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30 June 2022
- 05:3005:30, 30 June 2022 diff hist +3,266 Krsna-katha must be understood by the executive heads of government, for otherwise how will people be happy and gain relief from the pangs of materialistic life? No edit summary current
- 05:2005:20, 30 June 2022 diff hist +2,720 This system of association (to serve the mahatma transcendentalists) has been recommended since time immemorial, but in this age of quarrel and hypocrisy it is especially recommended by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current
- 05:1705:17, 30 June 2022 diff hist +7,372 This is predicted in SB (12.2.1): In Kali-yuga, this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, there shall be a waning of these qualities: religiosity, truthfulness, cleanliness, tolerance, memory, bodily strength, duration of life, and mercy No edit summary
- 05:1505:15, 30 June 2022 diff hist −34 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has recommended: In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way - CC Adi 17.21 quoted in SB 8.23.15 No edit summary
- 05:1305:13, 30 June 2022 diff hist +4,242 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu declares: In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way No edit summary current
- 05:1005:10, 30 June 2022 diff hist −27 In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way - CC Adi 17.21 quoted in SB 8.6.15 No edit summary
- 05:0905:09, 30 June 2022 diff hist +2,962 In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 05:0705:07, 30 June 2022 diff hist −34 In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way No edit summary current
- 05:0205:02, 30 June 2022 diff hist +3,417 In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy there is no possibility of performing the yajnas perfectly for want of expert brahmanas who are able to conduct such yajnas No edit summary current
- 05:0005:00, 30 June 2022 diff hist +25,791 In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverance is the chanting of the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way No edit summary current
- 04:5804:58, 30 June 2022 diff hist +4,034 In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverance is the chanting of the holy names of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way No edit summary current
- 04:5604:56, 30 June 2022 diff hist −9 In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy, the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way - CC Adi 17.21 No edit summary current
- 04:4004:40, 30 June 2022 diff hist +6,332 He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) gave this recommendation from the sastras: In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of God. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way - CC Adi 17.21 No edit summary current
- 04:3804:38, 30 June 2022 diff hist −2 Caitanya Mahaprabhu has advised "In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is chanting the holy name of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way" No edit summary current
27 June 2022
- 09:4509:45, 27 June 2022 diff hist +3,694 This is the duty of all responsible Indians, how to make his life perfect, utilizing Vedic knowledge, and then distribute it throughout the whole world No edit summary current
- 09:4509:45, 27 June 2022 diff hist +7,656 This is not only the duty of Indians (to spread the Krsna consciousness movement) but the duty of everyone, and we are very happy that American and European boys and girls are seriously cooperating with this movement No edit summary current
- 09:4509:45, 27 June 2022 diff hist +7,744 It is now the duty of the leading men of India to consider the importance of this movement and train many Indians to go outside of India to preach this cult No edit summary current
- 09:3509:35, 27 June 2022 diff hist −13 The Manu-smrti is considered the highest Vedic direction to humanity. Manu is the giver of law to mankind No edit summary
- 09:3509:35, 27 June 2022 diff hist +3,159 Manu is the lawgiver of mankind, and since he personally executed the putrika-dharma, we may accept that such a system may be adopted by mankind also No edit summary current
- 09:3409:34, 27 June 2022 diff hist +28,841 Manu is the giver of law to mankind, and in the Manu-smrti it is clearly stated that before the creation the entire universal space was darkness, without information and without variety, and was in a state of complete suspension, like a dream No edit summary current
- 09:3409:34, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,281 Manu is supposed to be the law-giver to the humankind. So in the Manu-samhita it is stated there that when the king kills one man, or hangs one man who is a murderer, that is benefit to him No edit summary current
- 09:3409:34, 27 June 2022 diff hist +6,122 How I can say God is dead? Because if God is the law-giver, by His order everything is moving nicely. The sun is rising exactly at the time, the moon is rising exactly at the time No edit summary current
- 09:3309:33, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,890 God is the law-giver, by His order everything is moving nicely. The sun is rising exactly at the time, the moon is rising exactly at the time, the seasonal changes are taking place exactly in due course of time No edit summary current
- 09:3309:33, 27 June 2022 diff hist +2,798 For one man's fault a whole state is sometimes attacked. This kind of wholesale attack is not approved by Manu, the father and lawgiver of the human race. He therefore wanted to stop his grandson Dhruva from continuing to kill the Yaksa citizens No edit summary current
- 09:3309:33, 27 June 2022 diff hist +3,854 All the Manus offered their prayers as follows: As Your order carriers, we are the law-givers for human society, but because of the temporary supremacy of this great demon, Hiranyakasipu, our laws for maintaining varnasrama-dharma were destroyed No edit summary
- 09:3209:32, 27 June 2022 diff hist +23 According to Vedic civilization, Manu is the lawgiver. Even today Hindus in India follow the laws given by Manu No edit summary
- 09:2909:29, 27 June 2022 diff hist +2,975 Which (yogamaya) acts to perfect all the pastimes of the Lord (Krsna) with His different types of devotees. Who could play such wonders without being God No edit summary current
- 09:2909:29, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,786 These (Sankarsana, Vasudeva, Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Narayana) are all He (God) Himself in different transcendental expansions, and still the Lord as Sri Krsna functions in a different sphere of transcendental exchange with different grades of devotees No edit summary current
- 09:2809:28, 27 June 2022 diff hist +4,349 Devotees who worship the demigods, the different parts of the Lord, receive the benedictions they desire because the Lord is the original master of all benedictions. If anyone wants a particular benediction, for God to award it is not at all difficult No edit summary current
- 09:2209:22, 27 June 2022 diff hist +4,908 When Ramacandra was angry and showed His red-hot eyes, the whole ocean became heated with that energy, so that the aquatics within the ocean felt the heat & the personified ocean trembled in fear and offered Him an easy path for reaching the enemy's city No edit summary current
- 09:2209:22, 27 June 2022 diff hist +4,096 Just like by tasting one drop of sea water we can understand the taste of the whole ocean, similarly Caitanya Mahaprabhu described a small portion of Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu No edit summary current
- 09:2209:22, 27 June 2022 diff hist +6,244 Jambavan continued, "When the whole ocean became agitated, the living entities like whales, alligators and timingila fish all became perturbed" No edit summary current
- 09:2109:21, 27 June 2022 diff hist +2,036 In the meantime, while Dhruva, doubtful of his mystic enemies, was talking with his charioteer, they heard a tremendous sound, as if the whole ocean were there, and they found that from the sky a great dust storm was coming over them from all directions No edit summary current
- 09:2009:20, 27 June 2022 diff hist +6,908 Bhadrasena therefore left the party of Balarama & joined Krsna, and he agitated his friends as much as the Mandara Hill had agitated the whole ocean. By his roaring sounds he deafened all his friends, and he enthused Krsna with his chivalrous activities No edit summary current
- 09:0809:08, 27 June 2022 diff hist +7,431 When a living entity abandons the activities of maya and attains the position from which he can execute devotional service, his state is called svarupa-sthah, or complete liberation No edit summary current
- 09:0709:07, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,287 Western country youngsters giving up illicit sex, intoxication, meat eating and gambling is certainly a great reverse in the activities of maya. Therefore she took advantage of my old age weakness and gave me a death dash No edit summary current
- 09:0709:07, 27 June 2022 diff hist +32 To avoid this misconception (that Krsna's activities are maya) one has to directly cultivate knowledge about the holy name of the Lord. Mayavadi philosophers do not know this fact, and therefore they commit great offenses No edit summary current
- 09:0609:06, 27 June 2022 diff hist +4,405 These are the activities of maya, and since maya is also an agent of the Lord, it is indirectly the action of the Lord No edit summary current
- 09:0609:06, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,762 One who is less intelligent is captivated by the wonderful activities of maya, but he does not understand that behind these activities is the direction of the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
- 09:0509:05, 27 June 2022 diff hist +4,087 Maya saw me very successful within one year, so that I got so many sincere young flowers like yourself and others, so it was a great defeat to the activities of maya No edit summary current
- 09:0409:04, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,916 In all the activities of creation and annihilation, the living entity is entangled in fruitive activities, which are executed by the illusory energy, maya. He is exactly like a computer handled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 09:0409:04, 27 June 2022 diff hist +10,412 If you want to get out of the maya's activities, prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani, then you have to take to Krsna consciousness. There is no way out No edit summary current
- 09:0409:04, 27 June 2022 diff hist +32 For a person to disregard the order of the spiritual master and act by concoction, accepting his nonsensical activities to be spiritual, is maya No edit summary
- 09:0309:03, 27 June 2022 diff hist +32 Even an elephant in the jungle is caught by the use of a trained she-elephant who leads him into a pit. Maya has many activities, and in the material world her strongest shackle is the female No edit summary current
- 08:5008:50, 27 June 2022 diff hist +2,123 With the cooperation of the elderly members of the family, he performed the bathing ceremony (abhiseka) for Lord Ramacandra with the water of the four seas and with other substances, just as it was performed for King Indra No edit summary current
- 08:5008:50, 27 June 2022 diff hist +2,758 When Maharaja Pandu died, his sons were all small children, and naturally they were brought up under the affection of elderly members of the royal family, specifically by Bhismadeva No edit summary
- 08:5008:50, 27 June 2022 diff hist +4,367 When Krsna was residing in Dvaraka, some of the elderly members of the Yadu family would occasionally put some important matter before Him No edit summary current
- 08:4908:49, 27 June 2022 diff hist +3,636 Such crying and laughing (of a child) is enjoyable to the parents and elderly members of the family, so the Lord (Krsna) would simultaneously cry and laugh in this way and merge His devotee-parents in the humor of transcendental pleasure No edit summary current
- 08:4908:49, 27 June 2022 diff hist +4,420 Krsna's grandsons kidnapped Duryodhana's daughter, which caused a fight between the Kuru and Yadu families. Afterward, an adjustment was made by the elderly members of the Kuru family No edit summary current
- 08:4908:49, 27 June 2022 diff hist +2,448 In modern days, wherever there is monarchy, sometimes the ministers and elderly members of the family select one member from the royal family to occupy the throne in preference to another No edit summary current
- 08:4808:48, 27 June 2022 diff hist +7,361 First (Krsna would distribute garlands, betel nuts, sandalwood pulp) to the brahmanas and elderly members of the family, then to the queens, and then to the ministers, and if there were still some balance He would engage it for His own personal use No edit summary current
- 08:4708:47, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,906 As the perfect exemplary householder, Lord Sri Krsna followed this tarpana (pleasing) system and offered respectful obeisances to the elderly, superior members of His family No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 27 June 2022 diff hist +3,361 People should be trained to hear only krsna-katha - by all means - in order to get relief from all miseries No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,963 People should be trained to become Vaisnavas through the system of varna and asrama, as they were during the reign of Lord Ramacandra, when everyone was fully trained to follow the varnasrama principles No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 27 June 2022 diff hist +3,988 People in all parts of the world should be trained to preach and given sannyasa so that the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's sankirtana movement will expand boundlessly No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 27 June 2022 diff hist +3,788 In order to rectify this world situation, all people should be trained in Krsna consciousness and act in accordance with the varnasrama system No edit summary current
- 08:1708:17, 27 June 2022 diff hist +3,551 From childhood, people should be trained in Vedic culture, especially in devotional service. In this way, one can perfect one's life No edit summary current
- 08:1708:17, 27 June 2022 diff hist +11,594 Ahimsa means that people should be trained in such a way that the full utilization of the human body can be achieved. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 08:1308:13, 27 June 2022 diff hist +6,165 Those who want to see God or the Supreme Absolute Truth by the agency of their imperfect senses, they say that God is impersonal. They're imperfect. That is a realization of the imperfect senses. Perfectly, perfect vision of the Supreme Lord is a person No edit summary current
- 08:1208:12, 27 June 2022 diff hist +4,183 Those who are perfect seers of the Absolute Truth know well that the above three features of the one Absolute Truth are different perspective views seen from different angles of vision No edit summary current
- 08:0808:08, 27 June 2022 diff hist +7,775 Everyone is seeing God according to his capacity; the only difference is that the theist sees God as the Supreme Personality, the most beloved, Krsna, and the atheist sees the Absolute Truth as ultimate death No edit summary current
- 08:0808:08, 27 June 2022 diff hist +8,296 One who follows the Vedic principles as described above (SB 4.21.42) can from the very beginning see all the features of Lord Krsna, the Absolute Truth, very distinctly, as one can see one's own face completely reflected in a clear mirror No edit summary current
- 08:0708:07, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,493 It is the transcendental torchlight by which one can see perfectly the transcendental Absolute Truth realized as Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan No edit summary current
- 08:0608:06, 27 June 2022 diff hist +36,363 It is stated in Bhagavad-gita that if we at all want to learn transcendental knowledge, we must approach one who has actually seen the Absolute Truth (tad-viddhi pranipatena) - BG 4.34 No edit summary current
- 08:0608:06, 27 June 2022 diff hist +2,546 It is stated also in the Visnu Purana that whatever we see is parasya brahmanah saktih; everything is an expansion of the energy of the Supreme Absolute Truth, Brahman No edit summary current
- 08:0508:05, 27 June 2022 diff hist +3,873 If one wants to see the Absolute Truth in full, one has to penetrate beyond the twenty-four material elements and the glaring effulgence as well No edit summary current
- 08:0508:05, 27 June 2022 diff hist +39 The devotee does not want to see the Supreme Personality of Absolute Truth in voidness or impersonalism No edit summary
- 08:0408:04, 27 June 2022 diff hist +39 As stated before, we must search out one who has seen the Absolute Truth and surrender to him and serve him. When this is done, there is no doubt about one's spiritual salvation No edit summary
- 08:0308:03, 27 June 2022 diff hist +4,248 One who not only can preach but who also sees everything in the Absolute Truth and the Absolute Truth in everything is in the highest class of Vaisnavas No edit summary current
- 07:3107:31, 27 June 2022 diff hist +2,842 This same (Omkara) meaning is explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam in the four slokas known as the catuh-sloki, which begin with the words aham evasam evagre No edit summary
- 07:3107:31, 27 June 2022 diff hist +1,939 This is a quotation (of CC Madhya 25.126) from Srimad-Bhagavatam (2.9.35). It is also the third verse of the catuh-sloki. For an explanation see Adi-lila, Chapter One, text 55 No edit summary
- 07:3007:30, 27 June 2022 diff hist +1,894 This is a quotation (of CC Madhya 25.123) from Srimad-Bhagavatam (2.9.36). It is the fourth verse of the catuh-sloki. For an explanation see Adi-lila, Chapter One, text 56 No edit summary
- 07:2807:28, 27 June 2022 diff hist +2,005 This is a quotation (of CC Madhya 25.119) from Srimad-Bhagavatam (2.9.34). It is the second verse of the catuh-sloki. For an explanation of this verse, see Adi-lila, Chapter One, text 54 No edit summary
- 07:2807:28, 27 June 2022 diff hist +1,946 This is a quotation (of CC Madhya 25.113) from Srimad-Bhagavatam (2.9.33). It is the first verse of the catuh-sloki. For an explanation see Adi-lila, Chapter One, text 53 No edit summary
- 07:2607:26, 27 June 2022 diff hist +1,688 The meaning of the sound vibration omkara is present in the Gayatri mantra. The same is elaborately explained in the four slokas of Srimad-Bhagavatam known as the catuh-sloki No edit summary
- 07:2507:25, 27 June 2022 diff hist +1,922 The essence of Srimad-Bhagavatam - our relationship with the Supreme Lord, our activities in that connection and the goal of life - is manifest in the four verses of Srimad-Bhagavatam known as the catuh-sloki. Everything is explained in those verses No edit summary current
- 07:2507:25, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,638 Sri Uddhava's actual life is the direct symbol of the catuh-sloki Bhagavatam enunciated first to Brahmaji by the Personality of Godhead No edit summary
- 07:2407:24, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,468 Later speculators, in the name of Mayavada philosophy, unnecessarily make their commentary on the catuh-sloki Bhagavatam (SB 2.9.33/34/35/36) without any bona fide intent No edit summary current
- 07:2407:24, 27 June 2022 diff hist +6,856 In the Catuh-sloki of Srimad-Bhagavatam, the Lord says, aham evasam evagre: "I was existing in the beginning before the creation." (SB 2.9.33) In the Vedas it is also said, eko narayana asit: "Before the creation there was only Narayana No edit summary
- 07:2307:23, 27 June 2022 diff hist +2,875 Here (in SB 7.15.57) the Vedic aphorism sarvam khalv idam brahma is explained. It is also explained in the catuh-sloki Bhagavatam 2.9.33-34-35-36. Aham evasam evagre No edit summary
- 07:1507:15, 27 June 2022 diff hist +17,980 O Supreme Lord, the transcendental form which I am seeing is the greatest manifestation of the Absolute Truth, and it is full of effulgence No edit summary current
- 07:1507:15, 27 June 2022 diff hist +2,262 Seeing Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu to be the same Absolute Truth, the Supreme Brahman, the Personality of Godhead, the astrologer was confused No edit summary current
- 07:0707:07, 27 June 2022 diff hist +81,101 Devotional activities when mixed with the culture of knowledge are technically called jnana-yoga. But when such devotional activities transcend the limits of all such work or mental knowledge, this state of affairs is called pure transcendental devotion No edit summary current
- 07:0507:05, 27 June 2022 diff hist +3,565 In an unsatisfactory state of affairs, there is no harmony, even between father and sons or between husband and wife. But all these contending difficulties can be mitigated by one process, and that is the devotional service of the Lord No edit summary current
- 07:0407:04, 27 June 2022 diff hist +3,708 Lord Parasurama, the incarnation of the Personality of Godhead, appeared in such a state of worldly affairs and killed all the miscreant kings twenty-one times No edit summary current
- 07:0307:03, 27 June 2022 diff hist +6,072 The above-mentioned state of affairs (there is neither material creation nor the Causal Ocean for material nature) is factual on the transcendental plane, but is revealed in a transcendentalist's knowledge of the advanced state of pure consciousness No edit summary
- 07:0207:02, 27 June 2022 diff hist +4,802 The description of King Uttanapada's palace depicts the state of affairs many hundreds and thousands of years ago, long before Srimad-Bhagavatam was compiled No edit summary current
- 07:0107:01, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,708 The devotees experience the above-mentioned state of affairs (reaching the Vaikuntha planets) by attainment of spiritual forms for activity in the transcendental loving service of the Lord No edit summary current
- 07:0007:00, 27 June 2022 diff hist +4,998 This state of affairs is described herein (SB 2.3.12) as pratinivrtta-gunormi, and it is possible by atma-prasada, or complete self-satisfaction without any material connection No edit summary current
- 06:5906:59, 27 June 2022 diff hist +7,398 When devotional activities transcend the limits of all work or mental knowledge, this state of affairs is called pure transcendental devotion, or bhakti-yoga No edit summary current
- 06:5706:57, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,230 When one kind of ecstatic devotional service overlaps with another in a conflicting way, this state of affairs is called rasabhasa, or perverted presentation of mellows No edit summary current
- 06:3406:34, 27 June 2022 diff hist +3,187 Maharaja Yudhisthira was on the same level of devotion as Vidura, although engaged in the state affairs of the kingdom of the world No edit summary current
- 06:3106:31, 27 June 2022 diff hist +7,394 In the liberated state of affairs, the full-fledged affection for the Lord is awakened. As such, there is an unlimited flow of everlasting happiness, without the fear of its being broken as we have experienced here in the material world No edit summary current
- 06:2206:22, 27 June 2022 diff hist +4,587 Cow sacrifice yajna means No edit summary current
- 05:5105:51, 27 June 2022 diff hist +3,848 The horse sacrifice yajna or cow sacrifice yajna performed by the Vedic regulations shouldn't be misunderstood as a process of killing animals No edit summary current
- 05:5005:50, 27 June 2022 diff hist +6,596 In this age of Kali, five acts are forbidden: offering a horse in sacrifice, offering a cow in sacrifice, accepting the order of sannyasa, offering oblations of flesh to the forefathers, & begetting children in the wife of one's brother No edit summary current
- 05:4805:48, 27 June 2022 diff hist +1,952 In this Age of Kali, five acts are forbidden: the offering of a horse and cow in sacrifice, the acceptance of the order of sannyasa, the offering of oblations of flesh to the forefathers, and a man's begetting children in his brother's wife No edit summary current
- 05:4305:43, 27 June 2022 diff hist +4,386 In Kali-yuga, 5 acts are forbidden: the offering of a horse in sacrifice, offering of a cow in sacrifice, acceptance of the order of sannyasa, the offering of oblations of flesh to the forefathers, & a man's begetting children in his brother's wife No edit summary current
- 05:3905:39, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,178 The sacrifice of cow recommended in the Vedic sastra means No edit summary current
- 05:3405:34, 27 June 2022 diff hist +5,216 Sacrifice as mentioned in the Vedas is not actually cow-killing. In that sacrifice an old bull or cow was sacrificed for the sake of receiving a fresh younger life by the power of Vedic mantras No edit summary current