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1 December 2020
- 12:5312:53, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 We are presenting Bhagavad-gita as it is and kicking out all kinds of mental concoction. Fools and rascals interpret Bhagavad-gita in their own way Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:4512:45, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Unless the soul enters the mixture (of the ovum and semen), there is no possibility of pregnancy, but when the soul takes shelter of the mixture the body takes birth, exists, grows, transforms and dwindles, and ultimately it is vanquished Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:4412:44, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Unless the Lord is pleased by the service of a devotee, the Lord does not reveal Himself (naham prakasah sarvasya yoga-maya-samavrtah) - BG 7.25 Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:4312:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Understanding one's relationship with God and acting accordingly fulfills the highest mission of life, thus one returns home, back to Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:4312:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Under the circumstances, one should know that his position is due to his contact with the material world Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:4212:42, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Ultimately, when the cars are demolished, the so-called creators are faced with the problem of what to do with their ingredients Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:4112:41, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Udasina, neutral, does not mean that God takes no action. Rather, it means that He is not personally affected. For example, a court judge is neutral when two opposing parties appear before him, but he still takes action as the case warrants Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:3312:33, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 To protect His devotees, the Lord sometimes has to kill their enemies. For example, to protect Prahlada Maharaja, the Lord had to kill his enemy Hiranyakasipu, although Hiranyakasipu attained salvation because of being killed by the Lord Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:3212:32, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 To practice bhakti-yoga, one must first accept a bona fide spiritual master Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:1712:17, 1 December 2020 diff hist +2,909 This is their excellence. Anukulyena krsnanusilanam: (CC Madhya 19.167) they (the devotees of God) are liberally engaged in the service of the Lord, and therefore they are excellent Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 12:1012:10, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 They (so-called scientists, philosophers, religionists and politicians) should make vigorous propaganda to awaken the populace and raise them to the platform of Krsna consciousness Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:0912:09, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 They (modern scientists) are very busy trying to prove this in laboratories throughout the world, although no one in history has been able to produce the substance of life from material combinations. Such activities are called vikarma Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:0512:05, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 They (Lord Brahma, King Indra and the other demigods) are sometimes troubled by demons, but a devotee, even if situated in the lower planets, enjoys life in Krsna consciousness under any circumstances Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 12:0412:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 These symptoms are called bhava. In The Nectar of Devotion, various bhavas, ecstatic conditions of a devotee, are fully described. These bhavas are visible in the activities of a perfect devotee Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:0412:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 These persons (envious demons) are condemned by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as indicated by the words tava kopah Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:0412:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 These facilities offered by the Lord to the living entity constitute the sixteen kinds of perverted support in terms of the knowledge-gathering senses, the working senses, the mind and the five material elements Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:0312:03, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 These (happiness and distress, or bondage and liberation) are due to the results of the fruitive activities of the living entities within this material world Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:0112:01, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 There is oneness, but God is great whereas the living entities are extremely small. Anor aniyan mahato mahiyan - Katha Upanisad 1.2.20 Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 12:0012:00, 1 December 2020 diff hist +5,541 There is no possibility of maintaining the body permanently or eternally. Antavanta ime deha nityasyoktah saririnah. This is the statement of Bhagavad-gita (BG 2.18). The material body is antavat (perishable), but the soul within the body is eternal Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:5811:58, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 There are two kinds of soul - the Supreme Soul (the Personality of Godhead) and the individual soul (the living entity). As various bodily changes take place in the individual soul, different millenniums of creation take place in the Supreme Soul Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:5811:58, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 There are two entities - the head and "I." They are not identical, although they appear to be one conglomeration Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:5711:57, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 There are two energies, namely the superior energy and inferior energy Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:5311:53, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The word susamahitah means "very attentive" or "fully fixed." The ability to fix the mind in this way is a result of yoga-siddhi, mystic perfection. As it is stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 12.13.1), dhyanavasthita-tad-gatena manasa pasyanti yam yoginah Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:5211:52, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The word maha-vrata-dharah indicates a brahmacari who has never fallen down. Lord Siva is counted among the best of yogis, yet he embraced his wife in the midst of great saintly persons Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:5111:51, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The wheel of material miseries is also a creation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but He is not under the control of the material energy. Rather, He is the controller of the material energy, whereas we, the living entities, are under its control Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:5111:51, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The ultimate result depends upon the will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In devotional service, therefore, the devotee completely depends upon the Lord and honestly performs his occupational duties Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4911:49, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The theory that the Lord's energies, being expansions of the Lord, are as good as the Lord is mistaken Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4811:48, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The sunshine is important because of the presence of the sun globe. It is not that the sun globe is important because of the all-pervasiveness of the sunshine. Forgetfulness and misunderstanding of this fact is called maya Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4811:48, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The spirit soul possesses the body and is within the body. This is the real analysis. The soul never mixes with the bodily elements Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4811:48, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The spirit soul is eternal, being freed from waste and change, which take place because of the material body Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4711:47, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The soul is eternal and ever existing, but the bodies accepted by the soul are changing Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4711:47, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The soul is eternal. Na hanyate hanyamane sarire: (BG 2.20) the soul is never vanquished, even when the body is destroyed Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4611:46, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The so-called scientists of the modern materialistic world are proud because they have created modern facilities like great airplanes, but the credit for creating the airplanes should go to the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4611:46, 1 December 2020 diff hist +5,609 The so-called material bodies of devotees who fully engage in the devotional service of the Lord, being constantly in the fire of spiritual life, have nothing to do with matter, but are spiritualized Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4511:45, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The seer and controller is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supreme Soul, by whose direction the individual soul can understand when he is awake, when he is sleeping, and when he is completely in trance Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4511:45, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The same transcendental sound (same as omkara) is Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. Abhinnatvan nama-naminoh: (CC Madhya 17.133) there is no difference between the holy name of God and God Himself Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4411:44, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The original cause for the material energy and spiritual energy is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4311:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The more one advances in spiritual consciousness, the more he can understand the elements of devotional service Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4311:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,396 The mind is the via medium in both dreams and wakefulness, and everything created by the mind in terms of sankalpa and vikalpa, acceptance and rejection, is called manodharma, or mental concoction Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4111:41, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The material world consists of three modes of material nature - sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna. By sattva-guna the Lord maintains the material world, by rajo-guna He creates it, and by tamo-guna He annihilates it Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4011:40, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The living force is the atma and Paramatma, and the body grows on the basis of that living force Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:4011:40, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The living entity wastes his time in a futile attempt to gain material possessions for the comfort of one body after another Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3911:39, 1 December 2020 diff hist +9,644 The living entity tries to lord it over the material or physical elements, but both the physical elements and the spiritual spark are energies emanating from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore He says, aham vai sarva-bhutani: "I am everything" Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3811:38, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The living entities have the same qualities as the Lord, just as a drop of sea water is composed of the same chemicals as the great sea itself. Thus there is oneness in quality but a difference in quantity Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3811:38, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The living entities are smaller than the atom, but God is greater than the greatest. Our conception of greatness may be represented by the sky because we think of the sky as being unlimitedly big, but God is bigger than the sky Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3711:37, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The living entities are parts of the Lord, but they are not the Lord Himself. The living entities in this material world are not inconceivable, but the Lord is Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3511:35, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The injunctions or directions of the Lord are infallible, and their benefits are fully assured. According to His directions, which are explained in this verse (SB 7.7.30-31), the perfect form of religion is bhakti-yoga Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3411:34, 1 December 2020 diff hist +6,898 The individual exists in darkness when he thinks that he is the material body and that everything in relationship with the material body belongs to him. This is called aham mama (janasya moho 'yam aham mameti (SB 5.5.8)). This is illusion Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3211:32, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The highest perfection of this mutual conquering is exhibited by Krsna and the gopis. The gopis conquered Krsna, and Krsna conquered the gopis Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3211:32, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The heavenly planets, liberation and hell are nondifferent for a devotee, for he does not discriminate between different positions in the material world Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3111:31, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The greatest acarya, Krsna says in BG 2.13: "As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change" Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:3011:30, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The fruits and flowers of a tree seasonally come and go, but the tree continues to stand. Similarly, the transmigrating soul accepts various bodies, which undergo six transformations, but the soul remains permanently the same Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2911:29, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The first body (of Marut) was one, and when it was cut into many pieces, many other living entities entered the new bodies Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2911:29, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The fallen, conditioned living entity, trapped by the external energy, loiters in the material world Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2911:29, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The fact is that the entire cosmic manifestation is an expansion of the Supreme Lord's energies, which are manifested in the physical elements and the living entities Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2711:27, 1 December 2020 diff hist +2,907 The duration of his life is inconceivable for an ordinary human being. The demigods are therefore sometimes called amara, which means "one who has no death." In this material world, however, everyone has to die Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2711:27, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,071 The devotees can always remember the form of Nrsimhadeva when they are in danger, and therefore the appearance of Nrsimhadeva was not at all inauspicious. The Lord's appearance is always worshipable and auspicious for all sane persons and devotees Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2611:26, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The demoniac father (Hiranyakasipu) considered Prahlada the most unfortunate because Prahlada would not be able to inherit his property Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2611:26, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The demigods' hearts, which are meant to be the abode of the Supreme Lord, are practically occupied by the demons Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:2411:24, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The body is just like a machine, a car, in which the living entity is given a chance to sit and move according to his desire. The Lord is the original cause of the material body and the soul, which is expanded by His marginal energy Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 11:0811:08, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,203 The actual devotee does not desire even liberation, anyabhilasita-sunyam (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.11). The Lord, however, fulfills the desire of the devotee by awarding him opulence that will never be destroyed Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:0711:07, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The activities of bhakti, devotional service, are directly under the control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:0511:05, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The ability to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead or to see Him or talk with Him depends on one's advancement in devotional service, which is called bhakti Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:0411:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Vedic instructions say, tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet: (MU 1.2.12) to solve the problems of life, one must accept a spiritual master Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 11:0111:01, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is manifested by His different energies - the material energy, the spiritual energy and the marginal energy Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:5710:57, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul, is present in everyone's heart, and as the living entity desires, the Lord gives him facilities with which to work according to his ambitions in different grades of bodies Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:5610:56, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,584 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is actually the best friend of everyone. In a condition of distress or misery, one wants to seek shelter of a well-wishing friend. The well-wishing friend of the perfect order is Lord Sri Krsna Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:5510:55, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Supreme Lord is the ultimate actor, and the conditioned living entity should simply remember this original actor, Sri Krsna. As living entities, we are being carried away by the waves of prakrti, or nature, which works under the Lord's direction Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:5410:54, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Supreme Lord is the dearmost object of all living entities. Prahlada Maharaja therefore advised his class friends, the sons of the demons, to take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead again Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:5310:53, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Supreme Lord is realized in three different phases, as Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan, but Bhagavan is the ultimate realization. One who realizes Bhagavan - the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna - is the most perfect mahatma Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:5210:52, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Supreme Lord has no enemy or friend, but He is inclined toward a devotee who always engages in His devotional service Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:4810:48, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 The Lord is so kind that because Dhruva Maharaja, in the beginning, had desired a kingdom greater than his father's, he was promoted to Dhruvaloka, the best planet in the universe Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 10:4210:42, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Systems of religion that do not concentrate upon service to the Supreme are temporary and cannot last for long because they are full of envy Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:3410:34, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura stresses that even though Diti was very envious, her heart was purified because of a devotional attitude Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:3310:33, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura comments that Maharaja Citraketu's being cursed by Parvati should be considered the mercy of the Lord Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:3210:32, 1 December 2020 diff hist +5,594 Srila Madhvacarya remarks that the goddess of fortune, the mother of the universe, could not get mercy similar to that which was offered to Prahlada Maharaja Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:3210:32, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted everyone to become a guru and preach the instructions of Krsna everywhere from Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, the Puranas, Vedanta-sutra and similar Vedic literatures Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 10:3110:31, 1 December 2020 diff hist +2,880 Sometimes unscrupulous persons designate a living entity as daridra-narayana, svami-narayana, this Narayana or that Narayana Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:3010:30, 1 December 2020 diff hist +7,338 Sometimes animal sacrifices are performed very gorgeously with grand arrangements for worshiping the goddess Kali, but such festivals, although performed in the name of yajna, are not actually yajna, for yajna means to satisfy the SP of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:2010:20, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Reception of spiritual knowledge is never checked by any material condition. Thus Prahlada Maharaja, from his very childhood, spoke spiritual knowledge to his class friends, and certainly it was effective, although all of them were children Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:1810:18, 1 December 2020 diff hist +6,117 Pure bhagavatas, pure devotees, invite everyone, without envy, to join the Krsna consciousness movement. A devotee is therefore exactly like the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Suhrdam sarva-bhutanam: (BG 5.29) he is the friend of all living entities Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:1710:17, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Prahlada Maharaja was surprised at the causeless mercy of the Supreme Lord (Nrsimhadeva), the Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:1410:14, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Prahlada Maharaja preached bhagavata-dharma among his classmates as soon as an opportunity was afforded by the absence of his teachers from the classroom Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:1110:11, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Prahlada Maharaja expected that the Lord, by His kindness, would call him again to the shelter of His lotus feet Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:0610:06, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Prahlada Maharaja decided to offer his best prayers to the Lord, without consideration of his material position Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:0410:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,428 Prahlada Maharaja concludes that one can become perfect by serving the Supreme Lord sincerely by all means Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:0410:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,573 Prahlada Maharaja aspired to engage in the service of the lotus feet of the Lord Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:0410:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Prahlada Maharaja advised his friends to depend completely on Krsna and worship Him in devotional service Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:0310:03, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Prahlada Maharaja, in the following prayer (SB 7.9.14), requests the Lord (Nrsimhadeva) to give up His anger Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:0310:03, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Prahlada Maharaja, by his living example, requested his friends to engage in devotional service Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:0210:02, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Prahlada Maharaja, being always absorbed in thoughts of Krsna, sometimes felt separation, thinking, "Where is Krsna Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 10:0210:02, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Prahlada Maharaja, being a great devotee, thought the body born of his father to be born of passion and ignorance, but because Prahlada was fully engaged in the service of the Lord, his body did not belong to the material world Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:5409:54, 1 December 2020 diff hist +5,662 Paratah svatah karmatah: as he (the devotee) acts himself, as he is instructed by others or as he performs his material activities, he enjoys life in every respect Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:5309:53, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Otherwise (if we don't surrender to Krsna), in the name of happiness, we shall continue to suffer miserable conditions Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:5009:50, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One should work for self-realization, not for economic development, which is impossible to improve. Without endeavor, one can get the amount of happiness and distress for which he is destined, and one cannot change this Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4909:49, 1 December 2020 diff hist +2,864 One should not hear anything about Krsna from a non-Vaisnava Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4909:49, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One should not be attached to temporary things. One should take to Krsna consciousness and become eternally happy Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4909:49, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One should engage in full ds. "A person who has broader intelligence, whether he is full of material desires, free from material desires, or desiring liberation, must by all means worship the supreme whole, the Personality of Godhead" - SB 2.3.10 Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4909:49, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,713 One should engage in full devotional service. Then, even though he has no desires, whatever desires he previously had can all be fulfilled simply by his worship of the Lord Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4809:48, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One should constantly chant the holy name of the Lord - Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4809:48, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One should conclusively understand that no one is greater than the Supreme Great. Since the Supreme Great demands, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja (BG 18.66), every intelligent man must agree to this proposal Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4809:48, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One should clearly understand that although Narayana is situated in the core of the heart of every living entity, the living entity never becomes Narayana Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4709:47, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One should chant the bona fide songs received from the disciplic succession. In Bhagavad-gita it is said that the chanting is powerful when one follows the disciplic succession (evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh) - BG 4.2 Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4709:47, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,529 One should be very careful not to commit offenses at the lotus feet of a Vaisnava Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4609:46, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,876 One should be more tolerant than a tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige and should be ready to offer all respect to others. In such a state of mind one can chant the holy name of the Lord constantly Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4509:45, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One must take shelter of the Lord and rigidly follow the rules and regulations. Then, regardless of what one is, one will return home, back to Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 09:4409:44, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One must follow the instructions of the Supreme Lord: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja (BG 18.66). If one follows any other system of religion, he is subject to punishment by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in many different ways Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4409:44, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One must approach a bona fide spiritual master by surrendering himself (pranipatena) and rendering service Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4309:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One must accept the pure devotee, the representative of God, as one's guru and then offer him all the respects one would offer the Supreme Personality of God. This is the secret of success. For one who adopts this method, the perfect process is revealed Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4309:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One is situated in different positions in various forms of life that are all but creations of the illusory energy, which works under the direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4109:41, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One can very intelligently conclude that without devotional service, without becoming Krsna conscious, one cannot be happy Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:4009:40, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 One's first duty is to approach the spiritual master, the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to begin rendering service to him Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:3809:38, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Offering service and surrendering to the spiritual master, one is elevated to devotional service, and by performing devotional service one gradually becomes attached to the SP of Godhead. Because of this attachment to the Lord, one can understand God Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:3809:38, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Offering respect to every living entity means offering respect to the Paramatma situated in every living entity. One should not misunderstand every living entity to be the Paramatma Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:3709:37, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,567 Nothing in devotional service is material; everything is spiritual. Consequently a devotee is awarded so-called material opulence for spiritual advancement. This opulence is an aid to help the devotee advance toward the spiritual kingdom Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:3609:36, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 None of these conditions of the living entities - namely, deep sleep, dreaming and wakefulness - is substantial. They are simply displays of various phases of conditional life Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 09:3309:33, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Neti neti is the analytical process of rejecting matter. By expertly conducting such an analysis, one can understand where the soul is. One who is not expert, however, cannot distinguish gold from earth, nor the soul from the body Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:3209:32, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Nature (prakrti) is so strong that no one can overcome her stringent laws. So-called scientists, philosophers, religionists and politicians should therefore conclude that they cannot offer facilities to the people in general Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:3009:30, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Mukti means giving up one's position in ignorance or illusion, by which one thinks in a way contrary to his constitutional position Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:2809:28, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Modern scientists imagine that life can be produced from chemical combinations Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:2509:25, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Medicine and a physician cannot save one from death, nor can a boat or similar means of protection save a person drowning in the water, for everything is controlled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:1909:19, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Maharaja Pariksit's question was very much appreciated by Sukadeva Gosvami because although it was composed of a small number of words, it contained meaningful inquiries about how the sons of Diti, although born as demons, became demigods Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:1809:18, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Madhvacarya says: When one thinks that the living entity is nondifferent in all respects from the Supreme Lord, there is no doubt that he is in ignorance - tamah Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:1709:17, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Lord Visnu and the individual souls, who are part and parcel of Him, are both eternal. Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13). Lord Visnu is the chief living being, whereas the individual living entities are parts of Lord Visnu Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:1609:16, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,263 Lord Siva knew that he would have to play the part of anger for the Lord. Kala means Lord Siva (Bhairava), and kopa refers to the Lord's anger. These words, combined together as kopa-kala, refer to the end of each millennium Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:1609:16, 1 December 2020 diff hist −21 When a devotee very sincerely wants to render service to the Lord, the Lord dictates in a different way Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 09:1509:15, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Lord Nrsimhadeva, for example, appeared for the protection of His devotee Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:1509:15, 1 December 2020 diff hist +5,533 Lord Brahma, King Indra and the other demigods living in the upper planetary systems are situated in a different spirit of consciousness Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:0709:07, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Just as heat and light emanate from fire, these two energies - the physical elements and the living entities - emanate from the Supreme Lord. Therefore the Lord says, aham vai sarva-bhutani: "I expand the physical and spiritual categories" Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:0509:05, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 It may be said that He (God) sits in the core of everyone's heart as the neutral witness of the causes and effects of one's activities, good and bad Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:0309:03, 1 December 2020 diff hist −49 Understanding of the master begins from understanding of the spiritual master Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 09:0109:01, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 It is said that although great elephants are taken away by the flooding waters of the river, the small fish swim opposite the current Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 09:0009:00, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,142 It is said, vaisnavera kriya-mudra vijne na bujhaya. Even if a man is very advanced in learning, he cannot understand the behavior of a Vaisnava Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:5708:57, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 It is clearly understood that a devotee does not need to be born in a very high family, to be rich, to be aristocratic or to be very beautiful. None of these qualifications will engage one in devotional service Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:5508:55, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 It is a fact that Krsna is the source of everything, as we understand from Krsna Himself in Bhagavad-gita (aham sarvasya prabhavah) - BG 10.8 Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:5308:53, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Intelligence is supplied by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who accompanies the individual soul as a friend Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:4808:48, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In this material world, everyone is trying to counteract the onslaught of material nature, but everyone is ultimately fully controlled by material nature Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:4708:47, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In this material world, everyone is in fearful consciousness (sada samudvigna-dhiyam), and the only means to make everyone fearless is Krsna consciousness. When Lord Nrsimhadeva appeared, all the devotees became fearless Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:4308:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In the jungle there are sometimes fights between lions and elephants. Here (in SB 7.8.23) the Lord appeared like a lion, and Hiranyakasipu, unafraid of the Lord, attacked Him like an elephant Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 08:4208:42, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,979 There was a difference between Bharata Maharaja's acquiring a deer body and others' acquiring different bodies according to their mental condition at the time of death Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 08:4108:41, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In the Vedas it is said, nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13): the Lord is the chief individual living entity, the leader of the subordinate living entities Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:3808:38, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In studying one's own body, one must ask himself whether his head is his soul, his fingers are his soul, his hand is his soul, and so on. In this way, one must gradually reject all the material elements & the combinations of material elements in the body Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:3708:37, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In spite of being the son of the demon Hiranyakasipu, Prahlada never feared the chastisements of the seminal brahmana sons of a demoniac father Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:3608:36, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In recent history we have seen many political leaders work hard for individual and collective economic development, but they have all failed. This is the law of nature, as clearly explained in the next verse - SB 7.7.42 Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:3408:34, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,382 In his prayers to the ten incarnations, Jayadeva Gosvami says, kesava dhrta-narahari-rupa jaya jagad-isa hare. Prahlada Maharaja was a devotee of Lord Nrsimha, who is Kesava, Krsna Himself Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:3308:33, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,047 In dreams we sometimes enjoy eating sweet rice and sometimes suffer as if one of our beloved family members had died Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:3108:31, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In bhakti there are nine different activities: sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam/ arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 08:2708:27, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 In Bhagavad-gita (15.7) the Lord (Krsna) says, mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah: "The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts" Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:2508:25, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Ignorance is the bodily conception of life Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:2108:21, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If the hand of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is present in everything, where is the question of being liberated from material encagement to spiritual, blissful life? Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:1708:17, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If one wants to be elevated to the higher planetary systems, he may follow the Vedic directions Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 08:1608:16, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If one wants the uncontaminated pleasure of blissful life, he must engage himself in the transcendental loving service of the Lord Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:1508:15, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If one understands the Supreme Lord through devotional service with faith in the disciplic succession and then advances further, he awakens his natural love for God, and then his success in life is assured Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:1408:14, 1 December 2020 diff hist +9,001 The other class of jnanis, whose jnana is mixed with bhakti, are also of two kinds - those who are devoted to the so-called false form of the SPG and those who understand the SPG as sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1), the actual spiritual form Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 08:1308:13, 1 December 2020 diff hist +2,682 If one is spiritually advanced, being a staunch, liberal devotee of the Lord, all good qualities are manifest in his body Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:1208:12, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If one is fortunate enough to understand his relationship with God, knowing that God is great (vibhu) whereas the living entity is small (anu), he is perfect in knowledge Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:0908:09, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If one forgets the difference between the Supreme Lord and the living entity, his conditional life begins. Conditional life means giving up one body to accept another and undergoing death to accept death again Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:0808:08, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If one does not take to the path of disciplic succession, it is not possible for one to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 08:0408:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If a person actually became a friend of the demigods, he certainly would not be able to kill Indra Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 08:0208:02, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 If a candala, a lowborn person, is a devotee and has fully surrendered unto the lotus feet of the Lord, he can purify his entire family Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:5907:59, 1 December 2020 diff hist +5,475 I worship the Supreme Personality of God, Govinda (Krsna), who is the original person - absolute, infallible, without beginning, although expanded into unlimited forms, still the same original, the oldest, and the person always appearing as a fresh youth Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:4307:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 He (a devotee of God) becomes increasingly attached to the Supreme Personality of Godhead because of his being purified by his suffering. Suffering is also a process of purification Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:4107:41, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 He (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) considers himself unqualified, lower than the worms in stool, and more sinful than Jagai and Madhai. A pure Vaisnava actually thinks of himself in this way Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:3507:35, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Harih sarvesu bhutesu means that Hari is situated as Paramatma, not as atma, although atma is a part of Paramatma Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:2507:25, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Generally the elephant is defeated by the lion, and therefore the comparison in this verse (SB 7.8.23) is appropriate Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:2207:22, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 From within, the Lord gives the living being the intelligence with which to work. Therefore the previous verse (SB 6.16.51) said that after the Supreme Personality of Godhead endeavors, our endeavors begin Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:1807:18, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 For those who are strong enough, however, there is no question of forgetting Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:1707:17, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 For one who engages in worshiping Lord Visnu, nothing is very wonderful. This is a fact Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:1607:16, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Foolish persons do not distinguish between the atma and the Paramatma, who are situated in every body. The atma is the living entity, and the Paramatma is the SPG. The individual living entity, however, is different from the Paramatma, the Supreme Lord Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:1107:11, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,862 Everything that is done, whether in the higher, middle or lower planetary systems, is due to the supervision or control of the Supreme Lord. It is therefore said, karmana-daiva-netrena jantur dehopapattaye - SB 3.31.1 Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:1107:11, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,083 Everything rests upon Him (God), and everything is but an expansion of His energies, but this does not mean that everything is as worshipable as the Lord Himself Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:1007:10, 1 December 2020 diff hist +8,255 Simply desiring mukti, or liberation, is insufficient; one must become factually liberated Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 07:0807:08, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,789 Everyone should know that in every stage of life we are dependent upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore the dharma, religion, which we accept should be that which is recommended by Prahlada Maharaja - bhagavata-dharma Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 07:0807:08, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Everyone should believe in God and surrender unto Him. That is bhagavata-dharma Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 07:0607:06, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Everyone has achieved a certain type of body given by material nature according to the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 06:5706:57, 1 December 2020 diff hist −21 Qualitatively, they are one and the same - God and His devotees Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 06:5706:57, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Due to Brahman, even while sleeping the living entity can enjoy. The Lord says, "That Brahman, that Paramatma and that Bhagavan are I Myself." This is noted by Srila Jiva Gosvami in his Krama-sandarbha Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 06:4506:45, 1 December 2020 diff hist −21 Prahlada Maharaja, of course, being a perfect devotee, knew everything and could say what the best part of life is Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 06:3806:38, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Credit for creating the airplanes should go to the Supreme Personality of Godhead not to the scientists who have invented or created the so-called wonderful products Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 06:2406:24, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,747 Chadiya vaisnava-seva nistara payeche keba: without serving a servant of Krsna, one cannot be elevated to being a servant of Krsna Himself Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 06:1506:15, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 By the laws of nature (prakrteh kriyamanani (BG 3.27)) the living entity evolves from lower grades of life to the human form Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 06:1406:14, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 By preaching the gospel of Krsna consciousness all over the world others may become happy by executing the principles of Krsna consciousness Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 06:0206:02, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Both the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the minute soul are individual. One is great, and the other is small, but both of them are the cause of all causes - the corporally limited and the universally unlimited Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 06:0206:02, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Both God and the living entity are fully conscious. As living entities, we are conscious of our bodily existence. Similarly, the Lord is conscious of the gigantic cosmic manifestation. This is confirmed in the Vedas Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:5705:57, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Bhaktivinoda Thakura sings, (miche) mayara vase, yaccha bhese', khaccha habudubu, bhai: "Why are you being carried away by the waves of the illusory energy in various phases of dreaming and wakefulness? These are all creations of maya" Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:5505:55, 1 December 2020 diff hist −49 No one is equal to God. The servant cannot be equal to the master Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 05:5505:55, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Bhagavata-dharma is not a concocted sectarian belief, for it entails research to find how everything is connected with Krsna Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:5405:54, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Bhagavata-dharma has no contradictions. Conceptions of "your religion" and "my religion" are completely absent from bhagavata-dharma. Bhagavata-dharma means following the orders given by the Supreme Lord, Bhagavan Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:5305:53, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Bhagavata-dharma and krsna-katha are identical Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:4305:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Because the living entities are parts or samples of God, their qualities are not different from those of the Supreme Lord Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:3605:36, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Because he (Prahlada Maharaja) was engaged in service, he felt transcendentally situated, and naturally his mind and attention became saturated in transcendence. In that condition, he began to offer his prayers Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:2705:27, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Attachment for glorifying the Lord by hearing and chanting the holy name and activities of the Lord (sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23)) certainly brings one to the position where material contamination is absent Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:2605:26, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Atma-tattva, or spiritual knowledge, will be revealed within the core of a devotee's heart because of his having taken shelter of the lotus feet of a mahajana such as Prahlada Maharaja Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 05:1805:18, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 As the Lord (Krsna) says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 4.6): "Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all sentient beings, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form" Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:1505:15, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 As stated in Padma Purana, smartavyah satatam visnuh: we should always remember Lord Visnu. Vismartavyo na jatucit: we should never forget the Lord. This is the perfection of life Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:1505:15, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,448 As stated in Bhagavad-gita the Lord appears whenever there are discrepancies in the execution of religious principles (yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata ... tadatmanam srjamy aham) - BG 4.7 Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:1405:14, 1 December 2020 diff hist −21 Lord Siva places himself as one of the nondevotees, who cannot understand the identity of the Supreme Lord Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 05:1205:12, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,936 As soon as there is a small discrepancy in a demon's behavior, mother Durga immediately punishes the demon so that he may come to his senses. This is explained by Lord Krsna in Bhagavad-gita Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:1105:11, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 As soon as the mother returns and cares for the child, the child laughs and becomes jubilant Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:1005:10, 1 December 2020 diff hist +5,040 As soon as one is purified of material contamination, he is again attracted by Krsna sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam - CC Madhya 19.170 Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:0505:05, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 As far as economic development is concerned, we should discharge our occupational duties but fully depend on the lotus feet of the Lord for the results Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:0405:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 As an agent of the supreme doer, the Supreme Lord, one should abide by the Lord's orders Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:0205:02, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Aryans, who are advanced in civilization, follow bhagavata-dharma Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 05:0005:00, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Anyone can take shelter of a pure Vaisnava, without fear Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:5204:52, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,823 An intelligent man should care for the happiness of the spirit soul, not of the body Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:5104:51, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,975 An exalted devotee, or mahatma, who is rarely to be seen, remains fully conscious of Krsna and constantly sees the Lord within the core of his heart Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:4904:49, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Among the linking processes that elevate one from bondage to material contamination, the one recommended by the Supreme Personality of Godhead should be accepted as the best Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:4904:49, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,120 It is said in this verse (SB 5.8.27), mrtam, although he (Bharata) had died, anu, afterwards, na mrta janmanusmrtir itaravat, he did not forget the incidents of his past life as others forget them Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:4804:48, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Although the living entity is the cause of his various types of bodies, the body is given by material nature according to the order of the Lord Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:4704:47, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Although the expansion of the Lord's energies is the original cause, one should not think that the Lord Himself has expanded in different ways Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:4504:45, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Although one is acting according to false ambitions, he thinks he can improve his material conditions by his activities. The Vedas enjoin that one should not try to increase happiness or decrease distress, for this is futile Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:4404:44, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Although everything is an emanation from the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one should not think that the Supreme Lord is dependent upon anything else Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:4304:43, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Although Prahlada Maharaja was a pure, exalted Vaisnava, he thought himself most unqualified to offer prayers to the Supreme Lord. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah (CC Madhya 17.186). Every pure Vaisnava should think like this Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 04:4204:42, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Although Hiranyakasipu treated the Lord (Nrsimhadeva) as his bitterest enemy, he was the Lord's faithful servant in Vaikuntha, and therefore the Lord had no hesitation in sitting on the throne that Hiranyakasipu had so laboriously created Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:3304:33, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Ajamila was concerned with his son, but because of his attachment to the name of Narayana, he attained salvation simply by chanting that name Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:3204:32, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Again, the Lord, as the Supersoul, guides the living entities who are conditioned by the physical atmosphere. Therefore he is called bhutatma bhuta-bhavanah Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:2704:27, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 Actually the truth of religious principles is extremely confidential. Nonetheless, it can be understood very easily if one actually adopts the principles of religion Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:2604:26, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,171 Actually the Lord is always affectionate toward His devotees, even though He may appear very angry. Because He is avyayatma-because He never falls down - even when angry the Lord is affectionate toward His devotees Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:2004:20, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 According to the Vedic injunctions, sarvam khalv idam brahma: Brahman, the Supreme, is present in everything. Bhagavata-dharma captures this presence of the Supreme Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:1704:17, 1 December 2020 diff hist +6,898 A system of religion in which animal sacrifices are recommended is inauspicious for those who perform the sacrifices and for the animals. Envious persons who perform ostentatious animal sacrifices are condemned in Bhagavad-gita - BG 16.17 Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:1704:17, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3 A special distinction between devotees and the other transcendentalists, namely the jnanis and yogis, is that jnanis and yogis artificially try to become one with the Supreme, whereas devotees never aspire for such an impossible accomplishment Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:1504:15, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,042 A sleeping man creates his happiness and distress by dreaming, although actually they have no existence Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:1404:14, 1 December 2020 diff hist −21 If a pious king rules the earth according to the sastric injunctions, there will naturally be regular rainfall and sufficient produce to provide for all men. There will be no question of exploitation, for everyone will have enough Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:1304:13, 1 December 2020 diff hist +2,157 A perfectly successful yogi is expert in eight kinds of perfection. By the anima-siddhi, he can become smaller than an atom, and in that state he can enter anywhere. With this yogic power, Indra entered the womb of Diti while she was pregnant Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:1204:12, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,599 A neophyte devotee, of course, approaches the Supreme Lord for relief from distress or poverty, or for speculative knowledge of the Lord Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:1104:11, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,035 A karmi's opulence is destroyed, but the opulence of a devotee is never destroyed. A devotee becomes more and more opulent as he increases his devotional service to the Lord Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:1004:10, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,218 A karmi's material opulence and a devotee's material opulence are not on the same level Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:0904:09, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,388 A great devotee of Krsna, the son of Vasudeva, is a great soul very rarely to be found. Prahlada Maharaja's attachment for Krsna will be explained in the next verse (SB 7.4.37). Krsna-graha-grhitatma Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 04:0604:06, 1 December 2020 diff hist +5,264 A devotee is attracted by Krsna, whereas a nondevotee, being contaminated by the dirt of material enjoyment, is not. This is confirmed by the Lord in Bhagavad-gita Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
- 04:0404:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,877 A criminal is put in prison and punished by the government, but the same government, if it likes, can release the criminal from imprisoned life Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:0204:02, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,595 A Vaisnava who is fully qualified to serve the Lord still thinks himself extremely low while offering prayers to the Lord Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:0104:01, 1 December 2020 diff hist +4,524 A Vaisnava is always obedient to the spiritual master (arya). The word arya refers to one who is advanced in knowledge Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:0004:00, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,632 A Vaisnava can understand that nothing within this material world, not even that which is powerful, opulent or influential, can endure. At any time such things may be vanquished. And who can vanquish them? The Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
- 04:0004:00, 1 December 2020 diff hist −21 Hiranyakasipu, being a demon, would always consider Lord Visnu and His devotees to be his enemies. Therefore the word para-paksa ("on the side of the enemy") is used here - in SB 7.5.6 Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
- 03:5503:55, 1 December 2020 diff hist −49 He (a Vaisnava) accepts all other devotees of the Lord as prabhus, masters Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 03:5203:52, 1 December 2020 diff hist −63 Haridasa Thakura was not interested in the activities of jnana-kanda or karma-kanda. Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 03:4903:49, 1 December 2020 diff hist −21 Generally when the associates of the king are quiet and obedient, the king can be happy. Therefore the great sage Angira Rsi inquired about the King's personal health and the good fortune of his seven associates Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
- 03:3903:39, 1 December 2020 diff hist −49 Every living entity, being part of the Supreme Lord, is meant to serve the Lord, just as every part of the body is meant to serve the whole body Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 03:1603:16, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,956 Because Bharata Maharaja was always thinking of the deer and forgetting his worship of the Supreme Lord, he acquired the body of a deer Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 03:1203:12, 1 December 2020 diff hist −21 As stated in Brahma-samhita: karmani nirdahati kintu ca bhakti-bhajam (BS 5.54). It is proved here (in SB 5.8.27) that due to the grace of the Supreme Lord, a devotee is never vanquished Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 03:1103:11, 1 December 2020 diff hist −21 As soon as a brahmana takes birth, he assumes three kinds of debts - debts to great saints, debts to the demigods and debts to his father Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 03:1103:11, 1 December 2020 diff hist +5,910 As confirmed in the Visnu Purana (3.8.9): by accepting the institution of varna and asrama, one can very easily elevate himself to the platform of worshiping Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 03:0603:06, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,730 After death, others forget everything that has happened in their past lives, but Bharata Maharaja did not forget Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 03:0403:04, 1 December 2020 diff hist +3,611 According to Bhagavad-gita, whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
16 November 2020
- 04:2704:27, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21 Worship of the Supreme Lord for material gain is not approved by authorities Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:2604:26, 16 November 2020 diff hist −119 When the material body is annihilated, the spirit soul remains in a subtle form, which later assumes another material body Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:2504:25, 16 November 2020 diff hist −133 When a devotee is eager to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he prays to the Lord Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
- 04:2404:24, 16 November 2020 diff hist +3,860 We hear, vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah: (BG 7.19) if one knows that Vasudeva is the original cause of all causes, he becomes a perfect mahatma Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:2304:23, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21 We cannot imagine or concoct forms and attributes of the Lord Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
- 04:1604:16, 16 November 2020 diff hist +3 The word gramya-karmana indicates activities meant only for the improvement of bodily comforts Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current