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04:0704:07, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,996‎ People should take advantage of the opportunity afforded by Bharata-varsa, and this is especially so for those who are following the principles of varnasrama-dharma ‎No edit summary current
04:0504:05, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,736‎ One who follows the garbhadhana samskara system is actually twice-born, but those who do not, who deviate from the principles of varnasrama-dharma, are called dvija-bandhus ‎No edit summary current
04:0504:05, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,499‎ One has to follow the principles of the asramas (brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa), since these principles (of varnas and asramas) are considered essential for the attainment of the highest goal ‎No edit summary current
04:0404:04, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,810‎ No one is being trained to act according to the principles of varnasrama-dharma, and thus people are becoming increasingly degraded and are heading in the direction of animal life ‎No edit summary current
04:0304:03, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,526‎ Narada Muni's opinion is that even if there is some temporary disturbance in the execution of the varnasrama-dharma principles, they can be revived at any moment ‎No edit summary current
04:0104:01, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,999‎ Lord Visnu advised King Prthu that everyone should follow the principles of varnasrama-dharma; then, in whatever capacity one remains within this material world, his salvation is guaranteed after death ‎No edit summary
04:0004:00, 25 February 2022 diff hist +14,135‎ Lord Caitanya rejected the varnasrama-dharma and the offering of fruitive activity because in the field of executing pure devotional service, there is very little use for such principles ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,966‎ In the name of secular government, unqualified people are taking the supreme governmental posts. No one is being trained to act according to the principles of varnasrama-dharma, and thus people are becoming increasingly degraded ‎No edit summary current
03:5403:54, 25 February 2022 diff hist +6,154‎ If you did not roam about the world like the brilliant sun, leading a huge army whose trampling feet cause the globe of the earth to tremble, then all the moral laws governing the varnas and asramas created by the Lord Himself would be broken ‎No edit summary current
03:5303:53, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,103‎ If we do not take to the principles of varnasrama-dharma by accepting the four social orders and the four orders of spiritual life, there can be no question of success in life ‎No edit summary current
03:5203:52, 25 February 2022 diff hist +5,499‎ If those who live in Bharata-varsa rigidly follow the principles of varnasrama-dharma and develop their dormant Krsna consciousness, they need not return to this material world after death ‎No edit summary
03:5003:50, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,498‎ He (Rsabhadeva) strictly followed the principles of varnasrama-dharma and acted accordingly ‎No edit summary current
03:5003:50, 25 February 2022 diff hist +6,042‎ Great sages (like Parasara & Manu) have already given us instructions on how to live according to the principles of varnasrama-dharma. Similarly, Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami have given us rules and regulations for becoming pure devotees of the Lord ‎No edit summary
03:4803:48, 25 February 2022 diff hist +3,665‎ Even in human life, while observing the principles of varna and asrama-brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa - one must ultimately accept sannyasa, the renounced order ‎No edit summary current
03:4603:46, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,730‎ By His instructions, He showed how people could remain householders and at the same time become perfect by following the principles of varnasrama-dharma ‎No edit summary current
03:4603:46, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,522‎ By following the principles of the varnasrama-dharma, one attains a better position in the material world ‎No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 25 February 2022 diff hist +1,849‎ Being worshiped by sacrifices offered with great gifts by those who strictly followed the principles of varna and asrama, Hiranyakasipu, instead of offering shares of the oblations to the demigods, accepted them himself ‎No edit summary current
03:4103:41, 25 February 2022 diff hist +14,351‎ Although Lord Caitanya accepted the principles, He still requested Ramananda Raya to further explain advanced devotional service. Thus Lord Caitanya gave Ramananda Raya a chance to discuss gradual advancement from the principles of varnasrama-dharma ‎No edit summary
03:4003:40, 25 February 2022 diff hist +4,789‎ According to the varnasrama principle, it is compulsory that one retire after the age of fifty, without considering other circumstances ‎No edit summary current

03:4103:41, 24 February 2022 diff hist +2,850‎ Sraddha ceremony means to offer foodstuff to Visnu, and with the prasadam, to the forefathers or father it is offered so that by eating prasadam, if he is in ghost life or in hellish life, he'll be delivered ‎No edit summary current
03:3903:39, 24 February 2022 diff hist +2,861‎ To save a diseased person from ghostly life, the funeral ceremony, or sraddha ceremony, as prescribed in authorized sastra, must be performed ‎No edit summary current

01:4701:47, 22 February 2022 diff hist +4,933‎ The mahatmas have shown the perfect path of charity: devotional service to the Lord. If anyone ignores this path and instead builds hospitals, his effort to help humanity is a mere pretense ‎No edit summary current

07:3407:34, 21 February 2022 diff hist +8,650‎ One scientific man, who had no belief in God, was very much enthusiastic in making plans for his material existence and therefore opened a hospital to save the living. But after opening the hospital, he himself died within six months ‎No edit summary current
07:3307:33, 21 February 2022 diff hist +3,993‎ They are simply proud of increasing hospital. Why there should be hospital? Why not stop disease? That is scientific advancement. Stop disease, and there will be no need of opening hospital ‎No edit summary current
07:3207:32, 21 February 2022 diff hist +4,922‎ The so-called renouncer, unable to remain in meditation upon Brahman, returns to materialistic activities by opening hospitals and schools and so on ‎No edit summary current
07:3107:31, 21 February 2022 diff hist +3,567‎ The foolish conditioned soul may think that he is offering charity by opening hospitals for material benefit or by opening an educational institution for material education ‎No edit summary current
07:2607:26, 21 February 2022 diff hist +3,715‎ Pious activities bring about material opulence, but one cannot acquire devotional service by any amount of material pious activity - not by giving charity, opening big hospitals and schools or working philanthropically ‎No edit summary current
07:2407:24, 21 February 2022 diff hist +4,149‎ Even today, if a man who was formerly poverty-stricken gets money, he is inclined to utilize his money to perform many philanthropic activities, like opening schools for uneducated men and hospitals for the diseased ‎No edit summary current
07:2007:20, 21 February 2022 diff hist −9‎ Sometimes he (a man) tries to open hospitals, give to charity institutions, etc. These are the signs of one in the mode of passion. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
07:1807:18, 21 February 2022 diff hist +6,330‎ This is the most exalted qualification, to become well-wisher of all living entities, not that we open hospitals for the human being and we send the cows to the slaughterhouse or poor animals should be slaughtered ‎No edit summary
07:1707:17, 21 February 2022 diff hist −9‎ They (Mayavadi philosophers) must come down again to this material world to open hospitals or schools or perform similar philanthropic activities ‎No edit summary current
06:2806:28, 21 February 2022 diff hist +6,331‎ There are many jnanis or sannyasis who, after taking sannyasa and giving up the world as false, return to the world to engage in politics or philanthropy or to open schools and hospitals. This means that they could not attain the real Brahman ‎No edit summary current
06:2106:21, 21 February 2022 diff hist +3,804‎ As long as a conditioned soul does not have this knowledge (that Krsna is the proprietor), he wants to be the enjoyer of everything; he wants to become a humanitarian or philanthropist and open hospitals and schools for his fellow human beings ‎No edit summary current

02:2402:24, 15 February 2022 diff hist +5,366‎ The Mayavadis proclaim that there is no separate existence outside the impersonal Brahman and that the feeling of separation is maya, or an illusion, by which one considers a rope to be a snake ‎No edit summary current
02:1402:14, 15 February 2022 diff hist −11‎ Sankaracarya has misrepresented all the mantras of the Vedanta-sutra to prove that there is no separate existence of the living entities & the Supreme Absolute Truth. This is similar to the politician’s attempt to prove nonviolence from the BG ‎No edit summary current

14:5714:57, 14 February 2022 diff hist +2,254‎ After considering the oneness of existence, activity and paraphernalia and after realizing the self to be different from all actions and reactions, the mental speculator (muni), according to his own realization, gives up the three states ‎No edit summary current
03:1703:17, 14 February 2022 diff hist +3,664‎ Impersonalists prefer to merge into the existence of the Transcendence, but the personalists, or devotees, do not annihilate their individuality, & thus the devotees of God individually enjoy spiritual variegatedness on the planets of the spiritual sky ‎No edit summary current
03:0503:05, 14 February 2022 diff hist −16‎ There are five different kinds of mukti. Impersonalists prefer to merge into the existence of the Transcendence, but the personalists, or devotees, do not annihilate their individuality ‎No edit summary current
03:0403:04, 14 February 2022 diff hist +11‎ The ultimate goal of the yoga system is to become one with the Absolute. This means finishing one’s personal existence. But the spiritual part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead has an eternal individual existence ‎No edit summary current

14:5114:51, 13 February 2022 diff hist +10‎ It is not that they (Krsna, Arjuna and the assembled kings) did not exist as individuals in the past, and it is not that they will not remain eternal persons. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
14:4314:43, 13 February 2022 diff hist +4,214‎ The Mayavadi philosopher, who does not differentiate between the Supreme Spirit and the individual spirit, says that the conditional existence of the living entity is his lila, or pastime ‎No edit summary current
14:4114:41, 13 February 2022 diff hist +4,455‎ The individual soul who is perceiving this knowledge still remains an individual. Both in material existence and in spiritual existence the individuality continues; the only difference is in the quality of the identity ‎No edit summary current
14:3814:38, 13 February 2022 diff hist +5,505‎ As we have learned from previous mantras, the brahmajyoti emanating from the transcendental body of the Lord is full of spiritual sparks that are individual entities with the full sense of existence ‎No edit summary current
14:1814:18, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ Who worship the impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth & regard the forms of the demigods as temporary, sacrifice their individual selves in the supreme fire & thus end their individual existences by merging into the existence of the Supreme. BG 1972 p ‎No edit summary current
14:1314:13, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ This (sayujya-mukti - this form of mukti means denying one’s individual existence) is absolutely opposed to the philosophy of bhakti-yoga. Bhakti-yoga offers immortality to the individual conditioned soul ‎No edit summary current
14:1214:12, 13 February 2022 diff hist +8,922‎ In the Vedanta-sutra, devotional service is clearly indicated, but the Mayavadi philosophers refuse to accept the spiritual body of the Supreme Absolute Person and refuse to accept that the living entity has an individual existence ‎No edit summary current
14:1114:11, 13 February 2022 diff hist +10,576‎ The real fact is that oneness does not mean merging into the Supreme and losing one's own individual existence ‎No edit summary current
14:0614:06, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ Because these living entities do not wish to keep their individual existences, they are combined and allowed to remain in Brahmaloka like so many atomic particles of sunshine emanating from the sun ‎No edit summary current
14:0014:00, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ He (Sadananda Yogindra) describes both collective and individual existence in darkness ‎No edit summary current
13:5713:57, 13 February 2022 diff hist −13‎ As for those who are impersonalists and who want to commit spiritual suicide by annihilating the individual existence of the living entity, Krsna helps also by absorbing them into His effulgence. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

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