberal, but Lord Caitanya is very liberal and he embraces anyone from any corner of the world provided he takes to the service of Krishna ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,739‎ He proposed these four things: "Yes. We can make you (Zetland) brahmana, provided you give up these bad habits. "What is that? "No illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxication." He said, "It is impossible. This is our life!" You see ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,882‎ First of all he must know what to preach. If he does not know what to preach, what he will preach? You have got a preaching capacity, provided you learn the art of preaching. But everyone can preach. That's a fact ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3510:35, 12 August 2023 diff hist +11,386‎ Everything is possible, provided you people take our instruction. Otherwise, there is no other remedy. What can be done? The remedy's there. The medicine is also there. But if you don't take the medicine, how the disease will be cured? ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,352‎ Everything is possible, provided we make the choice ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3310:33, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,859‎ Everything is possible provided we are serious ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3210:32, 12 August 2023 diff hist +9,414‎ Everyone can serve Krsna provided he is qualified. And what is that qualification? ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3110:31, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ Every one of you can become spiritually advanced provided you study the science. That is Krsna consciousness movement. It is not a bluff sentiment. It is a great science ‎No edit summary
• 10:3010:30, 12 August 2023 diff hist +6,138‎ Every living entity can, like Uddhava, also become a confidential messenger on the same level as the Lord, provided he becomes confidential himself by dint of loving devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,372‎ Even in full material opulence we can become a perfect devotee, provided you follow the principles. It doesn't matter ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2310:23, 12 August 2023 diff hist +8,088‎ Don't make any addition and alteration of your so-called learned scholarship That will not help you. You must present Bhagavad-gita as it is. There is everything, very easily done, provided we follow parampara system ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 12 August 2023 diff hist +5,748‎ Dictatorship is good, provided the dictator is highly qualified spiritually. That is the Vedic verdict ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1510:15, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,904‎ By the speculation of empiric philosophy, which discerns matter from spirit one can achieve the highest perfection, provided one is able to reach the stage of narayana-smrti, or constant remembrance of the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 10:1410:14, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,793‎ By discharge of religious duties, one can achieve the highest perfection, provided one is able to reach the stage of narayana-smrti, or constant remembrance of the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1210:12, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,053‎ By cultivation of mystic powers, which ultimately helps the performer to reach any planet of the universe or beyond one can achieve the highest perfection, provided one is able to reach the stage of narayana-smrti, or constant remembrance of God ‎No edit summary
• 10:1010:10, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,969‎ Bhagavad-gita is transcendental subject matter. It does not depend on the qualification of the student. Anyone. Anyone can understand Bhagavad-gita provided he agrees to understand according to the principles. That's all ‎No edit summary
• 10:0610:06, 12 August 2023 diff hist +7,253‎ Anyone can become successful in devotional service provided he displays no duplicity ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0510:05, 12 August 2023 diff hist +6,995‎ Although a conditioned soul may be fallen to the lowest position, such a lowly state will not prevent him from advancing in the spiritual science, provided he is innocent ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,692‎ All the potencies of God are there when one reads Bhagavad-gita, provided it is read in the way recommended in the Gita by the Lord Himself ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 12 August 2023 diff hist +2,390‎ All our men are speaking in English. Still, you can make an experiment and if you like, then you can live with us provided you follow our rules and regulations ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 12 August 2023 diff hist +4,062‎ A sannyasi must not stay anywhere more than three days. That is the principle. But in a temple he can stay for more than three days provided there is business ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0010:00, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,440‎ A sannyasi is forbidden to stay anywhere else, but in a temple he can stay for more than three days provided there is business. Otherwise, there is no necessity ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5909:59, 12 August 2023 diff hist +3,473‎ A pure devotee does not desire the company of a personality as great as Brahma, but he prefers the association of a petty living being, provided he is a devotee of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ A person born a sudra is not barred from such spiritual initiation, provided he is approved by the spiritual master, who is duly authorized to award a disciple the right to be a brahmana if he finds him perfectly qualified ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ A disciple always inquires from the spiritual master, and the spiritual master answers the question, provided the disciple is very gentle and devoted ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5609:56, 12 August 2023 diff hist +6,742‎ A devotee, a Krsna conscious person, remains free always, provided he's fully engaged in Krsna conscious activities for pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ A devotee who is actually advanced is not afraid of anything, provided he has the opportunity to execute the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 12 August 2023 diff hist +1‎ A devotee who is actually advanced is not afraid of anything, provided be has the opportunity to execute the order of the Supreme. This is the proper explanation of why Priyavrata engaged in worldly affairs although he was a liberated person ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5209:52, 12 August 2023 diff hist +39,000‎ Krsna is always ready to help us provided we are eager to take His help ‎No edit summary current

9 August 2023

• 14:4114:41, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,374‎ Your Majesty Maharaja Pariksit, know that all that I (Sukadeva Gosvami) have described in reply to your proper inquiry is just according to the version of the Vedas, and it is eternal truth ‎No edit summary
• 14:4014:40, 9 August 2023 diff hist +16,391‎ While hearing of the transcendental pastimes of Krsna in Vrndavana, Maharaja Pariksit inquired from his spiritual master, Sukadeva Gosvami, as to why the inhabitants of Vrndavana were so much attached to Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 14:3814:38, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,574‎ When Pariksit Maharaja inquired how a human being could free himself from sinful activities so as not to be forced to go to hellish planetary systems after death, Sukadeva Gosvami answered that the process of counteracting sinful life is atonement ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3714:37, 9 August 2023 diff hist +34‎ When Maharaja Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami in this way, Sukadeva Gosvami, immediately remembering subject matters about Krsna within the core of his heart, externally lost contact with the actions of his senses - SB 10.12.44 ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3514:35, 9 August 2023 diff hist +6,246‎ When Maharaja Pariksit heard this incident of Kalayavana's being burned to ashes, he inquired about the sleeping man from Sukadeva Gosvami, "Who was he? Why was he sleeping there" ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3414:34, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,218‎ Those who are of the opinion that the devotees of the Lord are satisfied with mere sentiments can find in the inquiries of Maharaja Pariksit good lessons as to how inquisitive a pure devotee is to know things in their true perfection ‎No edit summary
• 14:3314:33, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,386‎ This was the subject of Pariksit Maharaja's inquiry. As a devotee of Lord Krsna, he knew very well that Krsna cannot be partial to anyone, but when he saw that Krsna acted as the enemy of the demons, he was somewhat doubtful ‎No edit summary
• 14:3214:32, 9 August 2023 diff hist +8,226‎ This is strictly prohibited for brahmacaris, and what to speak of a brahmacari like Sukadeva Gosvami. But because the circumstances of the rasa dance were very suspect, Maharaja Pariksit inquired for clarification from Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3114:31, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,591‎ The purpose of Maharaja Pariksit's inquiry was to determine whether an ordinary human being can attain the position of mother Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3014:30, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,901‎ The purpose of King Pariksit's inquiry was to ascertain from Sukadeva Gosvami whether the Vedas ultimately describe the Absolute Truth as impersonal or as personal ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2714:27, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,932‎ The fortunate King Pariksit, inquiring further, said, "O brahmana, please describe in full detail how and where the mind has to be applied and how the conception can be fixed so that the dirty things in a person's mind can be removed" ‎No edit summary
• 14:2514:25, 9 August 2023 diff hist +16,383‎ The complete Bhagavatam was heard by Maharaja Pariksit and chanted by Sukadeva Gosvami. Maharaja Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva because Sukadeva was a greater spiritual master than any great yogi or transcendentalist of his time ‎No edit summary
• 14:2314:23, 9 August 2023 diff hist −9‎ There is no comparison to the fortune of mother Yasoda, and Pariksit Maharaja naturally inquired, yasoda ca maha-bhaga ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2214:22, 9 August 2023 diff hist +1,726‎ Suta Gosvami said: When Pariksit Maharaja thus inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami, that most powerful saintly person began describing the pastimes of the Lord's incarnation as a fish ‎No edit summary
• 14:0814:08, 9 August 2023 diff hist +1,529‎ Suta Gosvami said: O great sages (assembled at Naimisaranya), after the great yogi Sukadeva Gosvami heard King Pariksit's inquiry, he praised it and thus replied ‎No edit summary
• 14:0714:07, 9 August 2023 diff hist +6,635‎ Sukadeva Gosvami is praying from the Lord by dint of being inspired from within by the Lord so that he could rightly explain the facts and figures of creation as inquired by Maharaja Pariksit. A spiritual master is not a theoretical speculator ‎No edit summary
• 14:0014:00, 9 August 2023 diff hist +6,133‎ Sukadeva Gosvami answered (the inquiry of Maharaja Pariksit about the end of Krsna and the Yadu dynasty) that Krsna, by His own energy, destroyed the entire family and then thought of making His own body disappear ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,298‎ Sri Suta Gosvami explained: I shall now explain to you the very subjects explained by the great sage in answer to King Pariksit's inquiries. Please hear them attentively ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,927‎ Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said, " Maharaja Pariksit, as you have inquired from me as to the duty of the intelligent man who is on the threshold of death, so I have answered you" ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5613:56, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,031‎ Srila Sukadeva Gosvami said: O best of devotees, most fortunate Pariksit, you have inquired very nicely, for although constantly hearing the pastimes of the Lord (Krsna), you are perceiving His activities to be newer and newer - SB 10.13.1 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5513:55, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,339‎ Since the Lord says that He is suhrdam sarva-bhutanam (BG 5.29), the well-wisher of all living entities, how could He act with partiality by killing demons? These questions arose in the heart of Pariksit Maharaja, and he inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary
• 13:5313:53, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,989‎ Satisfaction in the service of the Lord is called akama, freedom from desire, and this is the ultimate satisfaction. Therefore Maharaja Parīksit inquired, How could one who was fully satisfied on the highest platform be satisfied with family life ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5013:50, 9 August 2023 diff hist +7,551‎ Replying to King Pariksit’s inquiry, Sukadeva Gosvami said that Lord Siva is the master of the material energy ‎No edit summary
• 13:4713:47, 9 August 2023 diff hist +13,999‎ Ramananda quoted a verse from (SB 10.8.46) wherein Maharaja Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami about the magnitude of righteous activity performed by Yasoda, the mother of Krsna, enabling her to be called "mother" & her breasts be sucked by the SPG ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4513:45, 9 August 2023 diff hist +12,966‎ Pariksit now inquired from all the great sages present there: "You are all learned sages; please just prescribe for me." So someone said to practice yoga, some said to practice jnana, the cultivation of knowledge; there were different opinions ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4313:43, 9 August 2023 diff hist +12,744‎ Pariksit now inquired from all the great sages present there: "What is my duty? I am going to die within seven days; now what is my duty ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4213:42, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,722‎ Pariksit Maharaja questioned to Sukadeva Gosvami, "What is my duty? Now I am going to die within seven days, what is my duty?" So he inquired about Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 13:4113:41, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,327‎ Pariksit Maharaja naturally inquired, What kind of pious activities did Nanda Maharaja and Yasoda perform in their past lives by which they achieved such a stage of perfection ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3713:37, 9 August 2023 diff hist +7,224‎ Pariksit Maharaja had inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami how one can be saved from falling into the various conditions of hellish life. Sukadeva Gosvami answers that a soul who has surrendered to Krsna certainly cannot go to naraka, hellish existence ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3613:36, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,268‎ Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: Why did the spiritual master of the demigods, Brhaspati, reject the demigods, who were his own disciples? What offense did the demigods commit against their spiritual master? Please describe to me this incident ‎No edit summary
• 13:3513:35, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,198‎ Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: What was the offense that the ksatriyas who could not control their senses committed before Parasurama, the incarnation of the S P of God, for which the Lord annihilated the ksatriya dynasty again and again? ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3313:33, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,987‎ Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: O learned brahmana, demons are generally sinful, being obsessed with the modes of passion and ignorance. How, then, could Vrtrasura have attained such exalted love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Narayana? ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3213:32, 9 August 2023 diff hist +6,900‎ Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva, "How had he achieved so much power that instantly, by his glance, Kalayavana was burned to ashes? How did he happen to be lying down in the cave of the hill?" He put many questions before Sukadeva ‎No edit summary
• 13:2913:29, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,473‎ Pariksit inquired: My dear brahmana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu, being everyone's well-wisher, is equal and extremely dear to everyone. How, then, did He become partial like a common man for the sake of Indra and thus kill Indra's enemies? ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2713:27, 9 August 2023 diff hist +1,998‎ O great sage (Sukadeva Gosvami), who know everything about Krsna, please describe in detail all the activities of which I (King Pariksit) have inquired and also those of which I have not, for I have full faith & am very eager to hear of them - SB 10.1.12 ‎No edit summary
• 13:2613:26, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,399‎ Not only is Maharaja Pariksit inquisitive concerning all he has inquired about, but he is also anxious to know about what he has not been able to inquire ‎No edit summary
• 13:2413:24, 9 August 2023 diff hist +1,611‎ My dear King Pariksit, you inquired from me how Vrtrasura, a great devotee, took birth in a demoniac family. Thus I have tried to explain to you everything about this ‎No edit summary
• 13:2013:20, 9 August 2023 diff hist +1,896‎ My dear King Pariksit, I (Sukadeva Gosvami) have replied as far as possible to the questions you have asked me, especially in regard to this pure, auspicious narration about the Maruts. Now you may inquire further, and I shall explain more ‎No edit summary
• 13:1913:19, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,808‎ Maharaj Pariksit inquires from Sukadeva Gosvami, "I am astonished that Vrtrasura has become such a devotee" ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1713:17, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,849‎ Maharaj Pariksit inquires from Sukadeva Gosvami, "How did he develop to such a perfectional stage of devotional service to Narayana" ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1613:16, 9 August 2023 diff hist +10,227‎ Maharaja Pariksit wanted to know the process of creation. The origin of creation was known to him; otherwise he would not have inquired how the Personality of Godhead, by His different energies, creates this phenomenal world ‎No edit summary
• 13:1413:14, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,019‎ Maharaja Pariksit inquires about this very important matter for the benefit of all classes of candidates on the path of self-realization and devotional service to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1313:13, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,074‎ Maharaja Pariksit inquired from the learned brahmana Sukadeva Gosvami about the ultimate destination of such great mystics or how they attain such extraordinary powers by their own efforts or by the grace of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,147‎ Maharaja Pariksit inquired from the great and learned sage Sukadeva Gosvami about the different activities of such incarnations so that the incarnation of the Lord might be confirmed by His activities in the authoritative scriptures ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0913:09, 9 August 2023 diff hist +6,210‎ Maharaja Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami - When all the members of the Yadu dynasty met their end, Krsna also put an end to Himself, and the only member of the family who remained alive was Uddhava. How was this possible ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,936‎ Maharaja Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: O great sage, what was the reason for Indra's unhappiness? I wish to hear about this. When he killed Vrtrasura, all the demigods were extremely happy. Why, then, was Indra himself unhappy? ‎No edit summary
• 13:0613:06, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,014‎ Maharaja Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: How did the Lord conduct Himself, and how did He behave in relationship with His brothers, who were expansions of His own self? And how did His brothers and the inhabitants of Ayodhya treat Him? ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,474‎ Maharaja Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva correctly, and one should follow his example ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,080‎ Maharaja Pariksit inquired about the process of creation, maintenance and destruction of the material world, the process of Vedic rituals and the method of executing pious activities in terms of the supplementary Vedas like the Puranas and Mahabharata ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,053‎ Maharaja Pariksit inquired: The SPG is the proprietor of everything. Why did He beg three paces of land from Bali Maharaja like a poor man, and when He got the gift for which He had begged, why did He nonetheless arrest Bali Maharaja? ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 9 August 2023 diff hist +1,751‎ Maharaja Pariksit inquired: O most opulent Sukadeva Gosvami, please explain to me how Manu and the others in each manvantara are engaged in their respective duties, and by whose order they are so engaged ‎No edit summary
• 12:5912:59, 9 August 2023 diff hist −2‎ Maharaja Pariksit inquired: O great sage, how could things done in the past have been described as being done at the present - SB 10.12.41 ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 9 August 2023 diff hist +8,546‎ Maharaja Pariksit inquired, "During the absence of the original cowherd boys, when Krsna expanded Himself, why is it that the boys' parents became more loving toward Him than toward their own sons?" ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 9 August 2023 diff hist +8,168‎ Maharaja Pariksit inquired, "Also, why did the cows become so loving toward the calves, more than toward their own calves?" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0011:00, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,087‎ Maharaja Pariksit had inquired why Narada Muni was subject to a spirit of revenge (tamah). But this was not tamah, for Narada Muni, in full knowledge of what was for the good of the 2 brothers (Nalakuvara & Manigriva), wisely thought of how to cure them ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5410:54, 9 August 2023 diff hist +6,617‎ Maharaja Pariksit, who at the time of death was fortunate to have met Sukadeva Gosvami, inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami about the path of liberation at that crucial time. Sukadeva Gosvami very much appreciated his question and congratulated him ‎No edit summary
• 10:5210:52, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,874‎ Maharaja Pariksit, who at the time of death was fortunate to have met Sukadeva Gosvami, inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami about the path of liberation at that crucial time ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 9 August 2023 diff hist +13‎ Maharaja Pariksit, therefore, was astonished to see such a horrible scene. He inquired whether the bull was not a demigod assuming such a wretched condition to indicate the future of the cow and the bull ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,858‎ Maharaja Pariksit's inquiries are on the basis of proportionate actions of goodness which qualify one in this planet to be promoted to the highest regions of the universe ‎No edit summary
• 10:4510:45, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,830‎ King Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami about a very important topic in understanding transcendental subject matter ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 9 August 2023 diff hist +1,730‎ King Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: O great and powerful saint, what was the cause of Nalakuvara's and Manigriva's having been cursed by Narada Muni - SB 10.10.1 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4310:43, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,136‎ King Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: My lord, kindly explain the Visnu mantra armor that protected King Indra and enabled him to conquer his enemies, along with their carriers, and enjoy the opulence of the three worlds ‎No edit summary
• 10:4010:40, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,132‎ King Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: My dear sir, why are the living entities put into different material situations? Kindly explain this to me ‎No edit summary
• 10:3810:38, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,040‎ King Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: My dear lord, you have already affirmed the truth that the supremely powerful sun-god travels around Dhruvaloka with both Dhruvaloka and Mount Sumeru on his right ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3510:35, 9 August 2023 diff hist +1,649‎ King Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: My dear lord, are the hellish regions outside the universe, within the covering of the universe, or in different places on this planet? ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3010:30, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,715‎ King Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami: How did Narada Muni, whose hearers are as fortunate as those instructed by Lord Brahma, explain the transcendental qualities of the Lord, who is without material qualities, and before whom did he speak ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,133‎ King Pariksit inquired: O great personality, Maharaja Ambarisa was certainly most exalted and meritorious in character. I wish to hear about him. How surprising it is that the curse of a brahmana, which is insurmountable, could not act upon him ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,532‎ King Pariksit inquired: O great brahmana, Sukadeva Gosvami, why and how did Lord Visnu churn the ocean of milk? For what reason did He stay in the water as a tortoise and hold up Mandara Mountain? ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2710:27, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,026‎ King Pariksit inquired: My dear lord, due to their birth, the forty-nine Maruts must have been obsessed with a demoniac mentality. Why did Indra, the King of heaven, convert them into demigods? Did they perform any rituals or pious activities? ‎No edit summary
• 10:2510:25, 9 August 2023 diff hist +7,554‎ King Pariksit had inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami why Duryodhana was not satisfied after the termination of the great Rajasuya sacrifice, and thus it was explained by Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary
• 10:1610:16, 9 August 2023 diff hist +6,594‎ King Pariksit, after hearing of the chastisement of Kaliya, inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami as to why Kaliya left his beautiful land and why Garuda was so antagonistic to him ‎No edit summary
• 10:1510:15, 9 August 2023 diff hist +12‎ It is the duty of a Vaisnava to go from door to door to try to get unfortunate people to accept good fortune. A Vaisnava thinks, "How can these people be delivered from their hellish life?" That was also Maharaja Pariksit's inquiry ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1310:13, 9 August 2023 diff hist +6,292‎ It is recommended that we must follow the great personalities. Sukadeva Gosvami is also one of the great personalities, and his answer to the inquiry of Maharaja Pariksit is authorized ‎No edit summary
• 10:1210:12, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,254‎ In response to the inquiries of Pariksit Maharaja, Sukadeva Gosvami, his guru, could have immediately explained the principle of bhakti, but to test Pariksit Maharaja's intelligence, he first prescribed atonement according to karma-kanda ‎No edit summary
• 10:1010:10, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,955‎ How such actions and reactions take place, what the different procedures are, and in what proportion they act are all subject matters of Maharaja Pariksit's inquiries from the great brahmana Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,986‎ He (Sukadeva) began to reply to the inquiries of Pariksit by saying that the science of the PG was spoken first by the Lord Himself to Brahma when he was first born. SB is the supplementary Vedic literature, and it is just in pursuance of the Vedas ‎No edit summary
• 10:0610:06, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,215‎ He (Sukadeva Gosvami) also prepared himself to reply to all that King Pariksit had inquired from him. Maharaja Pariksit was the best in the dynasty of the Pandus, and thus he was able to ask the right questions from the right person ‎No edit summary
• 09:5809:58, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,700‎ He (Sukadeva Goswami) appears on the scene while traveling on the earth of his own accord. It appears that upon the inquiry of Maharaja Pariksit, the great sages were not unanimous in their decision as to what was to be done ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 9 August 2023 diff hist +12‎ He (Pariksit) inquired also about their (great mystics) detachment from the subtle and gross material bodies. He inquired also about the purports of the Vedic knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5209:52, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,090‎ He (Maharaja Pariksit) inquired after a detailed description of the matter for the benefit of others, who are unable to conceive of the transcendental personal feature of the Lord as the form of eternity, knowledge and bliss ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,709‎ Having heard of the great fortune of mother Yasoda, Pariksit Maharaja inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami What past auspicious activities did she and Nanda Maharaja perform to achieve such perfection in ecstatic love? - SB 10.8.46 ‎No edit summary
• 09:3709:37, 9 August 2023 diff hist −9‎ For the benefit of men who are unable to accept the Lord in His personal eternal form, Maharaja Pariksit inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami how to fix the mind on Him in the beginning, and the Gosvami replied in detail as follows ‎No edit summary
• 09:3409:34, 9 August 2023 diff hist +7,124‎ A ksatriya king is generally accustomed to accept more than one wife; therefore Maharaja Pariksit also inquired about His (Krsna's) number of wives ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 9 August 2023 diff hist +13,100‎ At that time (when Pariksit was inquiring from sages) Sukadeva Gosvami entered the forest, and although Sukadeva was only sixteen, he was so learned and reputed that all the old sages, including his father, Vyasadeva, stood up to show him respect ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 9 August 2023 diff hist +9,728‎ All inquiries on God which are unknown to the disciple may be made from the qualified spiritual master, and here the practical example is set by Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary
• 09:2109:21, 9 August 2023 diff hist +11,022‎ Pariksit Maharaja was listening, and Sukadeva Gosvami was performing kirtana by describing the glories of the Lord. Prthu Maharaja simply worshiped the Lord, and Laksmidevi massaged Visnu's lotus feet ‎No edit summary
• 09:2009:20, 9 August 2023 diff hist +10,917‎ Kirtana means glorification. Kirtana is preaching, glorifying and speaking about the Lord. Pariksit Maharaja attained perfection simply by listening to Srimad-Bhagavatam. This is sravanam kirtanam ‎No edit summary
• 09:1809:18, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,125‎ In this Kali-yuga, Ksemaka will be the last monarch. Now I (Sukadeva Gosvami) shall describe to you (Maharaja Pariksit) the future of the Magadha dynasty. Please listen ‎No edit summary
• 09:1609:16, 9 August 2023 diff hist +6,317‎ While Sukadeva Gosvami continued to speak on the transcendental pastimes and characteristics of Lord Krsna, King Pariksit, upon hearing him, became more and more enthusiastic and wanted to hear further ‎No edit summary
• 09:1509:15, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,333‎ While Pariksit Maharaja was hearing these transcendental pastimes, he considered himself to be very fortunate because not only was he hearing Krsna's pastimes but he was doing so from Sukadeva Gosvami, the greatest authority on Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
• 09:1209:12, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,287‎ While describing the history of Lord Ramacandra, Sukadeva Gosvami told Maharaja Pariksit - You have already heard about the activities of Lord Ramacandra ‎No edit summary
• 09:0309:03, 9 August 2023 diff hist +6,840‎ When this story was being narrated by Sukadeva Gosvami, Maharaja Pariksit became eager to hear more about Krsna’s childhood pastimes. He inquired from Sukadeva Gosvami how Krsna chastised Kaliya, who had been living in the water for many years ‎No edit summary
• 09:0209:02, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,676‎ When Maharaj Pariksit heard of this wonderful victory, he immediately rubbed the tears from his eyes and became overwhelmed with joy. This instance is an example of astonishment in devotional service by indirect perception through aural reception ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,710‎ When King Pariksit heard about this, he was struck with wonder, but he was somewhat bewildered as to how a devotee with no attachment for material enjoyment could later become attached to it ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5308:53, 9 August 2023 diff hist +8,399‎ When he was cursed that he would die within seven days, he became very serious, and all the sages and saintly persons agreed that, Maharaja Pariksit, for the last remaining days of his life, seven days, he should hear attentively Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
• 08:5008:50, 9 August 2023 diff hist +7,094‎ When he (Maharaja Pariksit) heard that some of the gopis, simply by concentrating on Krsna as their paramour, became freed from all contamination of material birth and death, he said ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3708:37, 9 August 2023 diff hist +7,983‎ When he (Maharaja Pariksit) got the notice of his death, he immediately gave up all connection with household life and sat down on the bank of the Ganges to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam in the association of devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 9 August 2023 diff hist +10‎ Wanting to hear more and more from Sukadeva Gosvami, Maharaja Pariksit requested him to continue describing Krsna's childhood activities, which are especially easy to hear and which create more and more inquisitiveness ‎No edit summary
• 08:3108:31, 9 August 2023 diff hist +32‎ Twenty-four hours without any eating or without any drinking a drop of water, he (Pariksit Maharaja) went on hearing from Sukadeva Gosvami. And similarly, Sukadeva Gosvami also went on speaking Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
• 08:2908:29, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,337‎ Though he (Maharaja Pariksit) was a young king, as soon as he heard that he was going to die within seven days, he immediately left his kingdom. He did not follow the dictates of enemies within his body, such as lust, greed and anger ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2708:27, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,225‎ The sages of Naimisaranya were very respectful in hearing about Maharaja Pariksit because of his receiving knowledge from Sukadeva Gosvami by means of ardent hearing ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 9 August 2023 diff hist +7,345‎ The position of Maharaja Pariksit and Sukadeva Gosvami is unique. Maharaja Pariksit is the right person to hear about the transcendental pastimes of Krsna, and Sukadeva Gosvami is the right person to describe them ‎No edit summary
• 08:2308:23, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,459‎ The meeting of Aniruddha and Usa, which caused a great fight between Lord Krsna and Lord Siva, is very mysterious and interesting. Maharaja Pariksit was eager to hear the whole story from Sukadeva Gosvami, and thus Sukadeva narrated it ‎No edit summary
• 08:2008:20, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,936‎ The hearing of Srimad-Bhagavatam performed by professional men is different from the transcendental hearing of Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1608:16, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,808‎ They (great sages, rsis, philosophers, mystics, etc,.) offered many suggestions about his (Pariksit Maharaja's) immediate duty, and at last it was settled that he would hear from Sukadeva Gosvami about Lord Krsna. Thus the Bhagavatam was spoken to him ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1408:14, 9 August 2023 diff hist +7,349‎ There was none so attentive as Maharaja Pariksit in the matter of hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam, and there was none so qualified as Sukadeva Gosvami to recite the text of Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
• 08:1108:11, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,717‎ There are concrete examples of how a devotee discharged one of these services and achieved perfection. King Pariksit achieved the desired goal of life simply by hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
• 08:0808:08, 9 August 2023 diff hist +2,918‎ That (very anxious to see the Lord without making any serious effort to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam regularly) is not the way recommended by an authority like Maharaja Pariksit, who heard and benefited by hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0508:05, 9 August 2023 diff hist +4,408‎ Suta Gosvami said, "Maharaja Pariksit, the son of Uttara, after hearing the speeches of Sukadeva Gosvami, which were all about the truth of the self, applied his concentration faithfully upon Lord Krsna" ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0308:03, 9 August 2023 diff hist +5,927‎ Sukadeva Gosvami was speaking to Maharaja Pariksit, who was emperor of this planet. Maharaja Pariksit. And he was cursed by a Brahmin that he should die within seven days. So he was utilizing the seven days by hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
• 08:0108:01, 9 August 2023 diff hist +3,871‎ Sukadeva Gosvami was pleased with Maharaja Pariksit because he was not at all tired of hearing the topics of the Lord and was more and more anxious to hear them on and on with interest ‎No edit summary

8 August 2023

• 14:5414:54, 8 August 2023 diff hist +3,937‎ Sukadeva Gosvami thanked the King for his eagerness to hear about Krsna, and he encouraged him by saying, "My dear King (Pariksit), your intelligence is very keen because you are so eager to hear about the pastimes of Krsna" ‎No edit summary
• 14:5214:52, 8 August 2023 diff hist +2,191‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said: From Pururava came a son named Ayu, whose very powerful sons were Nahusa, Ksatravrddha, Raji, Rabha and Anena. O Maharaja Pariksit, now hear about the dynasty of Ksatravrddha ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5114:51, 8 August 2023 diff hist +10‎ Sukadeva Gosvami is speaking Srimad-Bhagavatam, and his disciple, Maharaja Pariksit, was hearing ‎No edit summary
• 14:4914:49, 8 August 2023 diff hist +4,318‎ Sukadeva Gosvami imparted transcendental knowledge to Maharaja Pariksit during the remaining seven days of his life, and Maharaja Pariksit heard him properly, just like an ardent student ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4814:48, 8 August 2023 diff hist +9,693‎ Sukadeva Gosvami did not say that the King (Pariksit Maharaja) should hear about the direct transcendental pastimes of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 8 August 2023 diff hist +21,907‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam was recited by Sukadeva Gosvami and heard by Pariksit Maharaja, and we in turn have to hear about Krsna and then chant about Him (sravanam kirtanam visnoh) - SB 7.5.23 ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4114:41, 8 August 2023 diff hist +6,178‎ Srila Sukadeva Gosvami has therefore advised Maharaja Pariksit in the beginning of the Second Canto that every conditioned soul should engage himself in hearing and chanting the transcendental pastimes of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3914:39, 8 August 2023 diff hist +6,532‎ Sri-visnoh sravane pariksid abhavad vaiyasakih kirtane (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.2.265). According to this verse, Maharaja Pariksit became liberated by fully concentrating his mind on hearing the Lord's holy name, attributes and pastimes ‎No edit summary
• 14:3714:37, 8 August 2023 diff hist +4,701‎ Sravanam is so perfect also. Pariksit Maharaja attained perfection simply by hearing seven days. Similarly, Sukadeva Gosvami, he also attained perfection by speaking seven days to Pariksit Maharaja ‎No edit summary
• 14:3614:36, 8 August 2023 diff hist +5,219‎ So Pariksit Maharaja had the opportunity of hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam for seven days, so I do not know whether we'll have, I have opportunity for reading Srimad-Bhagavatam for seven minutes. So let me read it very seriously" ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3514:35, 8 August 2023 diff hist +25,676‎ Some individual devotees who attained perfection in devotional service by executing only 1 item are: Maharaja Pariksit, who was liberated & fully perfected simply by hearing; Sukadeva Gosvami, who became liberated & attained perfection in DS by chanting ‎No edit summary
• 14:3414:34, 8 August 2023 diff hist +6,014‎ Since Maharaja Pariksit was a Vaisnava, when he heard the description, at the end of the Fifth Canto, of the different hellish conditions of life, he was very much concerned ‎No edit summary
• 14:3314:33, 8 August 2023 diff hist +7,169‎ Simply by hearing, you become perfect. Just like Pariksit Maharaja. At the time of point of his death, he had no time to perform any yajna or any big, big thing. He simply heard Srimad-Bhagavatam carefully - and he became perfect simply by hearing ‎No edit summary
• 14:3114:31, 8 August 2023 diff hist +6,668‎ Pariksit was to die within 7 days, and he immediately left his kingdom and family & went to the bank of the Ganges, sat down there tightly without taking even a drop of water; simply with great seriousness he heard Srimad-Bhagavatam. And he got salvation ‎No edit summary
• 14:3014:30, 8 August 2023 diff hist +32‎ Pariksit was not interested in the dry speculation of the flickering mind, but he was interested in the topics of the Lord because factually he felt that by hearing such a nectarean message from the mouth of Sukadeva he was not feeling any exhaustion ‎No edit summary
• 14:2814:28, 8 August 2023 diff hist +2,238‎ Pariksit said: My lord, Sukadeva Gosvami, you have elaborately described all the periods of the various Manus &, within those periods, the wonderful activities of the S. P. G, who has unlimited potency. I am fortunate to have heard all of this from you ‎No edit summary
• 14:1514:15, 8 August 2023 diff hist +6,054‎ Pariksit Maharaja was very eager to hear from Sukadeva Gosvami about the path of liberation for the conditioned soul ‎No edit summary
• 14:1414:14, 8 August 2023 diff hist +3,541‎ Pariksit Maharaja was eager to hear about the Manus of different ages. There are fourteen Manus during a day of Brahma, and the age of each Manu lasts for seventy-one yugas. Thus there are thousands of Manus during the life of Brahma ‎No edit summary
• 14:1214:12, 8 August 2023 diff hist +5,177‎ Pariksit Maharaja, he did not go to the temple. He sat on the bank of the Ganges, and he was very serious because he knew that "I am going to die within seven days. Let me finish as soon as possible simply hearing of Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
• 14:1114:11, 8 August 2023 diff hist +32‎ Pariksit Maharaja, being naturally a devotee of Krsna, wanted to hear more about Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 14:1014:10, 8 August 2023 diff hist +3,889‎ Pariksit heard that out of His causeless mercy Krsna (Visnu), who is universally obeyed, rendered all kinds of service to the malleable sons of Pandu by accepting posts ranging from chariot driver to president to messenger, friend, night watchman, etc ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0814:08, 8 August 2023 diff hist +6,902‎ Pariksit has been addressed as the manisi or the man of highly developed mind because at the time of death he left all material enjoyment and completely surrendered unto the lotus feet of God by hearing His messages from the right person Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0614:06, 8 August 2023 diff hist +2,787‎ Pariksit's death is wonderful because he got previous notice of his death, which is wonderful for any mortal being, & thus he prepared himself for passing away by sitting down on the bank of the Ganges & hearing the transcendental activities of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0314:03, 8 August 2023 diff hist +2,502‎ O King Pariksit, now please hear from me the names of Kasyapa's wives, from whose wombs the population of the entire universe has come. They are the mothers of almost all the population of the entire universe, and their names are very auspicious to hear ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 8 August 2023 diff hist +2,200‎ O King (Pariksit), kindly hear me (Sukadeva Gosvami) with great attention. Although the activities of the Supreme Lord (Krsna) are very confidential, no ordinary man being able to understand them, I shall speak about them to you - SB 10.13.3 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 8 August 2023 diff hist +1,749‎ O King (Pariksit), from Agnivesya came a brahminical dynasty known as Agnivesyayana. Now that I (Sukadeva Gosvami) have described the descendants of Narisyanta, let me describe the descendants of Dista. Please hear from me ‎No edit summary
• 13:5513:55, 8 August 2023 diff hist +6,784‎ Out of these nine methods, all the nine, or eight, seven, six, even one. If you engage yourself. Just like Maharaja Pariksit, he engaged himself simply for hearing. He become perfect. Simply by hearing Bhagavata from Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5313:53, 8 August 2023 diff hist +5,696‎ One who has seriously heard Srimad-Bhagavatam for even one day, like Maharaja Pariksit, from a fit personality like Sukadeva Gosvami, may be able to lose all affinity for material things ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4213:42, 8 August 2023 diff hist +19,854‎ One may perform all the methods of devotional service or may accept only one. Simply hearing is enough. Pariksit Maharaja did not do anything else but sit down before Sukadeva Gosvami and hear for the last seven days of his life ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4113:41, 8 August 2023 diff hist +1,697‎ Now you may hear from me (Suta Gosvami) of what happened while Maharaja Pariksit was passing his days hearing of the good occupations of his forefathers and being absorbed in thought of them ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 8 August 2023 diff hist +2,113‎ My (Pariksit's) heart, which is disturbed by the three miserable conditions of material life, is not yet sated with hearing you (Sukadeva) describe the glorious activities of the Lord, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the master of the devotees ‎No edit summary
• 13:3713:37, 8 August 2023 diff hist +2,485‎ Maharaja Pariksit was very much eager to hear about Krsna's activities in Vrndavana ‎No edit summary
• 13:3613:36, 8 August 2023 diff hist +6,917‎ Maharaja Pariksit was very eager to hear more about Krsna, and so, after finishing the narration of Arjuna's kidnapping Subhadra, Sukadeva Gosvami began to narrate another story, as follows ‎No edit summary
• 13:3513:35, 8 August 2023 diff hist +4,160‎ Maharaja Pariksit was thus encouraged by the great Sukadeva Gosvami, even though he had only seven days left in his life to execute the prime duty of hearing the glories of the Lord in the form of Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 8 August 2023 diff hist +3,602‎ Maharaja Pariksit was involved in politics, but because at the end of his life he heard Srimad-Bhagavatam from Sukadeva Gosvami, he attained perfection very easily ‎No edit summary
• 13:3213:32, 8 August 2023 diff hist +4,527‎ Maharaja Pariksit was cursed by a brahmin that he would die within seven days. So he simply heard this Srimad-Bhagavatam for seven days very seriously, and he was fully conscious of Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 13:3013:30, 8 August 2023 diff hist +1,690‎ Maharaja Pariksit said: O most powerful brahmana, why was this place so empowered, and who made it so powerful? Kindly answer this question, for I am very eager to hear about this ‎No edit summary
• 13:2913:29, 8 August 2023 diff hist +1,900‎ Maharaja Pariksit said: My dear lord, you have already spoken about the pumsavana vow. Now I want to hear about it in detail, for I understand that by observing this vow one can please the Supreme Lord, Visnu ‎No edit summary
• 13:2813:28, 8 August 2023 diff hist +8,243‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "I therefore wish to hear about other pastimes of His which you (Sukadeva Gosvami) may not have described as yet" ‎No edit summary
• 13:2713:27, 8 August 2023 diff hist +4,217‎ Maharaja Pariksit knew perfectly well that Lord Visnu, being transcendental, has nothing to do with material qualities, but to confirm his conviction he wanted to hear from the authority Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary
• 13:2513:25, 8 August 2023 diff hist +3,920‎ Maharaja Pariksit heard that some of the people of the state had already taken to those symptoms, and he wanted to take immediate steps against such causes of unrest ‎No edit summary

7 August 2023

• 14:5014:50, 7 August 2023 diff hist +7,278‎ Maharaja Pariksit heard Sukadeva Gosvami explain the situation of the gopis who assembled with Krsna in the rasa dance ‎No edit summary
• 14:4914:49, 7 August 2023 diff hist +3,120‎ Maharaja Pariksit had no more than seven days to live, but for others Maharaja Pariksit personally recommends that one hear Srimad-Bhagavatam regularly, nityam, always by one's own effort and with serious devotion also ‎No edit summary
• 14:4814:48, 7 August 2023 diff hist +9,885‎ Maharaja Pariksit did not ask his spiritual master, Sukadeva Gosvami, to narrate Lord Krsna's pastimes in Vrndavana; he wanted to hear first about the creation of the Lord ‎No edit summary
• 14:4714:47, 7 August 2023 diff hist +2,934‎ Maharaja Pariksit attained the highest perfection, shelter at Lord Krsna's lotus feet, simply by hearing about Lord Visnu. Sukadeva Gosvami attained perfection simply by reciting SB. Prahlada Maharaja attained perfection by remembering the Lord ‎No edit summary
• 14:4514:45, 7 August 2023 diff hist +7,163‎ Maharaja Pariksit attained salvation by hearing only, and Sukadeva Gosvami attained salvation only by reciting ‎No edit summary
• 14:4214:42, 7 August 2023 diff hist +2,663‎ Maharaja Pariksit, to fulfill his desire to hear about Krsna, requested Sukadeva Gosvami to describe these activities (of Krsna) in full detail ‎No edit summary
• 14:3814:38, 7 August 2023 diff hist +3,265‎ Krsna's appearance on this planet like a human being makes us more fortunate than the demigods in the higher planets, and therefore Maharaja Pariksit was very much interested in hearing about Him ‎No edit summary
• 14:3714:37, 7 August 2023 diff hist +8,496‎ King Pariksit was hearing the narrations of the pastimes of Lord Krsna and Lord Balarama from Sukadeva Gosvami. These pastimes are all transcendentally pleasurable to hear, and Maharaja Pariksit addressed Sukadeva Gosvami as follows ‎No edit summary
• 14:3414:34, 7 August 2023 diff hist +1,931‎ King Pariksit said: O my lord, my spiritual master, now I have fully heard from Your Grace about the dynasty of Svayambhuva Manu. But there are also other Manus, and I want to hear about their dynasties. Kindly describe them to us ‎No edit summary
• 14:3314:33, 7 August 2023 diff hist +1,596‎ King Pariksit said: My lord, Badarayani, we wish to hear from you in detail how the King of the elephants, when attacked by a crocodile, was delivered by Hari ‎No edit summary
• 14:2514:25, 7 August 2023 diff hist +5,749‎ It is understood that one must be very fortunate to hear krsna-katha as seriously as Maharaja Pariksit did. He was especially intent on the subject matter because he was expecting death at any moment ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2414:24, 7 August 2023 diff hist +3,146‎ It is only possible in devotional service. Attachment for family affairs and devotional service are incompatible. Pariksit was somewhat surprised to hear that Maharaja Priyavrata was simultaneously attached to devotional service and to family life ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2014:20, 7 August 2023 diff hist +24,947‎ In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 2.1.5) Sukadeva Gosvami advises Pariksit: O best of the Bharatas, it is the prime duty of persons who want to become fearless to hear about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, and to chant about Him and always remember Him ‎No edit summary
• 14:1814:18, 7 August 2023 diff hist +3,859‎ In pursuance of this eternal truth, Srimad-Bhagavatam was heard by Emperor Pariksit, and it was recited by the able Sukadeva Gosvami. And both the speaker and the receiver of the messages of Bhagavatam were duly delivered by the same medium ‎No edit summary
• 14:1714:17, 7 August 2023 diff hist +5,820‎ In order to assure Sukadeva Gosvami that by hearing krsna-katha he would not feel tired, Maharaja Pariksit expressed himself very frankly ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1414:14, 7 August 2023 diff hist +4,924‎ Intelligent persons like Maharaja Pariksit do not recognize such mental speculators, however great they may be, but hear from the authorities like Sukadeva Gosvami, who is nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead by the parampara system ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1214:12, 7 August 2023 diff hist +5,107‎ Intelligent persons like Maharaja Pariksit do not recognize mental speculators, however great they may be, but hear from the authorities like Sukadeva Gosvami, who is nondifferent from the Supreme Personality of Godhead by the parampara system ‎No edit summary
• 14:1114:11, 7 August 2023 diff hist +6,385‎ His (Rukmi) daughter married Krsna's son, and his granddaughter married Krsna's grandson Aniruddha. This fact appeared a little astonishing to Maharaja Pariksit when he heard it from Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0714:07, 7 August 2023 diff hist +3,930‎ He informed Pariksit that hearing & chanting the pastimes of Krsna are so auspicious that the processes purify the three varieties of men involved: he who recites the transcendental topics of Krsna, he who hears such topics & he who inquires about Him ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 7 August 2023 diff hist +4,931‎ He (Pariksit) was a chaste devotee of the Lord, and when he further heard from Srila Sukadeva Gosvami that one should worship the Lord only and no one else, even though full of all desires or desireless, his natural affection for Krsna was strengthened ‎No edit summary
• 14:0414:04, 7 August 2023 diff hist +4,717‎ Hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam from the professional men, (an audience) can derive some material benefit as they desire, but that does not mean that such a pretense of hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam for a week is as good as the hearing of Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0114:01, 7 August 2023 diff hist +16,200‎ Hearing and chanting of the science of God is the basic principle of devotional life. The complete Bhagavatam was heard by Maharaja Pariksit and chanted by Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary
• 13:3713:37, 7 August 2023 diff hist +2,749‎ For seven days continuously he (Pariksit) heard Srimad-Bhagavatam from the right source, and thus he got shelter at the lotus feet of the Lord by that opportunity ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3613:36, 7 August 2023 diff hist +11,149‎ Everyone can accept Krsna in so many ways. We can love Krsna as Arjuna did, or as Mother Yasoda did. Similarly, Pariksit Maharaja simply heard about Krsna and developed love ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 7 August 2023 diff hist +13,617‎ Emperor Pariksit attained the spiritual platform simply by hearing from such an authority as Sri Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary
• 13:3213:32, 7 August 2023 diff hist +2,708‎ During all the days Pariksit Maharaj heard Bhagavatam, he did not take food or drink, nor did he sleep a moment. So everything about him is wonderful, and his activities are worth hearing attentively. Desire is expressed herein to hear about him in detail ‎No edit summary
• 13:2613:26, 7 August 2023 diff hist +32‎ Death is inevitable; no one can surpass the force of death. Therefore Maharaja Pariksit, while fully alive, wanted to hear Srimad-Bhagavatam. He is consequently addressed here (in SB 8.5.24) as arindama ‎No edit summary
• 13:2313:23, 7 August 2023 diff hist +8,858‎ By hearing of the Lord, Maharaja Pariksit, the hero of Srimad-Bhagavatam, attained the desired result ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 7 August 2023 diff hist +4,754‎ By hearing from a bona fide spiritual master (Sukadeva Gosvami), he (Maharaja Pariksit) was perfectly able to concentrate his chaste mind further upon Lord Krsna, as a matter of course ‎No edit summary
• 13:2013:20, 7 August 2023 diff hist +6,395‎ By adopting only one of these nine principles, the following renowned devotees of the Lord were able to achieve the highest perfection: (1) By hearing of the Lord, Maharaja Pariksit, the hero of Srimad-Bhagavatam, attained the desired result ‎No edit summary
• 13:1913:19, 7 August 2023 diff hist +4,317‎ Because you (Maharaja Pariksit) have heard again and again about Lord Ramacandra, the husband of mother Sita, I (Sukadeva Gosvami) shall describe these activities only in brief. Please listen ‎No edit summary
• 13:1613:16, 7 August 2023 diff hist +6,597‎ At the time of death Maharaj Pariksit left all material enjoyment and completely surrendered unto the lotus feet of the Lord by hearing His messages from the right person, Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1413:14, 7 August 2023 diff hist +3,737‎ At the point of his death, King Pariksit was hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam from Sukadeva Gosvami. When King Pariksit expressed his untiring desire to hear about Krsna, Sukadeva Gosvami was very much pleased ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 7 August 2023 diff hist +5,830‎ An instance of astonishment in devotional service by indirect perception occurred when Maharaj Pariksit heard from Sukadeva Gosvami about Krsna's killing Narakasura, who had been fighting Krsna with eleven divisions of aksauhini soldiers ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 7 August 2023 diff hist +32‎ Although we (Pariksit) are the lowest of ksatriyas, we are glorified and benefited because we have the opportunity of always hearing from you (Sukadeva Gosvami) the nectar of the pious activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead - SB 10.12.43 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0913:09, 7 August 2023 diff hist +8,206‎ Although he (Pariksit) was bereft of his entire kingdom, which spread over all the world, and although he was accepting not even a drop of water in the seven days remaining to him, because he was engaged in hearing the transcendental pastimes of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 7 August 2023 diff hist +6,542‎ All the kings in both the soma-vamsa and surya-vamsa were great and powerful, and Maharaja Pariksit praised them very highly. Nonetheless, he wanted to hear more about the soma-vamsa because that was the dynasty in which Krsna had appeared ‎No edit summary
• 12:5912:59, 7 August 2023 diff hist +2,159‎ All that was spoken by the great sages was very sweet to hear, full of meaning and appropriately presented as perfectly true. So after hearing them, Maharaja Pariksit, desiring to hear of the activities of Lord Krsna, the P of G, congratulated the sages ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 7 August 2023 diff hist +27,603‎ After hearing a description of such (hellish and heavenly) planets from Sukadeva Gosvami, Pariksit Maharaja said: "Sir, I have heard from you about the hellish planets. Men who are very sinful are sent to those planets." (SB 6.1.6) ‎No edit summary
• 12:5412:54, 7 August 2023 diff hist +3,149‎ After hearing about his (Maharaja Pariksit's) death, which will be caused by the bite of a snake-bird sent by a son of a brahmana, he will get himself freed from all material attachment and surrender unto the Personality of Godhead, taking shelter of Him ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 7 August 2023 diff hist +3,559‎ According to the will of the Pandavas, obeying them like a servant and offering obeisances like one younger in years. When he heard this, Maharaja Pariksit became overwhelmed with devotion to the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3908:39, 7 August 2023 diff hist +7,152‎ According to the statement of Maharaja Pariksit, who heard about Krsna from Sukadeva Gosvami, krsna-katha is equally applicable to every human being, whatever condition of life he is in. Surely everyone will appreciate it to the highest magnitude ‎No edit summary
• 08:3208:32, 7 August 2023 diff hist +2,367‎ The pious King (Pariksit) regretted his accidental improper treatment of the powerful brahmana (Samika Rsi) who was faultless. Such repentance is natural for a good man like the King and it delivers a devotee from all kinds of sins accidentally committed ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 7 August 2023 diff hist +3,030‎ The Emperor Pariksit is a pious king. He is highly celebrated and is a first-class devotee of the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 08:3008:30, 7 August 2023 diff hist +3,706‎ The conditions of the material world are so made that one has to commit sins willingly or unwillingly, and the best example is Maharaja Pariksit himself, who was a recognized sinless, pious king ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2708:27, 7 August 2023 diff hist +2,164‎ Murderers of animals stand to be condemned to death by the order of a pious king like Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 7 August 2023 diff hist +2,187‎ Maharaja Pariksit was a pious king. He conquered his enemies, and therefore the kingdom was full of prosperity ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2308:23, 7 August 2023 diff hist −3‎ A medical practitioner may kill a patient by mistaken treatment, but such a killer is never condemned to death. So what to speak of a good and pious king like Maharaja Pariksit? ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1708:17, 7 August 2023 diff hist +5,260‎ When the personification of Kali attempted to kill a cow, Maharaja Pariksit at once prepared himself to kill the miscreant, and the personification of Kali was banished from his kingdom. That is the sign of purusa, or the representative of Lord Visnu ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1408:14, 7 August 2023 diff hist +2,268‎ The personality of Kali addressed Maharaja Pariksit as the chief amongst the protectors of religiosity because the King refrained from killing a person who surrendered unto him ‎No edit summary
• 08:1208:12, 7 August 2023 diff hist +2,483‎ The King (Pariksit) was ready to kill the personality of Kali at once, as soon as he disobeyed his order. Otherwise the King had no objection to allowing him to prolong his life ‎No edit summary current

6 August 2023

• 14:5714:57, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,550‎ Sri Suta Gosvami said: The personality of Kali, thus being ordered by Maharaja Pariksit, began to tremble in fear. Seeing the King before him like Yamaraja, ready to Kill him, Kali spoke to the King as follows ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5514:55, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,947‎ Saunaka and the rsis were astonished to hear that the pious Maharaja Pariksit simply punished the culprit and did not kill him ‎No edit summary
• 14:5114:51, 6 August 2023 diff hist +3,578‎ Maharaja Pariksit wanted to kill the personified Kali, who was attempting to kill a cow, the emblem of peace and religion ‎No edit summary
• 14:4914:49, 6 August 2023 diff hist +3,342‎ Maharaja Pariksit is the ideal executive head of the state, for at once he was ready to kill the personality of Kali with his sharp sword ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4814:48, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,499‎ Maharaja Pariksit, who was qualified to accept surrender and worthy of being sung in history, did not kill the poor surrendered and fallen Kali, but smiled compassionately, for he was kind to the poor ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4614:46, 6 August 2023 diff hist +3,377‎ Maharaja Pariksit, who could fight one thousand enemies single-handedly, thus pacified the personality of religion and the earth. Then he took up his sharp sword to kill the personality of Kali, who is the cause of all irreligion ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,262‎ It was better for the personality of Kali to have been killed by the King (Pariksit) then and there instead of being killed elsewhere. He was, after all, a surrendered soul before the King, and it was for the King to do what was required ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3914:39, 6 August 2023 diff hist +6,356‎ For example, as soon as Maharaj Pariksit saw that a black man was attempting to kill a cow, he immediately took his sword, wanting to kill the black man, whose name was Kali ‎No edit summary
• 14:3614:36, 6 August 2023 diff hist +4,433‎ When he (Pariksit Maharaja) saw that one black man was trying to kill one cow, immediately he took his sword: "Immediately I shall kill you. Who are you, killing cows in my kingdom?" This is ksatriya's business ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1314:13, 6 August 2023 diff hist +23,145‎ In Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 2.4.22) Sukadeva Gosvami confirms that the gayatri mantra was first imparted within the heart of Brahma by the Supreme. Sukadeva Gosvami prayed to the Lord to help him speak Srimad-Bhagavatam before Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0614:06, 6 August 2023 diff hist +3,469‎ Although Maharaja Pariksit was a pure devotee, Sukadeva Gosvami did not immediately speak to him about the strength of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 6 August 2023 diff hist +8,809‎ Sukadeva Gosvami told Pariksit that every living entity is actually most attached to his own self. Outward paraphernalia such as home, family, friends, country, society, wealth, opulence and reputation & all only secondary in pleasing the living entity ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,861‎ Indirectly, the Gosvami (Sukadeva) told Maharaja Pariksit that he should take shelter of the sound representation of the Lord for the seven days still remaining in the duration of his life and thus get himself liberated ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5513:55, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,709‎ As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 5.6.18), muktim dadati karhicit. Srila Sukadeva Gosvami told Maharaja Pariksit that Krsna readily grants liberation but does not very readily grant perfection in devotional service ‎No edit summary
• 13:4013:40, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,554‎ The phrase suta uvaca ("Suta Gosvami said") appears to indicate a break in the discourse between Maharaja Pariksit and Sukadeva Gosvami. While Sukadeva Gosvami was speaking to Maharaja Pariksit, Suta Gosvami was only one member of a large audience ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3813:38, 6 August 2023 diff hist +3,663‎ Sukadeva Gosvami continued speaking to Maharaja Pariksit: My dear King, the King of Konka, Venka and Kutaka whose name was Arhat, heard of the activities of Rsabhadeva and, imitating Rsabhadeva's principles, introduced a new system of religion ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3713:37, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,620‎ Sukadeva Gosvami continued speaking to Maharaja Pariksit: My dear King, sleep is exactly like a python. Those who wander in the forest of material life are always devoured by the python of sleep ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3613:36, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,300‎ Sukadeva Gosvami continued speaking to Maharaja Pariksit: My dear King, Bharata Maharaja was a topmost devotee. Following the orders of his father, who had already decided to install him on the throne, he began to rule the earth accordingly ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3313:33, 6 August 2023 diff hist +5,241‎ If you hear from a professional man, that will not be effective. Hearing must be from sadhu, from devotee, from the lips of the devotee. Just like Sukadeva Gosvami was speaking to Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary
• 13:3113:31, 6 August 2023 diff hist +10‎ You should always remember that this Bhagavatam is being spoken by Sukadeva Gosvami to King Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3013:30, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,035‎ What was spoken to Maharaja Pariksit and what is very dear to the pure devotees is Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2913:29, 6 August 2023 diff hist +10‎ This was spoken by Sukadeva Gosvami to Maharaja Pariksit, that srotavyadini rajendra nrnam santi sahasrasah. The subject matter of hearing, there are many thousands for persons who has no self-realization ‎No edit summary
• 13:2713:27, 6 August 2023 diff hist +1,628‎ This verse (of CC Antya 15.81) quoted from Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 10.29.48) was spoken by Sukadeva Gosvami to Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary
• 13:2013:20, 6 August 2023 diff hist +10‎ Representative means one who is strictly following the principle adopted by Sukadeva Gosvami. Just like Sukadeva Gosvami first of all spoke Srimad-Bhagavatam before Maharaja Pariksit, and in that meeting, Suta Gosvami was present ‎No edit summary
• 13:1813:18, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,277‎ Please narrate to us the narrations of the Unlimited, for they are purifying and supreme. They were spoken to Maharaja Pariksit, and they are very dear to the pure devotees, being full of bhakti-yoga ‎No edit summary current
• 13:1713:17, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,461‎ O Suta Gosvami, your words are pleasing to our minds. Please therefore explain this to us as it was spoken by the great devotee Sukadeva Gosvami, who is very expert in transcendental knowledge, and who spoke to Maharaja Pariksit upon being asked ‎No edit summary
• 13:1413:14, 6 August 2023 diff hist +10‎ Kirtana means kirtayati, glorifying. That is kirtana. So either you sing musically or you speak devotionally, both of them are kirtana. Just like Sukadeva Gosvami, he continually spoke to Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0913:09, 6 August 2023 diff hist +11,523‎ When we turn to the Srimad-Bhagavatam, in the Twelfth Canto we find Sukadeva Gosvami telling Maharaja Pariksit that in the Golden Age, the Satyayuga, people were living for l00,000 years ‎No edit summary
• 13:0913:09, 6 August 2023 diff hist +3,220‎ The Supersoul, the SP of Godhead, Sri Krsna, the cause of the cosmic manifestation, appeared in the dynasty of Yadu. Please tell me (Pariksit) elaborately about His glorious activities and character, from the beginning to the end of His life - SB 10.1.3 ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 6 August 2023 diff hist +3,521‎ There are also instances of pralaya in distress. One such example is described in the Tenth Canto, 39th Chapter, 14th verse of Srimad-Bhagavatam, where Sukadeva Gosvami tells King Pariksit ‎No edit summary
• 13:0513:05, 6 August 2023 diff hist +4,526‎ Sukadeva Goswami tells Maharaja Pariksit, "My dear King, when Mother Yasoda was perspiring, tired of trying to bind Krsna up with rope, Krsna agreed to allow her to bind Him" ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 6 August 2023 diff hist +4,871‎ Sukadeva Gosvami tells Pariksit Maharaj, "My dear King, if a person, after hearing blasphemous propaganda against the Lord and His devotees, does not go away from that place, he becomes bereft of the effect of all pious activities" ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 6 August 2023 diff hist +5,237‎ Sukadeva Gosvami tells Pariksit: "The gopis would meditate on Krsna's dressing Himself just like a dancing actor and entering the forest of Vrndavana, marking the ground with His footprints" ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 6 August 2023 diff hist +4,003‎ Sukadeva Gosvami tells Pariksit: "They (Gopis) also meditated on Krsna's blowing His flute and on all the cowherd boys' singing of the glories of the Lord." That is the description of the meditation which the gopis used to perform ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 6 August 2023 diff hist +4,907‎ Sukadeva Gosvami tells Maharaj Pariksit, "O best of the Kurus, Sri Krsna cut into pieces all the different weapons used by different fighters" ‎No edit summary current

5 August 2023

• 15:2415:24, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,103‎ Sukadeva Gosvami tells Maharaj Pariksit, "My dear King, if one is spontaneously attached to the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, it is to be understood that he has attained the highest perfectional stage" ‎No edit summary
• 15:2115:21, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,548‎ Sukadeva Gosvami tells Maharaja Pariksit that after surrendering everything unto the lotus feet of Vamanadeva, Bali Maharaja immediately caught hold of the lotus feet of the Lord and pressed them to his heart ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2015:20, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,032‎ Sukadeva Gosvami tells King Pariksit: "My dear King, I shall try to describe how the minds of the gopis became absorbed in the thought of Krsna" ‎No edit summary
• 15:1915:19, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,739‎ Sukadeva Gosvami tells King Pariksit:, "My dear King, although Lord Krsna is the supreme enjoyer and the beneficiary of all kinds of sacrificial ceremonies, He still used to eat with His cowherd boy friends" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 5 August 2023 diff hist +6,269‎ Sukadeva Gosvami tells King Pariksit, "My dear King, Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead to the learned transcendentalist, He is the supreme happiness for the impersonalist" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 5 August 2023 diff hist +10,030‎ Sukadeva Gosvami tells King Pariksit, "My dear King, as soon as the elderly gopis saw their sons coming, there was an inexpressible sign of parental love, and all of them became absorbed in affection" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1515:15, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,338‎ Sukadeva Gosvami tells King Pariksit, "My dear King, as soon as Akrura the chariot driver saw Lord Krsna and His elder brother Balarama in Vrndavana, he immediately got down from the chariot" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1315:13, 5 August 2023 diff hist +11,048‎ Sukadeva Gosvami tells King Pariksit, "He (Krsna) is the supreme worshipable Deity for the devotee, and He is just like an ordinary boy to one who is under the spell of maya" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 5 August 2023 diff hist +7,258‎ Sukadeva Gosvami tells King Pariksit, "All the mothers of the cowherd boys were illusioned by the covering influence of the yoga-maya potency of the Personality of Godhead" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,105‎ Another instance of Krsna's obligation to His devotee is described in the Tenth Canto, 9th Chapter, 14th verse, of Srimad-Bhagavatam where Sukadeva Gosvami tells King Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,976‎ About the expertise of Krsna there is a statement in the Tenth Canto, 59th Chapter, 13th verse, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, wherein Sukadeva Gosvami tells Maharaj Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 5 August 2023 diff hist +6,325‎ The great sage Sukadeva said: "My dear Maharaja Pariksit, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna is always ready to help you" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0315:03, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,873‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said to Pariksit, "He (king Bharata) was so very lucky that the goddess of fortune was pleased to offer him all kinds of material concessions, but he never accepted any of these material opulences" ‎No edit summary
• 15:0015:00, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,868‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said to Pariksit, "He (king Bharata) very easily gave up his lordship over the earthly planet and his affection for his children, society, friends, royal opulence and beautiful wife" ‎No edit summary
• 14:5914:59, 5 August 2023 diff hist +3,544‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said to Maharaja Pariksit: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, after being seen in His transcendental form, instructing Brahmaji, the leader of the living entities, disappeared ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,049‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said: O Pariksit, Yayati was very much attached to woman. In due course of time, however, when disgusted with sexual enjoyment and its bad effects, he renounced this way of life and narrated the following story to his beloved wife ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5614:56, 5 August 2023 diff hist +3,621‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said: O Maharaja Pariksit, when King Rahugana chastised the exalted devotee Jada Bharata with harsh words, that peaceful, saintly person tolerated it all and replied properly ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5114:51, 5 August 2023 diff hist +1,901‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said: O Maharaja Pariksit, the priest of the Yadu dynasty, namely Garga Muni, who was highly elevated in austerity and penance, was then inspired by Vasudeva to go see Nanda Maharaja at his home - SB 10.8.1 ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4914:49, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,155‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said: O King Pariksit, although the great sage Angira knew everything, he inquired from the King in this way. Thus King Citraketu, desiring a son, bent low in great humility and spoke to the great sage as follows ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 5 August 2023 diff hist +1,701‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said: O King Pariksit, after the most famous and powerful Vasistha made this decision, he offered prayers to the Supreme Person, Visnu, to transform Ila into a male ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4114:41, 5 August 2023 diff hist +1,874‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said: O best of the Kurus, Maharaja Pariksit, the demigods and demons summoned Vasuki, king of the serpents, requesting him to come and promising to give him a share of the nectar ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3814:38, 5 August 2023 diff hist +1,827‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said: In this way, O Maharaja Pariksit, the son named Puru was very pleased to accept the old age of his father, Yayati, who took the youth of his son and enjoyed this material world as he required ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3514:35, 5 August 2023 diff hist +1,878‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said: Because of your (Pariksit's) death by the Taksaka snake, your son Janamejaya will be very angry and will perform a sacrifice to kill all the snakes in the world ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3314:33, 5 August 2023 diff hist +6,518‎ Sukadeva Gosvami continued to speak to Pariksit Maharaja. "My dear King," he said, "in this regard I shall narrate a nice story. This story is important because it is in connection with Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead" ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3114:31, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,139‎ Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said to Maharaja Pariksit: My dear King, approximately 240,000 miles beneath the planet Patala lives another incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the expansion of Lord Visnu known as Lord Ananta or Lord Sankarsana ‎No edit summary
• 14:2514:25, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,822‎ Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: O King Pariksit, when Bali Maharaja was thus advised by his spiritual master, Sukracarya, his family priest, he remained silent for some time, and then, after full deliberation, he replied to his spiritual master as follows ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2114:21, 5 August 2023 diff hist +1,696‎ Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King Pariksit, by his mystic power the great sage Narada brought the dead son into the vision of all the lamenting relatives and then spoke as follows ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2014:20, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,206‎ Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear King (Pariksit), your question is glorious because it is very beneficial to all kinds of people. The answer to this question is the prime subject matter for hearing, and it is approved by all transcendentalists ‎No edit summary
• 14:1914:19, 5 August 2023 diff hist +1,662‎ Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: Kasyapa Muni, thinking in this way, became somewhat angry. Condemning himself, O Maharaja Pariksit, descendant of Kuru, he spoke to Diti as follows ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1414:14, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,849‎ Srila Sukadeva Gosvami said to Pariksit Maharaja: Those who are materially engrossed, being blind to knowledge of the ultimate truth, have many subjects for hearing in human society, O Emperor ‎No edit summary
• 14:0514:05, 5 August 2023 diff hist +1,922‎ Srila Sukadeva Gosvami said: Accompanied by Bali Maharaja, my dear King Pariksit, Prahlada Maharaja, the master of all the chiefs of the demons, took the Supreme Lord's order on his head with folded hands ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5413:54, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,035‎ Sukadeva Gosvami said: My dear Maharaja Pariksit, son of the Kuru dynasty, when Lord Parasurama was given this order by his father, he immediately agreed, saying, "Let it be so." For one complete year he traveled to holy places ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,796‎ Sukadeva Gosvami addresses Pariksit Maharaj there and says, "The great soul of King Bharata was so much attached to the service of the lotus feet of Krsna" ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4813:48, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,596‎ Sukadeva Gosvami, a great personality, says, "What I am describing to you, O King (Pariksit), is what I have heard from authoritative sources." This is the Vedic system ‎No edit summary
• 10:5510:55, 5 August 2023 diff hist +3,909‎ Sripada Vijayadhvaja Tirtha adds another verse in chapter 7 (of SB Canto 10): Pariksit Maharaja then requested Sukadeva Gosvami to continue speaking such narrations about the pastimes of Krsna, so that the King could enjoy from them transcendental bliss ‎No edit summary
• 10:5210:52, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,869‎ King Pariksit continued, "Brahman, or the Absolute Truth, has no material qualities, but our power of speaking does not go beyond the material qualities" ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,233‎ Maharaja Pariksit, well equipped with arrows and bow and seated on a gold-embossed chariot, spoke to him (the sudra) with a deep voice sounding like thunder ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4310:43, 5 August 2023 diff hist +27‎ With similar Vaisnava compassion (as Six Gosvamis), Pariksit Maharaja told Sukadeva Gosvami: You have just described the different types of hellish life. Now, tell me how those who are suffering can be delivered. Kindly explain this to me ‎No edit summary
• 10:3910:39, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5‎ Pariksit Maharaja told Kali-yuga to leave his kingdom immediately and reside in four places: brothels, liquor shops, slaughterhouses and gambling casinos ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,611‎ King Pariksit then told Sukadeva Gosvami: My dear lord, O great devotee sage, you are omniscient. You have very nicely described the position of the conditioned soul, who is compared to a merchant in the forest ‎No edit summary
• 10:3310:33, 5 August 2023 diff hist +18,177‎ While speaking with Sukadeva Gosvami, Maharaja Pariksit also referred to this. "The Battlefield of Kuruksetra," he said, - was just like an ocean ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3110:31, 5 August 2023 diff hist +18,061‎ The word bhagavata refers to anything in relationship to Bhagavan, the Supreme Lord, & the Hare Krsna mantra is also bhagavata. Thus Pariksit said that the taste of Bhagavata can be relished by one who is free from hankering to satisfy material desires ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,246‎ Srila Pariksit Maharaja said that the constant hearing of the pastimes of the Lord is the panacea for all material diseases ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2010:20, 5 August 2023 diff hist +28,007‎ Sir - he (Maharaja Pariksit) said, - you (Sukadeva Gosvami) have described that because of one's sinful activities he is put into a hellish condition of life or in a hellish planetary system. Now, what are the methods by which such a person can be saved ‎No edit summary
• 10:1810:18, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,397‎ Pariksit said: "Now I am quite fit. I am not at all disturbed by my hunger and thirst." This indicates that although on the material platform there are disturbances from hunger & thirst, on the spiritual platform there is no such thing as fatigue ‎No edit summary
• 10:1710:17, 5 August 2023 diff hist +8,579‎ Pariksit said, "The conditioned souls within this material world are frustrated by searching out the pleasure of happiness derived from sense gratification. Such desires for material enjoyment are always piercing the hearts of conditioned souls" ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1610:16, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,536‎ Pariksit said, "So please bless me, that Mother Ganges may also be pleased with me. Let the curse of the brahmana's son fall upon me - I do not mind" ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1510:15, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,617‎ Pariksit said, "I only request that at the last moment of my life all of you will kindly chant the holy name of Visnu, so that I may realize His transcendental qualities" ‎No edit summary
• 10:1410:14, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,433‎ Pariksit said, "I have come to the bank of the Ganges just to devote my heart and soul unto the lotus feet of Lord Krsna" ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1310:13, 5 August 2023 diff hist +17,854‎ Pariksit Maharaja said to the great sage Sukadeva Gosvami, - The discourses on Srimad-Bhagavatam that you are giving me are not ordinary. These Bhagavata discourses are relishable for persons who are nivrtta-trsna, free from hankering ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1110:11, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5‎ Pariksit Maharaja said that although one may cleanse himself in the process of atonement, if he again commits the same sinful acts, what is the use ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1110:11, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5‎ Pariksit Maharaja said: kvacin nivartate 'bhadrat kvacic carati tat punah prayascittam ato 'partham: (SB 6.1.10) Repetitive sinning and atoning seem to me like nothing but a waste of time ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,889‎ Pariksit Maharaja. He said that God consciousness, Krsna consciousness, cannot be understood by the animal killer ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5‎ Pariksit Maharaja, who was very intelligent, said - By atonement one can become free from sinful activity, but suppose a man has committed murder and then is killed ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 5 August 2023 diff hist +9,025‎ Maharaja Pariksit said that only the animal-killer cannot relish the transcendental message of the Supreme Lord. Therefore if people are to be educated to the path of Godhead, they must be taught first and foremost to stop the process of animal-killing ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,153‎ Maharaja Pariksit said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is eternally situated in His transcendental position, yet He descends to this material world and manifests Himself in various incarnations ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0110:01, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,508‎ Maharaja Pariksit said: Sukracarya was a very powerful brahmana, and Maharaja Yayati was a ksatriya. Therefore I am curious to know how there occurred this pratiloma marriage between a ksatriya and a brahmana ‎No edit summary
• 09:4809:48, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,763‎ Maharaja Pariksit said: O my lord, O Sukadeva Gosvami, you have already described (in the Second Canto) the path of liberation (nivrtti-marga) ‎No edit summary
• 09:4609:46, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,509‎ Maharaja Pariksit said: Once when I felt very thirsty, I went to the asrama of Samika Muni to drink water, but the muni did not supply it. I therefore wrapped a dead snake over his shoulder, and that is why I was cursed by the brahmana boy ‎No edit summary
• 09:4209:42, 5 August 2023 diff hist +7,224‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "The gopis did not know that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They accepted Him as a beautiful boy and considered Him to be their paramour" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,810‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "O learned brahmana, you know everything because you are without material contamination" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 5 August 2023 diff hist +8,830‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "My dear lord, the SP of Godhead, Krsna, is the bestower of both liberation and love of God simultaneously. Anyone who becomes a devotee of the Lord automatically attains liberation without having to make a separate attempt" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 5 August 2023 diff hist +11,202‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "Krsna appeared on the earth to establish the regulative principles of religion and to curb the predominance of irreligion. But the behavior of Krsna and the gopis might encourage irreligious principles in the material world" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3309:33, 5 August 2023 diff hist +8,374‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "I think that no intelligent person can reject this method of hearing the transcendental pastimes of the Lord again and again; simply by hearing, one can remain always steeped in transcendental pleasure" ‎No edit summary
• 09:1909:19, 5 August 2023 diff hist +11,480‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "I am simply surprised that He would act in such a way, enjoying the company of others' wives in the dead of night." This statement of Maharaja Pariksit's was very much appreciated by Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0509:05, 5 August 2023 diff hist +8,380‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "I am actually experiencing how the transcendental topics of Lord Krsna's pastimes can relieve one from being affected by such material activities of sense gratification" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0409:04, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,865‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "Hunger and thirst may give trouble to ordinary persons or to me, but the topics of Krsna are so nice that one can continue to hear them without feeling tired because such hearing situates one in the transcendental position" ‎No edit summary
• 09:0209:02, 5 August 2023 diff hist +8,140‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "Because the Lord is unlimited, His (Krsna's) pastimes and activities for creating, maintaining and destroying the whole cosmic manifestation are also unlimited" ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5808:58, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5‎ Maharaja Pariksit also said - Somehow or other they have fallen down to a hellish life, but that does not mean that they should remain in that condition. There must be some means by which they can be delivered, so kindly explain those means ‎No edit summary
• 08:5708:57, 5 August 2023 diff hist +3,222‎ King Pariksit said to Sukadeva Gosvami: O brahmana, you have already informed me that the radius of Bhu-mandala extends as far as the sun spreads its light and heat and as far as the moon and all the stars can be seen ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,235‎ King Pariksit said: What is the basic knowledge of the Vedic literatures, including the branches of history and the supplementary Puranas? ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5408:54, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,384‎ King Pariksit said: What are the opulences of the great mystics, and what is their ultimate realization? How does the perfect mystic become detached from the subtle astral body? ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5208:52, 5 August 2023 diff hist +1,883‎ King Pariksit said: O Sukadeva Gosvami, why did Vasistha, the spiritual master of Saudasa, curse that great soul? I wish to know of this. If it is not a confidential matter, please describe it to me ‎No edit summary
• 08:5008:50, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,070‎ King Pariksit said: O my lord, O Sukadeva Gosvami, Yamaraja is the controller of all living entities in terms of their religious and irreligious activities, but his order had been foiled ‎No edit summary
• 08:4608:46, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,972‎ King Pariksit said: My dear lord, you (Sukadeva Gosvami) have elaborately described the dynasties of both the moon-god and the sun-god, with the exalted and wonderful character of their kings - SB 10.1.1 ‎No edit summary
• 08:4508:45, 5 August 2023 diff hist +20,966‎ King Pariksit said: I do not mind if I am immediately bitten by the snake sent by the brahmana boy's curse. Let the snake bite me as it likes. I shall be pleased if all of you present here will go on chanting the message of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4408:44, 5 August 2023 diff hist +21,165‎ King Pariksit affords a good example of bhava. When sitting on the banks of the Ganges waiting to meet his death, he said: "All the brahmanas present here, as well as Mother Ganges, should know that I am a soul completely surrendered to Krsna" ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4108:41, 5 August 2023 diff hist +7,400‎ He (Pariksit Maharaja) said that even greatly learned scholars fail to know about that, even after great effort. The Lord is unlimited, and His activities are also unfathomed ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 5 August 2023 diff hist +8,090‎ Another word used here is apta-kama. Some may take it for granted that Krsna was very lusty among young girls, but Pariksit Maharaja said that this was not possible. He could not be lusty ‎No edit summary current

4 August 2023

• 14:5314:53, 4 August 2023 diff hist −12‎ Pariksit Maharaja says, nivrtta-tarsair upagiyamanat (SB 10.1.4). The holy name of the Lord can be chanted by those who have fully satisfied their material desires or who are fully situated on the transcendental platform and devoid of material desire ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5114:51, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,418‎ Maharaja Pariksit’s expression of anxiety is explained in this verse. He says, “Let whatever is destined to happen take place. It doesn’t matter. Just let me see that not a moment of my time is wasted without a relationship with Krsna” ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4114:41, 4 August 2023 diff hist +4,163‎ When Pariksit was cursed by a brahmin to die within seven days, why Krsna did not save him, or why he did not seek Krsna's protection? This question may be raised. He was young man. He was not old man. He could live. That question was made ‎No edit summary
• 14:4014:40, 4 August 2023 diff hist +5,875‎ When Pariksit Maharaja was informed that he was to die within seven days, he accepted the curse, "Yes, I was wrong to insult the sage." Otherwise, he could counteract; he was also very powerful. But he did not ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3914:39, 4 August 2023 diff hist +30‎ When Kali could not penetrate into the daily behavior of the people, he planned killing of Pariksit Maharaja. So one Kali brahmin cursed him to death, for no fault practically. Therefore the brahmins of this age, they are condemned ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3714:37, 4 August 2023 diff hist +3,066‎ This is a verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam, spoken by Maharaja Pariksit while he was sitting on the bank of the Ganges expecting to be bitten by a snake-bird summoned by the curse of a brahmana boy named Srngi, who was the son of a great sage named Samika ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3514:35, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,755‎ The whole incident is now cleared up. Maharaja Pariksit's garlanding the sage (Samika Rsi) with a dead snake was not at all a very serious offense, but Srngi's cursing the King was a serious offense ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3314:33, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,955‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the controller of both the transcendental and mundane worlds, has graciously overtaken me (King Pariksit) in the form of a brahmana's curse ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3214:32, 4 August 2023 diff hist +3,058‎ The so-called warning of his (Pariksit's) death within seven days from the date of the curse by the brahmana's son was a boon to him to enable him to prepare himself to go back home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2714:27, 4 August 2023 diff hist +4,031‎ The situation, in this case (Maharaja Pariksit's curse), was all planned by the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2514:25, 4 August 2023 diff hist +4,522‎ The plan was that for his so-called misdeed the King (Maharaja Pariksit) could be cursed by an inexperienced brahmana boy infected by the influence of Kali, and thus the King would leave his hearth and home for good ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 4 August 2023 diff hist +6,071‎ The incident of the King's (Maharaja Pariksit) garlanding the muni (Samika Rsi) was not sufficient cause for being cursed to death, but since there was no way to retract the curse, the King was informed to prepare for death within a week ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1814:18, 4 August 2023 diff hist +3,564‎ The first sign of misgivings was exhibited in the cursing of such a greatly intelligent and devoted king as Maharaja Pariksit because the age of Kali began to act just after the assumption of power by Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1714:17, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,308‎ The circumstances under which Maharaja Pariksit was cursed were simply childish, as it appears from this verse. Srngi was showing his impudency amongst his playmates, who were innocent ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1614:16, 4 August 2023 diff hist +6,629‎ The brahmana's son who cursed Pariksit Maharaja, he was only twelve years old, a boy, and because he cursed Pariksit Maharaja that, "Within seven days he will have to die," so he had to die. Just a small brahmana boy, how he was powerful ‎No edit summary
• 14:1414:14, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,960‎ The brahmana's son cursed the King thus: On the seventh day from today a snake-bird will bite the most wretched one of that dynasty (Maharaja Pariksit) because of his having broken the laws of etiquette by insulting my father ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1314:13, 4 August 2023 diff hist +1,875‎ The boy (Srngi) was not happy because he committed a great mistake (cursing Maharaja Pariksit), and he wanted to be relieved of the burden on his heart by crying ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1214:12, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,209‎ There was nothing seriously wrong in Maharaja Pariksit's act (throwing a snake on Samika Rsi's shoulders) but the foolish son (Srngi) took it very seriously, and being influenced by Kali he cursed the King and thus ended a chapter of happy history ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 4 August 2023 diff hist +5,749‎ So long Maharaja Pariksit was there, there was no influence of Kali-yuga. So after all, the age has come. It is ordained. So Pariksit Maharaja was cursed by a brahmana to die within seven days, and after his death the Kali-yuga spreaded its influence ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,989‎ Since he (Pariksit) was always protected by the Lord, he could have avoided the effect of such a curse by the grace of the Lord, but he did not take such undue advantage for nothing. Rather, he made the best use of a bad bargain ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0114:01, 4 August 2023 diff hist +5,977‎ Samika Muni sent news to the King (Maharaja Pariksit) that foolish Srngi, his son, although a powerful brahmana boy, unfortunately had misused his spiritual power by cursing the King unwarrantedly ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 4 August 2023 diff hist +5,079‎ Rsi Samika could foresee that his son had committed a great sin by cursing Maharaja Pariksit, who deserved to be protected by the brahmanas, for he was a pious ruler and completely free from all sins because of his being a first-class devotee of the Lord ‎No edit summary current