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17:0317:03, 4 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ The real purpose of this movement? To teach people how he can surrender to Krsna, that's all. That is the sum and substance of this movement. If one accepts this principle without any difficulty, he is immediately a preacher ‎No edit summary current
17:0117:01, 4 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ The real purpose of the yoga system is to achieve the favor and shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but this purpose is covered by the illusory energy of yogamaya ‎No edit summary current
17:0017:00, 4 February 2024 diff hist +20‎ Svarupa Damodara could understand the secret mission of Lord Caitanya, and it was by his grace only that all the devotees of Lord Caitanya could know the real purpose of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
16:5916:59, 4 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ Our real purpose of life is to become yogi. Yogi means to reestablish our connection, our lost connection, with God. At the present moment, in our material condition, we have forgotten our relationship, our eternal relationship with Krsna ‎No edit summary current
16:5816:58, 4 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ Men are moving by cars and rails on the roads, by subways within the earth and by planes in the sky for the purpose of business success. But in all these movements the real purpose is to earn wealth for comfortable life ‎No edit summary current
16:5716:57, 4 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15), "The real purpose of veda, knowledge, is to know Me." One who knows Krsna perfectly is liberated ‎No edit summary current
16:5616:56, 4 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ I had some doubts about them, but you have now very kindly dissipated all these doubts. I can now understand how even the great sages are bewildered by the real purpose of life. Of course, there is no question of sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
16:5616:56, 4 February 2024 diff hist +28‎ Real purpose of life means ‎No edit summary current
16:5216:52, 4 February 2024 diff hist −16‎ Real communism ‎No edit summary current
16:5016:50, 4 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ To desire like the dog, that is other desire, and to desire like a human being, that is real desire. Our philosophy does not teach to become desireless. That is not possible. Desire must be there. But it should not be other desire ‎No edit summary current
16:5016:50, 4 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ Real desired result is to invoke dormant love for Krsna ‎No edit summary current
16:4916:49, 4 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ One's real desire should only be to achieve the stage of loving transcendental service to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
16:4716:47, 4 February 2024 diff hist −8‎ One thinks of a superior way of life in this country or that, or on this planet or another, but nowhere in the material world can he fulfill his real desire of life, namely eternal life, full intelligence and complete bliss ‎No edit summary current
16:4716:47, 4 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ Kindly inform the others that I may be relieved to give you so many more nice books - that is my real desire ‎No edit summary current
16:4716:47, 4 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ I pray to the lotus feet of the six Gosvamis - Sri Rupa, Sanatana, Bhatta Raghunatha, Sri Jiva, Gopala Bhatta and Dasa Raghunatha - so that all impediments to my writing this literature will be annihilated and my real desire will be fulfilled ‎No edit summary
16:4516:45, 4 February 2024 diff hist +33‎ Desire cannot be completely absent because I am living entity. So my desire should be not to forget Krsna. That's all, that one desire. That is real desire. All other desires, they are foolish. We cannot be desireless, but we should desire only bona fide ‎No edit summary current
16:4416:44, 4 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ As an example of pratisthasa, one may attempt to imitate Srila Haridasa Thakura by living in a solitary place. One's real desire may be for name and fame - in other words, one thinks that fools will accept one to be as good as Haridasa Thakura ‎No edit summary current
16:4416:44, 4 February 2024 diff hist −16‎ Real desire ‎No edit summary current
16:4116:41, 4 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ We know that this is all a well-planned trick. You know how to make jokes that cause the complete annihilation of women, but we can understand that Your real mind, words and behavior are different. Therefore please give up all these clever tricks ‎No edit summary current
16:4116:41, 4 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ The Supreme Lord inspired Brahma, the secondary creator, and enabled him to carry out his creative functions. In this way the Supreme Lord is the supervising engineer; the real mind behind all creative agents is the Absolute Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
16:4016:40, 4 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ The real mind behind all creative agents is the Absolute Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
16:4016:40, 4 February 2024 diff hist −3‎ The real intelligence, mind and consciousness are part of the particular individual soul ‎No edit summary current
16:3916:39, 4 February 2024 diff hist −16‎ Real mind ‎No edit summary current
16:3816:38, 4 February 2024 diff hist +13‎ Real intelligent person is he who is satisfied what Krsna has given him ‎No edit summary current
16:3816:38, 4 February 2024 diff hist +12‎ Real intelligent concern ‎No edit summary current
16:3716:37, 4 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Real intelligence means linking with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When this is done, the Supreme Personality of Godhead from within gives one the real intelligence by which one can return home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
16:3116:31, 4 February 2024 diff hist +6‎ Real followers of Vedic principles ‎No edit summary current
15:5615:56, 4 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ The yogi's main business is to control the senses. That is real yoga. Yoga indriya-samyamah. Controlling the senses so that mind can be in a peaceful condition ‎No edit summary current
15:5615:56, 4 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ The real yoga-marga process is to control the senses, sit in a solitary and sanctified place and meditate on the four-handed form of Narayana ‎No edit summary current
15:5515:55, 4 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ The real yoga process accepts the transmigration of the soul from one planet to another or one body to another; and it appears from this incident that Sati wanted to transfer her soul to another body or sphere ‎No edit summary current
15:5515:55, 4 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ Real yoga practice entails meeting the Paramatma within the heart and then following His dictation. For one who takes to Krsna consciousness directly, perfect surrender to the dictation of the Lord follows automatically. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:5515:55, 4 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Real yoga is to fix the mind on the form of the Lord, the four-handed Narayana who is sitting in everyone's heart ‎No edit summary current
15:5415:54, 4 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Real yoga is buddhi-yoga, the yoga of devotional service, which brings about direct perception of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
15:5415:54, 4 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ Real yoga aims at ridding one of the material body. Yoga practice is not intended to keep the body fit and young ‎No edit summary current
15:5415:54, 4 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ One should be very practical in every field of activities and should not waste his valuable time in practicing useless gymnastic feats in the name of yoga. Real yoga is to search out the four-handed Supersoul within one's heart ‎No edit summary current
15:5315:53, 4 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ If you connect yourself again with the supreme yoga - that is called real yoga - then you get rid of this so-called material happiness and distress, which is due to this body ‎No edit summary current
15:5215:52, 4 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ If we want to perform real yoga system, then it is very difficult. Nobody... We are sitting here, so many ladies and gentlemen, is it possible for us to live alone in a secluded place in a mountain? ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 4 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ Everything is mixed up with little bhakti, but... Just like karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, dhyana-yoga, there are different. But the real yoga means loving Vasudeva, Bhagavan ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 4 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ Before practicing the real yoga system, one has to practice the sitting postures because this helps in the breathing exercises which control the airs going upwards and downwards ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 4 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ As the result of real yoga practice there are eight kinds of perfection: 2) he can achieve anything he likes, he can create even a planet, he can establish influence over anyone, etc ‎No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 4 February 2024 diff hist +5‎ Actually, a yogi concentrates his mind on the form of Lord Visnu. That is real yoga. Krsna is the original form of all visnu-tattvas. The gopis could not go to Krsna personally, so they began to meditate on Him as perfect yogis ‎No edit summary current
15:5015:50, 4 February 2024 diff hist +45‎ Real yoga system means ‎No edit summary current
15:5015:50, 4 February 2024 diff hist +45‎ Real yoga process means ‎No edit summary current
15:5015:50, 4 February 2024 diff hist +45‎ Real yoga practice means ‎No edit summary current
15:4915:49, 4 February 2024 diff hist +45‎ Real yoga means ‎No edit summary current
15:4715:47, 4 February 2024 diff hist −16‎ Real characteristic ‎No edit summary current
15:4515:45, 4 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ You do not explain the direct meaning of the Brahma-sutras. Indeed, it appears that your business is to cover their real meaning ‎No edit summary current
15:4515:45, 4 February 2024 diff hist −13‎ The nine Yogendras entered Lord Brahma's association and heard from him the real meaning of the topmost Vedic literatures, the Upanisads ‎No edit summary current
15:4515:45, 4 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ On the bank of the Ganges, in a solitary place, Advaita Acarya made a cavelike home for Haridasa Thakura and spoke to him about the real meaning of Srimad-Bhagavatam and the Bhagavad-gita in terms of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
15:4415:44, 4 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ If they are not spoiled by an artificial standard of sense gratification at an early age, children will turn out very nicely as sober citizens, because they have learned the real meaning of life ‎No edit summary current
15:4415:44, 4 February 2024 diff hist +8‎ I have given all these explanations just to give some indication of the verse's meaning. Now let Me explain the real meaning of the verse ‎No edit summary current
15:4315:43, 4 February 2024 diff hist +7‎ You are trying to avoid all kinds of miserable condition, but your real miserable condition is your birth, death, old age, and disease. Try to avoid it. That is perfection. That is spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
15:4115:41, 4 February 2024 diff hist −19‎ Real fight ‎No edit summary current

15:5315:53, 3 February 2024 diff hist +42‎ Supreme shelter ‎No edit summary current
13:5013:50, 3 February 2024 diff hist +2‎ All glories to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose bodily luster is like that of a new cloud, and whose body is as soft as a lotus flower ‎No edit summary current
13:4813:48, 3 February 2024 diff hist +2‎ All glories to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who appeared on this planet to deliver the world from the burden of demons, and who can offer liberation to everyone ‎No edit summary current
13:4613:46, 3 February 2024 diff hist −9‎ Category:God's Glories ‎No edit summary current
13:4513:45, 3 February 2024 diff hist +34‎ Category:God's Glories ‎No edit summary

17:5717:57, 1 February 2024 diff hist +42‎ Every paisa should be spent for Krsna; otherwise we shall be liable to pay. If we use one farthing for our sense gratification, then we will have to pay for it. This is the law of karma ‎No edit summary current

15:3915:39, 31 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ To learn how to control senses, that is brahmacari. Where is that civilization? So establish. Give them food. Give them shelter. Give them knowledge. Don't be entangled in vagina civilization. It is most abominable civilization, condemned civilization ‎No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 31 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu told Sanatana Gosvami, "All My devotees who go to Vrndavana are generally very poor. They each have nothing with them but a torn quilt and a small waterpot. Therefore, Sanatana, you should give them shelter and maintain them" ‎No edit summary
15:3815:38, 31 January 2024 diff hist −18‎ Maharaja Bharata said: This moon has given the deer shelter near itself just to protect it from the fearful attacks of a lion ‎No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 31 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ Maharaja Bharata said: This moon has given the deer shelter near itself just to protect it from the fearful attacks of a lion ‎No edit summary
15:3715:37, 31 January 2024 diff hist −38‎ It is the purpose of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness to give them (the foreign devotees) shelter and train them in devotional service ‎No edit summary current
15:3615:36, 31 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ If somebody says that "You come here at my place. I shall give you very good food, nice shelter, all comforts, and after few days I shall drive you away and I shall beat you with my shoes," will anybody agree? No ‎No edit summary current
15:3515:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist +10‎ I (Prahlada Maharaja) drift from one point to another birth after birth, and I pray to You (Lord Nrisimha) therefore to give me a shelter at Your lotus feet ‎No edit summary current
15:3515:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ He wants to live in our Mayapur Center. You can call him, talk to him and if he is useful give him shelter. He is very much anxious to live in our place ‎No edit summary current
15:3515:35, 31 January 2024 diff hist +12‎ All glories to the transcendental form of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is Krsna Himself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead! My dear Lord, kindly give me shelter at Your lotus feet by Your causeless mercy ‎No edit summary current
15:3415:34, 31 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura remarks that Saubhari Muni had fallen from his austerity because of a vaisnava-aparadha. The history is that when Garuda wanted to eat fish, Saubhari Muni unnecessarily gave the fish shelter under his care ‎No edit summary current
15:3415:34, 31 January 2024 diff hist −21‎ The tree delivers its fruits, flowers and whatever else it possesses to anyone and everyone. It tolerates scorching heat and torrents of rain, yet it still gives shelter to others ‎No edit summary current
15:3315:33, 31 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The servant of the Lord is also similarly inclined. He gives shelter to any person - any living entity - regardless of whether he belongs to a brahmana family or a candala family ‎No edit summary current
15:3315:33, 31 January 2024 diff hist +12‎ One who has given up all material duties and taken full shelter at the lotus feet of Mukunda, who gives shelter to all, is not indebted to the demigods, great sages, ordinary living beings, relatives, friends, mankind or even his forefathers ‎No edit summary current
15:3115:31, 31 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ The King will be firmly determined and always situated in truth. He will be a lover of the brahminical culture and will render all service to old men and give shelter to all surrendered souls ‎No edit summary current
15:3015:30, 31 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ In this life some people give shelter to animals and birds that come to them for protection in the village or forest, and after making them believe that they will be protected, such people pierce them with lances or threads and play with them like toys ‎No edit summary current
15:3015:30, 31 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Following in the footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, we have constructed temples in both Vrndavana and Mayapur, Navadvipa, just to give shelter to the foreign devotees coming from Europe and America ‎No edit summary current

13:3913:39, 30 January 2024 diff hist +120‎ Category:Eighteen Thousand Verses in the Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
13:3013:30, 30 January 2024 diff hist +32‎ There is reference to the Bhagavatam in other Puranas also, where it is clearly stated that this work was finished in twelve cantos, which include eighteen thousand slokas ‎No edit summary
13:2913:29, 30 January 2024 diff hist +32‎ The Srimad-Bhagavatam is one Purana. And in one Purana you find eighteen thousand verses, and each and every word is so meaningful that you study throughout your whole life, oh, still you'll find refreshed ‎No edit summary current
13:2913:29, 30 January 2024 diff hist +32‎ There is reference to Srimad-Bhagavatam in other Puranas which even indicate that the work consists of Twelve Cantos and eighteen thousand slokas ‎No edit summary
13:2613:26, 30 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam is the supreme Purana, and it was compiled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His incarnation as Vyasadeva. There are twelve cantos, 335 chapters and eighteen thousand verses ‎No edit summary
13:2513:25, 30 January 2024 diff hist −15‎ There are eighteen thousand verses in Srimad Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
13:2413:24, 30 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam has eighteen thousand verses, which are summarized in the four verses beginning with aham evasam evagre - CC Adi 1.53 - and concluding with yat syat sarvatra sarvada - CC Adi 1.56 ‎No edit summary current
13:2413:24, 30 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Question was about Krsna, and the reply is Srimad-Bhagavatam, eighteen thousand verses. And each and every verse is so important that if a serious student studies each and every verse, each verse will take at least one month to understand ‎No edit summary current
13:2413:24, 30 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In the Vedanta-sutra, the purport of all Vedic knowledge is explained, and in Srimad-Bhagavatam the same purport has been explained in eighteen thousand verses ‎No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 30 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In the Garuda Purana it is said: This Srimad-Bhagavatam, containing eighteen thousand verses, is known as the explanation of all Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 30 January 2024 diff hist +32‎ In seven days we cannot understand even one verse of Srimad-Bhagavatam, what to speak of the eighteen thousand verses. That is not possible. But it has become a fashion ‎No edit summary current
13:2213:22, 30 January 2024 diff hist −45‎ There are twelve cantos, three hundred thirty-five chapters and eighteen thousand verses in Srimad Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary
13:2213:22, 30 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ There are 18,000's of verses in Srimad-Bhagavatam. And the acaryas, the great saintly sages who are the preachers of this Bhagavatam throughout India, their opinion is that it is the ripened fruit of the Vedic desire tree ‎No edit summary current
13:2113:21, 30 January 2024 diff hist +116‎ N Category:Eighteen Thousand Verses in the Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎ Created page with "Category:Eighteen Thousand Category:Verses of the Srimad-Bhagavatam Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes"
13:2013:20, 30 January 2024 diff hist +32‎ There are twelve cantos, three hundred thirty-five chapters and eighteen thousand verses in Srimad Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary

05:3305:33, 23 January 2024 diff hist +165‎ Lord Visnu in the form of a brahmacari released Lord Siva from the impending danger and saved the whole situation ‎No edit summary current

16:2716:27, 21 January 2024 diff hist +22‎ Category:Abridged ‎No edit summary current
16:2716:27, 21 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ I am prepared to give up dealing with Dai Nippon if ISKCON Press can print my books. What is being done with the manuscript of the unabridged Bhagavad Gita As It Is? It should be printed as soon as possible ‎No edit summary current
16:2516:25, 21 January 2024 diff hist +24‎ Why they cannot give us permission for printing BG? Make it clear whether we can print the older abridged edition, or if we can print the newer unabridged one. They must allow us to print here or immediately send 20,000 copies in India. We can sell all ‎No edit summary current
15:1015:10, 21 January 2024 diff hist +86‎ N Category:Abridged ‎ Created page with "Category:Publishing My Books (Prabhupada) Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes"
15:0215:02, 21 January 2024 diff hist +22‎ We shall make a children's book with ten pictures of Krsna's different appearances (Dasavatara.) and a short story or explanation for each. Now we have just received part of the manuscript of an abridged version of KRSNA especially meant for children ‎No edit summary current
15:0215:02, 21 January 2024 diff hist +22‎ We are planning to print an enlarged edition of this book, with purports to each & every verse. The book was abridged due to the request of the Macmillan Company, but I am not satisfied with this, so we'll print the complete work in an unabridged edition ‎No edit summary
14:5714:57, 21 January 2024 diff hist +22‎ It is a source of great pleasure for me to hear that you are seriously undertaking publication of the abridged version of Bhagavad-gita As It Is in India ‎No edit summary current

19:2519:25, 20 January 2024 diff hist +39‎ When the Supreme Lord (Visnu) is laughing, one can see His small teeth, which resemble jasmine buds rendered rosy by the splendor of His lips. Once devoting his mind to this, the yogi should no longer desire to see anything else ‎No edit summary
19:2419:24, 20 January 2024 diff hist 0‎ m When the Supreme Lord (Visnu) is laughing, one can see His small teeth, which resemble jasmine buds rendered rosy by the splendor of His lips. Once devoting his mind to this, the yogi should no longer desire to see anything else ‎ Visnu Murti moved page When the Supreme Lord is laughing, one can see His small teeth, which resemble jasmine buds rendered rosy by the splendor of His lips. Once devoting his mind to this, the yogi should no longer desire to see anything else to When the Supreme Lord (Visnu) is laughing, one can see His small teeth, which resemble jasmine buds rendered rosy by the splendor of His lips. Once devoting his mind to this, the yogi should no longer desire to see anything else
19:2219:22, 20 January 2024 diff hist +170‎ These particular descriptions of meditation on the smile, laughter, face, lips and teeth all indicate conclusively that God is not impersonal. It is described here (in SB 3.28.33) that one should meditate on the laughter or smiling of Visnu ‎No edit summary current
19:1919:19, 20 January 2024 diff hist +132‎ The exceptional beauty of the laughter of Lord Visnu is that when He smiles His small teeth, which resemble the buds of jasmine flowers, at once become reddish, reflecting His rosy lips ‎No edit summary
16:2116:21, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The cosmic material expansion is called maya, illusion, because it has no eternal existence. Because it is sometimes manifested and sometimes not, it is regarded as illusory. But beyond this temporary manifestation is a higher nature - CC Intro ‎No edit summary current
16:2016:20, 20 January 2024 diff hist −6‎ Sometimes we consider one quality of nature to be higher or lower than another. The mode of ignorance, or tamo-guna, is considered very much lower than the others, but in the higher sense it is also auspicious ‎No edit summary current
16:1916:19, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In all the scriptures this is said. Without approaching a person who can teach you of the higher nature, you cannot develop. It is not possible to acquire ‎No edit summary current
16:1916:19, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ If one fails to take advantage of this opportunity (of this human form of life), one's human life is wasted. We are therefore trying to save human society from degradation and actually elevate people to the higher nature ‎No edit summary current
16:1816:18, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Due to their (unintelligent men, who do not know Me perfectly) small knowledge, they do not know My higher nature, which is imperishable and supreme ‎No edit summary current
16:1816:18, 20 January 2024 diff hist +29‎ Higher nature means ‎No edit summary current
16:1716:17, 20 January 2024 diff hist −15‎ Duties of a higher nature ‎No edit summary current
16:1616:16, 20 January 2024 diff hist +34‎ Krsna conducts the material world under the three modes of material nature, and consequently there are three platforms of life - higher, middle and lower. On whatever platform one may be situated, one is tossed by the waves of material nature ‎No edit summary current
16:1416:14, 20 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ This is clearly mentioned in the Seventh Chapter, fifth verse of Bhagavad-gita: This prakrti is My lower nature. And beyond this there is another prakrti: jiva-bhutam, the living entity. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
16:1416:14, 20 January 2024 diff hist −6‎ The higher and lower natures exist due to ignorance and are being manifested in an infinite number of living entities. But the Supersoul, which is infallible, is uncontaminated by the three qualities of nature and is transcendental. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
16:1316:13, 20 January 2024 diff hist −6‎ One's higher or lower nature - is formed by association with the different qualities, namely sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna ‎No edit summary current
16:1216:12, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Now we are fallen into the ways of the three modes of material nature according to our different karma. As such, some are on higher levels, and some are in the lower nature. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
16:0716:07, 20 January 2024 diff hist +34‎ The common man may be able to attain to such a plane (of the transcendental pastimes of the Lord in Vrndavana, or even at Dvaraka) by the gradual process of service and inquiries, as we shall see in the behavior of Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
16:0716:07, 20 January 2024 diff hist +13‎ My dear King Pariksit, I have replied as far as possible to the questions you have asked me, especially in regard to this pure, auspicious narration about the Maruts. Now you may inquire further, and I shall explain more ‎No edit summary current
16:0616:06, 20 January 2024 diff hist +16‎ The common man may be able to attain to such a plane (of the transcendental pastimes of the Lord in Vrndavana, or even at Dvaraka) by the gradual process of service and inquiries, as we shall see in the behavior of Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary
16:0416:04, 20 January 2024 diff hist −14‎ Maharaja Pariksit was already directly connected with the personal feature of the Lord Sri Krsna, and as such he had no need to inquire from Sukadeva Gosvami about where and how to apply the mind in the impersonal virat-rupa of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
16:0416:04, 20 January 2024 diff hist +16‎ Maharaj Pariksit inquires from Sukadeva Gosvami, "My dear brahmana, I understand that the demon Vrtrasura was a great sinful person and that his mentality was completely absorbed in the modes of passion and ignorance" ‎No edit summary current
14:2814:28, 20 January 2024 diff hist −15‎ Submission and inquiry ‎No edit summary current
14:2714:27, 20 January 2024 diff hist +16‎ Seeing this, mother Saci hastily returned and exclaimed, "What is this! What is this!" She snatched the dirt from the hands of the Lord and inquired why He was eating it ‎No edit summary current
14:2514:25, 20 January 2024 diff hist +17‎ The two persons who went to Jagannatha Puri to inquire about the Lord's departure returned and informed Rupa Gosvami that the Lord had already departed for Vrndavana ‎No edit summary current
14:2214:22, 20 January 2024 diff hist +13‎ Thinking in this way, Govinda kept silent. He did not reply to the Lord's inquiry ‎No edit summary current
14:1314:13, 20 January 2024 diff hist +43‎ Prahlada Maharaja responded to the inquiry of his father with the instructions he had received from his spiritual master, Narada ‎No edit summary current
14:1314:13, 20 January 2024 diff hist 0‎ My dear Yudhisthira, once upon a time Hiranyakasipu, took his son Prahlada on his lap & very affectionately inquired: My dear son, please let me know what you think is the best of all the subjects you have studied from your teachers ‎No edit summary current
14:1214:12, 20 January 2024 diff hist +16‎ My dear Yudhisthira, once upon a time Hiranyakasipu, took his son Prahlada on his lap & very affectionately inquired: My dear son, please let me know what you think is the best of all the subjects you have studied from your teachers ‎No edit summary
14:0914:09, 20 January 2024 diff hist +16‎ He (Lord Caitanya) said clearly, upon the inquiry of Sanatana Gosvami, that a living entity is the servitor of Krsna eternally ‎No edit summary
14:0814:08, 20 January 2024 diff hist −2‎ When the King heard that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was going to Alalanatha, he was very unhappy and inquired about the reason. Then Kasi Misra informed him of all the details ‎No edit summary current
14:0414:04, 20 January 2024 diff hist +17‎ When Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya met with the King, the King offered him a seat with all respects and inquired about news of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
14:0314:03, 20 January 2024 diff hist +16‎ When Sanatana Gosvami left his government post and came to Caitanya Mahaprabhu for the first time, he asked the Lord, "What is education?" Although Sanatana Gosvami knew a number of languages, including Sanskrit, he still inquired about real education ‎No edit summary
14:0114:01, 20 January 2024 diff hist +16‎ This is real question: "What I am?" So Sanatana Gosvami's question is being answered by Caitanya Mahaprabhu, "Because you have this inquiry, this is the beginning of human life." If one is little inquisitive to know what I am, then his real life begins ‎No edit summary
14:0114:01, 20 January 2024 diff hist +17‎ The Bhattacarya inquired, "Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is in His full-fledged youthful life. How can He keep the principles of sannyasa" ‎No edit summary current
14:0014:00, 20 January 2024 diff hist +17‎ That man inquired from Sivananda Sena, Did you see anyone in the renounced order at the residence of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
13:5913:59, 20 January 2024 diff hist +16‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's answers to his (Satyaraja Khan's) inquiries about the duty of householder devotees are vividly described in the Madhya-lila, Chapters Fifteen and Sixteen ‎No edit summary current
13:5913:59, 20 January 2024 diff hist +16‎ Rupa Gosvami praises Lord Caitanya as the most munificent incarnation of all, for He gives the greatest gift by teaching the highest form of devotional service. In other words, He answers the most important inquiries that anyone can make - CC Intro ‎No edit summary
13:5513:55, 20 January 2024 diff hist +16‎ Mukunda being very sorry, asked his friends whether he would one day be allowed to see Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. When the devotees brought this inquiry to Lord, the Lord replied, “Mukunda will get permission to see Me after many millions of years” ‎No edit summary current
13:5413:54, 20 January 2024 diff hist +17‎ In the Western world, where the glories of Lord Caitanya are relatively unknown, one may inquire, "Who is Krsna Caitanya?" The author of the Caitanya-caritamrta, Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja, answers that question in the third verse of his book - CC Intro ‎No edit summary current
13:5313:53, 20 January 2024 diff hist +17‎ In the Western world where the glories of Lord Caitanya are relatively unknown, one may inquire, "Who is Krsna Caitanya?" The scriptural conclusion in answer to that question is that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
13:5213:52, 20 January 2024 diff hist +17‎ After some inquiries, Svarupa Damodara could understand that the fisherman had caught Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in his net. Since the fisherman was afraid of being haunted by a ghost, Svarupa Damodara gave him a slap and chanted Hare Krsna ‎No edit summary current
10:5210:52, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Wherefrom the fire came? That is natural inquiry. Wherefrom the sky came? How the stars are situated, so many millions and millions? So these are the inquiries of the intelligent person. That is the beginning of philosophical life ‎No edit summary current
10:5110:51, 20 January 2024 diff hist −15‎ Lower nature ‎No edit summary current
10:5010:50, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Those who are associating with the base qualities of material nature, they get lower life. That is natural. Just like you contaminate a kind of disease, it will become manifest in due course of time ‎No edit summary current
10:5010:50, 20 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ The spiritual master will say that "You work like this." So that should be determined. That is karma, guna-karma. Spiritual master sees that he has these qualities. That is natural ‎No edit summary current
10:5010:50, 20 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ That is psychology. It may be very worse condition; still, nobody wants to give up "Home, sweet home." That is natural psychology ‎No edit summary current
10:4510:45, 20 January 2024 diff hist −21‎ The natural gifts such as grains and vegetables, fruits, rivers, the hills of jewels & minerals, and the seas full of pearls are supplied by the order of the Supreme, and as He desires, material nature produces them in abundance or restricts them at times ‎No edit summary current
10:4210:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ Such opulence (natural gifts such as gold, silver, pearls, fresh flowers, etc) immediately changes the condition of the mind, and the entire atmosphere becomes spiritualized. King Prthu's capital was decorated with such highly opulent decorations ‎No edit summary current
10:4210:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ Real opulence is supplied by natural gifts such as gold, silver, pearls, valuable stones, fresh flowers, trees and silken cloth. Thus the Vedic civilization recommends opulence and decoration with these natural gifts of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
10:4110:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ Human prosperity flourishes by natural gifts and not by gigantic industrial enterprises. The gigantic industrial enterprises are products of a godless civilization, and they cause the destruction of the noble aims of human life ‎No edit summary current
10:4010:40, 20 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ All these expediencies (yogic powers) are as common as natural gifts for the inhabitants of those higher planets ‎No edit summary current
10:4010:40, 20 January 2024 diff hist +79‎ N Category:Natural Gifts ‎ Created page with "Category:Natural Category:Gift Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes" current
10:3910:39, 20 January 2024 diff hist −15‎ Natural gifts ‎No edit summary current
10:3610:36, 20 January 2024 diff hist −5‎ We can only imagine how highly exalted the actual position of a devotee is, and certainly we cannot even conceive how exalted is the position of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 20 January 2024 diff hist −5‎ Those who are, I mean to say, favored with poor fund of knowledge, they cannot conceive about the Personality of Godhead. Therefore we have to approach authorities just like Lord Caitanya ‎No edit summary current
10:3510:35, 20 January 2024 diff hist −5‎ The living entity cannot conceive of the unlimitedness of the unlimited ‎No edit summary current
10:3410:34, 20 January 2024 diff hist −9‎ The impersonal manifestation, either in this material world or in the spiritual world of the Supreme Lord, is a problem for meditation. Actually, one cannot perfectly conceive of the impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
10:3410:34, 20 January 2024 diff hist +37‎ The impersonal Brahman can be conceived by persons who are already in the inferior energy of the Lord, but the Personality of Godhead cannot be conceived unless one is in the transcendental position. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
10:3310:33, 20 January 2024 diff hist −5‎ So far Vedic literature is concerned, God is person and accepted by the acaryas. We have to follow the acaryas; otherwise our own interpretation, our own tiny brain, we cannot conceive ‎No edit summary current
10:3310:33, 20 January 2024 diff hist −3‎ Rupa Gosvami says: (CC Madhya 17.136) "We cannot conceive the name, form and qualities of Sri Krsna through our material senses." Because of this, other names for the Lord are adhoksaja and aprakrta, which indicate that He is beyond any material senses ‎No edit summary
10:3110:31, 20 January 2024 diff hist −5‎ A common brain in the conditioned state cannot conceive of how He (the Supreme Personality of Godhead) is the master of both manifest and potential powers, and how contradictory potencies can abide in Him ‎No edit summary current
10:1810:18, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ When the living entity decides to go back home, back to Godhead, his target is Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In the conditioned state of life, one does not understand that the goal of life is the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
10:1710:17, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ When he (the living entity) is entrapped by material energy, he is conditioned, and when he is Krsna conscious, or aware of the spiritual energy, then he is in his real and natural state of life. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
10:1610:16, 20 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ We may join God's transcendental pastimes in our unconditioned state of life, but as long as we're conditioned by the laws of karma, in contact with the inferior energy, sufferings are our own creations, born of a gross misuse of our little independence ‎No edit summary current
10:1610:16, 20 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ This (when one becomes free from material contamination. In that state of life he can understand the Supreme Lord) is the statement of Srimad-Bhagavatam also. Also after liberation the process of bhakti or transcendental service continues. BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary current
10:1610:16, 20 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ The uncivilized state of life, or the life of the lower animals, is controlled by the mode of tamas. The civilized life of man, with a passion for various types of material benefits, is the stage of rajas ‎No edit summary current
10:1610:16, 20 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ The transactions of the spiritual world are inconceivable to us in our present state of life. Great liberated souls like Rupa Gosvami and others have tried to give us some hints of transcendental activities in the spiritual world ‎No edit summary
10:1510:15, 20 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ The devotee does not feel the pangs of material miseries; this state of life is called brahma-nirvana, or the absence of material miseries due to being constantly immersed in the Supreme ‎No edit summary current
10:1510:15, 20 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ The degradation of the human instinct begins from the mlecchas, and the candala state of life is the last word in human degradation. All the above terms mentioned in the Vedic literatures are never meant for any particular community or birth ‎No edit summary current
10:1510:15, 20 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ Such transcendental devotees are completely situated in an uncontaminated state of life. By the process of DS I shall surely be able to cross the nescient ocean of material existence, which is filled with the waves of blazing, firelike dangers ‎No edit summary current
10:1510:15, 20 January 2024 diff hist −15‎ Real and natural state of life ‎No edit summary current
10:0910:09, 20 January 2024 diff hist −6‎ When a person does not know that the Lord is the only dearmost object, then he is in the conditioned state of life, and when one knows perfectly well that the Lord is the only dearmost object, he is considered to be liberated ‎No edit summary current
10:0410:04, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ In the conditioned state of life, the body is used as our dress, and as one needs different dresses during the summer and winter, we conditioned souls are changing bodies according to our desires ‎No edit summary current
10:0410:04, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ In the animal state of life the misconception of "mine" is perceivable even in the category of cats and dogs, who fight with one another with the same misconception of "mine" ‎No edit summary current
10:0310:03, 20 January 2024 diff hist −33‎ In some hotels, that "Such and such persons are not admitted." No. We cannot. We admit everyone. Our mission is to elevate persons from down state of life to the highest state of life. So everyone is in down state ‎No edit summary current
10:0310:03, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ He (a devotee in Krsna consciousness) does not feel the pangs of material miseries; this state of life is called brahma-nirvana, or the absence of material miseries due to being constantly immersed in the Supreme. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 20 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ Forgetfulness of Krishna means an unhealthy state of life which is symptomized by so many problems and distresses. So if we want to attain our natural happy state of life of full satisfaction, we must again take to the shelter of Krishna ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 20 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ As lust and desires disappear from the heart of a devotee, he becomes more attached to the service of the Lord, and by such attachment he becomes free from material contamination. In that state of life he can understand the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
10:0110:01, 20 January 2024 diff hist −21‎ The unconscious state is nothing but ignorance, darkness or material existence, and in the conscious state one is awake. The marginal state, between consciousness and unconsciousness, has no permanent existence ‎No edit summary current
10:0010:00, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ The conditioned state and liberated state are compared to the sleeping, unconscious state and the awakened state ‎No edit summary current
10:0010:00, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ In the Garuda Purana the stress on hearing is expressed very nicely. It is said there, "This is because both such unconscious states can be ended by the sound of a mantra" ‎No edit summary current
09:5309:53, 20 January 2024 diff hist 0‎ Because we have come to this conditional state of life, bhutva bhutva praliyate (BG 8.19), we sometimes . . . once we take birth and again we die - this is not very good proposal. But these rascals, they do not know how nature is working ‎No edit summary current
09:5309:53, 20 January 2024 diff hist −7‎ Because we have come to this conditional state of life, bhutva bhutva praliyate (BG 8.19), we sometimes . . . once we take birth and again we die - this is not very good proposal. But these rascals, they do not know how nature is working ‎No edit summary
09:4709:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ He (King Nrga) was very powerful and very pious, but due to the small mistake of unknowingly usurping a brahmana's cow, he was condemned to the abominable life of a lizard ‎No edit summary current
09:4709:47, 20 January 2024 diff hist −138‎ 8,400,000 species of life, there are so many lives living very abominable condition. Of course, the animal or the living creature does not know, but we human being, we should know why this abominable life. It is maya's illusion ‎No edit summary current
09:4509:45, 20 January 2024 diff hist +35‎ 8,400,000 species of life, there are so many lives living very abominable condition. Of course, the animal or the living creature does not know, but we human being, we should know why this abominable life. It is maya's illusion ‎No edit summary
09:4409:44, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Because of their (the so-called scientist's and philosopher's) devilish brains, they will next be forced to accept an abominable life and practically never be able to liberate themselves from the conditional life of material existence ‎No edit summary current
09:4409:44, 20 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ A Vaisnava is always afraid of abominable life, and to free himself from such horrible conditions, he engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord. The Lord is compassionate to them, and therefore He appears for their benefit ‎No edit summary current
09:4109:41, 20 January 2024 diff hist +4‎ They actually want to be free from the confinement of this world of conditional happiness, but not knowing the process of liberation, they are bound to transmigrate from one species of life to another and from one planet to another ‎No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ One who actually assimilated the essence of the Vedas can preach the truth. He is compassionate to conditioned souls who are suffering the threefold miseries of this conditional world due to their not being Krsna conscious ‎No edit summary current
09:3809:38, 20 January 2024 diff hist +8‎ This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.7): The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind ‎No edit summary current
09:3609:36, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ Lord Krsna confirms this statement (of CC Madhya 19.140) in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.7): mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah. “The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts” ‎No edit summary current
09:3509:35, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ As Lord Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita (15.7), mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah: The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts ‎No edit summary current
09:3309:33, 20 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ Everyone is anxious to see God, but in our present stage of life we are conditioned and deluded. We have no idea of things as they really are ‎No edit summary current
09:3209:32, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Why does the creation take place in such a way that the living entities are put into conditioned life to suffer the threefold miseries imposed upon them by the material nature ‎No edit summary current
09:3109:31, 20 January 2024 diff hist −16‎ When a living entity is liberated from the conditioned life of matter, he can understand the two different activities of material nature, namely covering and bewildering ‎No edit summary current
09:3109:31, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Through these, he can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He is, and he can understand that Lord Krsna is his eternal master and deliverer from the clutches of maya. In this way one can acquire real knowledge of his conditioned life ‎No edit summary current
09:3109:31, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ This very mentality of lording it over the material nature is the root cause of conditioned life ‎No edit summary current
09:3009:30, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.7): The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind ‎No edit summary
09:3009:30, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ There is no reality in the conditioned life of material existence, but because of our ignorance we are attached to the mirage ‎No edit summary current
09:3009:30, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ There are unlimited numbers of living entities in different varieties of bodies, some moving, some standing in one place, the conditioned life of these living entities is due only to their forgetfulness of their eternal relationship with the S P of God ‎No edit summary current
09:2909:29, 20 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ There are four principles of elevation from conditioned life to the life of liberation, which are technically known as dharma, artha, kama and moksa (religion, economic development, sense gratification and liberation) ‎No edit summary current
09:1509:15, 20 January 2024 diff hist −7‎ The Lord says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.7): The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Because of conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind ‎No edit summary current
09:1309:13, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The Lord confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.7): The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind ‎No edit summary current
09:1309:13, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind. BG 15.7 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
09:1309:13, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind ‎No edit summary current
09:1209:12, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind ‎No edit summary current
09:1209:12, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ The living entities in this conditioned world are My (Krsna's) eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind ‎No edit summary current
09:1109:11, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The individual souls have spiritual senses, but in conditioned life they are covered with the material elements, and therefore the sense activities are exhibited through matter ‎No edit summary current
09:1109:11, 20 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ Taking shelter of devotional service to the Lord in full Krsna consciousness is therefore the only way to become free from the contamination of material, conditioned life, especially in this age ‎No edit summary current
09:1109:11, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Sense of advanced happiness in conditioned life makes them (the scientist and philosopher) bound by the mode of goodness of material nature. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
09:1009:10, 20 January 2024 diff hist −1‎ Lord Krsna explains in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.7): The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind ‎No edit summary current
09:1009:10, 20 January 2024 diff hist 0‎ Lord Krsna explains in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.7): The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind ‎No edit summary
09:0909:09, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Krsna states in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.7): The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.7): The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind ‎No edit summary current
09:0909:09, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ It is not that they (living entities) are covered by the material energy in conditioned life but become one with the Supreme Personality of Godhead when freed from the influence of material energy. Such an idea is offensive ‎No edit summary current
09:0809:08, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In the Garuda Purana the stress on hearing is expressed very nicely. It is said there, "The state of conditioned life in the material world is just like a man lying unconscious, having been bitten by a snake" ‎No edit summary current
09:0709:07, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In conditioned life we are shackled by the iron chains which take the form of beautiful women. Thus every male is bound by sex life ‎No edit summary current
09:0609:06, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In Bhagavad-gita Sri Krsna says: The living entities in this conditional world are My fragmental parts, and they are eternal. But due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind. BG 15.7 ‎No edit summary current
09:0309:03, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ In Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.7) the Lord says: The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind ‎No edit summary current
09:0209:02, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ If a living entity says that he is not controlled but that he is free, then he is insane. The living being is controlled in every respect, at least in his conditioned life. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
09:0109:01, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ Every living entity is part and parcel of God. (BG 15.7) "The living entities in this conditioned world are My (Krsna's) eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind." ‎No edit summary current
09:0109:01, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ During these talks (about self-realization) the topic of Lord Kapila had come up, and at that time Maitreya had repeated Kapiladeva's discussions with His mother, wherein the Lord states that attachment to material things is the cause of conditioned life ‎No edit summary current
09:0009:00, 20 January 2024 diff hist +35‎ As long as one is forgetful of his life's mission and acts like an ordinary animal - eating, sleeping, mating and defending - he must continue his conditioned life of material existence ‎No edit summary current
08:5908:59, 20 January 2024 diff hist +12‎ In his eternal conditioned existence the jiva is full of the desire to enjoy matter, while in his eternal liberated state he is full of the desire to render devotional service to the Lord. Thus the jiva can never become God ‎No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Conditional existence is described here (in SB 3.27.4) as dhyayato visayan asya. Visaya means "an object of enjoyment." As long as one continues to think that he can enjoy material advantages, he is in conditioned life ‎No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 20 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ Cleanliness is next to godliness. Actually, our material conditioned life means the mind is covered with dirt, all unclean, dirty things. That is the disease ‎No edit summary
08:5708:57, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ By the grace of the Lord, a pure devotee is at once raised to the place of the Absolute, and there is no chance of the devotee's becoming materially entangled again in conditioned life ‎No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Sukadeva Gosvami concludes that the great sages and devotees, who are washed clean of all conditioned life, can move freely even within the contamination of material nature by keeping Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, within their hearts ‎No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 20 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ Category:Devotees of God Are Washed Clean of All Conditioned Life ‎No edit summary current
08:5608:56, 20 January 2024 diff hist 0‎ Conditioned life is just like life in a prison house in this material world ‎No edit summary current
08:5608:56, 20 January 2024 diff hist −15‎ Conditioned life is just like life in a prison house in this material world ‎No edit summary
08:5608:56, 20 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ As the Lord says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.7): "The living entities in this conditioned world are My (Krsna's) eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind" ‎No edit summary current
08:5508:55, 20 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ As long as one is forgetful of his life's mission and acts like an ordinary animal - eating, sleeping, mating and defending - he must continue his conditioned life of material existence ‎No edit summary
08:5508:55, 20 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ As Krsna is always aloof from the cosmic manifestation although it is completely dependent on Him, so a living entity is also completely aloof from his material, conditioned life although the material body has developed on the basis of spiritual existence ‎No edit summary current
08:5508:55, 20 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ Akrura continued, "My dear Dhrtarastra, I beg to advise you not to be blind to the facts of material existence. Material, conditioned life, either in distress or in happiness, is to be accepted as a dream" ‎No edit summary current
08:5408:54, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ According to Lord Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.7): The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind ‎No edit summary current
08:5208:52, 20 January 2024 diff hist −5‎ To commit mistakes is very natural in the conditioned state of life. Indeed, the popular saying has arisen: To err is human ‎No edit summary current
08:4608:46, 20 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ The Nagapatnis said, "Our dear Lord, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, and You are also the supreme enjoyer. You have now appeared as the son of Vasudeva, a manifestation of the state of pure goodness" ‎No edit summary current
08:4508:45, 20 January 2024 diff hist −22‎ You are not transcendental. You are trying to be transcendental. You should always remember that "We are trying to be transcendental." When you are actually on transcendental state, you will not be affected by any modes of material nature ‎No edit summary current
08:4408:44, 20 January 2024 diff hist −22‎ Nor is there (in that transcendental state of labdhopasanti) the mode of material goodness, nor passion, nor ignorance, nor even the false ego, nor the material Causal Ocean, nor the material nature ‎No edit summary current
08:4308:43, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ We may offer many valuable items to the Deity, but if we have no real sense of devotion and no real sense of Lord's presence everywhere, then we are lacking in devotional service; in such a state of ignorance, we cannot offer anything acceptable to Lord ‎No edit summary current
08:4208:42, 20 January 2024 diff hist −7‎ By impious activities we remain illiterate, get ugly bodies, a poor standard of living, etc. But all these different states of life are under the laws of material nature through the interaction of the qualities of goodness, passion and ignorance ‎No edit summary current
08:3908:39, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Only in the state of ignorance can one accept the Mayavadi conclusion that this cosmic manifestation & the living entities are false or illusory. No sane man would impose ignorance & illusion upon the Supreme Absolute Truth, who is absolute in everything ‎No edit summary current
08:3808:38, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Only in the state of ignorance can one accept the Mayavada conclusion that this cosmic manifestation and the living entities are false or illusory ‎No edit summary current
08:3708:37, 20 January 2024 diff hist +45‎ One conception is in the darkness of the threefold qualities of material nature - goodness, passion and ignorance - and the other is in the pure state of goodness, called suddha-sattva or vasudeva ‎No edit summary current
08:3408:34, 20 January 2024 diff hist +10‎ No one is really interested in the real values of life. The sleeping condition, called kala-sarpa (the time factor), keeps the conditioned soul in a state of ignorance, and therefore pure consciousness is lost ‎No edit summary current
08:3308:33, 20 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ It is said that the asuras are put into lower and lower states of ignorance life after life and so sink to the lower animal forms and have no information of the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
08:3208:32, 20 January 2024 diff hist +3‎ All states of being-be they of goodness, passion or ignorance-are manifested by My energy. I am, in one sense, everything - but I am independant. I am not under the modes of this material nature. BG 7.12 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current

12:0512:05, 19 January 2024 diff hist +29‎ I always remember about your daughter's movement when she was coming up stairs in Ascot and sitting by me. May Krsna bless her to grow a Krsna conscious child ‎No edit summary current

11:4811:48, 17 January 2024 diff hist 0‎ When they (Nityananda Prabhu, Jagadananda Prabhu, Damodara Pandita & Mukunda dasa) went to Remuna, to the temple of Gopinatha, He (Caitanya) described Madhavendra Puri's installation of the Gopala Deity as well as Gopinatha’s stealing condensed milk ‎No edit summary current
11:4811:48, 17 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ When they (Nityananda Prabhu, Jagadananda Prabhu, Damodara Pandita & Mukunda dasa) went to Remuna, to the temple of Gopinatha, He (Caitanya) described Madhavendra Puri's installation of the Gopala Deity as well as Gopinatha’s stealing condensed milk ‎No edit summary
10:1710:17, 17 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya brought various types of food remnants that had been left by Lord Jagannatha. He brought all kinds of cakes and condensed-milk preparations ‎No edit summary current
10:1610:16, 17 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ This same narration was again related by Lord Nityananda to all the devotees, and their transcendental bliss increased as they heard the story again ‎No edit summary current
10:1510:15, 17 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ After saying this, he made them all eat the various cakes and condensed-milk preparations. After feeding them, he offered them water to wash their hands, feet and mouths ‎No edit summary current
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10:1010:10, 17 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ Sweet rice mixed with ghee was poured into an earthen pot and mixed with canpa-kala, condensed milk and mango ‎No edit summary current

12:5212:52, 14 January 2024 diff hist +28‎ This is confirmed herein (SB 4.7.36) by the wife of Daksa: "Without Your presence (Lord Visnu) , the grandeur of this sacrificial ceremony is useless, just as a body without the head, however decorated it may be, is useless ‎No edit summary current
12:5112:51, 14 January 2024 diff hist +54‎ It is calculated that the area of Svetadvipa is 200,000 square miles. This transcendentally beautiful island is decorated with desire trees to please Lord Visnu and His consort ‎No edit summary current
12:4912:49, 14 January 2024 diff hist +226‎ The other parts of Maha-Visnu's legs, the joints and lower extremities, were all very beautiful, the nails of His feet were dazzling, and His toes were as beautiful as the petals of the lotus flower. His helmet was decorated with very valuable jewels ‎No edit summary
12:0212:02, 14 January 2024 diff hist +2‎ This is confirmed herein (SB 4.7.36) by the wife of Daksa: "Without Your presence (Lord Visnu) , the grandeur of this sacrificial ceremony is useless, just as a body without the head, however decorated it may be, is useless ‎No edit summary
12:0012:00, 14 January 2024 diff hist +4‎ It is calculated that the area of Svetadvipa is 200,000 square miles. This transcendentally beautiful island is decorated with desire trees to please Lord Visnu and His consort ‎No edit summary
11:5711:57, 14 January 2024 diff hist +23‎ The various forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, such as Narayana and Visnu, are beautifully decorated with different weapons. The Lord exhibits those forms to maintain all the varied planets created by His personal potency, yogamaya ‎No edit summary current
11:5511:55, 14 January 2024 diff hist +42‎ The other parts of Maha-Visnu's legs, the joints and lower extremities, were all very beautiful, the nails of His feet were dazzling, and His toes were as beautiful as the petals of the lotus flower. His helmet was decorated with very valuable jewels ‎No edit summary
11:4211:42, 14 January 2024 diff hist +83‎ All the Visnu forms were of bluish color and dressed in yellow garments; all of Them had four hands decorated with club, disc, lotus flower and conchshell. On Their heads were glittering golden helmets inlaid with jewels ‎No edit summary
11:0811:08, 14 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ The monkeylike conditioned soul first becomes attached to sex, and when intercourse actually takes place he becomes more attached. He then requires some material comforts - apartment, house, food, friends, wealth and so on ‎No edit summary current
11:0711:07, 14 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ Diti, daughter of Daksa, being afflicted with sex desire, begged her husband, Kasyapa, the son of Marici, to have intercourse with her in the evening in order to beget a child ‎No edit summary current
11:0711:07, 14 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ Someone sent a young prostitute to disturb Haridasa Thakura, and upon hearing her appeals for intercourse, Haridasa Thakura said - Yes, your proposal is very nice. please sit down and let me finish my chanting, and then we shall enjoy ‎No edit summary current
11:0711:07, 14 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ Usa exhibited some bodily symptoms by which it could be understood that she was having intercourse with a male friend. The symptoms were so prominent that her actions could no longer be concealed from anyone ‎No edit summary current
11:0611:06, 14 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ They (the demons) conclude that as a child is simply the result of sexual intercourse between man and woman, this world is born without any soul. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
11:0511:05, 14 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The girl Devahuti did not personally see Kardama Muni, nor did she experience his character or qualities, since there was no social intercourse by which she could gain such understanding. But she heard about Kardama Muni from the authority of Narada Muni ‎No edit summary current
11:0411:04, 14 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ One should take the vow to stop social intercourse completely and devote life exclusively to the service of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
11:0411:04, 14 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ My Lord, I consider Your Lordship to be eternal time, the supreme controller, without beginning and end, the all-pervasive one. In distributing Your mercy, You are equal to everyone. The dissensions between living beings are due to social intercourse ‎No edit summary current
11:0411:04, 14 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In the Kali-yuga this artificial predominance is already current, but the saner section of the people know it well that the divisions of castes & orders of life are meant for smooth social intercourse & high-thinking self-realization & not other purpose ‎No edit summary current
11:0211:02, 14 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Everyone is suffering and enjoying the result of his own destiny. This destiny is made by the living beings in course of social intercourse ‎No edit summary current
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10:0210:02, 14 January 2024 diff hist −14‎ Lord Siva's desiring to see Lord Visnu reveal the most attractive and beautiful form of a woman (Mohini-murti) was certainly a joking affair. Lord Siva knew that he could not be agitated by any so-called beautiful woman ‎No edit summary
09:5609:56, 14 January 2024 diff hist 0‎ m According to Sridhara Svami, His (Visnu's) three pairs of opulences are complete riches and complete strength, complete fame and complete beauty, and complete wisdom and complete renunciation ‎ Visnu Murti moved page According to Sridhara Svami, His (Lord Visnu) three pairs of opulences are complete riches and complete strength, complete fame and complete beauty, and complete wisdom and complete renunciation to According to Sridhara Svami, His (Visnu's) three pairs of opulences are complete riches and complete strength, complete fame and complete beauty, and complete wisdom and complete renunciation current
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09:3509:35, 14 January 2024 diff hist −14‎ He also acknowledged the service of the devotees & vanquished their distress by His beautiful smile. The reflection of His face, decorated with earrings, was so pleasing because it dazzled with the rays from His lips & the beauty of His nose and eyebrows ‎No edit summary current
09:2509:25, 14 January 2024 diff hist +39‎ Category:One Who Loves Visnu or Loves God, He Is a Devotee of God ‎No edit summary current
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17:4217:42, 13 January 2024 diff hist +4‎ Divine eyes ‎No edit summary current
17:4117:41, 13 January 2024 diff hist +2‎ Actually, our students are divinity students; there is no doubt about it, and there is a law that divinity students can not be called by the draft, so why should you not take advantage of it? ‎No edit summary current
17:4117:41, 13 January 2024 diff hist +2‎ A pure devotee is neither a needy man, a man fallen into difficulty, nor an empiric philosopher who tries to approach the Divinity on the strength his own imperfect knowledge ‎No edit summary current
17:3817:38, 13 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ When your mind is no longer disturbed by the flowery language of the Vedas, and when it remains fixed in the trance of self-realization, then you will have attained the Divine consciousness. BG 2.53 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
17:3717:37, 13 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ We have to engage ourselves in occupational engagements that will evoke our divine consciousness. This is possible only by hearing and chanting the divine activities of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
17:3717:37, 13 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ On taking such a birth, he again revives the divine consciousness of his previous life, and he tries to make further progress in order to achieve complete success, O son of Kuru. BG 6.43 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
17:3617:36, 13 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ It is the duty of the guardians of children to revive the divine consciousness dormant in them. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
16:1116:11, 13 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ The Lord remained in one of three different states of consciousness at all times: internal, external and half-external ‎No edit summary current
10:2010:20, 13 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ The Lord would maintain Himself in three states of consciousness: sometimes He merged totally in ecstatic emotion, sometimes He was in partial external consciousness, and sometimes He was in full external consciousness ‎No edit summary current
10:1910:19, 13 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ The soul in his pure state of existence should be in Krsna consciousness. When a person is not acting in Krsna consciousness, he is understood to be acting in material consciousness ‎No edit summary current
10:1910:19, 13 January 2024 diff hist −22‎ The state of contaminated consciousness is compared to dream consciousness, and Krsna consciousness is compared to the awakened stage of life. Actually, as stated in Bhagavad-gita, the only absolute enjoyer is Krsna ‎No edit summary current
10:1810:18, 13 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ This is another feature of the mahat-tattva. The vasudeva expansion is also called Krsna consciousness: it is free from all tinges of material passion and ignorance. This clear state of understanding helps one to know the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
10:1610:16, 13 January 2024 diff hist +36‎ Category:Unconscious State ‎No edit summary current
10:1510:15, 13 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ Vital force always remains awake even when the body and the senses become fatigued and do no work. Even in the state of unconsciousness, when we sleep ‎No edit summary current
10:1410:14, 13 January 2024 diff hist +20‎ When one is free from the contamination of material nature and is situated in pure Krsna consciousness, or in the vasudeva state, Vasudeva, the Supreme Person, is revealed. This state is also called kaivalya, which means "pure consciousness ‎No edit summary current
10:1310:13, 13 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ When we see different states of consciousness, we may take it for granted that the bodies are different. In other words, different types of bodies depend on different states of consciousness. This is also confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita - BG 8.6 ‎No edit summary current
10:1310:13, 13 January 2024 diff hist +49‎ Krsna consciousness, is so bright, so illuminated and so valuable that in the presence of such consciousness you will directly deny to have any valuable things of this material world. So we have to attain to that state. Now, that is the real aim of life ‎No edit summary current
10:1010:10, 13 January 2024 diff hist 0‎ Krsna consciousness means constantly associating with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in such a mental state that the devotee can observe the cosmic manifestation exactly as the Supreme Personality of Godhead does ‎No edit summary current
10:0910:09, 13 January 2024 diff hist +20‎ Khatvanga Maharaja attained this state of (divine) life (or Krsna consciousness) just a few minutes before his death, by surrendering unto Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
10:0810:08, 13 January 2024 diff hist +28‎ It is said here that desire and greed are the products of false identification of oneself with the body. When one becomes free from this contamination, then his mind and consciousness also become freed and attain their original state ‎No edit summary current
10:0510:05, 13 January 2024 diff hist +23‎ In the state of pure consciousness, or Krsna consciousness, one can see himself as a minute particle nondifferent from the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
10:0510:05, 13 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ In the dreaming state one's consciousness is almost covered, and one sees many inauspicious things, but when he is awakened and fully conscious, such inauspicious things cannot bewilder him ‎No edit summary current
10:0410:04, 13 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ In his pure consciousness there is no such misconceived dream, and in that pure conscious state the living entity does not forget that he is never the Lord, but that he is eternally the servitor of the Lord in transcendental love ‎No edit summary current
10:0210:02, 13 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ Even within a species we find that a father’s consciousness is different from his son’s and that a child’s consciousness is different from a youth’s. Just as we find different forms, we find different states of consciousness ‎No edit summary current
10:0110:01, 13 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The living entity exists in the natural state of Krsna consciousness, but he has marginal independence, and this allows him to forget Krsna ‎No edit summary current
09:5709:57, 13 January 2024 diff hist +36‎ Category:State of Krsna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current
09:5609:56, 13 January 2024 diff hist −22‎ One can see the reflection of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and one can see his own existence as well. This state of consciousness is very pleasing, transparent and sober. In the beginning, consciousness is pure ‎No edit summary current
09:5509:55, 13 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ One can see the reflection of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and one can see his own existence as well. This state of consciousness is very pleasing, transparent and sober. In the beginning, consciousness is pure ‎No edit summary
09:5409:54, 13 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ Gradual process of evolution means gradual process of developing the status, the state of consciousness. In this way the consciousness in human form of body is further developed, very nicely developed ‎No edit summary current
09:5309:53, 13 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Unless one is fully Krsna conscious, he has to accept a body in the next life according to his particular state of consciousness ‎No edit summary current
09:5109:51, 13 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ This state of consciousness, material consciousness, is on the sleeping state, in the darkness of sleeping state. We do not know. We do not know what is my identity. We do not know wherefrom we have come in this place, where we have to go ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 13 January 2024 diff hist +36‎ I am sitting here, and the bug is also sitting here. That does not mean we are very confidential. No. Bug is different visions, and my business different. And bug's business is biting. That kind of association will not help ‎No edit summary current
09:3709:37, 13 January 2024 diff hist +20‎ I thought to myself, "Oh, I have done this wrong. I should not have sat with His Divine Grace." So of course, I did not get down immediately, but I took it, and from next day I did not sit. So rules and regulations automatically was taught ‎No edit summary current
09:2209:22, 13 January 2024 diff hist −29‎ Category:My Sitting (Prabhupada) ‎No edit summary current
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09:1909:19, 13 January 2024 diff hist +13‎ If you are able to arrange everything so that I can simply sit in my room and be seen by the world and speak to the world, then I shall never leave Los Angeles ‎No edit summary current

14:4114:41, 9 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ We are eternal, blissful, and full of knowledge, but having been covered by this material entanglement, we have forgotten ourselves. Therefore Bhagavad-gita gives us the advantage of being able to revive our original status ‎No edit summary current
14:4014:40, 9 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ You are welcome to join us at any moment provided you do so in your original status. You have to immediately leave India for working outside ‎No edit summary current
14:3914:39, 9 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Krsna consciousness will help us to revive our original status of senses. And that original status of senses, that sense of enjoyment, will be spiritual enjoyment ‎No edit summary current
14:3914:39, 9 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ In the spiritual world both the living entities and the Lord are manifest in their original status, like live sparks in a blazing fire ‎No edit summary current
14:3814:38, 9 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In the human form, if we change our consciousness, then we become, we can revive our original status. Original status means eternal life of blissfulness and knowledge. That is the original life ‎No edit summary current
14:3814:38, 9 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Being situated on the spiritual platform, automatically you achieve your original status, constitutional position, brahma-bhutah prasannatma (BG 18.54). Then you are able to enter into the kingdom of God, or the spiritual world ‎No edit summary current
14:3814:38, 9 January 2024 diff hist +31‎ Original status means ‎No edit summary current
14:3714:37, 9 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ Krsna consciousness is the original status of the living entity. Just like a son is conscious always that "I am the son of such-and-such person." This consciousness is natural ‎No edit summary current
14:3714:37, 9 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ During the course of the cosmic manifestation, the conditioned souls are given a chance to revive their original status of life with the help of revealed scriptures, so mercifully compiled by the Lord in His different incarnations ‎No edit summary current
14:3614:36, 9 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Unless one has grasped the spiritual status of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one is sure to accept Him as an ordinary man and thereby commit offenses at His lotus feet by so many unwanted activities ‎No edit summary current
14:3514:35, 9 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The scope of the Krishna Consciousness Movement is Universal. The process for regaining one's original spiritual status or eternal life full with bliss and knowledge, is not abstracted dry theorizing ‎No edit summary current
14:3514:35, 9 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Sages said, "Our dear Lord (Krsna), You are the creator of the social orders and spiritual statuses of human society according to quality and work, and when these orders are misguided by unscrupulous persons, You appear and set them right" ‎No edit summary current
14:3414:34, 9 January 2024 diff hist +10‎ One who is situated in the spiritual status of life is unaffected by foam and garbage - or any superficial dirty things. This is confirmed by Srila Rupa Gosvami - in Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.2.187 ‎No edit summary
14:3414:34, 9 January 2024 diff hist +10‎ One is forbidden to regard the guru as an ordinary human being (gurusu nara-matir. .. naraki sah). The spiritual master, or acarya, is always situated in the spiritual status of life. Birth, death, old age and disease do not affect him ‎No edit summary current
14:3414:34, 9 January 2024 diff hist +10‎ No, if too much endeavour is there, that is to be avoided. By all means we must preserve our spiritual status, that is the point ‎No edit summary current
14:3414:34, 9 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Mukti means to be reinstated in one's original spiritual status after giving up the material conception of life. Therefore, human life is specifically meant for qualifying ourselves for this spiritual liberty ‎No edit summary current
14:3314:33, 9 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ As confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 1.2.6): The word dharma means "engagement." One who is engaged in the service of God (yato bhaktir adhoksaje), without impediment and without cessation, is understood to be situated in his original, spiritual status ‎No edit summary current
14:3314:33, 9 January 2024 diff hist +30‎ The process of devotional service as it is recommended in The Nectar of Devotion will gradually elevate one from the material condition of life to the spiritual status, wherein the devotee becomes purified of all designations ‎No edit summary current
14:3214:32, 9 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Category:Devotional Service to God Gradually Elevates One from the Material Condition of Life to the Spiritual Status ‎No edit summary current
14:3214:32, 9 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ This injunction (that one should accept a spiritual master who is born in a brahmana family) is only applicable for those who consider social status more important than spiritual status. It is not for people who are spiritually serious ‎No edit summary current
14:3114:31, 9 January 2024 diff hist +14‎ The higher principles of religion begin with the acceptance of the four orders and the four statuses of social life, as will be explained later. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
14:2914:29, 9 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ All these sixteen qualifications mentioned (in BG 16.1-3) are transcendental qualities. They should be cultivated according to the different statuses of the social order. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

19:0519:05, 8 January 2024 diff hist +1‎ Also, please describe the inner and outer space of the universe by specific divisions, as well as the character and activities of the great souls, and also the characteristics of the different classifications of the castes and orders of social life ‎No edit summary current
19:0219:02, 8 January 2024 diff hist +1‎ These political and social problems are temporary; we must have our interest to the real life ‎No edit summary current
19:0219:02, 8 January 2024 diff hist −10‎ These political and social problems are temporary; we must have our interest to the real life ‎No edit summary
18:5718:57, 8 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ The whole aim is how to worship the Supreme Lord. That is human life. So if we make these divisions, so any class of man, if he comes to this social system of varnasrama-dharma, then automatically will come to the understanding what is Brahman ‎No edit summary current
18:5618:56, 8 January 2024 diff hist +10‎ The only solution to all problems of life social economic, or political is to surrender to Krishna. Krishna says - the material nature is very difficult to overcome, but one who has surrendered unto me can very easily cross beyond it ‎No edit summary current
18:5618:56, 8 January 2024 diff hist +10‎ The civilized human beings are those who have regulated principles of social, political and religious life. Those who are socially and politically developed, but who have no religious principles, must be considered naradhamas. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
18:5518:55, 8 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Social system should be organized in such a way that automatically people become interested in the ultimate goal of life. That is civilization ‎No edit summary current
18:5418:54, 8 January 2024 diff hist +17‎ One who is developed in consciousness certainly makes inquiries into the mystery of the self, of the cosmic situation and of the problems of life, in all spheres and fields - social, political, economic, cultural, religious, moral, etc ‎No edit summary current
18:5118:51, 8 January 2024 diff hist −8‎ One is therefore required to give up the attachment to family or social or political life just at the age of fifty years, if not earlier, and the training in the vanaprastha and sannyasa-asramas is given for preparation of the next life ‎No edit summary current
18:5118:51, 8 January 2024 diff hist +10‎ They worship the forefathers and are busy day and night improving the economic condition of their family, social or national life ‎No edit summary current
18:5018:50, 8 January 2024 diff hist −8‎ So, whether in social life or political life, or in the matter of eating, sleeping, mating, and defending, a devotee should avoid performing any action tainted by material attachment ‎No edit summary current
18:4918:49, 8 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ You cannot completely eradicate war from the social life. Just like government maintains the law and order force. There is necessity ‎No edit summary current
18:4918:49, 8 January 2024 diff hist +33‎ You can give up your family life, social life, political life, this life, that life when you take Krsna conscious life. Otherwise, it is not possible. Otherwise, you must have to take some of this life. There is no question of your freedom ‎No edit summary current
18:4718:47, 8 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ To check the increase of demoniac population, the Vedic civilization enacted so many rules and regulations of social life, the most important of which is the garbhadhana process for begetting good children ‎No edit summary current
18:4618:46, 8 January 2024 diff hist −6‎ This is confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam when Narada speaks of the different symptoms characterizing the four divisions of social life. Narada summarizes that brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras should be selected by their individual qualifications ‎No edit summary current
18:4618:46, 8 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The rasas derived from our feelings in social life, in family life or in the greater family life of altruism, philanthropy, nationalism, socialism, communism, etc., do not guarantee that one's next life will be as a human being ‎No edit summary current
18:4518:45, 8 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ The higher principles of religion begin with the acceptance of the four orders and the four ranks of social life, as will be explained later. The whole purpose of the mission of incarnations is to arouse Krsna consciousness everywhere ‎No edit summary current
18:4518:45, 8 January 2024 diff hist −15‎ Higher principles ‎No edit summary current
18:4218:42, 8 January 2024 diff hist +1‎ The four orders of social life, as designed in the varnasrama system, are very scientific and cooperative. In student life one is taught the primary principles of the human form of life ‎No edit summary current
18:4118:41, 8 January 2024 diff hist +40‎ The four orders of social life, as designed in the varnasrama system, are very scientific and cooperative. In student life one is taught the primary principles of the human form of life ‎No edit summary
18:2018:20, 8 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ As far as entering crematorium is concerned, no, we cannot go. That is social system, but we are sannyasis. A sannyasi is in spiritual life, not in social life at all ‎No edit summary current
18:1718:17, 8 January 2024 diff hist −6‎ One must leave his family life and enter the forest after the age of fifty. This is an authoritative statement of the Vedas, based on the division of social life into four departments of activity - brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa ‎No edit summary current
18:1718:17, 8 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ Lord Siva was reluctant, but Sati, as a woman, the daughter of a king, wanted enjoyment. She wanted to go to her father's house, just as her other sisters might have done, and meet them and enjoy social life ‎No edit summary current
18:1718:17, 8 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In this age, neither parents nor their children are trained; both are animalistic and simply eat, sleep, mate, defend, and gratify their senses. This disorder in social life cannot bring peace to human society ‎No edit summary current
18:1618:16, 8 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ In the Skanda Purana it is said that those who are attached to ritualistic activities, the four orders of social life and the four orders of spiritual life, are considered devotees ‎No edit summary current
18:1518:15, 8 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In the rainy season, rain is predestined. Similarly, in the age of Kali the symptoms as above mentioned are sure to infiltrate into social life, but it is the duty of the state to save the citizens from the association of the agents of the age of Kali ‎No edit summary current
18:1518:15, 8 January 2024 diff hist +5‎ In order to realize the highest goal of life there must be division in the society and there must be division in spiritual life. The social life is divided into brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra ‎No edit summary current
12:0312:03, 8 January 2024 diff hist +12‎ In all four spiritual orders and four grades of social life, devotional service to the Lord is essential. Without this relationship, all the regulative principles of varna and asrama become burdensome duties, as they have in the age of Kali ‎No edit summary current
12:0212:02, 8 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ If sankirtana-yajna is performed, there will be no difficulty, not even in industrial enterprises. This system should be introduced in all spheres of life - social, political, industrial, commercial, etc. Then everything will run peacefully and smoothly ‎No edit summary current
12:0212:02, 8 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ He (Siva) did not know how to decorate his wife (Sati) and take part in social life because he was always in ecstasy with thoughts of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
12:0212:02, 8 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ For you the attraction of social life and the consideration that someone is father, someone is mother and someone is sister, which are illusory relationships, is over; but because I am a poor woman, I am not so advanced in transcendental realization ‎No edit summary current
12:0112:01, 8 January 2024 diff hist +29‎ As stated in the Bhagavad-gita, the Lord has created four orders of social life, namely brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra. In the Narada-pancaratra it is very clearly described how each of the social orders can please the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
12:0012:00, 8 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ As far as entering crematorium is concerned, no, we cannot go. That is social system, but we are sannyasis. A sannyasi is in spiritual life, not in social life at all ‎No edit summary
12:0012:00, 8 January 2024 diff hist +3‎ Also, please describe the inner and outer space of the universe by specific divisions, as well as the character and activities of the great souls, and also the characteristics of the different classifications of the castes and orders of social life ‎No edit summary
11:5611:56, 8 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ One who is in a lower grade of social life cannot accept the profession of a higher class unless necessary. In times of emergency, all the classes but the ksatriyas may accept professional duties of others ‎No edit summary current
11:5511:55, 8 January 2024 diff hist −67‎ Any knowledge of the world, and knowledge - even material, spiritual, social, political, scientific, philosophical - any knowledge you'll find entirely in this Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current

19:1619:16, 7 January 2024 diff hist +10‎ It is assumed that even if a person acquires some spiritually uplifting knowledge, circumstantially he is prone to forget it ‎No edit summary current
19:1519:15, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The whole world is engaged in sacrificing energy for advancement of learning, social upliftment, economic development and plans for total improvement of the human condition ‎No edit summary current
19:1519:15, 7 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ It is a good sign that the Government has taken up this work of social upliftment as a right measure at a right time. And in order to give the scheme a right direction the government may take authoritative hints from the scriptures like Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
19:1319:13, 7 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ The pure devotee is not at all attached to improving his social status or improving the status of education of his children. He is not neglectful - he is dutiful - but he does not spend too much time on the upliftment of temporary household or social life ‎No edit summary current
19:1319:13, 7 January 2024 diff hist −6‎ Category:Pure Devotees of God Do Not Spend Too Much Time on the Upliftment of Temporary Household or Social Life ‎No edit summary current
19:1219:12, 7 January 2024 diff hist +11‎ The king is to see to the welfare of the citizens from all angles of social, political, economic and spiritual upliftment ‎No edit summary
19:1119:11, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Sometimes they (materialistic persons) become babajis or collect money on the plea of worshiping the poor, whom they call daridra-narayana, or for social and political upliftment ‎No edit summary current
19:1019:10, 7 January 2024 diff hist −15‎ Social upliftment ‎No edit summary current
19:0819:08, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ They (religious activities in terms of the social statuses and orders of life) are all clearly mentioned in the Vedic literatures and were manifested by Brahma when the four Vedas were generated from his four mouths ‎No edit summary current
19:0819:08, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The pure devotee is not at all attached to improving his social status or improving the status of education of his children. He is not neglectful - he is dutiful - but he does not spend too much time on the upliftment of temporary household or social life ‎No edit summary
19:0719:07, 7 January 2024 diff hist −6‎ The Lord has described various kinds of knowledge, knowledge of the different types of orders and statuses of social life, knowledge of the renounced order of life, knowledge of nonattachment, sense and mind control, meditation, etc. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
19:0719:07, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Surrendering themselves fully with body, words and mind, they can live in any asrama or social status. Indeed, You are conquered by such persons, although You are always unconquerable ‎No edit summary current
19:0719:07, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Some say that since one receives a body according to the guna and karma of his past life, it is one's birth that determines his social status ‎No edit summary
19:0619:06, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Rukmini continued, "My dear Lord, You have stated that a marriage between persons equal in social standing, beauty, riches, strength, influence and renunciation can be a suitable match. But this status of life can be possible only by Your grace" ‎No edit summary current
19:0519:05, 7 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ Lord Caitanya showed by His behavior that even an elevated person would not hesitate to take lessons from Ramananda Raya, although Ramananda appeared as a householder situated in a social status beneath that of a brahmana ‎No edit summary current
19:0519:05, 7 January 2024 diff hist −6‎ Because sudras do not have ample intelligence, they should simply engage as workers to serve the higher statuses of social life ‎No edit summary current
19:0319:03, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Category:Pure Devotees of God Are Not At All Attached to Improving Their Social Status ‎No edit summary current
19:0219:02, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ To distinguish human society from the animals there is the performance of religious activities in terms of the social statuses and orders of life ‎No edit summary current
19:0219:02, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ This injunction (that one should accept a spiritual master who is born in a brahmana family) is only applicable for those who consider social status more important than spiritual status. It is not for people who are spiritually serious ‎No edit summary
19:0119:01, 7 January 2024 diff hist −12‎ This (divisions as brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras) is not an artificial imposition due to birth or social status but is according to guna, or the mode of nature under which one is operating ‎No edit summary current
19:0119:01, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The specific function of a human being in society, irrespective of his social status, is to practice control of the mind and senses by observing the regulative principles enjoined in the Vedic sastras ‎No edit summary current
19:0019:00, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The pure devotee is not at all attached to improving his social status or improving the status of education of his children. He is not neglectful - he is dutiful - but he does not spend too much time on the upliftment of temporary household or social life ‎No edit summary
19:0019:00, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The persons who follow these four orders of social status and four orders of spiritual advancement, they are called varnasrama. So Hindu religion is a miscalculation. Really, they are called varnasrama-dharma. That is the Vedic term ‎No edit summary current
18:5918:59, 7 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ In the varnasrama institution the sannyasi, or the person in the renounced order of life, is considered to be the head or the spiritual master of all the social statuses and orders. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
18:5818:58, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In the varnasrama-dharma, the sudra is the fourth division in the social status. Paricaryatmakam karma sudrasyapi svabhava-jam (BG 18.44). Sudras are meant to engage in the service of the three higher classes - brahmanas, ksatriyas and vaisyas ‎No edit summary current
18:5818:58, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In the present social status, we find that we are existing in these four divisions (brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas, sudras), but there is no cooperation. Everyone is dissatisfied ‎No edit summary current
18:4618:46, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In daiva-varnasrama there cannot be acknowledgement of social status according to birthright because in Bhagavad-gita it is said that the determining considerations are guna and karma, one's qualities and work ‎No edit summary current
18:4618:46, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ If one understands the truth of KC and seriously desires to attain transcendental knowledge for the perfection of life, he can accept a spiritual master from any social status, provided the spiritual master is fully conversant with the science of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
18:4018:40, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Haridasa Thakura had been born in a Muslim family, and Srila Rupa Gosvami and Srila Sanatana Gosvami, having given up their social status in Hindu society, had been appointed ministers in the Muslim government ‎No edit summary
18:3918:39, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Five thousand years ago, when the social status of human society was in perfect Vedic order, the yoga process mentioned herein was a common affair for everyone ‎No edit summary current
18:3818:38, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ By sannyasa, the renounced order of life, we refer to one who has come to this platform (serving the reality instead of the illusion). Sannyasa is a question of realization, not social status ‎No edit summary current
18:3818:38, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Any man from any social status becomes a well-known man in human society within a very short time if he is simply glorified truly or falsely in the daily newspapers ‎No edit summary current
18:3718:37, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Anyone who is in the bodily concept of life, he is no better than animal. So our all morality, all social status, all politics, all philosophy, everything is on this bodily concept of life. We want to enjoy senses. Senses means different parts of the body ‎No edit summary current
18:3218:32, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Social status, mental development, cleanliness, austerity, nourishment and the struggle for existence are all for the maintenance of the body ‎No edit summary current
18:2618:26, 7 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ Many other sannyasis stress the importance of the social position of the body as a brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya or sudra. Such sannyasis are considered the greatest rascals ‎No edit summary current
18:2318:23, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ You cannot abolish that system (training brahmanas to serve the social body). That is a false attempt ‎No edit summary current
18:2118:21, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ When the man gets some money, he immediately purchases wine and women. So if you try to make society classless, you'll produce such men - useless men, disturbing to the social body ‎No edit summary current
18:2118:21, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The sudras are the lowest social order, inasmuch as they imbibe the modes of darkness, or ignorance, and generally take up the service of the other three social orders. As a class, the sudras are servitors of the whole mundane social body ‎No edit summary current
18:2018:20, 7 January 2024 diff hist +144‎ The benefit (of training people according to their own qualities) will be that the whole social body will function harmoniously. The social body must have a brain and arms and a belly and legs to be complete ‎No edit summary current
18:2018:20, 7 January 2024 diff hist +7‎ Combine together & it will be nice body: the leg will walk, the hand will protect, the head will give instruction, and the belly will get energy by eating food. Those divisions are required. Not that everyone is all. No, there must be division of labor ‎No edit summary current
18:1618:16, 7 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ The arm of the body is the ksatriya. Of course that is required; to protect the society, to protect the country, a military arrangement should be there. No one will disapprove. But not the brahmanas. It is putting a race horse before the work cart ‎No edit summary current
18:1318:13, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ There is a pinprick somewhere in the social body at large, and therefore there are large-scale quarrels, even over less important issues. There is need of a clue as to how humanity can become one in peace, friendship and prosperity with a common cause ‎No edit summary current
18:1218:12, 7 January 2024 diff hist −4‎ Social body ‎No edit summary current
18:1118:11, 7 January 2024 diff hist 0‎ Our point is, wherever you go, you'll find a first-class man who is truthful. Now, wherever you find a truthful man, you can classify him as a brahmana & train him to serve the social body in that capacity, as a spiritual teacher & advisor. That is wanted ‎No edit summary current
18:1118:11, 7 January 2024 diff hist +81‎ Our point is, wherever you go, you'll find a first-class man who is truthful. Now, wherever you find a truthful man, you can classify him as a brahmana & train him to serve the social body in that capacity, as a spiritual teacher & advisor. That is wanted ‎No edit summary
18:0918:09, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Our point is, wherever you go, you'll find a first-class man who is truthful. Now, wherever you find a truthful man, you can classify him as a brahmana & train him to serve the social body in that capacity, as a spiritual teacher & advisor. That is wanted ‎No edit summary
18:0618:06, 7 January 2024 diff hist +3‎ Modern civilization is a sort of a social body without a head, or actually it is a dead body ‎No edit summary current
18:0618:06, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ Modern civilization is a sort of a social body without a head, or actually it is a dead body ‎No edit summary
18:0618:06, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ In the Vedic system is what God says. If you take to this system, then the social body will be perfect, not only for Hindus but also for Christians, for Muhammadans, for everyone. And that is being practically realized in our Krsna consciousness movement ‎No edit summary current
18:0518:05, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ For the actual advancement of human civilization, the best part of the social body, namely the brahmanas, the ksatriyas and vaisyas (the intelligent class of men, the military class and the mercantile men) should be given special protection ‎No edit summary current
18:0518:05, 7 January 2024 diff hist +32‎ For everyone. At the head of the social body there must be the intelligent class of men, who will give advice ‎No edit summary current
18:0418:04, 7 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ Brahmanas are supposed to be the head of the social body; if the head is clear and has not gone mad, then everything is in proper position ‎No edit summary current
17:5417:54, 7 January 2024 diff hist −27‎ Unless all human society understands this important verse in Bhagavad-gita (BG 2.13), civilization will advance in ignorance, not in knowledge ‎No edit summary current
17:5417:54, 7 January 2024 diff hist +12‎ Ultimately, we need to protect the cow to derive the highest benefit from this important animal. The protection of cows, therefore, is not merely a religious sentiment but a means to secure the highest benefit for human society ‎No edit summary current
17:5317:53, 7 January 2024 diff hist +12‎ The human society, therefore, maintains these two (the bull and the cow) important animals very carefully so that they can wander everywhere in cheerfulness ‎No edit summary current
17:5217:52, 7 January 2024 diff hist −11‎ The human society should recognize the importance of the cow and the bull and thus give all protection to these important animals, following in the footsteps of Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
17:5117:51, 7 January 2024 diff hist +13‎ So this point is very important, that if one is addicted to illicit sex life, if one is addicted to meat-eating and if one is addicted in intoxicants, then he is immediately fallen from the standard of human society ‎No edit summary current
17:5117:51, 7 January 2024 diff hist +13‎ Krsna consciousness, you just imagine how important movement it is. It is the best welfare activities for the human society ‎No edit summary current
16:5016:50, 7 January 2024 diff hist 0‎ The arm of the body is the ksatriya. Of course that is required; to protect the society, to protect the country, a military arrangement should be there. No one will disapprove. But not the brahmanas. It is putting a race horse before the work cart ‎No edit summary
16:4516:45, 7 January 2024 diff hist +176‎ Combine together & it will be nice body: the leg will walk, the hand will protect, the head will give instruction, and the belly will get energy by eating food. Those divisions are required. Not that everyone is all. No, there must be division of labor ‎No edit summary
16:4216:42, 7 January 2024 diff hist +33‎ Those who are situated on the mouth are called brahmanas, those who are situated on the arms are called ksatriyas, those who are situated on the waist are called vaisyas, and those who are situated on the legs are called sudras ‎No edit summary current
16:4116:41, 7 January 2024 diff hist +12‎ It is said in the sastras that the head of the body represents the brahmanas, the arms represent the ksatriyas, the abdomen represents the vaisyas, and the legs, beginning with the thighs, represent the sudras ‎No edit summary current
16:3916:39, 7 January 2024 diff hist +15‎ Camasa Muni addressed king Nimi, "The brahmanas have come out from the head, the ksatriyas have come out from the arms, the vaisyas have come out from the waist, and the sudras have come out from the legs" ‎No edit summary current
16:3516:35, 7 January 2024 diff hist −13‎ The ksatriyas are the second-highest social order, and they imbibe the qualities of creative passion and are engaged in the activities of public leadership as executive heads of different political and social bodies ‎No edit summary current
16:3416:34, 7 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ We are trying to train some men as real brahmana because brahmana is the head, is the brain of the society. If the society has no brain, it is in chaotic condition ‎No edit summary current
16:3416:34, 7 January 2024 diff hist −15‎ Unless people see the ideal men, how they will follow? The brahmana is compared with the brain of the body. Unless there is brain, what is the use of these hands and legs? If one's brain is cracked, madman, he cannot do anything ‎No edit summary current
16:3316:33, 7 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ This Krsna consciousness movement is meant for creating some real brahmana. At least, there may be head. They are all mad after the influence of the material energy. So there is need of some brahmana who can give advice to the people how to live ‎No edit summary current
16:3316:33, 7 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ There are different divisions for the body: the head, the arms, the belly and the legs. Without the four corresponding divisions, no society can be conducted very well. There will simply be chaos ‎No edit summary current
16:2716:27, 7 January 2024 diff hist +9‎ The society must be divided: the brain of the society, the arms of the society, the belly of the society and the legs of the society. That will make perfection ‎No edit summary current
16:2616:26, 7 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ The human society must be divided into four parts, four divisions: brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra. Just like in our body there is division - the head department, the arms department, the belly department and the leg department ‎No edit summary current
16:2616:26, 7 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ The head is considered to be the intellectual part of the body. Similarly, if there is no brahmana in the society, it is a dead body. If there is no spiritual man in the society, it is a dead society ‎No edit summary current
16:2416:24, 7 January 2024 diff hist −25‎ The brahmanas are considered to be the head and brains of the social body, and the ksatriyas are considered to be the arms of the social body ‎No edit summary current
16:2316:23, 7 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ The brahmanas are considered the head, the ksatriyas are the arms, the vaisyas are the belly, and the sudras are the legs. At the present moment the body has legs and a belly, but there are no arms or head, and therefore society is topsy-turvy ‎No edit summary current
16:1916:19, 7 January 2024 diff hist +3‎ The brahmana is compared with the brain of the body. Unless there is brain, what is the use of these hands and legs? If one's brain is cracked, madman, he cannot do anything ‎No edit summary current
16:1716:17, 7 January 2024 diff hist +3‎ Since brahmanas are the heads of the social order, all other orders of society also began to deteriorate. This beginning of brahminical deterioration was highly deplored by the father of Srngi ‎No edit summary current
16:1716:17, 7 January 2024 diff hist +3‎ On account of the yajana, the brahmana, being the head of society, performs all the Vedic rituals for ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras. This is called yajana, assisting others in performing ceremonies. The remaining two items are dana and pratigraha ‎No edit summary current
16:1716:17, 7 January 2024 diff hist +3‎ Just like the theosophists, the philosophers, the theologists, the scientists, so many brain worker, they are working to discover better way of life, how to . . . How the human society should be more and more happy. So this is the work of the brahmanas ‎No edit summary current
16:1716:17, 7 January 2024 diff hist −60‎ Just like in this body there are different divisions: the head division, the arm division, the belly division, the leg division. Similarly, without these four divisions, no society can be conducted very nicely. Then it will be chaos ‎No edit summary current
16:1616:16, 7 January 2024 diff hist +3‎ Information is given herein (SB 4.17.9) concerning the selection of the king by the brahmanas. According to the varnasrama system, the brahmanas are considered to be the heads of the society and therefore to be situated in the topmost social position ‎No edit summary current
16:1616:16, 7 January 2024 diff hist −57‎ If there is no brain, no head, then what is the use of these arms and legs and belly? It is all dead. So in human society, if there is not a class of learned, truthful, and honest men - men with all the brahminical qualifications - then society is ruined ‎No edit summary current
16:1516:15, 7 January 2024 diff hist +3‎ If there is no brain, there is no head. If the brain is not working properly, then he's a madman. And if there is no head at all, then he's a dead man. So do you think in a dead society or in a mad society there can be any peace? ‎No edit summary current
16:1516:15, 7 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ If there is no brain, no head, then what is the use of these arms and legs and belly? It is all dead. So in human society, if there is not a class of learned, truthful, and honest men - men with all the brahminical qualifications - then society is ruined ‎No edit summary
16:1516:15, 7 January 2024 diff hist +6‎ Human society must be divided into four classes of men. Just like in our body, there are four different departments: the brain department, the hand department, the belly department, and the leg department. You require all these ‎No edit summary current

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