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27 February 2024
- 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
21 February 2024
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
14 February 2024
- 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