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  • ...lity of religion speak, was fully satisfied, and without mistake or regret he gave his reply.''' ...n, was full of philosophy and knowledge, and the King was satisfied, since he could understand that the suffering bull was not an ordinary one. Unless on ...
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  • ...nt, and in the future his going back home, back to Godhead, is guaranteed. He is above all materialistic criticism, just as Kṛṣṇa is above all crit ...alified to enter the Vaikuṇṭhalokas, and if anyone follows such a devotee, he also enters into Vaikuṇṭhaloka. Others, who engage in envious activitie ...
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  • ...ice in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, for Kṛṣṇa consciousness is so powerful that it can purify even the dirtiest class of men and transform them into the topmost V ...e, free from all material contamination. Once one becomes a pure Vaiṣṇava, he transcends all material conceptions of life.</p> ...
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  • ...called the darkest region of God's creation. Yet the unhappy materialists can get out of it simply by desiring to get out. Unfortunately they are so fool ...ifferent plans for material enjoyment centered about a perverted sex life. He therefore becomes entangled in the chain of birth and death by transmigrati ...
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  • ...s. Everyone should be eager how to do good to others. That is Vaiṣṇava. If he's planning something, that "I shall be leader," "I shall be doing something ...nciple is wrong, then all their plans for becoming happy is also wrong. So he does not know what is the important factor. ...
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  • <div class="heading">The first symptom of a self-realized soul is that he does not make any plan for his prosperity. ...or. Then he will learn. And when he's accustomed, when he's elevated, then he'll be able to make independent plans. Although not independent always, but ...
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  • ...ave to see whether they provide for our visit or whether will not before I can decide if I may go to Hawaii in January. I am sending the letter out today ...nicely as a good wife. You are fortunate to obtain such a nice husband and he is also fortunate to obtain a nice wife. So all in all it is very nice arra ...
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  • ...sessions he has already, such as land, family, house and bank balance, and he is always planning to improve them. ...past good deeds. He is given an opportunity to accumulate such things, but he has no conception of past causes.</p> ...
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  • ...Just like a child. You are planning to kill her or kill him, he is happy, he's laughing, because innocent. That is ignorance.</p> ...udāmā: Just like his book was planned, so now he is given the Nobel Prize. He won't say, "By chance I won."</p> ...
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  • ...s. He came to install Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, Dharmarāja, on the throne, and He wanted to kill the adharma, Duryodhana and company. That was his business. ...hat "Smearing some poison on my breast, I shall allow Kṛṣṇa to suck it and He'll die. That was his (her) plan. Kṛṣṇa sucked the poison as well as t ...
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  • ...be utilized for Krishna Consciousness. In future if you get opportunity we can produce many films of life of Lord Caitanya, scenes from Bhagavad-gita &amp ...ke plans to appear there on May 1; and before I arrive there on May 1, you can please arrange some lectures in different Universities and Colleges, so tha ...
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  • ...Therefore they are compared to the camel who relishes thorny twigs because he likes the taste of the twigs mixed with blood.</p> ...where he has exploited the resources of nature to the best of his ability. He wants to go to the moon or the planet Venus to exploit resources there. But ...
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  • <div class="heading">Because material energy (nature) is so powerful, it can resist the unauthorized plans of the atheists and baffle the knowledge of " ...ttempts to solve them. Because material energy (nature) is so powerful, it can resist the unauthorized plans of the atheists and baffle the knowledge of " ...
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  • ...Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, he certainly reaches one of the spiritual planets, according to the mode of hi ...
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  • ...rs are always fearful as within a prison house. In the prison house no one can violate the jail rules and regulations, and violating the rules means anoth ...naḥ, "He who increases the honor of His devotees." By distributing Sāṅkhya He would increase the honor of the devotees; therefore, Sāṅkhya philosophy ...
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  • ...hting by using Kṛṣṇa consciousness as an excuse. But as a sincere student, he placed the matter before his master and questioned Kṛṣṇa as to his be ...e service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, or if he is a nondevotee, he also cannot understand the philosophy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p> ...
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  • ...set, he should try to find out if there is a remedy. The remedial measures can be understood when one associates with persons who are liberated. It must b ...f life; therefore when Jaḍa Bharata put the philosophy of life before him, he immediately appreciated it. This is the foundation of Vedic society.</div> ...
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  • ...endental pleasure in striving to become one with the Lord is defeated when he sees the beautiful transcendental features of the Lord. Because of the frag ...ārya had to make some compromise with the Buddhist philosophy, and as such he preached the philosophy of monism, for it was required at that time. Otherw ...
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  • ...The living entities are described as parts and parcels of the Lord because He is the life and soul of all living entities, being situated within their he ...The living entities are described as parts and parcels of the Lord because He is the life and soul of all living entities, being situated within their he ...
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  • ...to dovetail themselves into engagements of transcendental loving service. He is Kṛṣṇa teaching His own service from the position of a devotee. The ...
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  • ...explained by Him that the puruṣa, or the Supreme Lord, is active and that He creates by looking over the prakṛti. This is accepted in the Vedas and in ...equate the Pañcarātras with the philosophy of the atheist Kapila, and thus he has tried to prove that the Pañcarātras contradict the Vedic injunctions. ...
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  • ...]]:''' When Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu started the saṅkīrtana movement, even He was unnecessarily criticized by Māyāvādīs, atheists and fools. Naturall ...is very enjoyable to chant, dance, and take prasādam. And if you like, you can hear a little philosophy of this movement. Or even if you do not understand ...
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  • ...fied by constantly being engaged in the devotional service of the Lord, we can understand Kṛṣṇa’s activities, names, forms, qualities, pastimes an ...ow the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appearing in the form of the Deity, can eat all the food offered by His devotees. In the Bhagavad-gītā ([[Vanisou ...
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  • ...has no knowledge that "This boy is being trained up in higher science. Why he should be disturbed?" But they have no idea. Therefore imperfect. The intel ...ic advancement, if he does not know how to organize society, he is a fool. He's a fool.</div> ...
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  • ...hat above the individual soul there is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the twenty-sixth element. Thus gradually they also come to the standard ...on, but he is not actually perfect in Brahman realization. If he wants, he can continue to stay in the Brahman position and then gradually rise up to Para ...
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  • ...ess one is situated on the transcendental platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he cannot get free from the influence of the modes of material nature. ...be very learned, but because of his long association with material nature, he is in bondage. Kṛṣṇa consciousness helps one to get out of the materi ...
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  • ...lthough he was born in the royal household, is another sign of detachment. He was truly virtuous, as these qualities, combined with his faith in the word ...se up to the platform of knowledge, because by knowledge and devotion only can one liberate himself from the clutches of māyā (illusion). ...
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  • ...principles should be given more importance than politics or sociology, but he did not know that knowledge of matter, soul and the Supreme is even more im ...gṛhastha, governor, and according to our social custom, karaṇa, śūdra. So he was hesitant.</div> ...
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  • ...scribes our relationship with the Supreme Lord, our activities by which we can achieve the highest perfection of love and the actual position of love on t ...ll Vedic knowledge. Acknowledging the benediction offered to him by Kṛṣṇa, he became the original spiritual master of all living entities.</div> ...
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  • ...s fixed up in the modes of goodness and devotional service of the Lord, he can factually understand his constitutional position, and that is his liberatio ...ublishing work Mr. Chatterjee used to invite me to speak at his house, and he has very highly spoken of my Srimad-Bhagavatam English commentaries. ...
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  • ...le in pursuance of the Vedic usages, and by His transcendental association He elevated many lowborn, or those disqualified by birth or action, to the sta ...in the order of society, if he is conversant with the science of Krsna, he can be accepted as an acarya or guru, a spiritual master.</div> ...
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  • ...s all. I cannot. But somebody may come—he's more powerful in arguments. He can defeat you. So don't depend on your speculative function or arguments. Don' ...eading">The original and source of everything, He has His brain. He knows. He has the power of knowledge.</div> ...
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  • ...lso. He's also of that opinion s you have opined and if in this old age we can do something combinedly it will be a great triumph. I thank you very much o ...
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  • ...faultless and powerful brāhmaṇa was heinous and uncivilized. Consequently he was distressed.''' ...owerful brāhmaṇa was certainly to be punished by the laws of the Lord, and he was expecting something very difficult in the very near future.</div> ...
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  • ...s or blessings upon the subordinates; the devotee of the Lord, even though he may not be a brāhmaṇa, is more powerful than a brāhmaṇa. But a powerf ...Not only was Śukadeva Gosvāmī vastly learned in the Vedic literatures, but he was also a great self-realized soul and a powerful devotee of the Lord. A p ...
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  • *[[:Category:Can|Can]] *[[Chant chant chant, Can't can't can't|Chant chant chant, Can't can't can't]] ...
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  • ...vice one becomes enlightened without a doubt." A practical example of this can be seen in the previous life of Nārada. ...gages himself in helping the missionary activities of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he gradually feels spiritual progress. This advancement in spiritual life does ...
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  • ...s of the surrender of the living entity, and in the case of a pure devotee He directly controls the senses. Here on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra the L ...ic trance, but when he happened to meet Menakā (a heavenly society woman), he became a victim of sex, and the artificial way of controlling the senses fa ...
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  • ...s principles, the Vedas, has personally pointed out these differences, and He is about to explain the reason for this in the following ślokas.</p> ...āmā failed to discharge the duties of a brāhmaṇa or teacher, and therefore he was liable to be rejected from the exalted position of a brāhmaṇa. ...
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  • ...'[[Vanisource:SB 3.21.7|SB 3.21.7, Purport]]:''' Without devotion, nothing can be perfect. The target of perfection and realization is the Supreme Persona <div class="heading">Having been too much addicted to sex, he became very poor in intelligence and lost all his opulence.</div> ...
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  • ...s that he is no longer interested in any sort of materially elevated life. He does not even aspire to become a personality like Lord Brahmā.</div> ...d that Aghāsura attained sārūpya-mukti. One may then argue, How is it that he mixed with the Brahman effulgence? The answer is that as Jaya and Vijaya, a ...
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  • ...-yoga, by elevating oneself to the highest platform of loving service, one can automatically be relieved from the bodily concept of life and see the Supre ...-yoga, by elevating oneself to the highest platform of loving service, one can automatically be relieved from the bodily concept of life and see the Supre ...
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  • ...he part of an ācārya, the Lord considered Himself an ordinary human being. He also wanted to give instructions to ordinary human beings</div> ...s. The point is that even though one plays the part of a spiritual master, he should not accept obeisances or permit a disciple to wash his feet before t ...
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  • ...ly by his satisfaction can one please the Personality of Godhead, and when he is dissatisfied there is only havoc on the path of spiritual realization."< ...g">It is clearly stated that simply by satisfying the spiritual master one can achieve the supreme success in life. ...
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  • ...duty thus becomes self-illuminated by the grace of the Lord, and therefore he no longer has any obligations to the Vedic injunctions. Such a Kṛṣṇa ...iving beings and be a peaceful, unalloyed devotee of Nārāyaṇa. In this way he should move from one place to another.</div> ...
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  • ...explained by Kapila Muni, does not aspire for any of the five liberations. He especially despises as hellish the idea of becoming one with the Supreme Pe ...no personality; they say that since the Absolute Truth is impersonal, one can imagine a personal form of the impersonal Absolute Truth for the time being ...
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  • ...of fools think that they can vote anyone into the position of God, as they can vote a man into the position of a political executive head.</div> ...agavad-gītā the Lord says that only fools deride Him, thinking that anyone can speak like Kṛṣṇa.</div> ...
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  • ...itical institution of the state, but I do not wish to die. Death comes and he takes away everything, my political position, my wealth, my everything, fam ...itical institution of the state, but I do not wish to die. Death comes and he takes away everything, my political position, my wealth, my everything, fam ...
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  • ...presence of the Lord's unalloyed devotees. If anyone visits a holy place, he must search out the pure devotees residing in such holy places, take lesson ...s wife would give him good counsel and how she would become aggrieved when he was away from home. Although she was the mother of so many sons and heroes, ...
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  • <div class="heading">If a living entity has polluted intelligence, he prolongs his materialistic life.</div> ...igence, he prolongs his materialistic life. Frustrated by material nature, he must follow the movements of the intelligence, which brings various conditi ...
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  • ...are the reflection of the eternal soul, but the quality of the activities can be changed from matter to the transcendental service of the Lord. The mater <div class="heading">Love of Godhead can be attained only by the practice of transcendental loving service of the Lo ...
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  • {{terms|"one who does not know what is this code, but he can refer to the book. The explanation is there: "This code means this wording. [[Category:He Can]] ...
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  • ...ical party to this... That is not. Because everyone is imperfect. How they can give you perfect happiness? It is not possible. ...ical party to this... That is not. Because everyone is imperfect. How they can give you perfect happiness? It is not possible. They are themselves andha. ...
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  • ...ned to this position of questioning his suffering, unless he realizes that he doesn't want suffering but rather wants to make a solution to all suffering ...sā. Every activity of the human being is to be considered a failure unless he inquires about the nature of the Absolute. Therefore those who begin to que ...
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  • ...e himself in devotional service so that the senses may be purified and one can see the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Here, however, it is indicated that ...m) the transcendental messages of the Lord through the mouths of devotees, he gradually conquers the unconquerable God. ...
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  • <div class="heading">The soul is atomic in size and can be perceived by perfect intelligence.</div> ...nsciousness, and that is the proof of the presence of the soul. Any layman can understand that the material body minus consciousness is a dead body, and t ...
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  • ...e shall act. Kindly award us Your perfect knowledge and potency so that we can render You service in the different departments of subsequent creation.'''< ...he all-pervading Viṣṇu. He is all-perfect knowledge and all-perfect bliss. He is the Supreme Transcendence.'''</div> ...
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  • ...challenge the authority of the Supreme and know Him also at the same time. He reserves the right of not being exposed to such a challenging spirit of an ...parā system. Pṛthu Mahārāja was completely trained in that line; therefore he did not deserve to be considered an ordinary man. An ordinary man, who has ...
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  • ...Perfect knowledge is acquired from the ācāryas, or liberated souls. No one can be perfect in knowledge without being trained by the paramparā system</div ...para system. Prthu Maharaja was completely trained in that line; therefore he did not deserve to be considered an ordinary man. An ordinary man, who has ...
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  • ..., and thus He can act as He likes by perfect planning, although personally He has nothing to do. No one is greater than or equal to Him. That is the verd ...Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who is the collective Paramātmā of all living beings. He is called Hari, and from Him all incarnations within the universe are expan ...
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  • ...cs of the Lord, and the devotee of the Lord must speak loudly so that they can hear. The frogs loudly croak, with the result that they invite the snakes t ...urce and follow the principles for practical application in life; thus one can attain the highest perfection of life—liberation—and go back home, back ...
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  • <div class="heading">Besides Your Lordship, I do not see anyone who can actually explain perfect knowledge to me. Such a perfect teacher is not to ...Yourself to Your devotees. Besides Your Lordship, I do not see anyone who can actually explain perfect knowledge to me. Such a perfect teacher is not to ...
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  • ...o the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose power and inconceivable energy can never be attained by any conditioned or liberated soul.</p> ...="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The presence of the Supreme Lord can be realized just as the sun is realized first as a reflection on water, and ...
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  • ...aṭhana pāṭhana yajana yājana. He should be a great worshiper of Viṣṇu, and he should teach others also. Just like we are not only worshiping Kṛṣṇa ...
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  • ...grace of God, we have complete freedom. Because the Lord is kind to us, we can live anywhere—either in the spiritual sky or in the material sky, upon wh ...law. That is... A tiger is made by nature's law in that way; therefore he can do that. You cannot do it. Your nature is different. You have got discrimin ...
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  • ...his movement was started only for the satisfaction of my spiritual master. He wanted. So I thought, "Let me try in this old age"|0126|I will never die, I ...l master, representative of Kṛṣṇa, it is also not very difficult. Everyone can become representative of Kṛṣṇa. How? If you simply carry the message ...
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  • {{terms|"human being can"|"human beings can"}} ..."purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The lowest amongst human beings can be delivered by this submissive hearing process only, but unfortunately the ...
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  • ...eath so that in his next life he will not have to suffer for the great sin he has committed. Therefore, the king's punishment of hanging a murderer is ac ...is at the same time executing devotional service is very dear to the Lord. He who is situated in pure knowledge of the transcendence of the Supreme Perso ...
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  • ...ducational culture"|"even an inexperienced boy with no educational culture can be saved"}} <div class="heading">Even an inexperienced boy with no educational culture can be saved from the ocean of nescience.</div> ...
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  • ...ike fruitive workers, who are always prone to degradation. But even though he falls down, a devotee is never to be considered the same as a fallen karmī ...n, the bewildered devotee is forsaken by all friends and relatives, and so he comes to his senses again by the mercy of the Lord and is set right to exec ...
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  • ...s of the surrender of the living entity, and in the case of a pure devotee He directly controls the senses</div> ...s of the surrender of the living entity, and in the case of a pure devotee He directly controls the senses.</div> ...
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  • ...self-realized does not recommend the worship of anyone but the Supersoul. He knows that to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead is easier than to ...The idea is that a spiritual master must be a qualified brāhmaṇa; that is, he must be qualified by his activities.</div> ...
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  • ...the above four principles if not at least one of them must we have and we can engage them in the service of the Lord. Srimad-Bhagavatam gives all informa ...imilarly, if you allow free passage for some of my American disciples they can come to India and take training from me at Vrindaban. The idea is that in t ...
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  • ...erefore the Lord says that for anyone who is unflinchingly devoted to Him, He is easy to attain.</p> ...Kṛṣṇa consciousness knows that although Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality, He is all-pervading ...
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  • ...was on this planet, He set a practical example. He was a cowherd boy, and He was very respectful to the brāhmaṇas and devotees.</div> ...nowledge is perfect. Just like we are speculating, "Who is my father?" You can speculate who is your father, but that speculation will not help you. You w ...
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  • ...ons from past good or bad deeds. When one is awake in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he need no longer endeavor for good results in his activities. When one is sit <div class="heading">Real knowledge can be obtained from a person who is in perfect Kṛṣṇa consciousness ...
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  • ...and blissfully, without cares and anxieties, and after quitting this body he goes back home, back to Godhead. The Lord confirms in the Bhagavad-gītā, ...or him to exhibit the symptoms of life. Generally if a person is breathing he is accepted to be alive. But a person without Kṛṣṇa consciousness may ...
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  • ...ernally. That is called svarūpa. By the process of devotional service, one can revive that svarūpa, and that stage is called svarūpa-siddhi—perfection ...iddhi) constitute very little of his godly opulence. A devotee like Nārada can act wonderfully by his spiritual perfection, which every individual is tryi ...
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  • ...mundane origin, how could it disturb the whole ocean and its inhabitants? Can any mundane red-hot eye generate heat in the great ocean? These are factors ...ttempted to bridge the ocean, and, with the help of advice from Vibhīṣaṇa, He attacked Rāvaṇa's capital, Laṅkā.</div> ...
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  • ...ext"><p style="display: inline;">When one is awake in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he need no longer endeavor for good results in his activities. When one is sit ...water to the leaves and branches, so by acting in Kṛṣṇa consciousness one can render the highest service to everyone—namely self, family, society, coun ...
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  • ...to Kṛṣṇa to please forgive him for all his sinful activities. So then this can be taken as prayers too.</p> ...? Tomorrow, early in the morning, at four, we are going to Bombay. But you can hold this meeting and discuss this Bhāgavatam, chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...al consciousness, then he's being bound up. However good may be that work, he's being bound up. ...lar. These are the results of pious work. Janmaiśvarya-śruta, and śrī. You can become very beautiful by pious work. These are the results of pious work. ...
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  • ...ad, April 20, 1974]]:''' When you come to the spiritual platform, then you can understand that "This dog is also a spirit soul; this learned brāhmaṇa i ...therwise we have no interest. This should be the principle of devotees. We can take part in everything—politics, sociology or philanthropism, altruism, ...
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  • ...Not only was Śukadeva Gosvāmī vastly learned in the Vedic literatures, but he was also a great self-realized soul and a powerful devotee of the Lord. A p ...aid that the Lord reserves the right of not being exposed to everyone, and He keeps Himself concealed from the faithless by His yoga-māyā potency.</p> ...
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  • ...many great generals like Karṇa and others. After the Battle of Kurukṣetra, he punished Aśvatthāmā, who had killed all the five sons of Draupadī. Then <div class="heading">The pure devotees of the Lord can equally relish the nectar in the form of the profound philosophical discour ...
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  • ...ew, and then he began to describe the future movements of his uncle, which he could see by his foreseeing powers</div> ...ndha-kūpaṁ vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta [SB 7.5.5]). In this verse also, he stresses the same point. In the history of human society, no one, at any ti ...
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  • ...tachment from matter and attachment to Kṛṣṇa are one and the same. One who can see this sees things as they are.</p> ...tuated in the transcendental position by various philosophical researches, he is said to have achieved samprajñāta-samādhi. ...
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  • ...led practice of yogic postures can never help a man toward spiritual life. He must be trained in Kṛṣṇa consciousness by higher intelligence.</p> ...dic version is confirmed in this verse of the Gītā personally by the Lord. He who accepts this truth on the strength of the authority of the Vedas and of ...
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  • ...here to indicate that no other process can be used, can be recommended, or can be successful in understanding Kṛṣṇa.</div> ...hurt by the enemy. The so-called king of today never visits the warfield. He is very much expert in artificially encouraging the fighting strength in th ...
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  • ...can be preliminarily perceived by His different energies, and in this way He is realized impersonally. As the demigod in the sun is a person and is perc ...and Rāma as the Supreme he thinks of Rāma and Kṛṣṇa as impersonal because he has no idea of service to Kṛṣṇa. Thus his only business is punaḥ pu ...
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  • ...er make him happy. Instead of satisfying his own personal material senses, he has to satisfy the senses of the Lord.</p> ...fighting, because he thought that by not killing his relatives and kinsmen he would be happier than by enjoying the kingdom after conquering his cousins ...
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  • ...e temporarily engaged in different activities, but all of these activities can be purified when we give up all these temporary activities and take up the ...From any stage of life, or from the time of understanding its urgency, one can begin regulating the senses in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, devotional servic ...
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  • ...ing or enjoying the results of our activities from time immemorial, but we can change the results of our karma, or our activity, and this change depends o ...ing or enjoying the results of our activities from time immemorial, but we can change the results of our karma, or our activity, and this change depends o ...
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  • ...x life is the focal point for all activities. Wherever one turns his face, he sees sex life predominant. Therefore, sex life is not unreal. Its reality i ...ifferent plans for material enjoyment centered about a perverted sex life. He therefore becomes entangled in the chain of birth and death by transmigrati ...
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  • ...ode of goodness, but if a person is not by nature in the mode of goodness, he should not imitate the occupational duty of a brahmana. For a ksatriya, or ...or kṣatriya family, he is therefore a brāhmaṇa or a kṣatriya, even though he performs the duties of a śūdra.</div> ...
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  • ...es the highest planet, he cannot attain that perpetual happiness for which he is searching life after life.</div> ...Brahman happiness, knowing it for certain that unlimited happiness, which he is seeking, is never attainable in the material world.</div> ...
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  • ...d when a living entity becomes inclined to the service of the Supreme Lord he looks like gold. The Lord is a diamond, and so this combination is very nic ...sūtra, that Vedānta-sūtra is personal philosophy. So he was convinced, and he became his disciple.</div> ...
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  • ...Still, because his complete energy was engaged in the service of the Lord, he became an immortal sage. Such is the powerful action of devotional service. ...he himself was attracted by the transcendental activities of the Lord, and he studied Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from his great father, Śrī Dvaipāyana Vyās ...
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  • ...wledge of the Paramātmā feature of the Absolute Truth. And the student who can enter into the heart of the sun planet is compared to those who realize the ...g">The factual Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa. He is the complete energetic person. ...
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  • ...f the material sky. In the higher planets of the material world, the yogīs can enjoy more comfortable and more pleasant lives for hundreds of thousands of <div class="heading">Is He managing personally? No. He is managing through His potency.</div> ...
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