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5 April 2024
- 12:3012:30, 5 April 2024 diff hist −13 When the black-eyed, beautiful Rukmini heard of the settlement, she immediately became very morose. However, being a king's daughter, she understood political diplomacy and decided that there was no use in simply being morose No edit summary current
- 12:3012:30, 5 April 2024 diff hist +5 When He was caught, Krsna was almost on the point of crying. He smeared His hands over His eyes, which were anointed with black eye cosmetics. The child saw His mother’s face while she stood over Him, and His eyes became restless from fear No edit summary current
- 12:3012:30, 5 April 2024 diff hist −13 King Malayadhvaja fathered one daughter, who had very black eyes. He also had seven sons, who later became rulers of that tract of land known as Dravida. Thus there were seven kings in that land No edit summary current
- 12:3012:30, 5 April 2024 diff hist +5 Bilvamangala said, "I am eagerly waiting to see that boy of Vrndavana whose bodily beauty is captivating the whole universe, whose eyes are always bounded by black eyebrows and expanded like lotus petals" No edit summary current
- 12:3012:30, 5 April 2024 diff hist +6 Because of his great affection for Krsna, King Iksvaku became greatly attached to the black cloud, the black deer, the deer's black eyes and the lotus flower, which is always compared to the eyes of the Lord No edit summary current
30 March 2024
- 08:1708:17, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 We Gaudiya Vaisnavas, under the guidance of Lord Caitanya, want steady attention for Krishna, not flickering. Therefore, in our line of thoughts and action there is no scope for worshiping any other demigods No edit summary current
- 08:1708:17, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 We Gaudiya Vaishnavas, under the guidance of Lord Chaitanya, want steady attention for Krishna, not flickering. Therefore, in our line of thoughts and action there is no scope for worshiping any other demigods No edit summary current
- 08:1608:16, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 Ksatriya's fight, it is not ordinary fight like cats and dogs. The cats and dogs also fight and the ksatriyas in the battlefield of Kuruksetra, under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they are not the same No edit summary current
- 08:1608:16, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 One should also consider that those who engage in the missionary activities of the Krsna consciousness movement are under the guidance of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. They are not actually beggars; their real business is to deliver fallen souls No edit summary current
- 08:1608:16, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 There is immense potency of preaching the philosophy of KC under the guidance of Lord Caitanya, and I wish that all my Godbrothers should go to different parts of the world and preach this sublime message everywhere, because that is the His desire No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 They (human being) are trying now to approach distant planetary systems by electronic mechanical power. But the highest goal of human civilization is to work hard under the guidance of the Lord (Krsna) and become completely dependent on Him No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 30 March 2024 diff hist +20 The fruitive actor enjoys only the fruits of his own activities, but a devotee, being under the guidance of the Supreme Lord, simply advances in devotional service to achieve the ultimate goal of life - to go back home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 30 March 2024 diff hist +20 In Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.1) the Lord recommends, mayy asakta-manah partha yogam yunjan mad-asrayah. This indicates that one must execute devotional service under the guidance of a devotee or directly under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 He (Maharaja Yudhisthira) fought for the right cause under the guidance of Lord Sri Krsna, but he could not enjoy the results of his victory because his cousins were all killed in the fight No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 30 March 2024 diff hist −2 As one can understand the presence of the air by the aromas it carries, so, under the guidance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one can understand the living soul by these three divisions of intelligence No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 30 March 2024 diff hist +39 All these airs are generated from the center of the heart, which is one only. This central energy is superior energy of the Lord, who is seated within the heart with the soul of the body, who acts under the guidance of the Lord No edit summary current
28 March 2024
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 He said, "My Lord, You are the protector of brahminical culture, and You are also very merciful. Therefore, kindly show Your great mercy by protecting the religious principles of us two brahmanas" No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 From Karusa, another son of Manu, came the Karusa dynasty, a family of ksatriyas. The Karusa ksatriyas were the kings of the northern direction. They were celebrated protectors of brahminical culture and were all firmly religious No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 For protecting the cows and brahminical culture, the Lord, who is very kind to the cow and the brahmanas (go-brahmana-hitaya), will be pleased with us and will bestow upon us real peace No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 A society devoid of cow protection and brahminical culture is not under the direct protection of the Lord, just as the prisoners in the jails are not under the protection of the king but under the protection of a severe agent of the king No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 A king should protect brahminical culture and should be very alert to the welfare of his citizens; he should not be greedy due to attachment to material enjoyment No edit summary
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 At the present, especially on this planet earth, there is no protection of brahminical culture and cows, which are the basic prerequisites for all kinds of good fortune. This age is very dangerous because society is being managed by demons and Raksasas No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 Although the inhabitants of Gokula were mostly cowherd men and cultivators, they knew how to defend themselves from danger and how to give protection to the women, the old men, the cows and the children, as well as to the brahminical purohitas No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist 0 If human society wants to be exalted, the leaders of society must follow the instructions of Bhagavad-gita and give protection to the cows, the brahmanas and brahminical culture No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 Without the spread of brahminical culture and without proper protection from the government, no social standard can be maintained properly No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 Without protection of cows, brahminical culture cannot be maintained; and without brahminical culture, the aim of life cannot be fulfilled No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 To remain under the jurisdiction or administration of such a king or leader (like Maharaja Prthu) is the perfect status for human society. The primary responsibility of such a king or leader is to protect the brahminical culture and the cows in his state No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 This (the need for brahminical culture and protection from the government) is admitted in this verse (SB 4.21.52) by the citizens of Maharaja Prthu, who could maintain the wonderful situation of his government due to his position in pure goodness No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 The Supreme Personality of Godhead respects and protects the brahmanas and brahminical culture, as well as the cows; in other words, wherever there are brahmanas and brahminical culture, there are cows and cow protection No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 The perfection of human life is attained by following three principles of civilization: protecting the cows, maintaining the brahminical culture and, above all, becoming a pure devotee of the Lord No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 The Lord is the protector of cows and the brahminical culture No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 The Lord is described as go-brahmana-hitaya because His incarnation is only for the protection of the cows & brahmanas. Unfortunately, because in Kali-yuga there is no protection of the cows and brahminical culture, everything is in a precarious position No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 One cannot become spiritually advanced without acquiring the brahminical qualifications and giving protection to cows No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 Lord Krsna is the prime protector of brahminical culture and the cow. Without knowing and respecting these, one cannot realize the science of God, and without this knowledge, any welfare activities or humanitarian propaganda cannot be successful No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the prime protector of brahminical culture and the cow No edit summary current
- 06:1606:16, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 It is the duty of the ksatriya kings to maintain the brahminical culture and protect the qualified brahmanas, and all these kings discharged their duties rightly No edit summary current
- 06:1606:16, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 In Vedic culture, the welfare of the cows and the welfare of the brahmanas are essential. Without a proper arrangement for developing brahminical culture and protecting cows, all the affairs of administration will go to hell No edit summary current
- 06:1606:16, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 If human society wants to be exalted, the leaders of society must follow the instructions of Bhagavad-gita and give protection to the cows, the brahmanas and brahminical culture No edit summary
- 06:1606:16, 28 March 2024 diff hist +44 In flattering a woman, in joking, in a marriage ceremony, in earning one's livelihood, when one's life is in danger, in protecting cows and brahminical culture, or in protecting a person from an enemy's hand, falsity is never condemned No edit summary
9 March 2024
- 05:4205:42, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 Without brahminical qualification one cannot understand Vedic knowledge. Therefore it is stated that a sudra is prohibited from reading Vedas. That does not mean that reading of Vedic culture or Vedic knowledge is monopolized by a certain class of men No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 What is the meaning of vrsalaih? Hmm? Unlawful meat-eaters. Unlawful meat-eaters. Just like at the modern age everyone is unlawful meat-eaters. There is a certain class of men always who are meat-eaters. Not the higher class No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 We know sanatana-dharma. We have heard it only. But sanatana-dharma is not limited to a certain class of men or certain class of society or certain kind of country No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 University is not restricted to a certain class. It is open for everyone. Everyone can go, take the knowledge. And similarly, prison house is open for everyone. Now you make your choice whether you go to university or prison house No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 The society requires to train a certain class of men to become brahmanas. Just like we are training the Krsna conscious. The Krsna consciousness is meant for the brahmanas No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 The propaganda by a certain class of impersonalists that spiritual life is void of all varieties is dangerous propaganda to mislead the living beings into becoming more and more attracted by material enjoyments No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 There are certain class of men who are simply philosophizing and there are certain class of men who are simply blindly following religious ritualistic process. So Bhagavad-gita is combination of both. That is scientific No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 Srila Jiva Gosvami Prabhu, therefore, affirms that recommendations in the scriptures for a certain class of men are never to be considered adharma, or irreligious. But such activities are factually adharma, and they are never to be encouraged No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 One who does not follow all these rules and regulations (according to the Vedic principles) is called a yavana or mleccha. One should not mistakenly think that these words refer to certain classes of men in other countries No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 Nature can give you anything. After all, it is the nature that supplies your necessities, not the industry. Industry simply transformed in a different way, and a certain class make profit out of it. Industry does not mean really economic improvement No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 It is the nature that supplies your necessities, not the industry. Industry simply transformed in a different way, and a certain class make profit out of it No edit summary current
- 05:4005:40, 9 March 2024 diff hist +12 It is not a sectarian movement meant for a certain class of men, but it is a necessary movement for all humanity irrespective of caste, creed, or color No edit summary current
- 05:4005:40, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 In the modern age a certain class of fools think that they can vote anyone into the position of God, as they can vote a man into the position of a political executive head. But the transcendental SPG is perfectly described in the authentic scriptures No edit summary current
- 05:3205:32, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 We should try to understand that this place is full of miseries. It takes a certain amount of developed consciousness to understand this. Cats and dogs and hogs cannot understand that they are suffering No edit summary current
- 05:3105:31, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 We are already destined to have a certain amount of happiness and a certain amount of distress, and we cannot change that. The change we should make, therefore, is to get free from this material condition of life. That should be our only business No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 The whole Vedic civilization is based on the understanding that destiny allows only a certain amount of material happiness in this world, and that our efforts should therefore be directed toward self-realization No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 The Vedic system is this: The human being has a certain amount of energy - better energy than the animals', better consciousness - and that energy should be utilized for spiritual advancement No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 There are regulative directions for satisfaction of such senses because the body is made of senses, which also require a certain amount of satisfaction. But the senses are not meant for unrestricted enjoyment No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 Sense enjoyment is also allowed to the lower animals by the law of nature, and thus a human being is also destined to a certain amount of sense enjoyment according to his past or present life No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 Real happiness can be achieved in the spiritual world. Not in the material world. So certain amount of happiness and certain amount of distress we have to enjoy and suffer. You cannot change it. This is the law of nature in this material world No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 One can cultivate a garden. Anyone who has land-in India, at least, any poor man has a certain amount of land-can utilize that for Krsna by growing flowers to offer Him. He can sow tulasi plants. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 Nobody is enjoying uninterrupted material happiness. That is not possible. A certain amount of material happiness and a certain amount of material distress - these both must be present always No edit summary current
- 05:2905:29, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 In a prohibited area a habituated drunkard puts forward his application to the director of drinking, and the director, considering his case, sanctions only a certain amount of liquor for drinking No edit summary current
- 05:2905:29, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 If I say that heat is the energy of Krsna, you cannot deny it, because it is not your energy. In your body there is some certain amount of heat. Similarly, heat is someone's energy. And who is that person? That is Krsna No edit summary current
- 05:2905:29, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 For those who are hesitant and have no faith, Krsna consciousness is very difficult. Even in our daily affairs a certain amount of faith is required No edit summary current
- 05:2905:29, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 Everyone of us has got a certain amount of good energy derived from Krishna, and when that energy is employed under the expert direction of Spiritual Master, one's life becomes successful. That is the secret of Krishna Consciousness No edit summary current
- 05:2905:29, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 By material means, one cannot avoid the happiness and distress unique to his particular body. There are 8,400,000 bodily forms, each destined to enjoy and suffer a certain amount of happiness and distress No edit summary current
- 05:2805:28, 9 March 2024 diff hist −7 A man in perfect knowledge knows that one cannot be happier than he is destined to be. In this material world, everyone is destined to suffer a certain amount of distress and enjoy a certain amount of happiness No edit summary current
5 March 2024
- 04:2104:21, 5 March 2024 diff hist +5 Method of one acarya may be different from that of another No edit summary current
- 04:2104:21, 5 March 2024 diff hist +11 In other words, there is a qualitative difference between the different kinds of worshiping methods as well as the respective results derived from the predominating deities, namely Brahma, Visnu and Hara No edit summary current
- 04:2104:21, 5 March 2024 diff hist +5 Every acarya has a specific means of propagating his spiritual movement with the aim of bringing men to Krsna consciousness. Therefore, the method of one acarya may be different from that of another, but the ultimate goal is never neglected No edit summary current
- 04:2104:21, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 Bhakti Yoga is the process for all the ages, but the method is different in each age. The rascal people have got some idea of Bhakti according to their whims. Some meditate on light, but real meditation means to concentrate on Krishna No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist +5 Two different methods for controlling the material senses are recommended in the Vedic scriptural wisdom No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 The followers of the Vedas have a different method of acquiring knowledge. They accept the statements of the Vedic literatures as authority in toto, as we have already discussed in Canto One No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist +8 The bhakti-yoga process is practiced by the devotees in different methods like hearing, chanting, remembering, serving the lotus feet of the Lord, worshiping, praying, rendering service in love, becoming friendly, and offering all that one may possess No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 These different methods for liberation are generally only a professional practice and means of livelihood for those who have not conquered their senses. Because such persons are falsely proud, these procedures may not be successful No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 These (the ten different methods of liberation) may be very attractive, but by following such methods, one cannot actually understand the real cause and effect and the original cause of everything (janmady asya yatah) - SB 1.1.1 No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist +8 There are nine different methods of cultivating devotional service such as hearing, chanting, remembering, etc, and all these processes are employed in the first stage of devotional service No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 There are many different methods for people who want this, but cultivation of Krsna consciousness is different. The particular word used by Srila Rupa Gosvami in this connection is anusilana, or cultivation by following the predecessor teachers (acaryas) No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 There are different methods of self-realization. But here (in SB 3.25.29) Devahuti especially refers to the bhakti-yoga system, which has already been primarily explained by the Lord No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 There are different methods how to get out of the suffering condition, karmi, jnani, yogi. But ultimate, very easy process is, if you become a devotee, if you become engaged in KC, then it is very easy. Then your prosperity, your auspicity, is guaranteed No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 There are different methods and prescribed duties recommended in these innumerable number of revealed scriptures No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist +8 Out of all the nine different methods, the first one, namely hearing, is the most important function in the process of bhakti-yoga. Without hearing sufficiently and properly, no one can make any progress by any of the methods of practice No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist +8 My dear Parvati, there are different methods of worship, and out of all such methods the worship of the Supreme Person is considered to be the highest. But even higher than the worship of the Lord is the worship of the Lord's devotees No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 Many so-called students of spiritual understanding follow the ten different methods known as mauna-vrata-sruta-tapo-'dhyayana-sva-dharma-vyakhya-raho japa-samadhayah No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 It is true that whatever relationship a particular devotee has with the Lord is the best for him; still, when we study all the different methods from a neutral position, we can understand that there are higher and lower degrees of love No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 In politics there are different methods of achieving success: first repression (dama), then compromise (sama), and then asking for a gift - dana No edit summary current
- 04:1804:18, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 In other Puranas there are different methods set forth by which one can worship the demigods. But in the Bhagavatam only the Supreme Lord is mentioned No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 5 March 2024 diff hist −18 How the living entity comes into contact with material nature, how he is delivered by the Supreme Lord through the different methods of fruitive activities, cultivation of knowledge, and the discharge of devotional service are explained. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 Devotional service to Krsna is the chief function of the living entity. There are different methods for the liberation of the conditioned soul - karma, jnana, yoga and bhakti - but all are dependent on bhakti No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 5 March 2024 diff hist +31 Devotional service of the Lord begins by hearing about Him (Krsna). There are nine different methods in devotional service, of which hearing is the chief No edit summary current
- 04:1704:17, 5 March 2024 diff hist −12 Caitanya also described different methods for worshiping the Lord, which are the methods of the fivefold paraphernalia and fifty-fold paraphernalia No edit summary current
27 February 2024
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 You have to live within this body certain age. So if you change the body, new, that doesn't mean you prolong your life. That is not possible. It is the duration of life, that is considered No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 The Vedic civilization enjoins that after a certain age, following in the footsteps of Maharaja Bharata, one should cease to enjoy material opulences and should take the order of vanaprastha No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +30 The upakurvana-brahmacari, is a brahmacari who takes the vow of celibacy up to a certain age. For example, he may take the vow to remain celibate up to twenty-five years of age; then, with the permission of his spiritual master, he enters married life No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 There is a story Savitri-Satyavan. It is not a story. It is historical fact that one gentleman, he was a king's son, prince. His name was Satyavan. But he was to die at a certain age his horoscope said. But one girl Savitri, she fell in love with that boy No edit summary current
- 15:2415:24, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Sannyasi should be always preaching. Parivrajakacarya. Four stages of sannyasa: kuticaka, bahudaka, parivrajaka, and paramahamsa. In the beginning... Because according to Vedic civilization everyone has to take sannyasa at a certain age No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 If one is at all interested in being freed from the bondage of repeated birth, death, old age and disease, after a certain age one must go to the forest. pancasordhvam vanam vrajet No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Forced separation cannot make anyone happy, but by mutual consent or by the Vedic arrangement one must separate from his family affairs at a certain age and fully depend on Krsna. This makes one's life successful No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Everyone should give up family connection at a certain age, after the age of 50. One should not remain in family life. That is Vedic culture No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9 Because of this (if in the household life the husband becomes subordinate to the wife, involvement in materialistic life again becomes prominent), according to the Vedic system, after a certain age a man is recommended to abandon his family life No edit summary current