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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

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
04:1604:16, 16 November 2020 diff hist +3‎ The predominating Deity within the sun is Hiranmaya. Lord Narayana. He is worshiped by the Gayatri mantra: om bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam bhargo devasya dhimahi ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
04:1304:13, 16 November 2020 diff hist −42‎ There are various types of incarnations or expansions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:1104:11, 16 November 2020 diff hist +5,191‎ O my Lord, I do not aspire for material opulence or wealth, nor do I want a great number of followers to accept me as their leader, nor do I want a very beautiful wife to please me ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
04:0804:08, 16 November 2020 diff hist −35‎ The universal affairs of the material creation depend upon the material energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is the cause of the material creation. The entire cosmic manifestation is described as guna-vigrahah, the form of the God's qualities ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0704:07, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ The transcendental position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is explained herewith - SB 6.4.23 ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0704:07, 16 November 2020 diff hist −42‎ The sons of Daksa repeatedly say, kim asat-karmabhir bhavet: "What is the use of impermanent fruitive activities ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0604:06, 16 November 2020 diff hist −42‎ The sole purpose of life is to perform yajna ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0604:06, 16 November 2020 diff hist +3‎ He (Hiranmaya) is also worshiped by other hymns mentioned in the Rg Veda, for instance: dhyeyah sada savitr-mandala-madhya-varti. Within the sun, Lord Narayana is situated, and He has a golden hue ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
04:0604:06, 16 November 2020 diff hist −28‎ The sannyasi reaches the paramahamsa stage when he finishes his preaching work and sits down in one place, strictly for the sake of advancing in spiritual life ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0504:05, 16 November 2020 diff hist +5,341‎ The purusa, the original person - Bhagavan, Visnu - can be understood only by devotional service. Bhaktya mam abhijanati yavan yas casmi tattvatah: (BG 18.55) only by devotional service can one understand the Supreme Person, who is behind everything ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0404:04, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ The pure devotee is always prepared to execute the order of the Lord without personal consideration ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0404:04, 16 November 2020 diff hist −133‎ The process of hearing and chanting enters the core of the heart, and in this way one becomes a pure devotee ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0304:03, 16 November 2020 diff hist −28‎ The pleasing appearance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's bodily features, His limbs and His dress are described. The sankhya-sastra denies the existence of the Lord's transcendental form ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0204:02, 16 November 2020 diff hist −119‎ The opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead remains as it is in the spiritual world; only in the material world is everything dissolved ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0104:01, 16 November 2020 diff hist +5,045‎ According to the laws of nature, when one is extremely opulent one becomes degraded, and this is true both individually and collectively ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
04:0004:00, 16 November 2020 diff hist +4,428‎ A human being born in the land of Bharata-varsa has the special prerogative to develop Krsna consciousness ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
04:0004:00, 16 November 2020 diff hist −42‎ The living being, unable to control the rulings of God, is forced to associate with the prostitute of polluted intelligence and accept various material bodies ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0004:00, 16 November 2020 diff hist +7,724‎ The impersonal and localized conceptions of the Supreme Lord are more or less materially contaminated. The real spiritual process is bhakti-yoga. As the Lord says, bhaktya mam abhijanati: (BG 18.55) "Only by devotional service can I be understood ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5903:59, 16 November 2020 diff hist −42‎ The entire cosmic manifestation is an expansion of the Supreme Lord ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5903:59, 16 November 2020 diff hist +7,872‎ The directions given by the bhakti-sastra point one in the perfect direction because the Supreme Personality of Godhead says in Bhagavad-gita, bhaktya mam abhijanati: (BG 18.55) "Only by devotional service am I to be known ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5703:57, 16 November 2020 diff hist +3,669‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is the original cause, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gita - aham sarvasya prabhavah - BG 10.8 ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5503:55, 16 November 2020 diff hist −49‎ The Lord's name already exists because of His transcendental activities. The Lord is sometimes called guna-karma-nama because He is named according to His transcendental activities. For example, Krsna means "all-attractive ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5503:55, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ The Krsna consciousness movement teaches one to follow the path toward the topmost perfection simply by performing devotional service ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5203:52, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti states that the word sukla means "consisting of suddha-sattva." Lord Visnu descends in His suddha-sattva form. Suddha-sattva refers to the sattva-guna which is never contaminated ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5203:52, 16 November 2020 diff hist −42‎ Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura describes the difference between the Supreme Personality of Godhead and an ordinary living being ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5203:52, 16 November 2020 diff hist −35‎ Srila Madhvacarya describes the unlimited attributes of the Lord: Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate: (CC Madhya 13.65, purport) the Lord has innumerable potencies, all of which are unlimited ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5103:51, 16 November 2020 diff hist −28‎ Since the devotee considers the word "form" (akara) the common factor for both, he offers his respectful obeisances to the form, although others may go on arguing about whether the Absolute has a form or not ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5003:50, 16 November 2020 diff hist −63‎ Simply by understanding the Supreme Lord, one goes beyond birth, death, old age and disease. Srila Sukadeva Gosvami advised Maharaja Pariksit in Srimad-Bhagavatam - in SB 2.1.5 ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:4903:49, 16 November 2020 diff hist −42‎ Scientists try to be the masters of material nature, life after life, not caring to understand the Supreme Person, under whose direction everything within this material world is moving ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4803:48, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ Quoting from the Gautamiya-tantra, the Hari-bhakti-vilasa states: "Sri Krsna, who is very affectionate toward His devotees, sells Himself to a devotee who offers merely a tulasi leaf and a palmful of water ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4403:44, 16 November 2020 diff hist −63‎ One who manufactures names, forms, qualities or paraphernalia pertaining to the Supreme Personality of Godhead cannot understand Him, since He is beyond creation ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4303:43, 16 November 2020 diff hist −42‎ One who cooks only for himself or his family is condemned, along with everyone he feeds. After death he is put into the hell known as Krmibhojana ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4203:42, 16 November 2020 diff hist −42‎ One who accepts these conclusions (of the sastras) should be considered a first-class philosopher. Such a philosopher knows that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Lord of the demigods ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4003:40, 16 November 2020 diff hist −63‎ One must receive knowledge from a person to whom the Lord has revealed Himself; there is no value in creating an imaginary name or form for the Lord ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4003:40, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ One must perform devotional service because otherwise one will become victimized by the modes of material nature ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:3903:39, 16 November 2020 diff hist −42‎ One must judiciously understand the activities of material nature ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:3803:38, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ One must always simply think of Krsna by chanting Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama. Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. One should become Krsna's devotee worship Him and offer obeisances to Him ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:3703:37, 16 November 2020 diff hist −56‎ One cannot become the Lord's pure devotee without taking the dust of a great devotee on his head - pada-rajo-'bhisekam ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:3403:34, 16 November 2020 diff hist −91‎ Nondevotee speculators do not accept an ultimate cause - sarva-karana-karanam BS 5.1 ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:3303:33, 16 November 2020 diff hist −56‎ Maya is aparajita, and her influence is also aparajita ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:3003:30, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ Let us offer our respectful obeisances unto the Supreme, who is invisible to our material eyes ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2903:29, 16 November 2020 diff hist −49‎ Krsna means "all-attractive." This is the Lord's name because His transcendental qualities make Him very attractive. As a small boy He lifted Govardhana Hill, and in His childhood He killed many demons ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:2903:29, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ Just as the devotees are always anxious to see the Supreme Lord satisfied in every way, similarly the Supreme Lord is very anxious to present Himself before His devotees ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2803:28, 16 November 2020 diff hist +3,142‎ It is said that when a person becomes overly involved in loving affairs, he forgets himself as well as others, and he forgets how to act and how to speak ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2803:28, 16 November 2020 diff hist −7‎ It is said that once when a man's son was blind since birth, the father, out of staunch affection for the child, named him Padmalocana, or "lotus-eyed." This is the situation arising from blind love ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2603:26, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ In the Brahma-samhita (BS 5.38), the sun is described as the eye of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2603:26, 16 November 2020 diff hist −49‎ In regard to the significant word anama-rupah, Sri Sridhara Svami says, prakrta-nama-rupa-rahito 'pi. The word anama, which means "having no name," indicates that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has no material name ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2603:26, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ In regard to strictly following the regulative principles, Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says; dandavat-pranamas tan anupatitah ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2503:25, 16 November 2020 diff hist −42‎ In a prayer in Srimad-Bhagavatam, Queen Kunti says, "My dear Lord, You exist inside and outside, yet no one can see You ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2403:24, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ If we always think of Krsna or become fully Krsna conscious, we can be promoted to the planet of Goloka Vrndavana, where Krsna eternally lives ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:2403:24, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ If the material world were not a part of His body, the Supreme Lord, the supreme cause, would be incomplete ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2203:22, 16 November 2020 diff hist −63‎ If one can somehow or other, by the grace of the Lord, understand the transcendental position of the Lord, one becomes eternal. This is further confirmed by the Lord Himself in Bhagavad-gita - BG 4.9 ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2103:21, 16 November 2020 diff hist −28‎ However beautiful one's wife and however attractive her bodily features, one is no longer interested in her when her body is dead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1903:19, 16 November 2020 diff hist −49‎ He (God) has nothing to do personally, for since His potencies are perfect, everything is immediately done by His will ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1903:19, 16 November 2020 diff hist −49‎ He (God) exhibits His transcendental forms, names and activities. That is His special mercy toward His devotees ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1903:19, 16 November 2020 diff hist +7,389‎ He (God) appears in His original form as Krsna, sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (BS 5.1), to carry out His mission of participating in the Battle of Kuruksetra and pastimes to protect the devotees and vanquish the demons (BG 4.8). This is His mercy ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1903:19, 16 November 2020 diff hist −7‎ He (Agnidhra) mistook her (Purvacitti) for a muni-putra, the son of a saintly person in the forest, and addressed her as muni-varya. Because of her personal beauty, however, he could not believe her to be a boy ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1403:14, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ Daksa regained his previous opulence and again begot thousands and millions of children to fill the three worlds ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1303:13, 16 November 2020 diff hist +9,135‎ Coming in touch with the Supreme Personality of Godhead is possible through pure devotional service, which begins with sravanam kirtanam visnoh - SB 7.5.23 ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1303:13, 16 November 2020 diff hist −56‎ By the association of the Lord's devotee, one no longer desires material opulence ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1203:12, 16 November 2020 diff hist +6,436‎ By our material concoctions, vibrations and thoughts we cannot ascertain the Supreme Lord. This is explained in the verse atah sri-krsna-namadi na bhaved grahyam indriyaih - CC Madhya 17.136 ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1103:11, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ By calling on the Supreme Lord, the priests of Nabhi Maharaja proved themselves unintelligent; nonetheless, the Lord came out of His causeless mercy. All of them wanted to be excused by the Lord ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1103:11, 16 November 2020 diff hist −28‎ Both of these visnu-tattvas (Garbhodakasayi Visnu and Maha-Visnu) are vasudeva-tattvas, and the great sages Kavi, Mahavira and Savana concentrated always upon the lotus feet of Lord Vasudeva, Krsna ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0903:09, 16 November 2020 diff hist +2,588‎ As the Lord Himself confirms in Bhagavad-gita (BG 8.15), one reaches the highest perfection when he attains the fortune of realizing the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0903:09, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ As stated in Brahma-samhita (BS 5.38), the Supreme Lord in His original nature is very beautiful. Venum kvanantam aravinda-dalayataksam barhavatamsam asitambuda-sundarangam: the Supreme Personality of Godhead, although blackish, is very, very beautiful ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0803:08, 16 November 2020 diff hist +3,442‎ As stated in Bhagavad-gita (BG 18.5): Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance are not to be given up but should be performed. Indeed, sacrifice, charity and penance purify even the great soul ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:0803:08, 16 November 2020 diff hist −63‎ As confirmed in the Vedas, yato vaco nivartante/ aprapya manasa saha: the name, form, attributes and paraphernalia of the Lord cannot be ascertained through a material dictionary ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0703:07, 16 November 2020 diff hist +5,755‎ As confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram (BG 9.10)), maya is not the ultimate authority for the creation of this material world. Maya acts on behalf of Krsna ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0703:07, 16 November 2020 diff hist −7‎ Another significant word is arbha-bhavat, which means "from very childhood." Another meaning is "from being very affectionate to children." In other words, paramahamsa life is dedicated for the benefit of others ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0603:06, 16 November 2020 diff hist −63‎ Another sad-guna are the mind and five sense organs ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0503:05, 16 November 2020 diff hist −21‎ Although the individual living being, who is compared to the bird that is eating, is sitting with his friend the Supreme Soul, the individual living being cannot see Him ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0503:05, 16 November 2020 diff hist −49‎ Although the Lord is unborn (aja) and His body never undergoes material changes, He nevertheless appears as an incarnation, maintaining Himself always in the transcendental stage - suddha-sattva ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0503:05, 16 November 2020 diff hist −42‎ Although one follows the dictations of material nature, he happily thinks himself the master or husband of material nature ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0403:04, 16 November 2020 diff hist +7,148‎ Although His original name is Krsna (krsnas tu bhagavan svayam (SB 1.3.28)), He acts in unlimited ways, and according to His work He has many, many thousands of names ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0303:03, 16 November 2020 diff hist −91‎ All of these speculators are envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0203:02, 16 November 2020 diff hist −28‎ According to the Vedic system, when one accepts the renounced order, he stays outside his village in a cottage, and his necessities, especially his food, are supplied from home. This is called the kuticaka stage ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0103:01, 16 November 2020 diff hist +5,874‎ A nondevotee, though fully engaged in occupational duties, does not gain anything." If one somehow or other comes to the shelter of a great Vaisnava, takes to Krsna consciousness because of sentiment or realization ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0003:00, 16 November 2020 diff hist +5,460‎ A child begotten by a sudra in the womb of the daughter of a ksatriya is called a ksatta ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current

03:0503:05, 1 November 2020 diff hist −14‎ Material affairs have been compared to an ocean of poison. They have been described in a similar way by Srila Narottama dasa Thakura in one of his songs ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0003:00, 1 November 2020 diff hist +4,134‎ A maha-bhagavata, who has nothing to do with the material world, come down to the second platform of devotional service to preach the glories of the Lord all over the world ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections

04:0804:08, 31 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ Without being benedicted by Krsna, one cannot offer benediction to anyone else ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0704:07, 31 October 2020 diff hist −77‎ Within the material energy, He (God) is represented by the five material elements as well as the mind, intelligence and ego ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0404:04, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ When one is engaged in devotional service, he is often surrounded by envious people, and often many enemies come to try to defeat him or stop him ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
04:0304:03, 31 October 2020 diff hist −35‎ When a devotee strictly follows the rules and regulations, Bhaktidevi becomes very much satisfied with him, and at that time he is never disturbed by anything external ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0204:02, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ When Lord Brahma went to induce Priyavrata to accept the responsibility for ruling the universe, he did not go whimsically; he was following the dictations of the Supreme Lord. Brahma and other genuine authorities never do anything without His permission ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0104:01, 31 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ What Krsna says and does is not limited by time and space ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0104:01, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ We should follow the path of devotional service and not be dissatisfied with the happiness and distress He (God) has given ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0004:00, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ We must be satisfied in whatever position we have been put into by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and we should try to engage ourselves in His devotional service. Then our lives will be successful ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0004:00, 31 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ We can remain constantly in touch with the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:0004:00, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ We can achieve whatever benediction we want simply by becoming devotees of Vasudeva ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5903:59, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Vaisnavas accept the form of the Lord in His Vrndavana pastimes as the chief form ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5803:58, 31 October 2020 diff hist −14‎ Through the purusa-avatara Maha-Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead created the whole cosmic manifestation. Simply by breathing out all the universes, the Lord creates and maintains the cosmic manifestation as Lord Visnu ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:5603:56, 31 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ These (being greedy for material positions) are some of the faults of modern civilization ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5603:56, 31 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ There is only a material world for those who want to imitate the Lord and become enjoyers. Indeed, the material world is nothing but forgetfulness of the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, the creator of everything ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5503:55, 31 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ The words purusaya puranaya are also worthy of special attention. In Brahma-samhita, Krsna is accepted as the adi-purusa, the original person, or the original enjoyer ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5503:55, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ The words prakrtim bhajasva are very significant. Prakrtim refers to one's constitutional position ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5403:54, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ The word svanam is especially significant because only the devotees are very, very dear to the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5403:54, 31 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ The word sivatamam is very significant. Sivatamam means "the most auspicious." The devotional path is so auspicious that a devotee cannot be lost under any circumstances. This is described in the Srimad Bhagavad-gita by the Lord Himself ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:5303:53, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ The word manisaya ("by intelligence") is of special significance ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4903:49, 31 October 2020 diff hist −14‎ The material success of the karmis is destined to be destroyed; similarly, the impersonal realization attained by the jnanis is also destroyed in the course of time ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4903:49, 31 October 2020 diff hist −14‎ The material energy creates differentiation ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4803:48, 31 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ The living entities are subjected to the pains and pleasures of material enjoyment, whereas the Supreme Personality of Godhead, knowing their plans for sense enjoyment, is aloof from them ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4803:48, 31 October 2020 diff hist −77‎ The karmi, jnani or yogi - in fact, everyone - worships Lord Visnu if he is actually expert in knowledge of the Vedas and Tantras ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4703:47, 31 October 2020 diff hist +6,420‎ The happiness and distress are ordained by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in accordance with whose decision we have received our bodies ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4703:47, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ The four orders of the social system - namely brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra - are arranged according to guna and karma, their qualities and work ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:4703:47, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ The four divisions of the social order - brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra - should be arranged according to the guna and karma of this life. This version is confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam by Narada Muni ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:4503:45, 31 October 2020 diff hist −35‎ The bhakti-yoga process must be carried out by avoiding the ten offenses one can commit while chanting the maha-mantra and the sixty-four offenses one can commit while worshiping the Deity ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4503:45, 31 October 2020 diff hist −77‎ The beauty of the lotus feet of the Lord is compared to the petals of a lotus flower which grows in the autumn season ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4403:44, 31 October 2020 diff hist −7‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is situated in everyone's heart, and from Him issue a living entity's inclinations and disinclinations. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4403:44, 31 October 2020 diff hist +5,517‎ The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone's heart. In the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said, tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye: (SB 1.1.1) the Lord dictated Vedic knowledge to Brahma through his heart ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4403:44, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ The Prince decided to engage himself only in rendering service to the Lord ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4303:43, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ The Lord is very difficult for the karma-yogis, jnana-yogis and dhyana-yogis to attain. Those who are bhakti-yogis, however, have no difficulty at all ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4203:42, 31 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ The Krsna consciousness movement is based on Bhagavad-gita as it is, as spoken by Lord Krsna, and for those who are engaged in this movement, there is no question of uncertainty ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4203:42, 31 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ The Hare Krsna maha-mantra is also a prayer, for a prayer addresses the Supreme Personality of Godhead by His name and invokes good fortune by petitioning the Lord to allow one to engage in His devotional service ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:4103:41, 31 October 2020 diff hist −77‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam is considered to be the transcendental sound form of God, and the twelve cantos are divided in accordance with the transcendental form of God. The First and Second Cantos of Srimad-Bhagavatam are called the two lotus feet of the Lord ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:3903:39, 31 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu warned His devotees not to commit vaisnava-aparadha, which He described as the mad elephant offense. When a mad elephant enters a beautiful garden, it destroys everything, leaving a barren field ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:3803:38, 31 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ Sometimes the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His devotee desires to impede one's devotional service ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:3703:37, 31 October 2020 diff hist −7‎ The origin of all creation is Lord Visnu, and the origin of all the visnu-tattvas is Lord Krsna. Consequently, Krsna is the origin of everything ‎ Vanibot #0033: HeaderRemover - removes non uniform plain text header lines current
03:3603:36, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Since his entire life is engaged in the service of the Lord, a devotee cannot forget the Lord at any time ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:3403:34, 31 October 2020 diff hist −35‎ Simply by associating with a pure devotee, one becomes wonderfully advanced in Krsna consciousness ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:3303:33, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Regardless of one's circumstances, if one fully engages his activities, mind and words in the devotional service of the Lord, he should be understood to be a liberated person ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:3103:31, 31 October 2020 diff hist −7‎ Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah: everything is being done by prakrti, material nature, under the direction of the Supreme Lord ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:3003:30, 31 October 2020 diff hist +3,800‎ Perfection means becoming a devotee of Lord Krsna. As stated in the First Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 1.2.28): vasudeva-para veda vasudeva-para makhah. The ultimate goal of life is Vasudeva, or Krsna ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:3003:30, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Our first concern should be to control the senses, and since the senses cannot be controlled unless engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, our most important duty is to engage the senses in devotional service ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2903:29, 31 October 2020 diff hist −35‎ One who is pure in heart is never attracted by the external energy, which urges the individual soul to try to dominate material nature ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2903:29, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ One should engage in the devotional service of the Lord and follow in the footsteps of previous acaryas, beginning with Lord Brahma and others ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2603:26, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ Material enjoyment achieved by dint of one's fruitive activities differs from material enjoyment given by the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2603:26, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Lord Siva wants to see the Lord in a form which is inconceivable to the Bauddha philosophers, or the Buddhists ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:2503:25, 31 October 2020 diff hist +5,615‎ Lord Siva is praying to the Personality of Godhead to be kind to us so that simply by chanting the Hare Krsna mantra we can understand everything in both the material and spiritual worlds ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2403:24, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Lord Siva's desire is to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He is described in this way-that is, he wants to see Him as He appears to the bhagavatas, the devotees ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:2303:23, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Lord Brahma first advised Priyavrata to hear his words with attention and without envy ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2303:23, 31 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ Krsna consciousness is perfect and eternal, and it cannot be lost under any circumstances. Because the material world is full of obstructions to advancement in Krsna consciousness, there may appear to be many impediments ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2203:22, 31 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ Krsna can be understood as the mystic power in everything ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2203:22, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ It is very difficult for one to attain the ultimate goal of life and reach the supreme destination, Vaikunthaloka or Goloka Vrndavana, simply by studying Vedanta philosophy or Vedic literature ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2103:21, 31 October 2020 diff hist +7,006‎ It is said in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 11.2.37), bhayam dvitiyabhinivesatah syat: fearfulness is a creation of the bodily conception of life ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:2103:21, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ It is not that brahmanas will be elevated to the transcendental platform but not the sudras ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:2103:21, 31 October 2020 diff hist −7‎ It is not a fact that the Supreme Personality of Godhead gives direction to certain living entities in one way and other living entities in another way ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1903:19, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ In the Vedas it is said, antar bahis ca tat sarvam vyaya narayanah sthitah: "Narayana is all-pervading, and He exists both within and without ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1803:18, 31 October 2020 diff hist +7,426‎ In the Bhagavad-gita (BG 13.23) the Supreme Personality of Godhead as Paramatma is described as upadrasta (the overseer) and anumanta - the permitter ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1803:18, 31 October 2020 diff hist −35‎ In all, there are nine processes one can follow in the execution of devotional service. In any case, a pure-hearted devotee is never disturbed ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1703:17, 31 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ In Brahma-samhita Krsna is described as the cause of all causes; He is addressed as karanatmane. His very personality is the original cause of everything, the root of everything and the seed of everything ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1703:17, 31 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ In Bhagavad-gita, Lord Krsna is also accepted as purana-purusa, the oldest person. Although He is the oldest of all personalities, He is also the youngest of all, or nava-yauvana. Another significant word is dharmaya ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1603:16, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ If the Vedic injunctions are followed, all of them - brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras - will be elevated to the transcendental platform, and their lives will be successful ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1603:16, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ If one desires to enter into the spiritual world, he must try to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead by practicing bhakti-yoga ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1503:15, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is adept at playing on His flute, whose eyes are blooming like lotus petals, whose head is bedecked with peacock feathers, whose beauty is tinged with the hue of blue clouds ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1203:12, 31 October 2020 diff hist −77‎ Everyone serious about understanding the transcendental science and seeing the transcendental form of the Lord must first of all attempt to see the lotus feet of the Lord by studying the First and Second Cantos of Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:1203:12, 31 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ Everyone is greedy, and everyone makes plans for material enjoyment. In his lust for material enjoyment, the living entity is described as a madman ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1203:12, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Every living entity should serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead by his prana (life), artha (wealth), intelligence and words ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1103:11, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Even though one may desire to engage in the service of the Lord, without sanction one cannot do so. Lord Siva is offering his prayers in so many different ways in order to show living entities how to engage in the devotional service of the Lord ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1103:11, 31 October 2020 diff hist +5,119‎ Even if one is busy executing his occupational duty, his business in Krsna consciousness need not be hampered. He has to execute the devotional service of sravanam kirtanam - hearing, chanting and remembering. One need not abandon his occupational duty ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:1103:11, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ Each Manu lives for seventy-one yugas, each consisting of some 4,320,000 years ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0903:09, 31 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ By serving the lotus feet of his spiritual master, prince Priyavrata very soon attained the perfectional stage of Krsna consciousness. This is the only way to advance in spiritual life ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0903:09, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ By material means, one cannot avoid the happiness and distress unique to his particular body. There are 8,400,000 bodily forms, each destined to enjoy and suffer a certain amount of happiness and distress ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
03:0803:08, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ Bulls tied by ropes in their nostrils move according to the direction of the driver ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0803:08, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ Brahma advises Priyavrata to remain transcendental in the fortress not of family life but of the lotus feet of the Lord - abja-nabhanghri-saroja ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0703:07, 31 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ Both the living entities and the Supreme Personality of Godhead enter into the material creation just to make it active ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0703:07, 31 October 2020 diff hist −49‎ Being completely surrendered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, we should not aspire for happiness, or regret distress; we must be satisfied with the position allotted to us by the Lord ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0603:06, 31 October 2020 diff hist −7‎ Because the asuras do not like to engage in the Lord's devotional service, the Lord within gives them the intelligence to forget. Ordinary karmis desire promotion to Pitrloka, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gita ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0103:01, 31 October 2020 diff hist +3,625‎ According to Bhagavad-gita (BG 16.7), pravrttim ca nivrttim ca jana na vidur asurah: the asuras do not know which way one should be inclined to act and which way one should not be inclined to act ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0103:01, 31 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ A successful businessman may have many factories and offices, and everything rests on his order ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
03:0003:00, 31 October 2020 diff hist +5,650‎ A devotee always thinks of the Lord continuously. While chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, the words Krsna and Hare immediately remind him of all the Lord's activities ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current

03:0703:07, 16 October 2020 diff hist +3,101‎ Thirty (celestial) days equal one month, and twelve (celestial) months equal one year. In this way, for one million years according to the calculations of the higher planetary system the Pracetas were allowed to enjoy all kinds of material facilities ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
03:0703:07, 16 October 2020 diff hist +3‎ The words yavananam rsabham refer to the King of the Yavanas ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
03:0503:05, 16 October 2020 diff hist +3‎ One should live a life of spiritual understanding, and this is the Vedic way of civilization ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
03:0003:00, 16 October 2020 diff hist +3‎ According to the Vedic principles, one should rise early in the morning, take bath, chant Hare Krsna, offer mangala-arati to the Deities, study Vedic literature, take prasada and engage in dressing and decorating the Deities ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
02:4802:48, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ When one who is not inspired by material desires and is not contaminated by the processes of fruitive activity and empiric speculation fully engages in the favorable service of the Lord, his service is called bhagavad-dharma, or pure devotional service ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:4702:47, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ When Prthu Maharaja became spiritually powerful by the enhancement of his spiritual knowledge (jnana) and renunciation of material desires, he became a prabhu, or master of his senses - sometimes called gosvami or svami ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:4702:47, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ We should not be discouraged just because we cannot go to the forest and practice severe austerities ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:4602:46, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ Those who take advantage of this sankirtana movement of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness will be able to save themselves from the influence of these pakhandis ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:4302:43, 16 October 2020 diff hist −7‎ The word naiskarmyam, which means "transcendental knowledge," is also significant ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:4202:42, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ The two purusas, the living entity and the Supreme Personality of Godhead, never lose their respective identities ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:3902:39, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ The living entity is wandering throughout the universes in various forms of body and becomes implicated in different situations, partaking of the reactions of fruitive activities ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:3802:38, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ The jiva, or the individual living entity, becomes entrapped by the material energy by the supreme will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:3402:34, 16 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ The Lord is always ready to give instructions to the pure devotee so that the devotee can advance further and further in devotional service ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:3202:32, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ Sometimes one who was formerly addicted to these processes tries to perform devotional service and the jnana and yoga practices at the same time ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:3002:30, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ Since time immemorial, the sannyasa order has carried the tridanda. Later Sankaracarya introduced the ekadandi-sannyasa ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:3002:30, 16 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ Since the Lord gives instructions as sarvatma, the Supersoul, Lord Siva offers Him respect with the words sarvasma atmane namah. The individual soul is called atma, and the Lord is also called atma as well as Paramatma ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2902:29, 16 October 2020 diff hist −70‎ Since a devotee has nothing to do with any kind of material possession, he does not come under the control of goddess Kali, or the goddess Durga ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2902:29, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Since Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu chanted the names of the gopis, worship of the gopis or the devotees of the Lord is as good as devotional service rendered directly to the Lord ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2802:28, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Since Lord Siva does not incarnate himself unless there is some special reason, it is very difficult for an ordinary person to contact him. Lord Siva does descend on a special occasion when he is ordered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2802:28, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Sanat-kumara instructed Maharaja Prthu to engage constantly in the service of the Supreme Lord, Vasudeva ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2702:27, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ Prthu Maharaja, although a saktyavesa-avatara incarnation, still behaved exactly as a devotee in order to achieve the position of prabhu. Furthermore, svarupa-sthah means "complete liberation ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2602:26, 16 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ One who takes to Krsna consciousness immediately becomes very dear to anyone who is simply finding out and beginning to understand what Krsna consciousness actually is ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2602:26, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ One who offers the results of his activities to the Supreme Personality of Godhead is actually a sannyasi and yogi. Cheating sannyasis and yogis have existed since the time of Prthu Maharaja's sacrifice ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2602:26, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ One who is self-realized engages himself in the service of the Lord perpetually, both in this life and in the next. Indeed, for devotees there is no difference between this life and the next ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2502:25, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Once he (Indra) raped the wife of Gautama Muni by using his disappearing art, and similarly by becoming invisible he stole the horse of Maharaja Prthu ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2502:25, 16 October 2020 diff hist +2,826‎ No one can introduce any new system into the Vedic way of life; if one does so out of malice, he is to be known as a pasandi, or atheist ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2402:24, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Naradhitah: if Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is not worshiped, there is no point in practicing meditational yoga, performing karma-yoga or culturing empiric knowledge ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
02:2402:24, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ Maharaja Prthu underwent severe types of austerities for the express purpose of worshiping Krsna ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2402:24, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Maharaja Prthu had no desire to promote himself to the higher planetary systems. He wanted to return home immediately, back to Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
02:2302:23, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Maharaja Prthu, practicing the pranayama-yoga system, engaged in the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as advised by the saint Sanat-kumara ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2302:23, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ Maharaja Prthu's activities in devotional service enabled him to become fixed and steady in the discharge of devotional activities without having to take recourse to karma, jnana or yoga ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2302:23, 16 October 2020 diff hist −70‎ Lord Visnu gives intelligence to His devotee so that the devotee can make progress on the path back home, back to Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2302:23, 16 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ Lord Vasudeva, or Krsna, is described in Bhagavad-gita as Purusottama. Actually He is the enjoyer (purusa) and the Supreme (uttama) as well. He is the enjoyer of everything - the prakrti and the purusa ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:2102:21, 16 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ Lord Siva came especially to see the Pracetas because they were fully surrendered unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vasudeva. Vasudeva is also mentioned in the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam in the mantra, om namo bhagavate vasudevaya ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:1802:18, 16 October 2020 diff hist +4,506‎ Indra took up the saffron-colored dress as a way of cheating others. This saffron dress has been misused by many imposters who present themselves as liberated persons or incarnations of God. In this way people are cheated ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:1802:18, 16 October 2020 diff hist −35‎ In transcendental state, a devotee attains all the benefits of karma, jnana and yoga. Although he never engages in fruitive activities or empiric speculation to attain mystic powers, automatically mystic powers appear in his service ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
02:1702:17, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ In this life a neophyte devotee is trained to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and in the next life he approaches that Supreme Person in Vaikuntha and renders the same devotional service ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:1602:16, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ In the paramahamsa stage of life, one fully realizes Krsna as everything. When one understands fully that Krsna is everything and that Krsna consciousness is the highest perfection of life, he becomes a paramahamsa, or mahatma ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:1502:15, 16 October 2020 diff hist +7,468‎ In his verses praising the spiritual master, Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura writes: "The spiritual master is honored as much as the Supreme Lord because he is the most confidential servitor of the Lord ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:1502:15, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ In Kali-yuga the pakhandis are very prominent. However, Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has tried to kill all these pakhandis by introducing His sankirtana movement ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:1402:14, 16 October 2020 diff hist −7‎ If one attains Vaikunthaloka, he attains the highest perfection of life and the end of the evolutionary process ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:1302:13, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ If a person wants to return home, back to Godhead, or wants to become a pure devotee (akama), 1) he is recommended to take to the path of devotional service and hear and chant of Lord Visnu or of His devotee ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:1302:13, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ If a devotee is able to continue on the brahma-bhuta platform, he enters the spiritual sky automatically after death and returns to Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:1202:12, 16 October 2020 diff hist −42‎ He (the living entity) is sometimes called prakrti, or jiva, for he is situated in the marginal potency. When the living entity is covered with the three modes of material nature, he is called jiva-samjnita ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:1202:12, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ He (the devotee of God) has no need to practice any other type of yoga in order to approach the brahma-bhuta stage - SB 4.30.20 ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:1002:10, 16 October 2020 diff hist −7‎ Even if one goes to the highest planet, Brahmaloka, he has to return to the miseries of birth and death ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
02:0902:09, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ Devotional service is called kirtana-yajna, and by practicing the sankirtana-yajna, one is very easily elevated to the planet where the Supreme Lord resides ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
02:0802:08, 16 October 2020 diff hist +8,239‎ Complete surrender is desired by Krsna, as He indicates in the last chapter of Bhagavad-gita (BG 18.66): sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja. The word saksat, meaning "directly," is very significant ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:0802:08, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Cheating sannyasis and yogis have existed since the time of Prthu Maharaja's sacrifice. This cheating was very foolishly introduced by King Indra. In some ages such cheating is very prominent, and in other ages not so prominent ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
02:0802:08, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu, although Krsna Himself, taught us how to approach Krsna as a devotee. It is said, apani acari' bhakti sikhainu sabare ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:0702:07, 16 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ By reading and hearing the narrations of the life and character of Prthu Maharaja, one naturally becomes a devotee, and as soon as one becomes a devotee, his material desires automatically become fulfilled ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:0602:06, 16 October 2020 diff hist +7,981‎ Being above both the ksara and aksara, Lord Krsna, Vasudeva, is described in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.18) as Purusottama ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:0402:04, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ As long as one is too much absorbed in the bodily conception of life, he becomes interested in many different processes of self-realization, such as the mystic yoga system or the system utilizing the speculative empiric methods ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:0402:04, 16 October 2020 diff hist +6,022‎ As indicated in Bhagavad-gita (BG 8.16), one does not escape material miseries even if he is elevated to Brahmaloka. Similarly, one is not very safe even if he is promoted to Sivaloka, because the planet of Sivaloka is marginal ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
02:0202:02, 16 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ A type of pseudo-sannyasa was introduced by Indra when he tried to hide himself from the attack of Vijitasva, the great son of King Prthu ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:0102:01, 16 October 2020 diff hist +4,517‎ A mahatma or paramahamsa is very rare to find ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:0102:01, 16 October 2020 diff hist +6,022‎ A devotee who is fully in Krsna consciousness, who is not attracted by any other loka, or planet, including Brahmaloka and Sivaloka, is immediately transferred to Krsnaloka (mam eti). That is the highest perfection of life and of the evolutionary process ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
02:0102:01, 16 October 2020 diff hist +7,925‎ A devotee of Lord Siva is not dear to Lord Siva, but a devotee of Lord Krsna is very dear to Lord Siva ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
02:0002:00, 16 October 2020 diff hist +4,166‎ A devotee's knowledge of the impersonal Brahman is automatically revealed, and he is not interested in merging into the impersonal Brahman ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
02:0002:00, 16 October 2020 diff hist +7,681‎ A Vaisnava, or worshiper of Lord Visnu, gradually becomes poorer in material possessions because God does not trick His devotees into becoming materially entangled by possessions. Visnu gives His devotees intelligence from within, as Bhagavad-gita says ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current

02:0902:09, 2 October 2020 diff hist +3‎ These descriptions are in the Vedic literature. Whenever we find that a demigod occupies a position apparently more elevated than that of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, it is just to draw the devotee's attention to that particular demigod ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
02:0802:08, 2 October 2020 diff hist +3‎ Tax revenues should be distributed to the citizens in times of need, during emergencies such as famine or flood. Tax revenues should never be distributed amongst governmental servants in the form of high salaries and various other allowances ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
02:0502:05, 2 October 2020 diff hist +3‎ It is stated in the Bhagavad-gita that if one wants to worship a particular demigod, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is sitting in everyone's heart, gives one greater attachment for that demigod so that one may be elevated to the demigod's abode ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms
02:0502:05, 2 October 2020 diff hist +3‎ It is stated here (in SB 4.4.32) that many thousands of demigods named Rbhus became manifested because of the oblations offered in the fire and the chanting of the hymns from the Yajur Veda ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
02:0402:04, 2 October 2020 diff hist +3‎ In Kali-yuga, the position of the citizens is very horrible because taxes are exacted in so many forms and are spent for the personal comforts of the administrators ‎ Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current

04:5404:54, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Without the father's seed, no mother can give birth to a child. Therefore the living beings in different varieties of forms and positions within the innumerable universes are all born of the seeds of the Almighty Father, the Personality of Godhead ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:5404:54, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Without personal service, one would go on speculating like the impersonalists and dry speculators life after life and would be unable to reach the final conclusion ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:5404:54, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Without a Vedic reference, the creation appears to be a product of material nature. This conclusion comes from a poor fund of knowledge ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:5304:53, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Why the external energy acts in this way may be considered as follows, as analyzed by great commentators like Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura and Srila Jiva Gosvami ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:5304:53, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ Whenever there is a need of material creation, the transcendental Personality of Godhead accepts forms in the material world for creation, maintenance and destruction ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:5204:52, 1 October 2020 diff hist +4,868‎ Whenever the Lord incarnates, He does so in His full internal potency (atma-maya), and less intelligent persons mistake Him to be one of the material creations ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:5204:52, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ When we rightly take the direction of the Supersoul, our life becomes successful. He is directing from within and from without ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:5204:52, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ When there is some disease in the eyes, the eyes may be cured to see properly. Plucking out the eyes is no treatment ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:5104:51, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ When the tide comes over the river, it overwhelms the flowing of the river, and the river itself becomes overflooded, and the waves from the sea become more prominent than the waves from the river ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:5104:51, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ When the living entity within the heart becomes enlightened with full spiritual knowledge and detached from the material world, he 1) burns up his material covering of the five elements - earth, water, fire, air and sky ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:5004:50, 1 October 2020 diff hist −63‎ When the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, who carries in His hands a conchshell, wheel, club and lotus flower, is worshiped, certainly all other demigods are worshiped automatically because Hari, the Personality of Godhead, is all-pervading ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:5004:50, 1 October 2020 diff hist −63‎ When the Lord throws His transcendental glance over the material nature, then only can the material nature act, as a father contacts the mother, who is then able to conceive a child ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:4904:49, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ When one is sincere in his devotional service, the Lord obliges the devotee to give up his material development and completely surrender unto Him ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:4904:49, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ When one is devoid of distinctions, there is no longer a difference between matter and spirit. At that time, the spirit is the only predominating factor. As long as one is covered by material desires, he thinks himself the master or the enjoyer ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:4804:48, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ When living entities are viewed in the bodily concept of life, one appears to be different from another ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:4804:48, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ When he (the living entity) wants to get out of service under material bondage, he next desires to become one with the Lord. This is another illusion ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:4804:48, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ When a devotee is in a calamitous condition he takes it as a benediction of the Supreme Lord and takes responsibility himself for his past misdeeds. In such a condition, he offers still more devotional service and is not disturbed ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:4704:47, 1 October 2020 diff hist +5,562‎ Whatever a person may be in the estimation of the social order of things, if a person tries to reciprocate a feeling of love towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead and is satisfied with the blessings of the Lord ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:4604:46, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ What the pure devotees worship from the very beginning are eternal forms of the Lord existing in the Vaikuntha planets ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:4604:46, 1 October 2020 diff hist −84‎ What is the comparison of thousands of prajapatis to one devotee of the Lord ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:4604:46, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ We think ourselves created by material nature exactly as we think ourselves experiencing so many things in a dream. The spirit soul is always transcendental. There is no question of becoming materially covered ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:4504:45, 1 October 2020 diff hist −21‎ We should not forget that the potencies of the Almighty Lord are always the same and do not decrease because the Lord assumes the form of a lower animal ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:4404:44, 1 October 2020 diff hist −28‎ Vaisnavas should not try to kill by any action of the body or mind, but should try to revive the Krsna consciousness of others out of compassion for them ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
04:4304:43, 1 October 2020 diff hist +7,190‎ Upadhi means designation. Neither I am Indian nor American nor cat nor dog. But as soon as I get a particular type of body, I think that I am cat, I am dog, I am Indian, I am America, I am black, I am white. This is our position ‎ Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections

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