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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

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

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

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

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
15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9‎ Affection is the very hard knot for being bound up in this material world, this affection. Therefore the Vedic civilization is that the affection is to be cut off compulsory at a certain age, not that the affection should continue ‎No edit summary current
15:2315:23, 27 February 2024 diff hist +9‎ According to the Vedic system, after a certain age a man is recommended to abandon his family life for the stages of vanaprastha and sannyasa ‎No edit summary current

15:4815:48, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40‎ Many great kings left their princely standard of living and went to the forest to practice austerity according to Vedic culture, just to become purified ‎No edit summary current
15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ Without being married, according to Vedic culture, no man or woman can mix very intimately. That is even in the ordinary dealings ‎No edit summary current
15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ We offer them the sacred thread although they are born, according to Vedic culture, in the families of other than Brahmanas or even than the Sudras ‎No edit summary current
15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist +13‎ We don’t accept any source of knowledge which is not authorized. So according to Vedic culture the Vedas are the authorities. Therefore among the learned circle even at the present age, if you can give evidence from the Vedas, then the truth is accepted ‎No edit summary current
15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40‎ The poverty-stricken condition is a kind of austerity. According to Vedic culture, therefore, the brahmanas, as a matter of routine, keep themselves in a poverty-stricken condition to save themselves from the false prestige of material opulence ‎No edit summary current
15:4715:47, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ The first principle of austerity is brahmacarya, restricted sex life. The real meaning of brahmacarya is complete celibacy, and according to Vedic culture in the beginning of life one should strictly follow the regulations of brahmacarya ‎No edit summary current
15:4615:46, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ So according to Vedic culture, if one woman has got son, she is not considered to be widow. Widow means one who hasn't got husband or husband is dead. So if the husband's representative is there, so, strictly speaking, she is not widow ‎No edit summary current
15:4315:43, 21 February 2024 diff hist +1‎ According to Vedic culture, although polygamy is allowed, none of one’s wives should be ill-treated. In other words, one may take many wives only if he is able to satisfy all of them equally as an ideal householder; otherwise it is not allowed ‎No edit summary current
15:4215:42, 21 February 2024 diff hist +39‎ According to Vedic culture, although polygamy is allowed, none of one’s wives should be ill-treated. In other words, one may take many wives only if he is able to satisfy all of them equally as an ideal householder; otherwise it is not allowed ‎No edit summary
15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ It is quite clear that according to Vedic culture a woman who accepts a paramour or second husband in the presence of the husband she has married is certainly responsible for the degradation of her father's family and the family of her husband ‎No edit summary current
15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist +17‎ For spiritual advancement, according to Vedic culture, sex indulgence is always restricted ‎No edit summary current
15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40‎ For a young girl to leave the care of husband, father, and go to another young boy, according to Vedic culture, it is the most abominable. So still, because, it was, the center was Krsna, it is accepted as the highest type of worship ‎No edit summary current
15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ Every person is actually Brahman, spirit soul. We are not actually the body. Awareness of aham brahmasmi ("I am Brahman") is actual self-realization. According to Vedic culture, one must understand that he is Brahman, not the body ‎No edit summary current
15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ Everyone has the propensity for sex life, but in demoniac civilization sex is enjoyed without restriction. According to Vedic culture, sex is enjoyed under Vedic instructions ‎No edit summary current
15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40‎ Dharma means occupational duty. Just like according to Vedic culture, we are supposed to follow the varnasrama-dharma. It has become very ambiguous at the present moment, Hindu dharma. There is no such thing as Hindu dharma mentioned ‎No edit summary current
15:4115:41, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ A Brahmin, according to Vedic culture, a Brahmin is considered . . . Brahmin means vidya-vinaya-sampanne. He is very gentle and very learned. That is the first qualification of Brahmin. Not by birth but by qualification ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ According to Vedic culture one must give up association of woman which is known as renunciation or sannyasa ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40‎ According to Vedic culture one has to take leave of his family members just after his fiftieth year so that the balance of his life may be completely devoted in search of Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ According to Vedic culture, white teeth are very much appreciated. Devahuti's white teeth increased the beauty of her face and made it look like a lotus flower ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ According to Vedic culture, we are interested in sex only for begetting children, that's all. Not to study the psychology of sex life. There is already natural psychology for that ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ According to Vedic culture, the king is honored as the Supreme Personality of Godhead because he represents Narayana, who also gives protection to the citizens. He is therefore natha, or the proprietor ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist +13‎ According to Vedic culture, the higher class, in every home there is narayana-sila for worship, especially of the brahmins ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ According to Vedic culture, there are four stages of life: brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa. Brahmacari is student life devoted to training in spiritual understanding ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist +13‎ According to Vedic culture, one should leave home as soon as he has reached fifty years of age; one should not live at home and go on producing children ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ According to Vedic culture, one has to judge by the result. Not by if you simply talk nonsense, one has to accept ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ According to Vedic culture, learned men consider all natural products, such as food grains, fruits, flowers, and milk, to be God-sent. Spiritually cultured men feel obliged to the Lord when they get sufficient natural foodstuffs by the grace of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ According to Vedic culture, learned men consider all natural products, such as food grains, fruits, flowers, and milk, to be God-sent. No one can manufacture these things in man-made factories, however scientifically advanced people may be ‎No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 21 February 2024 diff hist +17‎ According to Vedic culture, Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40‎ According to Vedic culture, first protection: to the cows, to the women, to the brahmanas, to the children and to the old man. This is the first business of the government, to give protection ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40‎ According to Vedic culture, every respectable family has an acarya, or spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ According to Vedic culture, even if a young woman is given an old husband, she must respectfully serve him. This is chastity. It is not that because she dislikes her husband she may give him up and accept another. This is against Vedic culture ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40‎ According to Vedic culture, destroying the undeveloped embryo of the soul in the womb is as sinful as killing a cow or a brahmana ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40‎ According to Vedic culture, a woman must accept the husband given to her by her parents and remain chaste and faithful to him. Therefore King Saryati was surprised to see a young man by the side of Sukanya ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40‎ According to Vedic culture, a wife is considered the property of her husband, and a son born by illicit sex is called dvaja. The common word still current in Hindu society for such a son is dogla ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 21 February 2024 diff hist +40‎ According to Vedic culture, anyone who does not follow the regulative principles observed by the higher castes (the brahmanas, ksatriyas and vaisyas) or even those observed by the laborer class (the sudras) is called a mleccha or yavana ‎No edit summary current

16:0916:09, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ If it is accepted by the great acaryas that He's God then there is no doubt. If Krsna is accepted God, by all the acaryas, bona fide acaryas, authorities ‎No edit summary current
16:0916:09, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ If we accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and worship Him, all the parts and expansions of the Lord are automatically worshiped ‎No edit summary current
16:0916:09, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ If vedo narayanah saksat, if Vedas are to be considered as Narayana directly, then Krsna is accepted by the acaryas as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is a conclusion of the Vedas also ‎No edit summary current
16:0916:09, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ If you are real follower of Sankaracarya, you accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
16:0916:09, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ If you simply accept it without any hypocrisy that, "Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He'll protect me. Let me serve His lotus feet as far as possible," this much qualification is sufficient ‎No edit summary current
16:0916:09, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ In his commentation on the Bhagavad-gita, Sripada Sankaracarya accepted Lord Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but later on he commented from the impersonalist's view ‎No edit summary current
16:0816:08, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ If one does not accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then he should be rejected immediately. It is not sectarian. It is test tube ‎No edit summary current
16:0716:07, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ It was an emergency (Mayavada philosophy was necessary to defeat the Buddhist philosophy of the nonexistence of the spirit soul). Thus Lord Krsna was accepted by Sankaracarya as the Supreme Personality of Godhead in his commentation on Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ He (Lord Krsna) is further explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam, which is considered the explanation of the Vedanta-sutra. Lord Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead by these authentic scriptures, not simply by vox populi ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ God is Krsna, the Supreme. Isvarah paramah krsnah sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah (Bs. 5.1), accepted by all acaryas, by all Vedic sastra. And when He was present Himself, He proved Himself that He's God ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ From the very moment of His appearance to the moment of His disappearance, every one of His activities is unparalleled in the history of the world, and therefore anyone who knows what we mean by Godhead will accept Krsna as the SP of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ From Vedic knowledge, you get all knowledge. So if you don't accept Krsna as God, that is also your mistake. You do not know God, but here Krsna presents Himself as God, and He is accepted by authorities ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ For them (the demons who do not like the idea that Krsna should be accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead) only Arjuna inquires on this point (BG 4.4), as if he were himself not aware of the Personality of Godhead, or Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Formerly the acaryas like Vyasadeva, Sukadeva Gosvami, Narada . . .; later, Caitanya Mahaprabhu. So all accept Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Formerly, during Krsna's time, there were authorities like Vyasadeva, like Narada. They also accepted that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Everyone claims that "We are also following Vyasadeva." But not superficially. Actually following Vyasadeva. Just like Vyasadeva accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Even if one does not accept Lord Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, His instructions are so exalted and beneficial for humanity that if one follows His instructions one will be saved ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ If a Godbrother is more enlightened and advanced in Krsna consciousness, one should accept him as almost equal to the spiritual master, and one should be happy to see such Godbrothers advance in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
15:4915:49, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Devotees who accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead will enjoy the association of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
15:4915:49, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ Bhagavan ultimately means Lord Krsna because the Srimad-Bhagavatam has already accepted the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Krsna. Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam (SB 1.3.28) ‎No edit summary current
15:4915:49, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ Bhagavad-gita should be explained to persons who are ready to accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is a subject matter for the devotees only and not for philosophical speculators. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ We are accepting Krsna as God not blindly, but by testing. By testing. His character is mentioned in the books. Therefore, we accept God, not by blind faith, but by testing. Although we cannot test, but sastra gives us the chance of testing ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ You may also accept iron as gold. That is your ignorance: you do not know what gold is. But if you actually know what God is, you will accept Krsna as God. There is no doubt about it ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ We accept Krsna as God. Even by His activities He is not ordinary. He had to meet so many dangers before He was accepted God. From childhood, when He was baby, just three months old, He had to struggle. He had to struggle with His position as God ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Mayavadi philosophy means they accept Krsna as God, but He has assumed a body which is given by this material nature, as it is given to us. That is their policy. They count Krsna an ordinary man, on the same level. But that is not a fact ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Love is something tangible. It is not merely fantasy or imagination. So we Krsna conscious people accept Krsna as God, and we are worshiping Krsna, and we are making progress ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ From Vedic knowledge, you get all knowledge. So if you don't accept Krsna as God, that is also your mistake. You do not know God, but here Krsna presents Himself as God, and He is accepted by authorities ‎No edit summary
14:4514:45, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ A learned man who has thoroughly studied the scriptures cannot hesitate to accept Sri Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If such a man argues about this matter, certainly he must be doing so to agitate the minds of his opponents ‎No edit summary current
14:4414:44, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ At least in India there are many great acaryas - Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu Svami, and even Sankaracarya and Guru Nanak. All of these have accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Why, then, should we reject Him ‎No edit summary current
14:4414:44, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ As far as Krsna is concerned, every Vedic authority has accepted Him as God. When He was present on earth, His activities displayed were superhuman. If one does not believe this, it is to be concluded that he will not believe whatever evidence is given ‎No edit summary current
14:4414:44, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ As Arjuna, we should accept Krsna as the SP of Godhead and do as He says (BG 9.27): O son of Kunti, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me ‎No edit summary current
14:4414:44, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Associate with sadhus means those who are actually on the platform. So if he associates with the sadhu - the sadhus accept Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead - he will get the understanding that Krsna is the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
14:4414:44, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Arjuna says that Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead not only by himself but by authorities like the sage Narada, Asita, Devala, Vyasadeva & so on. These are great personalities who distribute the Vedic knowledge. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ Arjuna is not inquiring for himself but for those who do not believe in the Supreme Personality of Godhead or for the demons who do not like the idea that Krsna should be accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Arjuna has accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the supreme abode of all living entities, not only because of his personal experience but also because of the evidences of great authorities like Narada, Asita, Devala & Vyasa. BG 1972 p ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Arjuna accepts Sri Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and any commentary on the Gita following in the footsteps of Arjuna is real devotional service to the cause of this great science. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Arjuna accepted Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, param brahma param dhama (BG 10.12). So if we follow Arjuna then we can understand Bhagavad-gita very easily. So we should not waste ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ Arjuna, after hearing the essential four verses of Bhagavad-gita in this chapter, became completely free from all doubts and accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ Although they (the four sampradayas) are four in number, their conclusion is the same. And another sect is Sankarite sampradaya. So all these five different section of the Hindus, they accept Sri Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Acaryopasanam: this information (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam) is not concocted, but is accepted by the acaryas in the disciplic succession. Although an impersonalist, Sankaracarya has accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ Acaryopasanam. The Sankaracarya even, although he is impersonalist, he has accepted Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and what to speak of others ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +36‎ All other acaryas have also confirmed this statement (Krsna is the original Personality of Godhead), and thus there is no chance of not accepting Lord Sri Krsna as the original Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ After hearing Bhagavad-gita from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Arjuna accepted Krsna as Param Brahma, the Supreme Brahman. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
14:4214:42, 14 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ According to Vedic culture, Krsna is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
14:2814:28, 14 February 2024 diff hist +25‎ This godless civilization is so acute that it is very difficult to make them understand God consciousness, or Krsna consciousness. But still, as a matter of duty, we have to present, submit, these teachings of Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
14:2814:28, 14 February 2024 diff hist +48‎ The great sage Maitreya, therefore, recommends that to enlighten people about the Absolute Truth (tattva), devotees should preach the teachings of Srimad-Bhagavatam throughout the entire world ‎No edit summary current
14:2814:28, 14 February 2024 diff hist +25‎ They (six Gosvamis) have chalked out ways for all classes of men in terms of the different castes and orders of life in pursuance of the teachings of Srimad-Bhagavatam and similar other authoritative scriptures ‎No edit summary current

12:5312:53, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ Why this ordinary question to be repeatedly made and I answer? A waste of time. This is a serious movement. One should be responsible men, leaders of the society. If you want to take some benefit out of this movement, they should question ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ We have to spoil hundreds of gallons' blood before one comes to the point. It is very simple thing. Only our leaders of the society, they are sleeping. They are misguided themselves and misguiding others. That is the difficulty ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ Unfortunately the modern leaders of the society have made the common man forget God somehow or other. Our humble attempt is to revive the forgotten consciousness of the human society ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ The world is feeling so much disturbed by the misarrangement of the leaders of the society. They have forgotten Krsna or God. They are thinking that by material advancement they will be happy, but that is never possible ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ The leaders of the society, they should take very serious attention how you can improve the social condition of this world. Not only here; everywhere ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ The leaders of the society, if they are serious about advancement of human civilization, they must take to Krsna consciousness, or God consciousness; otherwise, they'll be baffled ‎No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ The leaders of the society, if it is serious, will adopt this, in the educational system, in their private life. In that way they shall ask some question, then it will benefit. Otherwise it will be simply a show ‎No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 12 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ The Godless leaders of the society are blind themselves and their followers are also blind. So blind men leading blind men has no meaning ‎No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ They are poor because they have no spiritual conception of life. So that situation is always existing; therefore it is the duty of the leaders of the society, especially of the brahmanas and ksatriyas, to take sannyasa and preach KC to the mass of people ‎No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 12 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ That will be very nice propaganda, to select real leaders of the society. The . . . we are misled by rascal leaders. That is the difficulty - all rascals ‎No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 12 February 2024 diff hist +32‎ Let us not revive this old matter, but I want to know from you what is your opinion of the matter, and how is it that Hamsaduta and Atreya Rsi were able to persuade you all senior leaders of the Society to follow their foolish activities? Kindly inform ‎No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ If the leaders of the society lead the people in the proper channel on the basic principle of spiritual life, then everything will be solved. Everyone will be happy ‎No edit summary current
12:5112:51, 12 February 2024 diff hist −10‎ Cats and dogs are passing on as religionists. Some hogs and pigs are going on as philosopher. And other animals is going as scientist, Darwin. They're animals only, cats and dogs. They are the leaders of the society ‎No edit summary current
12:5112:51, 12 February 2024 diff hist +32‎ At least the brahmanas, the priestly heads of religion, the king and the public leader, they should stop these four sinful activities. The leaders of the society, they must be sinless. Then the human society will make nice progress ‎No edit summary current
12:4812:48, 12 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ We are not poor-feeding. That is not our philosophy. Like Vivekananda. Daridra-narayana-seva. No, we are not after that. We are giving you prasadam. And that is fact, that by eating, eating, eating, eating, you one day will become Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
12:4812:48, 12 February 2024 diff hist +40‎ Our philosophy is not like that, that we give protection to the human being and send the cows to the slaughterhouse. No, that is not our philosophy ‎No edit summary current
12:4712:47, 12 February 2024 diff hist +15‎ Don't think that we are after vegetarian, nonvegetarian. No. That is not our philosophy. Because either you take vegetable or you take meat, you are killing. And you have to kill, otherwise you cannot live. That is nature's way ‎No edit summary current
12:4712:47, 12 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ It is nice that we are feeding 200 daily, but gradually try to increase. But do not advertise, we shall be self-advertising. And do not go to poor areas, this is not our philosophy ‎No edit summary current
12:4412:44, 12 February 2024 diff hist +28‎ As a man must follow great personalities like Brahma and Narada, a woman must follow the path of such ideal women as Sita, Mandodari and Draupadi. By staying chaste and faithful to her husband, a woman enriches herself with supernatural power ‎No edit summary current

10:3710:37, 11 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ When there is sufficient food, the government should not allow the eating of cow's flesh just to satisfy the fastidious tongue ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist +6‎ Those who are meat-eaters, they have been recommended to eat the flesh of goats or other lower animals - sometimes dogs also they eat, or the hogs - you can eat. But never the flesh of cows. So, innocent animal, the most important animal ‎No edit summary
10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Only the cobbler class, the muci class, they eat this cow's flesh after taking the dead animal. So after killing, everyone eats, so why not wait for the natural death and eat it? But because they are asuras, raksasas, they do not wait for that ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Meat-eaters, according to their different positions and the directions of the sastra, are allowed to eat flesh, but never the flesh of cows ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist +23‎ It is not forbidding meat-eating, but don't eat cows' flesh. That is loss. It is a great loss to the human society ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist +23‎ In the Vedic culture those who are meat-eaters are recommended to eat the flesh of goats, dogs, hogs, or other lower animals, but never the flesh of cows, the most important animals ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ In that very room he cooked the flesh of a cow for three consecutive days. Then the next day he left, accompanied by his followers ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist +6‎ In our Krsna consciousness movement, our first provision is that no one should be allowed to eat any kind of flesh. It does not matter whether it is cows' flesh or goats' flesh, but we especially stress the prohibition against cows' flesh ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 11 February 2024 diff hist +6‎ If you are at all meat-eater, you can eat pigs, goats, but don't eat cow's flesh. That is very sinful. Why it is sinful? Because it's a very, very important animal in the human society ‎No edit summary current
10:3410:34, 11 February 2024 diff hist +23‎ Instead of killing the cow to eat flesh, civilized men must prepare various milk products that will enhance the condition of society. If one follows the brahminical culture, he will become competent in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
10:3410:34, 11 February 2024 diff hist +4‎ I am glad also that you have a new gosala. Let other farms see what is our behavior for the cows and how we derive benefit from them and that will be the living example to persons who are using cow flesh rather than cow milk ‎No edit summary current
10:3410:34, 11 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ In India, cow flesh is strictly forbidden. But it doesn't mean that they are vegetarian. They eat fish and goat, lamb, sometimes buffalo. But not to touch the cow. ‎No edit summary current
10:3410:34, 11 February 2024 diff hist +6‎ If Krsna says that, "Give Me dog" or "Give Me cow flesh," we shall give and eat. But not before that. So we have no quarrel with these fish-eaters or cow-eaters. We are concerned Krsna says, patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati ‎No edit summary current
10:3410:34, 11 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Here (SB 4.17.25) we find some indication of how the government can arrange for the eating of cow flesh. It is here indicated that in a rare circumstance when there is no supply of grains, the government may sanction the eating of meat ‎No edit summary current
10:2210:22, 11 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ We know that there are four ages (yugas), namely Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali. These four together constitute one divya-yuga ‎No edit summary current
10:2210:22, 11 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ We have information of Lord Brahma's duration of life from the BG: 1,000 times the duration of the four ages, or 1,000 x 4,320,000 years, constitute Brahma's 12 hours. Similarly, one moment of Brahma's time is equal to one year of our solar calculation ‎No edit summary current
10:2110:21, 11 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ The four ages of earth (Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali) last only twelve thousand years according to the time scale of the upper planets. Such a length of time multiplied by one thousand constitutes one day of Brahma, and one night of Brahma is the same ‎No edit summary current
10:2110:21, 11 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ Such days and nights (four ages of earth) accumulate into months and years, and Brahma lives for one hundred such years. At the end of Brahma's life, the complete universal manifestation is vanquished ‎No edit summary current
10:2110:21, 11 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ He passed his time, which lasted seventy-one cycles of the four ages (71 x 4,320,000 years), always thinking of Vasudeva and always engaged in matters regarding Vasudeva. Thus he transcended the three destinations ‎No edit summary current
10:2110:21, 11 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ Your body, my body, in youthhood it is very beautiful, and in due course of time it will be ugly like me. So this is the work of the time. Similarly, nature's way, there are four ages: Satya-yuga, Treta-yuga, Dvapara-yuga, Kali-yuga. Seasonal changes ‎No edit summary current

14:4114:41, 10 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ People think that this is idol worship and imagination, but this method is prescribed in all the sastras for developing God consciousness. It is an actual science ‎No edit summary current
14:3614:36, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ Ye yatha mam prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham (BG 4.11). If one wants the body of a king, Krsna will give it; if one follows the prescribed method, one will get the body of a king ‎No edit summary current
14:3514:35, 10 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ We can begin to experience this bliss by following the prescribed methods of devotional service. When we see the Deity, we can gradually realize how Krsna is smiling, playing on His flute and enjoying the company of Srimati Radharani ‎No edit summary current
14:3514:35, 10 February 2024 diff hist +6‎ The sahajiya's illicit connection and their imitation of the dress of Rupa Gosvami, as well as their avoidance of the prescribed methods of revealed scriptures, will lead them to the lowest regions of hell ‎No edit summary current
14:3514:35, 10 February 2024 diff hist −18‎ The real purpose of controlling the mind by the prescribed method of clearing the passage of the life air is achieved immediately if one fixes his mind directly on the lotus feet of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
14:3514:35, 10 February 2024 diff hist +32‎ The personified Vedas continued, "Dear Lord, it is imperative that the living entities be engaged in Krsna consciousness, always rendering devotional service by such prescribed methods as hearing and chanting and executing Your orders" ‎No edit summary current
14:3514:35, 10 February 2024 diff hist −18‎ The expert yogi who has thoroughly practiced the control of the life air by the prescribed method of the yoga system is advised to quit the body as follows ‎No edit summary current
14:3414:34, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ There are ten prescribed methods on the path to liberation - to remain silent, not to speak to anyone, to observe vows, to amass all kinds of Vedic knowledge, to undergo austerities, to study the Vedas and other Vedic literatures ‎No edit summary current
14:3414:34, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ There are ten prescribed methods on the path to liberation - to execute the duties of varnasrama-dharma, to explain the sastras, to stay in a solitary place, to chant mantras silently, and to be absorbed in trance ‎No edit summary current
14:3314:33, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ There are certain prescribed methods for employing our senses and mind in such a way that our dormant consciousness for loving Krsna will be invoked, as much as the child, with a little practice, can begin to walk ‎No edit summary current
14:3314:33, 10 February 2024 diff hist +32‎ Prahlada Maharaja also (like Caitanya Mahaprabhu) prayed to Lord Nrsimhadeva that he might be engaged as the servant of the Lord's servant. This is the prescribed method of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
14:3314:33, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ Our greatest success of life is how to love God, Krsna. Now you can do it. But there is prescribed method, given by great acaryas. Just like in this temple we are doing ‎No edit summary current
14:3314:33, 10 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ Medicine is not the remedial measures for our bodily troubles unless we are helped by Krishna. Therefore, whenever there is bodily trouble we may adopt the prescribed methods of medical science and depend upon Krishna for His Mercy ‎No edit summary current
14:3214:32, 10 February 2024 diff hist −18‎ Materialistic life is full of thorns, and so one should live only by the prescribed method of Vedic regulations just to make the best use of a bad bargain ‎No edit summary current
14:3214:32, 10 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ Maintaining one's family is certainly the duty of a householder, but one should be eager to earn his livelihood by the prescribed method, as stated in the scriptures ‎No edit summary current
14:3214:32, 10 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ I am very glad that you are trying to live Krishna Conscious lifestyle. If you simply try to follow very carefully the prescribed method that has been chalked out for us in the vedas ‎No edit summary current
14:3214:32, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ In this age, the congregational chanting of the holy names of the Lord is the prescribed method for waking up ‎No edit summary current
14:3114:31, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ In Kali-yuga people have lost all their stamina. They are so sinful that there is no question of becoming pious through all these prescribed methods. The only means is hearing about Krsna and chanting His names ‎No edit summary current
14:3114:31, 10 February 2024 diff hist +6‎ If the mode of passion, instead of being degraded into the mode of ignorance, is elevated to the mode of goodness by the prescribed method of living and acting, then one can be saved from the degradation of wrath by spiritual attachment ‎No edit summary current
14:3114:31, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ If the modes of passion are elevated to the modes of goodness by the prescribed method of living and acting, then one can be saved from the degradation of wrath by spiritual attachment. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
14:3114:31, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ If one maintains his family by prescribed methods and honest means, there is no objection to one's being a family man ‎No edit summary current
14:3114:31, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ Even though we may produce many good children, our desire for sex that is beyond the prescribed method is to be considered sinful ‎No edit summary current
14:3114:31, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ Because the senses are material, it is not at all possible to realize the Transcendence by them. Therefore the senses have to be spiritualized by the prescribed method under the direction of the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
14:3014:30, 10 February 2024 diff hist +32‎ Among the ways of executing devotional service, the nine prescribed methods are the best, for these processes have great potency to deliver Krsna and ecstatic love for Him ‎No edit summary current
14:3014:30, 10 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ Although the subject matter is durvijneyam, extremely difficult to understand, it becomes easy if one follows the prescribed method ‎No edit summary current
14:3014:30, 10 February 2024 diff hist +1‎ According to Vedic civilization, one has to give up family life at a certain age (the age of fifty), take vanaprastha and eventually remain alone as a sannyasi. That is the prescribed method of Vedic civilization known as varnasrama-dharma ‎No edit summary current
14:2914:29, 10 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ According to Vedic civilization, one has to give up family life at a certain age (the age of fifty), take vanaprastha and eventually remain alone as a sannyasi. That is the prescribed method of Vedic civilization known as varnasrama-dharma ‎No edit summary
14:2314:23, 10 February 2024 diff hist +32‎ You must find out a suitable person where you can question and get the proper answer, a spiritual master. That means surrender. Then question. Question is not a challenge. Question is to understand ‎No edit summary current
14:2314:23, 10 February 2024 diff hist +32‎ Sometimes great demons and atheists like Ravana and Hiranyakasipu and many others become very famous due to advancing material civilization by the help of material science and other activities with a spirit of challenging the established order of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
14:1914:19, 10 February 2024 diff hist −11‎ You should not question any person by challenging spirit. You should simply question, being inquisitive to know. That is bona fide. Otherwise, if you question just to examine his strength, that will create only fighting spirit. That is not good ‎No edit summary current
14:1814:18, 10 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ You must approach to a person who knows by surrender, not by challenge. You cannot know about soul and God by this challenging spirit. You have to become a submissive, submissive. You have to accept a spiritual master who knows ‎No edit summary current
14:1714:17, 10 February 2024 diff hist −11‎ This sort of fight was very common, especially during marriage ceremonies, when everyone was in a challenging spirit. In that challenging spirit, a fight was sure to occur, and in such fights there was commonly killing and misfortune ‎No edit summary
14:1714:17, 10 February 2024 diff hist +32‎ This is the proper way to ask for knowledge. One does not approach the spiritual master with a challenging spirit. One should also be inquisitive to understand the spiritual science. It is not that one considers himself superior to the guru ‎No edit summary current
14:1714:17, 10 February 2024 diff hist +32‎ This challenging spirit of Krsna's is not contradictory to His sublime character because, as the Supreme Being, everything is possible in His character ‎No edit summary current
14:1714:17, 10 February 2024 diff hist +9‎ He (God) reserves the right of not being exposed to such a challenging spirit of an insignificant spark of the whole, a spark subjected to the control of illusory energy ‎No edit summary current
14:1714:17, 10 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ By going to a spiritual master and asking for his instructions and then not following them, one simply wastes his time. Nor should one approach the spiritual master with a challenging spirit, but should go with the aim of rendering service ‎No edit summary current
14:1614:16, 10 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ A challenging spirit before the spiritual master should be avoided if one is at all interested in learning the Vedic instructions in depth ‎No edit summary current
14:1614:16, 10 February 2024 diff hist +9‎ Argument is allowed but not in a challenging spirit. With a spirit to rightly understand ‎No edit summary current

09:3809:38, 7 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ When an actual fact is unknown to a certain person, this is called ignorance or lack of knowledge. This is not applicable to God, however, because He knows Himself perfectly ‎No edit summary current
09:3809:38, 7 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ We are imperfect. How we can speculate on Krsna? That is not . . . because there are certain persons, jnanis, they want to know. Just like theosophists, they want to know the Absolute Truth by speculation. But that is not possible ‎No edit summary current
09:3809:38, 7 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ The spiritual master is the representative of Krsna, and the duty allotted by him to a certain person, that should be his execution of spiritual duties ‎No edit summary current
09:3809:38, 7 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ There are certain persons who are above this mistake, illusory energy. Who are those? The devotees ‎No edit summary current
09:3809:38, 7 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ So our business is to stop slaughter. Meat-eating we cannot stop. Certain persons, they must eat. They are fourth-class, and then fifth-class men. There are four classifications - brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra and candala ‎No edit summary current
09:3809:38, 7 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ One's faith is considered good, passionate or ignorant according to the nature he has acquired. Thus, according to his particular type of faith, one associates with certain persons. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
09:3809:38, 7 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ Krsna has no obligation to take His birth in a particular family or country, but He takes birth to glorify a certain person or a certain family because of their devotion. Therefore His birth is called divyam, transcendental ‎No edit summary current
09:3809:38, 7 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ Krsna has no obligation that He has to take His birth in a particular family or particular country. He has no such obligation. But to glorify a certain family or certain person because he is devotee, therefore He has taken birth ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 7 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ If you believe in certain personality . . . of course, not blind believing; he must be authority. Therefore in the Srimad-Bhagavatam they have indicated twelve authorities ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 7 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ If a boy is whiling away his time by playing, you can understand, "This boy is being spoiled." Similarly, by the direction of the scripture, you can understand what is the destination of a certain person ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 7 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ Generally these dramas are sentimentalism. Those who are devotees of Chaitanya, they do not discuss much about His renouncing the householder life, but there are certain persons who floodlight the renouncement of Chaitanya in a materialistic way ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 7 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ Everyone has a particular type of faith, regardless of what he is. But his faith is considered good, passionate or ignorant according to the nature he has acquired. Thus, according to his particular type of faith, one associates with certain persons ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 7 February 2024 diff hist −12‎ By force I cannot say that "You think of this thing or this man." That is not possible. If I have got attachment for a certain thing or a certain person, then we can think of that person or that thing. That is called yoga, connecting always ‎No edit summary current
07:4007:40, 7 February 2024 diff hist +31‎ By the grace of the Supersoul, he (Yamaraja) can see the past, present and future of a living being from within ‎No edit summary current
07:4007:40, 7 February 2024 diff hist +14‎ Brahma could show some extraordinary opulence to the mayarbhakah (boys manifested by Krsna's maya); but he could not show any extraordinary potency to Krsna's associates. That he would see in the very near future ‎No edit summary current
07:4007:40, 7 February 2024 diff hist +31‎ Both in this material world and in the transcendental world, You see all the deeds of all living beings, in the past, present and future. Since You are the witness of all such deeds, You know the essence of everything ‎No edit summary current
07:4007:40, 7 February 2024 diff hist +31‎ Although Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and can see all that is past, present and future, to teach the people in general He used to always refer to the scriptures ‎No edit summary current
07:3907:39, 7 February 2024 diff hist +14‎ We have to understand through sastra. We cannot see our past, present and future, but if we see through the sastras . . . Sastra-caksusa: "You should try to see from the sastra." Actually, we understand everything through sastra, not directly ‎No edit summary current
07:3907:39, 7 February 2024 diff hist +14‎ To pacify the mourning Yudhisthira, Narada first of all spoke from the philosophical point of view, and then he began to describe the future movements of his uncle, which he could see by his foreseeing powers, and thus began to describe as follows ‎No edit summary current
07:3907:39, 7 February 2024 diff hist +31‎ Those who have reached the highest perfectional stage of mystic power and can see everything in the past, present and future are called tri-kala-jnas ‎No edit summary current
07:3907:39, 7 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ To pacify King Indra, Brhaspati assured him that the time would certainly come, for Brhaspati could see that in the future Bali Maharaja would defy the orders of Sukracarya in order to pacify Lord Visnu, Vamanadeva ‎No edit summary current
07:3907:39, 7 February 2024 diff hist +14‎ The personified Vedas continued, "Although You have no eyes, You can see whatever happens in the past, present and future. Although You have no ears, You can hear everything that is said" ‎No edit summary current
07:3907:39, 7 February 2024 diff hist +14‎ The pastimes of the Lord are known to the experts who are able to see past, present and future, and Brahmaji, being one of them, foretold what would happen in the future ‎No edit summary current
07:3907:39, 7 February 2024 diff hist +31‎ The liberated souls are above these flaws (mistake, illusion, cheating and imperfection); therefore they can see and foretell things which are to take place on distant future dates ‎No edit summary current
07:3807:38, 7 February 2024 diff hist +31‎ Sukadeva Gosvami was a perfect yogi, nothing was hidden from his power of insight. A perfect yogi like Sukadeva Gosvami can see past, present and future in all details. Therefore, from such yogis or mystics nothing can be concealed ‎No edit summary current
07:3807:38, 7 February 2024 diff hist +31‎ Since he (Siva) is almost like Lord Visnu, Siva can see past, present and future ‎No edit summary current
07:3807:38, 7 February 2024 diff hist +14‎ Sastra-caksusa: you have to see through the sastra. Otherwise, we have no eyes to see past, present, future ‎No edit summary current
07:3807:38, 7 February 2024 diff hist +31‎ O Arjuna, whatever you wish to see, behold at once in this body of Mine! This universal form can show you whatever you now desire to see and whatever you may want to see in the future ‎No edit summary current
07:3807:38, 7 February 2024 diff hist +31‎ Nanda Maharaja was trying to take advantage of the opportunity afforded by Garga Muni's presence, for Garga Muni was a great authority in this knowledge of astrology, by which one can see the unseen events of past, present and future ‎No edit summary current
07:3707:37, 7 February 2024 diff hist +14‎ Krsna gives him the power to see anything he wants to see, past, present and future. Thus by the mercy of Krsna, Arjuna is able to see everything. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

04:4304:43, 6 February 2024 diff hist 0‎ I wish that it will be noted down in history that this Krishna Consciousness Movement is responsible for saving the world. Practically, our Movement is the only hope for saving the world from complete disaster ‎No edit summary current
04:4304:43, 6 February 2024 diff hist +30‎ I wish that it will be noted down in history that this Krishna Consciousness Movement is responsible for saving the world. Practically, our Movement is the only hope for saving the world from complete disaster ‎No edit summary
04:3604:36, 6 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ You have the strength and capacity to save the world by presenting the Brahminical culture once again for consummation of the distressed world. In such acts of your broadness of mind, I am always at your service ‎No edit summary current
04:3604:36, 6 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ We invite all learned scholars, priests, philosophers to combine together and save the world from this falldown, without God consciousness. That is our request. So I think you all respectable priests and Fathers will kindly help me in this mission ‎No edit summary current
04:3504:35, 6 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ We have to save the world from the misconception of voidism and impersonalism. "The absolute is sentient Thou hast proved all impersonal calamity Thou hast moved." These lines were presented by me to my spiritual master and He was highly pleased with me ‎No edit summary current
04:3504:35, 6 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ The Vedic system of autocracy or monarchy in good training of God consciousness can save the world though less political thieves have failed with Marxism ‎No edit summary current
04:3504:35, 6 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ The Lord appears in each incarnation to save the world from irreligious principles and especially to protect His devotees (paritranaya sadhunam (BG 4.8)). Vamanadeva, for example, appeared to save the devotee Bali Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
04:3504:35, 6 February 2024 diff hist +30‎ The Krsna consciousness movement is the only hope to save the world from such devastation. It is the most scientific and authorized movement for the actual welfare of the whole human society ‎No edit summary
04:3504:35, 6 February 2024 diff hist +30‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu requests every Indian to become a preacher of His cult to save the world from disastrous confusion ‎No edit summary current
04:3504:35, 6 February 2024 diff hist +30‎ Spiritually inclined people will have to forsake their homes because they will be too harassed by drought, taxation and famine. The Krsna consciousness movement is the only hope to save the world from such devastation ‎No edit summary current
04:3504:35, 6 February 2024 diff hist +28‎ So with full faith in Krishna and Spiritual Master, push on this work with full force. We have got a great mission to fulfill, and these books and magazines are the torchbearers of Truth which can save the world ‎No edit summary current
04:3504:35, 6 February 2024 diff hist +2‎ So with full faith in Krishna and Spiritual Master, push on this work with full force. We have got a great mission to fulfill, and these books and magazines are the torchbearers of Truth which can save the world ‎No edit summary
04:3404:34, 6 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ People must know that our Krishna philosophy will save the world from all kinds of dangerous conditions. We prove that when we compare our philosophy with any kind of ordinary so-called philosophy--we can defeat them all very easily ‎No edit summary current
04:3404:34, 6 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ I have explained many times, the Vedic system of autocracy or monarchy in good training of God consciousness can save the world ‎No edit summary current
04:3404:34, 6 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ In order to save the world to become hellish, the king was so alert. That is . . . that is also bhakti. Because the whole natural plan is to come back to home, back to Godhead. This is nature's plan ‎No edit summary current
04:3404:34, 6 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ If we can simply convince a good majority of persons then they will automatically want a KC leader. If there are KC leaders in the government they will act as Krsna's representative and will be able to save the world from the disastrous condition of life ‎No edit summary current
04:3404:34, 6 February 2024 diff hist +30‎ If the intelligent men of the world like yourself cooperate with this all-important mission of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, we can save the world from the state of misery and chaos that now prevails ‎No edit summary current
04:3404:34, 6 February 2024 diff hist +30‎ At the present moment practically the entire world is afraid of rogues and nondevotees; therefore this Krsna consciousness movement is started to save the world from irreligious principles ‎No edit summary current
04:3104:31, 6 February 2024 diff hist +30‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu requests every Indian to become a preacher of His cult to save the world from disastrous confusion ‎No edit summary

13:3113:31, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ You should very seriously and with a cool head apply yourself to getting that place or some other place as soon as possible. Otherwise Krsna may take away this golden opportunity, being disappointed by our lack of enthusiasm and labor ‎No edit summary current
13:3113:31, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ You should remain in Vrndavana for only a short time and then return here as soon as possible. Also, do not climb Govardhana Hill to see the Gopala Deity ‎No edit summary current
13:3113:31, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ You have got a new house very suitable for our purpose; it is very nice. So try to purchase some land as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:3113:31, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ You begin the work, and money will come to you by the grace of God. Don't worry, just finish the buildings as soon as possible and somehow or other money will come ‎No edit summary current
13:3113:31, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ You are devoid of all auspicious qualities because you are thus maintaining a nondevotee of Krsna. Relieve yourself of this ill fortune as soon as possible and do good to the whole family ‎No edit summary current
13:3013:30, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ While residing at the house of Sacimata, Paramananda Puri heard the news of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's return to Jagannatha Puri. He therefore decided to go there as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:3013:30, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ When I get some opportunity I shall take the advantage of constructing a temple and Varna-ashrama College as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:3013:30, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Vrtrasura requested Indra to release his thunderbolt against him as soon as possible so that both he and Indra would benefit according to their proportionate advancement in devotional service ‎No edit summary
13:3013:30, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Vrtrasura not only assured King Indra that the thunderbolt was invincible, but also encouraged Indra to use it against him as soon as possible ‎No edit summary
13:3013:30, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Vidura advised Dhrtarastra to get rid of such an unworthy son as Duryodhana as soon as possible if he was at all anxious to see to the good of his family ‎No edit summary current
13:2913:29, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead wanted to bring Citraketu to Vaikunthaloka as soon as possible. The Lord's plan was that Citraketu be cursed by Parvati to become Vrtrasura so that in his next life he could quickly return home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary
13:2913:29, 3 February 2024 diff hist +33‎ The suggestion of Mr. Kallman of Krishna Consciousness Kit is very nice. Please try to fructify this idea as soon as possible. As there is still time to get Bhagavad-gita ready published by MacMillan Co., Mr. Kallman may not come to S.F. so quickly ‎No edit summary current
13:2813:28, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ The Lord wanted Citraketu to return to Godhead as soon as possible, and therefore he terminated all the reactions of his past deeds ‎No edit summary current
13:2813:28, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ The Lord is so kind to His devotees that He took all the responsibility for the doormen's offense and requested the sages to give them facilities to return to Vaikuntha as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2813:28, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ The Lord is always anxious to get such devotees back again to the Vaikuntha planets as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2813:28, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ The London party is going to New York today, and from there they will start for London, as soon as possible. That center is immediately necessary, because we have no center in Europe ‎No edit summary current
13:2813:28, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ The example of Kardama Muni should be understood very clearly; a person whose main concern is Krsna consciousness, even if he is entrapped in household life, should always be ready to leave household enticement as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2813:28, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ The English boys are able to stay 3 years in India because they are citizens of the Commonwealth so we should take advantage of this. Hence they should go as soon as possible, especially those who are fixed up and steady ‎No edit summary current
13:2813:28, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ The best thing will be therefore to transfer the land in the Society's name as soon as possible and you also be completely free from internal management. Dedicate your life for reading and writing in this Movement of Krsna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current
13:2713:27, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Their only business was to create enmity with saintly persons. Such activities can only reduce one’s duration of life. The demons accelerated the process and invited their deaths as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2713:27, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ So far as controlling "kam" or lust, best thing is don't eat any highly spiced food stuffs and always think of Krishna. Chant regularly and get yourself married as soon as possible, and live a peaceful householder's life in Krishna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current
13:2713:27, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Saints are very rarely seen in the houses of householders, and Maharaja Pariksit prayed to him (Sukadeva) to instruct him as soon as possible. The householders also should be intelligent enough to get some transcendental information from visiting sages ‎No edit summary current
13:2713:27, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Regarding the World Sankirtana Party, that is my long-cherished idea, and I wish to see it fulfilled as soon as possible. But do not count on others ‎No edit summary current
13:2713:27, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Regarding press starting, I have already given you necessary instructions, and again I say that you complete it as soon as possible. I wish to see the press is started when I go back to USA after my European tour ‎No edit summary current
13:2713:27, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Rati continued, "Before he (Demon Sambara) again attempts to kill you (Pradyumna), please kill him as soon as possible with your divine power" ‎No edit summary current
13:2713:27, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Prahlada Maharaja said that one should retire from family life as soon as possible, and he described family life as the darkest well - hitvatma-patam grham andha-kupam ‎No edit summary current
13:2713:27, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Prahlada Maharaja has advised that one give up this blind well of home life as soon as possible and go to the forest to take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
13:2713:27, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Please see that the French and German editions of BTG are published as soon as possible, that is one of my dreams ‎No edit summary current
13:2713:27, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ 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 current
13:2413:24, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Narada was very eager to accelerate the descent of Krsna as soon as possible. He therefore informed Kamsa that in Vrndavana personalities like Nanda Maharaja and all the other cowherd men and their wives ‎No edit summary
13:2413:24, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Let them pray to Jagannatha for my cure immediately, or as soon as possible, I shall do that ‎No edit summary current
13:2413:24, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I think there is good prospect for this Society being a World organisation and you must try to have a centre at Montreal as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2413:24, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I think that if there is a chance for opening a center in Toronto, then Jagadisa and Kanupriya may go there as soon as possible. You have written that you would like Murari to go there, but he has already left for Boston ‎No edit summary current
13:2413:24, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I may inform you that we have received the permission for constructing our Juhu temple. I want that your collection should be sent there so that the buildings may be completed as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2413:24, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I hope you will soon be getting a cow for New Vrindaban. Vrindaban without cows does not look well, so we must have many cows as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I hope that the GBC members will see to this (information on how to liquidate the Dai Nippon debt of $52,000). I am thinking of returning to U.S.A. as soon as possible. Now everything depends on Krishna ‎No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I desire that this project be completed as soon as possible. They inform me that the construction can be completed in five months if funds are provided adequately ‎No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I am very anxious that Hindi Back to Godhead publication may go on as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I am serious about starting a press as soon as possible, and because there is no other alternative, we must have a good press ‎No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I am pleased to learn that you are now together, all six. So please try to start the temple as soon as possible and call me for your service. Offer my blessings to Yamuna as well as to Malati and her husband and the little child ‎No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I am arranging to collect and send money from here for the Vrindaban project and I also want you to concentrate on collecting there. We want to finish this project as soon as possible so that we will have our Center firmly fixed up in Vrindaban ‎No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I am always at your service and whenever you shall call me I shall come to your place and enjoy your good company. Please try to open a center there as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I am always anxious to go and see the Govardhana hills in New Vrindaban and I hope Krishna will fulfill my desire as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I (Prabhupada) have heard that you have mentioned to Brahmananda that your temple will contribute $3,000 dollars for my book fund. This is very good news for me, and try to send it as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Indignant and angry, his reddish eyes like molten copper, Hiranyakasipu said to his servants: O demons, take this boy away from me! He deserves to be killed. Kill him as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ If you say yes, then I will send you the dictaphone copies for doing the needful. This will give me great relief, and I am expecting a reply as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ If you like, come to India as soon as possible. You may come directly to Calcutta and from there you can easily go to Sree Mayapur-candra-daya Mandira ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ He (Vasudeva) begot one child every year so that Krsna's turn to appear would come as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Govinda dasi has already written you letter to come here as soon as possible. I hope you come before I leave this place on the 31st March 1969. This tape may be returned to L.A. address ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Even in the modern age, in some communities or states, the old men are given poison so that they will die as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Do your best to see that one of these big officials comes to Mayapur for the cornerstone ceremony and let me know as soon as possible what arrangements have been made ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Better to leave this place as soon as possible. Not to come again. That should be our serious attention ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Before your death, as soon as possible, you should atone. You should counteract. Otherwise you will suffer very much ‎No edit summary current
13:2113:21, 3 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ As soon as possible, one should give up his so-called comfortable life at home and prepare to undergo austerity, or tapasya. Tapo divyam putraka - SB 5.5.1 ‎No edit summary current
06:0006:00, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ When the mind is completely cleansed of all sinful reactions, one can then understand his duty in the human form of life ‎No edit summary current
06:0006:00, 3 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ When one is strengthened by practicing bhakti-yoga, his mind is cleansed of this misunderstanding (of bodily identificaiton), and he is no longer interested in material existence or in sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
05:5905:59, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ Unless such materialists are able to cleanse the materially absorbed mind, it is impossible for them to concentrate upon thoughts of transcendence. And to do so one may fix one's mind on the gross material or external feature of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
05:5905:59, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ This kamaturam mind will be cleansed. Not only be cleansed: if you think of sex, you'll spite on it. This is Krsna consciousness movement ‎No edit summary current
05:5905:59, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ This human form of life is meant for austerity, and austerity means controlling sex, food intake, etc. In this way time can be saved for spiritual activity, and one can purify himself both externally and internally. Thus both body & mind can be cleansed ‎No edit summary current
05:5805:58, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ This (Hare Krsna) is transcendental sound vibration, and this will help us to cleanse the dust on the mirror of our mind. On the mind we have accumulated material dust ‎No edit summary current
05:5805:58, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ The Supreme Lord within everyone's heart becomes very pleased when a person hears narrations of His activities, and He personally cleanses the dirt from the mind of the listener ‎No edit summary current
05:5805:58, 3 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ The real disease is in the heart. If the mind is cleansed, however, if consciousness is cleansed, a person cannot be harmed by the material disease ‎No edit summary current
05:5805:58, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ The pure devotee, simply by remembering the Lord's lotus feet at every second, at once becomes established in real trance because by such realization his mind and intelligence are completely cleansed of the diseases of material enjoyment ‎No edit summary current
05:5705:57, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ The more one goes on chanting, the more the darkness of many lives is dissipated. Ceto-darpana-marjanam: by chanting, one can cleanse the dust from the mirror of his mind and perceive things very distinctly ‎No edit summary current
05:5705:57, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ The mind can be peaceful and thoroughly cleansed when one no longer desires anything but devotional service ‎No edit summary current
05:5705:57, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ The mind being spiritually cleansed, one should at once engage himself in the transcendental loving service of the Lord by the different devotional activities of hearing, chanting, etc ‎No edit summary current
05:5705:57, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ The example, as stated by Lord Caitanya, is that devotional service cleanses the mirror of the mind. In a clean mirror one can see one's face very distinctly ‎No edit summary current
05:5705:57, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ Then (when one constantly thinks of the lotus feet of Lord Krsna) one's mind will certainly be cleansed, CC Antya 20.12: ceto-darpana-marjanam ‎No edit summary current
05:5605:56, 3 February 2024 diff hist +14‎ Sankirtana-yajna. This yajna will help you. Real thing is the heart, the mind. If this yajna, sankirtana-yajna, cleanses your mind and heart, then you come to the platform of knowledge. Then automatically other things become effective ‎No edit summary current
05:5605:56, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ Religious ritualistic performances are actually meant to cleanse the contaminated mind in the material world ‎No edit summary current
05:5305:53, 3 February 2024 diff hist +14‎ Please stay for five or seven days and kindly cleanse my polluted mind. After that much time, my mind will certainly be pure ‎No edit summary current
05:5305:53, 3 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ Like the Ganges water, which emanates from the toes of the lotus feet of the Lord, such a process immediately cleanses the mind, and thus spiritual or Krsna consciousness gradually increases ‎No edit summary current
05:5205:52, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ In this way (by pranayama yoga, and by eating only air and dry leaves fallen from the trees cleansed your minds from all dirty things), desiring a benediction from Me (Krsna), you (Devaki and Vasudeva) worshiped Me with peaceful minds - SB 10.3.34-35 ‎No edit summary current
05:5205:52, 3 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ If one can cleanse his mind, he immediately comes to his original position of Krsna consciousness, and thus his life becomes successful. Therefore all the great saints in the devotional line very strongly recommend the process of hearing ‎No edit summary current
05:5205:52, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. This is transcendental sound vibration. It will help us to cleanse the dust from the mirror of the mind ‎No edit summary current
05:5205:52, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ Especially in this age of Kali, the mind must be cleansed, and this is possible only by the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra ‎No edit summary current
05:5205:52, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ Ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam (CC Antya 20.12, Siksastaka 1). This is the easiest process by which the mirror of the mind can be cleansed ‎No edit summary current
05:5205:52, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ Ceto-darpana-marjanam (CC Antya 20.12). In this age, the process of chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra is the only method by which to cleanse the sinful mind ‎No edit summary current
05:5105:51, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ Ceto-darpana-marjanam: (CC Antya 20.12) by chanting the holy name of Krsna one is cleansed of the dirt that accumulates in the mind ‎No edit summary current
05:5005:50, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ By repeated chanting of this transcendental sound vibration, dirty things in the materialistic mind become cleansed. The dirty things in the materialistic mind are the modes of passion and ignorance ‎No edit summary current
05:5005:50, 3 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ By practicing pranayama to control the air within the body through yoga, and by eating only air and dry leaves fallen from the trees, you (Vasudeva and Devaki) cleansed from your minds all dirty things - SB 10.3.34-35 ‎No edit summary current
05:5005:50, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ By performing this yajna, the results will be ceto-darpana-marjanam (CC Antya 20.12) - the mirror of the mind will be cleansed. When the mirror of the mind is cleansed, one is automatically liberated ‎No edit summary current
05:4905:49, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ Bathing in the Ganges can certainly cure one of many infectious diseases, but it cannot cleanse one's materially attached mind, which creates all kinds of contaminations in material existence ‎No edit summary current
05:4905:49, 3 February 2024 diff hist +14‎ As stated by Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu in His Siksastaka instructions, by the chanting of the holy name of the Lord - Hare Krsna, or by the process of hearing and chanting of the glories of the Lord, one's mind is gradually cleansed of all dirt ‎No edit summary current
05:4905:49, 3 February 2024 diff hist +14‎ As confirmed by Lord Caitanya, by the bhakti-yoga process, beginning from hearing and chanting, one can cleanse the heart and mind, and thus one can clearly see the face of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
05:4905:49, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ Anyone who takes up Krsna consciousness and engages himself completely in the service of the Lord cleanses his mind of all envy (manas ca bhadram bhajatad adhoksaje). Therefore we should pray to Lord Nrsimha-deva to sit in our hearts ‎No edit summary current
05:4805:48, 3 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ Actually his (who has become Krsna conscious) mind is cleansed by his transcendental connection with the lotus feet of the Lord. At such a time one is enlightened by the loving service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
05:4805:48, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ According to a prayer by Srila Narottama dasa Thakura (Prarthana 1): When will my mind be cleansed of all material dirt so that I will be able to feel the presence of spiritual Vrndavana ‎No edit summary
05:4705:47, 3 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ When you can understand Krsna's and your own position in a nice analytical way, then at once you become free from sinful reactions. This process will help you. Chant Hare Krsna and cleanse your mind, and you will receive the message ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 3 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ The special feature of this Age of Kali is that one can easily execute the process of cleansing the mind of contamination by chanting the holy names of God - Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 3 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ When spiritual knowledge is not complete, one will be hindered in his attempt to cleanse the mind of all material variegatedness ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 3 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ We need only take the advice of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and chant the Hare Krsna mantra to cleanse the mind of all material contamination, and this may be considered the summary of this difficult verse - SB 4.23.17 ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 3 February 2024 diff hist −7‎ To cleanse the mind and heart from all misconceptions, one should take to this chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 3 February 2024 diff hist +11‎ Everyone is suffering in this material world because of the mind; it is therefore proper to train the mind or to cleanse the mind from material attachment and engage it fully in the Lord's service. This is called spiritual engagement ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 3 February 2024 diff hist +32‎ A godless civilization cannot cleanse the mind because it has no idea of God, and for this simple reason people under such a civilization cannot have good qualifications, however they may be materially equipped ‎No edit summary current
05:3805:38, 3 February 2024 diff hist −8‎ The Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krsna is in every living being along with the individual soul. And this fact is perceived and hypothesized in our acts of seeing and taking help from the intelligence ‎No edit summary current
05:3805:38, 3 February 2024 diff hist +10‎ He (the brahmana) said that since he was very happy in his householder life, taking rice given by his disciples and cooking vegetables of tamarind leaves, there was no question of taking help from the Zamindar - Raja Krsnacandra ‎No edit summary current
05:3805:38, 3 February 2024 diff hist −8‎ Here (in SB 10.6.19) we find that in household affairs, ladies could take charge of protecting a child simply by taking help from the cow ‎No edit summary current
05:3605:36, 3 February 2024 diff hist +30‎ We have no economic problem. Everything is completely provided. We want water. Just see - there are oceans of water. Of course, we want pure water, and although the ocean has so much water, when water is scarce we shall have to take help from Krsna ‎No edit summary current
05:3605:36, 3 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ We can take help from the Bhagavata the cream and ripen fruit of the Vedic literature and stop at once the quarrel and turmoil of the present world ‎No edit summary current
05:3605:36, 3 February 2024 diff hist +30‎ We can take help from outside in the matter of monetary help, either by contribution or by loan, but not to enter into transactions with outsiders. Because their aim of life is different from ours ‎No edit summary current
05:3605:36, 3 February 2024 diff hist −6‎ Upon hearing about Kasi Misra's tactics with the King, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "Kasi Misra, what have you done? You have made Me indirectly take help from the King" ‎No edit summary current
05:3605:36, 3 February 2024 diff hist −6‎ The heavenly demigods are certainly more intelligent, powerful and beautiful, and yet they had to take help from Arjuna because of his Gandiva bow, which was empowered by the grace of Lord Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
05:3505:35, 3 February 2024 diff hist −6‎ The father is training, mother is training. Are you not born foolish? In the Bhagavata says, abodha-jatah: "born foolish." Everyone is born rascal. So if he does not take help from the authorities how he can make progress? ‎No edit summary current
05:3505:35, 3 February 2024 diff hist −6‎ There must be division of work. So you take from . . . when there is necessity of brain work, you take help from him. And when there is need of the walking, take leg, help from the leg. It is a cooperation ‎No edit summary current
05:3505:35, 3 February 2024 diff hist −6‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu declared Himself a strict sannyasi. A sannyasi is not supposed to take help from anyone. Retaining a masseur to give Him massages would indicate His dependence on others ‎No edit summary current
05:3505:35, 3 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ Regarding the Sannyasis, they should be independent. Why they should take help from you? They are strong men, so they should manage on their own strength. That is the test of their effective preaching work ‎No edit summary current
05:3505:35, 3 February 2024 diff hist −6‎ O Supreme, You are independent in Your self and do not take help from others. Through Your own potency, You create this cosmic manifestation and enter into it ‎No edit summary current
05:3505:35, 3 February 2024 diff hist +30‎ Lord Ramacandra has no equal or superior, and therefore He had no need to take help from the monkeys to gain victory over Ravana ‎No edit summary current
05:3505:35, 3 February 2024 diff hist −6‎ I want to control death, disease, but I cannot. Everyone is trying. As soon as one is diseased, he tries to control it. He goes to take help from other, the physician, but he cannot. Therefore he is not supreme controller ‎No edit summary current
05:3505:35, 3 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ In this material world sex is required to produce children, but in the spiritual world one can produce as many children as he likes without having to take help from his wife ‎No edit summary current
05:3505:35, 3 February 2024 diff hist +30‎ In this material world sex is required to produce children, but in the spiritual world a man can produce as many children as he likes without having to take help from his wife. So there is no sex there - CC Intro ‎No edit summary current
05:3505:35, 3 February 2024 diff hist −6‎ In old age all the gates of the body are blocked by so many diseases, and one has to take help from so many medicines and surgical appliances ‎No edit summary current
05:3405:34, 3 February 2024 diff hist −6‎ In general warfare one must take help from his chariot and horses in order to conquer his enemy, and after conquering his enemies he may give up the chariot and its paraphernalia ‎No edit summary current
05:3405:34, 3 February 2024 diff hist −6‎ If one wants to understand Bhagavad-gita, he cannot take help from other methods. He must understand it as prescribed in Bhagavad-gita itself, by understanding it as Arjuna understood it ‎No edit summary current
05:3405:34, 3 February 2024 diff hist +30‎ He (Krsna) comes by His internal potency, and He does not take help from anyone. He possesses a variety of energies, all of which work correctly and perfectly - parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate svabhaviki jnana-bala-kriya ca ‎No edit summary current
05:3405:34, 3 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ Everyone has to learn from his superior about knowledge; even Brahma, who is the first living being within this material world, has to meditate upon the Supreme Lord and take help from Him in order to create ‎No edit summary current
05:3405:34, 3 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ Even if He (Krsna) were lusty, He doesn’t need to take help from others to satisfy His lusty desires. The next point is that, although not lusty Himself, He might have been seduced by the lusty desires of the gopis ‎No edit summary current
05:3405:34, 3 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ By serving the spiritual master, you keep your weapon always sharpened. And then take help from Krsna, the words of spiritual master sharpen weapon and the spiritual master is happy, then Krsna immediately will help. He gives you strength ‎No edit summary current
05:3405:34, 3 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ Being forgetful of his real position, the conditioned soul may take help from sastra, guru and the Supersoul within his heart. Krsna is situated within everyone’s heart as the Supersoul ‎No edit summary current
05:3305:33, 3 February 2024 diff hist +30‎ Because we are not polluting the theme of Bhagavad-gita As It Is, anyone seriously interested in deriving benefit by studying the BG must take help from the KCM for practical understanding of BG under the direct guidance of the Lord. BG 1972 Preface ‎No edit summary current
05:3305:33, 3 February 2024 diff hist −6‎ All these persons are given the chance to play with false egoistic ideas, at the same time God is kind enough to give them a chance to take help from scriptures like BG and SB so that they may understand the Krsna's science & make their lives successful ‎No edit summary current
05:2205:22, 3 February 2024 diff hist +10‎ Maitreya's statement is that in order to avoid unchaste conscious activities, he was trying to describe the unlimited glories of the Lord, although he did not have the ability to describe them perfectly ‎No edit summary current
05:2205:22, 3 February 2024 diff hist +10‎ They (Mayavadi philosophers) unnecessarily poke their noses into the Vedanta-sutra, but they have no ability to understand it because, as the author of the Vedanta-sutra writes in his commentary, SB, it is meant for those who are pure in heart - SB 1.1.2 ‎No edit summary current
05:2105:21, 3 February 2024 diff hist −11‎ King Nagnajit presented himself before the Lord, "It is not possible, because I am an insignificant living being. Actually I have no ability to render any service unto You (Krsna)" ‎No edit summary current
05:2105:21, 3 February 2024 diff hist −11‎ Formerly there were qualified brahmanas, but at present, although there are certainly persons who think themselves brahmanas, they actually have no ability to guide society ‎No edit summary current
05:2105:21, 3 February 2024 diff hist −11‎ Animals have no ability to know that they are in darkness, but human beings can know. Like Devahuti, an intelligent person should become disgusted with the darkness of ignorance ‎No edit summary current

09:4009:40, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ We have limited perception, and our senses have limited potency, so how can we study Krsna? It is not possible at all. Krsna reveals Himself to a certain extent, and that much is sufficient ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 31 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ We are destined to suffer a certain extent of so-called happiness and certain extent of so-called distress. - The distress is also so-called, and the happiness is also so-called ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ To a certain extent they (Mayavadi philosophers) recommend Brahman activities, which for them means engagement in studying the Vedanta and Sankhya philosophies, but their interpretations are but dry speculation ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 31 January 2024 diff hist +30‎ They (senses) can only act under certain conditions. For example, our eyes. As long as the sunshine is there, our eyes are useful to a certain extent. But in the absence of sunshine, the eyes are useless ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ That tolerant attitude must be there to a certain extent, but we must remain also always firm on this point, that the brahmacaris living in the temple shall not disobey the orders of the spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ No one can know the Personality of Godhead in full, but at least to a certain extent one can know the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, by self-surrender and a devotional attitude, and by nothing else ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 31 January 2024 diff hist +30‎ Loka means planets. We are proprietor of certain extent of land here, and we are very much proud. But God says that "I am the proprietor of all the planets." And suhrdam sarva-bhutanam. And He is the friend of all living entities ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ In the previous verse (in SB 2.1.11), we have discussed this point to a certain extent, and we may further be enlightened on the different types of offenses committed unto the feet of the holy name ‎No edit summary current
09:3909:39, 31 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ If you become so much dependent on the bodily necessities of life, then you cannot become fully and wholly for the benefit of the mass of people. Our Gandhi, he imitated this. For the mass of people... But that was to a certain extent successful ‎No edit summary current
09:3909:39, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ He (Krsna) has given us little independence because we are part and parcel of Krsna. Krsna is fully independent. He does not depend on anyone. But although we have got independence to a certain extent, but under the control of maya ‎No edit summary current
09:3909:39, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ Cultivation of knowledge to understand one's spiritual position is also, to a certain extent, a waste of time. Because the living entity is an eternal part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, his immediate business is to engage himself in devotional service ‎No edit summary current
09:3909:39, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ By mental speculation we cannot have a into right conclusion, by mental speculation. Those are simply speculating on mind, they can make some progress to a certain extent, but they cannot reach the ultimate goal ‎No edit summary current
09:3909:39, 31 January 2024 diff hist +30‎ We may be successful to a certain extent but in this age it is very difficult to practice such things. Nobody can practice how to control the senses from the sense object ‎No edit summary current
09:3609:36, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ When a boy goes to school, he has to follow the rules & regulations, but after a while he becomes accustomed to them and does not have to be taught. In other words, he learns automatically to come to school at a certain time, take his seat & study nicely ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ When an unconstitutional ecstasy of devotional service is manifested prominently at a certain time, it is still accepted as the part. If it is not very prominently manifested, it appears only slightly and quickly merges back into the whole ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ Vedic literature is not written at a certain time. It is coming. It is called apauruseya. It is not man-made. So you have to study very scrutinizingly, then you will understand ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ The conclusion is that the cosmic manifestation is certainly created at a certain time, and the creator existed before the creation; therefore the creator is not a created being ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ The body is born at a certain time, and immediately the influence of time acts upon it. From the date of the birth of the body, the influence of death is also acting; the advancement of age entails the influence of time on the body ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ Since the Vedic literatures say that the living entity is eternal, one should not think the living being to be produced at a certain time ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ Krsna has thousands and thousands of names, of which the name Krsna is the chief, and there are no hard and fast rules for chanting. It is not that one must chant at a certain time. No. At any time one may chant ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ It is not that automatically we have to award a devotee second initiation after he has been with us for a certain time, but the qualifications have to be there ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ If one falls down, his progress might be checked for a certain time, but it will again become manifest at an opportune moment ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ Because He (Anantadeva) is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is kind toward us and checks His anger and intolerance. Only at certain times does He express His anger and destroy the material world ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ At a certain time, the Personality of Godhead, Karanodakasayi Visnu, lies in the Karana Ocean and produces many thousands of universes from His breathing ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ Although the subordinate mellow may be manifested for a certain time, at length it will become merged into the prominent whole. Thus it is called an unconstitutional ecstasy of devotional service ‎No edit summary current

05:5005:50, 20 January 2024 diff hist +18‎ The living entity attains a certain position in life in a particular type of body according to his pious and impious activities, but his transmigration into different bodies should not be taken as progress ‎No edit summary current
05:5005:50, 20 January 2024 diff hist +10‎ No one can accuse the Supreme Lord of partiality in giving one type of body to a certain type of living entity and another type of body to another living entity ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ When conditioned by material nature, the living entity must accept a certain type of body, which is offered by nature under the direction of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ We may rent and occupy a house, but actually the owner of the house is the landlord. Similarly, we may be allotted a certain type of body as a facility with which to enjoy this material world, but the actual proprietor of the body is the SP of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ We have to accept a certain type of body because we are forced to do so, but this is not the case with Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not appear because He is forced to do so by karma like ordinary living entities who are forced to accept a certain type of body ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ The soul has no death, but when the same pure soul desires to enjoy the material world independently, he is placed under the conditions of material nature and must therefore accept a certain type of body and suffer the pains and pleasures thereof ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ The next body has to be immediately accepted according to karma. One will be forced to accept a certain type of body, and protesting will not help. That is the stringent law of nature ‎No edit summary current
05:4705:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ The Mayavadi monist must accept a certain type of body, being forced by the laws of nature; therefore, his claim to being one with Krsna, or God, is only theoretical ‎No edit summary current
05:4605:46, 20 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ The living entity desires a certain type of body, and by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that body is created from material nature, which is nothing but a kind of machine handled by the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −5‎ The conditioned soul is forced to take a certain type of body and senses under the three modes of material nature. That body is not received according to his own choice ‎No edit summary current
05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ The body is created according to one's karma, and material nature supplies the ingredients for the development of a certain type of body. The soul the body covers is different from the bodily construction ‎No edit summary
05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Similarly, the seeds of our desires are varied. Every living entity has a different type of desire, and that desire is the seed which causes his growth in a certain type of body. This is explained by Rupa Gosvami by the word papa-bija ‎No edit summary
05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ O King, all good fortune unto you! The mind is the cause of the living entity's attaining a certain type of body in accordance with his association with material nature ‎No edit summary current
05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ One is obliged to accept a certain type of body according to his karma, sometimes as an animal, sometimes a demigod and so on ‎No edit summary
05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Material world means you associate with the material three qualities - goodness, passion or ignorance. And according to that, as you associate, you get a certain type of body ‎No edit summary current
05:4305:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Karmana daiva-netrena jantor dehopapattaye (SB 3.31.1). We develop a certain type of body according to our karma ‎No edit summary current
05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Karmana daiva-netrena: (SB 3.31.1) we work under the influence of material nature contaminated by the three modes, and thus we get a certain type of body according to superior order. This is called karma-bandha ‎No edit summary current
05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ I am not the proprietor of this body. Krsna is the proprietor of the body. I wanted a certain type of body to use it for my sense gratification. He has given it and I am not happy. Therefore I shall learn how to use this machine for the proprietor ‎No edit summary current
05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ If you analyze very scrutinizingly, there will be some difference from your body, from your daughter's body, from your boy's body. So every body . . . every living entity is getting a certain type of body according to his desire ‎No edit summary current
05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ He (the living entity) does not know that after death he will be thrown into the hands of a very strong material nature that will force him to accept a certain type of body according to his present work. This body may not even be a human body ‎No edit summary current
05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Every other living entity is forced to accept a certain type of body by his previous actions. But when Krsna appears, He always appears in a body that is not forced upon Him by the action of His past deeds ‎No edit summary current
05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Every living entity who has come to this material world has come for material enjoyment, but according to his own karma, activities, must accept a certain type of body given to him by material nature under the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −23‎ Everyone is compelled to accept a certain type of body offered by the Supreme Lord and thus be allotted different grades of happiness and distress ‎No edit summary current
05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Everyone has achieved a certain type of body given by material nature according to the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
05:4205:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Due to the mode of passion, we desire many things, and according to our desire or anxiety and according to the order of the Supreme Lord, material nature gives us a certain type of body. For some time we play as master or servant ‎No edit summary current
05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ By the supervision of superior order, superior vigilance, we get a certain type of body ‎No edit summary current
05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Because a hog has a certain type of body, his sense gratification comes from eating stool, the very thing that is most obnoxious to you. At once, after evacuating, you leave to get free from the bad smell - but the hog is waiting ‎No edit summary current
05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ A pig has a certain type of body, and his eatable is stool. This is destined. You cannot change it - "Let the pig eat halava." That is not possible ‎No edit summary current
05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ A foolish person does not know that he is completely under the bondage of material nature and that after death material nature will impose upon him a certain type of body, which he will have to accept ‎No edit summary current
05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ A conditioned soul has no free choice; he has to accept a certain type of body according to his karma ‎No edit summary
05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ At the time of death, the mind and intelligence of a living entity create the subtle form of a certain type of body for the next life ‎No edit summary current
05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −5‎ At the time of death, because I have got a certain type of mentality, man-mentality or God-mentality or dog-mentality or fly-mentality, any kind of... There are so many. So I have to take a certain type of body ‎No edit summary current
05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ As long as the mind is absorbed in the laws of karma, a certain type of body must be accepted in the next life ‎No edit summary current
05:4105:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ All those who heard considered the speech of Krsna for some time, and they concluded that Krsna was actually the S.P.G playing the role of an ordinary humans , who is forced to take a certain type of body as a result of the reactions of his past deeds ‎No edit summary current
05:4005:40, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ Actually we get this material body due to our ignorance. By ignorance we commit so many wrong things, and you have obliged to accept a certain type of body. Therefore it is a network of ignorance ‎No edit summary current
05:4005:40, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ According to the Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad, every living being is forced by divine superintendence to take a certain type of body according to his past deeds ‎No edit summary current
05:4005:40, 20 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ According to the association of guna, or quality, prakrti gives you a certain type of body. The body is given by prakrti, by nature. Therefore, nature is called mother, Durga ‎No edit summary current

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