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  • ...opt the service of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead. If one is convinced of this philosophy of life, that is faith.</div> ...e in a condemned life of miseries. This material body continues as long as one is not detached from the false conception of lording it over material natur ...
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  • ...od deeds. He is given an opportunity to accumulate such things, but he has no conception of past causes.</p> ...e can equal him in strength, power or wealth, he can act in any way and no one can stop him. If he has an enemy who might check the advancement of his sen ...
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  • ...ave to follow. In the beginning we have no love for Kṛṣṇa, so this process will help how to invoke his love for Kṛṣṇa. This is standard process.</p> ...ike you are taking one animal to the slaughterhouse, it will go. But a man will protest. So this is ignorance. The goat, it is to be killed after five minu ...
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  • ...ant—ye yathā māṁ prapadyante ([[Vanisource:BG 4.11 (1972)|BG 4.11]])—Kṛṣṇa will give you.</p> ...these bodies who have assembled here, they are not going back living. They will be killed. Now if you like, you have to fight. But the conclusion is alread ...
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  • ...ote along with Brahmananda's for first time since you left to N.Y. You had no desire to stop in London. This is clear to me from Hayagriva's letter which ...there, and I have encouraged them in that idea. My dream is that at least one dozen students shall remain in Vrindaban and trained up nicely, and sent fo ...
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  • ...age himself in the service of the Lord his attempts are spoiled. Therefore one should gradually raise himself to the platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness ...age himself in the service of the Lord his attempts are spoiled. Therefore one should gradually raise himself to the platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness ...
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  • <div class="heading">Unless one is situated on the transcendental platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he ...ion and to try to attain Kṛṣṇa consciousness under superior training. Thus one may be freed from the clutches of Kṛṣṇa's māyā.</p> ...
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  • ...to the platform of knowledge, and without knowledge and devotion there is no chance of liberation. ...to the platform of knowledge, and without knowledge and devotion there is no chance of liberation. Arjuna was competent in all these attributes, over an ...
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  • ...a consciousness, and the symptom of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness is that he is no longer interested in any sort of materially elevated life. He does not even ...God, or Viṣṇu. Every living entity has an intimate relationship with God. One should therefore glorify the Lord in the adoration of śānta-rasa or reviv ...
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  • ...akti-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 S ...akti-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 S ...
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  • ...give instructions to ordinary human beings. The point is that even though one plays the part of a spiritual master, he should not accept obeisances or pe ...ya-caritamrta. He composed -- he was a very learned scholar -- he composed one hundred verses about Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and handed it over. But in all th ...
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  • ...sness. Wherever you may remain please do not forget Krishna Kirtana and it will do good to you and your friends.</p> ...ting my mission of one God, Sri Krishna; one scripture, Bhagavad-gita; and one mantra, Hare Krishna. This idea is not manufactured by me, but it is author ...
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  • ...his own plan. But he has to take plans of work from his superior. Then he will learn. And when he's accustomed, when he's elevated, then he'll be able to <div class="heading">Asura thinks that he will live forever and let him prepare big, big plans for material comforts. This ...
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  • ...ice house, and if you know that next day you'll be kicked out, you'll die, will you do that? But it is a fact. Next day or two days after, you'll die.</p> <div class="heading">Politics means planning for one's own happiness. That is politics. ...
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  • ...y of the moon is also variable. When the water is standing still, there is no quivering. A more settled conditioned soul quivers less, but due to materia ...were impersonalists or protagonists of the philosophy of monism, becoming one with the Lord. But as soon as they saw the Lord's features, their minds cha ...
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  • [[Category:Simultaneously One and Different|2]] ...are three, and therefore they are separate, but at the same time they are one. This is the philosophy of simultaneous oneness and difference, which is ca ...
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  • ...th an ulterior purpose, to get material benefit or personal gratification, will never be able to grasp the philosophy of this movement.</div> ...th an ulterior purpose, to get material benefit or personal gratification, will never be able to grasp the philosophy of this movement.</div> ...
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  • ..., purified person in the society. If there is one brāhmaṇa in a family, or one society, the whole family, whole society becomes sanctified.</div> <div class="heading">The ācārya will pick up that "They are meant for becoming brāhmaṇas. They are meant for ...
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  • <div class="heading">Amongst all of the planets in the spiritual sky there is one supreme planet called Goloka Vṛndāvana, which is the original planet in ...l inconveniences. Amongst all of the planets in the spiritual sky there is one supreme planet called Goloka Vṛndāvana, which is the original planet in ...
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  • ...terial gain, do not accept the plan or path of the Supreme Lord. They have no idea of God; they simply manufacture their own worldly plans and consequent ...fects of the influence of time. Therefore, the conclusion is that there is no powerful living being within the universe who can overcome the influence of ...
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  • ...line;">There is no point in arguing that a materialistic man can be happy. No materialistic creature—be he the great Brahmā or an insignificant ant— ...on a merry-go-round. The real happiness is in the kingdom of God, where no one has to undergo the pangs of material existence.</p> ...
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  • ...how to take all of suffering humanity back home, back to Godhead. Even if one is not successful in reclaiming all the fallen souls back to Godhead, still ...er the posts of their masters. It is learned from Caitanya literature that one big Zamindar, Subuddhi Rāya, kept a Mohammedan boy as a servant. Of course ...
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  • ...he same. The personalities may be different, but the aim of the mission is one and the same, namely, to deliver the fallen souls back home, back to Godhea ...tra and thus become fully pure, free from all material contamination. Once one becomes a pure Vaiṣṇava, he transcends all material conceptions of life ...
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  • ...of the man's desire. The laws of nature do not allow a second beyond what one is destined to enjoy.</p> ...d, all these plans for progress are being constantly frustrated. They have no eyes to see that their attempts at peace and friendship are failing. But he ...
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  • ...ad becomes satisfied. And by not satisfying the spiritual master, there is no chance of being promoted to the plane of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. I shoul ...s unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master. Only by his satisfaction can one please the Personality of Godhead, and when he is dissatisfied there is onl ...
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  • ...ive activities. In the transcendental loving service of the Lord, there is no place for monistic knowledge or fruitive activities. The gopīs in Vṛndā ...
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  • ...on, and who is satisfied in the self only, fully satiated—for him there is no duty.</div> ...on, and who is satisfied in the self only, fully satiated—for him there is no duty.''' ...
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  • ...rvice to the Lord, one cannot know Kṛṣṇa as He is (tattvataḥ), even though one is a great scholar or philosopher. ...rvice to the Lord, one cannot know Kṛṣṇa as He is (tattvataḥ), even though one is a great scholar or philosopher. Only the pure devotees can know somethin ...
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  • ...d protection"|"pray to Krsna to protect"|"pray to Lord Sri Krishna that he will protect"|"pray to the Holy Name to give us protection"|"pray to the Lord to ...ht him the military and musical science as used in the heavenly planet. In one sense, Indra is the real father of Arjuna, and therefore indirectly he want ...
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  • ...ngle for the last two hundred, three hundred years. Before that, there was no such attempt, but for the last at least hundred years, or more than that, m .... Pāñcarātriki is Deity worship. So do you meet many intelligent men here? No. Not very. ...
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  • ...are executed in an offenseless manner, it is certain that the participants will gradually attain spiritual perfection without having to undergo more rigoro ...ay: inline;">The Lord definitely says that no one is more dear to Him than one who is always engaged in the preaching work of the Lord's name and fame all ...
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  • ...on. Saintly persons like Sanaka, Sanātana, Sanandana and Sanat-kumāra have no material desire, but sometimes they travel all over the universe, out of th ...devotional service in the seven other fields (śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam, etc.). If one can successfully execute the preliminary seven items, he can in the future ...
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  • ...appear to be atheistic or agnostic or philosophical, but actually there is no knowledge of philosophy. As for the common man, if he is a good soul, then ...he should preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness with logic and understanding, and if one is not so advanced he should not accept the renounced order of life ...
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  • ...This body is killed, that's all." This is sādhu. Titikṣavaḥ kāruṇikāḥ. In one side he is tolerant, and other side, merciful.</p> ...
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  • ...he becomes the most prominent with national consciousness. Similarly, when one is mature in knowledge of self, he must knows what is the duty of the self. ...endental world. What interpretation I have replied Dr. Naik later. We have one difference of opinion of the scientific statement of antimatter. I have int ...
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  • ...or symptoms of the living force. Indeed, it may be said that there can be no activity without the living force. Although the living force is present in ...comes under the control of material nature. Indeed, material nature is but one display of His inconceivable energies. ...
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  • ...he mission of preaching the message of Godhead should learn that they have no business with householders save and except to enlighten them in transcenden ...lder's worldly possessions and thus become subservient to worldly men. For one who is in the renounced order of life, this is much more dangerous than dri ...
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  • ...constantly engaged in the service of the lotus feet of the Lord, there is no more chance of the mind's producing another material body after death</div> ...It will be freed from absorption in material contamination. The pure soul will be able to return home, back to Godhead.</div> ...
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  • ...s without being fully Kṛṣṇa conscious. Without engaging the mind in Kṛṣṇa, one cannot cease such material engagements. A practical example is given by Śr ...s without being fully Kṛṣṇa conscious. Without engaging the mind in Kṛṣṇa, one cannot cease such material engagements. A practical example is given by Śr ...
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  • {{toc right no-numbers}} *These categories are sorted by '''word endings''' and the pages within them will allow the reader to easily learn how Śrīla Prabhupāda used the English l ...
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  • ...us stories, and therefore they interpret them most mischievously. The have no idea of the Personality of Godhead. They unnecessarily poke their noses int ...e of Lord Caitanya, said, kaivalyaṁ narakāyate: "The happiness of becoming one with the Supreme Lord, which is aspired for by the Māyāvādīs, is consid ...
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  • ...robi, October 29, 1975]]:''' So what is that siddhi? Siddhi, to understand one's constitutional position, "What I am." I am trying to lord if over the mat ...people are still ready to follow you. Then the whole history of the world will change. And if you people agree, then I can help you. I can help.</div> ...
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  • ...d in those places. One should also find representatives of Vidura who have no desire in life save and except to serve the Personality of Godhead.</div> ...erious devotional service with detachment. Thus his mind and consciousness will be under full control.''' ...
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  • ...bances. Lord Caitanya, therefore, has given the greatest boon: in this age one simply has to chant the holy name of God to attain perfection in spiritual ...ife and go to the forest. Vanaṁ gato yad dharim āśrayeta [SB 7.5.5]. There one should seek shelter at the lotus feet of Hari.</div> ...
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  • ...cendence is realized, scientific knowledge of the Supreme Lord is lacking. One has to surpass the brahminical stage and reach the vasudeva stage to unders ...herefore, as by birth only one does not become a high-court judge, so also one does not become a brāhmaṇa simply by birthright but by acquiring the nec ...
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  • ...tee, hear from him about self-realization and follow in his footsteps, one will be gradually elevated to the position of a pure devotee</div> ...lled philosophers, faithful hearing from an authoritative person will help one transcend this material existence and go back to Godhead, back to home.</di ...
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  • ...the living nor in the dead condition." As explained in later chapters, it will be clear that knowledge means to know matter and spirit and the controller ...śūdra, he may be whatever. That is past. That is his past life. Now, when one has become kṛṣṇa-tattva-vettā, really Kṛṣṇa conscious, he come ...
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  • <div class="heading">There are also discussions of the transcendental state one achieves after attaining the devotional platform, which is the exact positi ...f how to obtain it. There are also discussions of the transcendental state one achieves after attaining the devotional platform, which is the exact positi ...
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  • ...ing">The position of an ācārya is that he executes devotional service with no desire for elevation to a higher position of life</div> ...rya. The position of an acarya is that he executes devotional service with no desire for elevation to a higher position of life.</div> ...
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  • ...uni was a mystic, and Mahārāja Parīkṣit was a devotee. Therefore there was no difference between them in self-realization. Neither of them was afraid of <div class="heading">In this age of Kali there are no powerful brāhmaṇas who can invite the demigods or give renewed life to a ...
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  • ...r preceptors are considered to be his representatives. A representative is one who can exactly present the viewpoint of Śrī Vyāsadeva. Śrī Vyāsadeva ...ends, parents, preceptors and brothers. Though I live millions of years, I will not be relieved from the hell that awaits me for all these sins.</p> ...
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  • ...u mean to say that this human form of life is also meant for that purpose? No. Human life is meant for understanding, "What I am? What is God? What is re ...ice: as soon as you become outlaw, the police will take you and the police will go on punishing you unless you become lawful. This is the . . . so without ...
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  • ...want suffering but rather wants to make a solution to all suffering, then one is not to be considered a perfect human being. ...
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  • ...such dictations of different temperaments, he is perpetually unhappy. When one actually feels this and turns his intelligence to inquiring about it from t ...fice of saṅkīrtana. According to the author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, if one compares saṅkīrtana-yajña to other yajñas, he is a pāṣaṇḍī, an ...
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  • ...be performed strongly in perfect knowledge and with transcendental vision. One must be strongly renounced and must engage in austerity and perform mystic ...Vanisource:SB 4.24.43|SB 4.24.43, Purport]]:''' Without perfect knowledge, one cannot act perfectly. The real source of knowledge is the vācaḥ, or soun ...
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  • ...many births, when one perfect in knowledge surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa, or when one attains Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then everything is revealed to him, as e ...o the submissive aural receiver who is bona fide by service and surrender. One cannot challenge the authority of the Supreme and know Him also at the same ...
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  • ...ng">Perfect knowledge is acquired from the ācāryas, or liberated souls. No one can be perfect in knowledge without being trained by the paramparā system< ...e." Perfect knowledge is acquired from the acaryas, or liberated souls. No one can be perfect in knowledge without being trained by the parampara system. ...
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  • ...He likes by perfect planning, although personally He has nothing to do. No one is greater than or equal to Him. That is the verdict of the Vedas.</div> ...He likes by perfect planning, although personally He has nothing to do. No one is greater than or equal to Him. That is the verdict of the Vedas.</div> ...
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  • <div class="heading">One who has perfectly heard from the perfect source becomes convinced about the ...name must be heard, glorified and remembered everywhere in the world. That will bring about the desired peace and prosperity so eagerly awaited by the peop ...
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  • ...gavad-gītā. By my mental speculation, by rascal interpretation, by showing one's scholarship, you cannot understand Bhagavad-gītā. That is not possible. ...giving us lesson from there, I will understand that he is teacher, and he will show us that this is A, this is B, this is C... ...
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  • ...<p style="display: inline;">A strong faith that by Kṛṣṇa consciousness one will be elevated to the highest perfection of life is called vyavasāyātmikā i ...
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  • ...gītā, “My supreme abode is a transcendental place from which, having gone, one never returns to this material world. Anyone who attains the supreme perfec ...nes without taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness and loving devotional service is no better than the bellows. Similarly, a nondevotee’s long duration of life ...
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  • ...e with their families. Because of the presence of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, they no longer suffered from the fever of material existence. Every day these lovin ...there are living entities, and other planets there are no living entities. No, that is not a fact. Anyway, here the proposal is how to achieve perfect ha ...
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  • ...lso traveled in space. Actually, the perfect yogī can do that. But even if one can travel all over the universe and show wonderful feats like Kardama Muni ...ent in the behavior of the gopīs; therefore Lord Caitanya declared that no one can worship the Supreme Lord by any method which is better than the method ...
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  • ...am. Gradually, evolutionary process... I think in Darwin's theory there is no such conception of coming to the point of sattva-guṇa, goodness. They do ...a-bhojana. Because they know, "The brāhmaṇas, they will starve; still they will not ask anybody to give him food." Therefore brāhmaṇa-bhojana. And now t ...
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  • ...in this old age"|0126|I will never die, I shall live for my books, and you will utilize|0128}} ...from the tattva-vit, not from the so-called scholars and politicians. No. One who knows the truth, you have to hear from him. And if you stick to that pr ...
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  • ...ural reception to these messages, and what to speak of surrendering to the will of the Supreme Lord? Narādhamas, or the lowest of mankind, willfully negle ...o need of austerity in life, that one can go on speculating and everything will be nice, is recommended neither in the Vedic literature nor in Bhagavad-gī ...
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  • ...d that a murderer should be condemned to death so that in his next life he will not have to suffer for the great sin he has committed. Therefore, the king' ...vanced he comes to the knowledge of impersonal Brahman and Paramātmā. When one is fully purified, he realizes that his constitutional position is to be th ...
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  • ...s made intelligent by educational 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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  • ...r, and even though the senses are very strong, like serpents, they will be no more effective than serpents with broken fangs. But even though the soul is ...king are not one and the same. An orphan is really poor because he has no one to take care of him, but a beloved son of a rich man, although he appears t ...
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  • ...all material lust. In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is recommended that whether one is a pure devotee and is free from all material desires, or is full of mate <div class="heading">By studying Bhagavad-gītā, one can become a soul completely surrendered to the Supreme Lord</div> ...
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  • ...y Krsna Consciousness mission"|"cooperate with my mission"|"cooperate with one another in our mission"|"cooperate with the mission"|"cooperate with this a ...least exaggeration but actual fact and to become a member for this mission will to your own interest. ...
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  • <div class="heading">A perfect devotee has no desire other than to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead ...ma-yogī or haṭha-yogī has his own selfish interests, a perfect devotee has no desire other than to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore t ...
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  • ...them have presented a philosophical path by themselves. Patañjali is also one of them, and all these six great ṛṣis have their own way of thinking, e ...stand the Absolute Truth simply by mental speculation or logical argument. One has to follow the authorities. Mahājano yena gataḥ sa panthāḥ [Cc. Ma ...
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  • ...iv style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense objects, as the tortoise draw ...even remaining days of life, Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī asserted that there is no use in living hundreds of years without any knowledge of the problems of li ...
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  • ...revive that svarūpa, and that stage is called svarūpa-siddhi—perfection of one's constitutional position.</p> <div class="heading">One has to undergo severe types of penance, otherwise no one can become an important figure in this material world. Why, then, are there ...
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  • ...ng">From any stage of life, or from the time of understanding its urgency, one can begin regulating the senses in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, devotional se ...So, from any stage of life, or from the time of understanding its urgency, one can begin regulating the senses in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, devotional se ...
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  • ...ves in the cycle of birth and death on higher and lower planetary systems. One should better take to the spiritual world to enjoy an eternal life full of <div class="heading">One should reach up to that platform of understanding the Supreme Personality o ...
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  • ...efore one should hear, one should be cautious, and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa will help. We should be cautious, but if something is done unwillingly, that is ...efore one should hear, one should be cautious, and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa will help. We should be cautious, but if something is done unwillingly, that is ...
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  • ...ny advice that "You open hospital, school and do this philanthropic work"? No. If you have got anything to give in charity, you are charitably disposed, ...khaṁ jīvet. Ṛṇaṁ kṛtvā pibet. "Just live joyfully, merrily..." "No, I have no money." "All right. Take, beg, borrow and steal. Some way or other, get mon ...
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  • ...root cause of all despondencies. This is not always detected, even though one may be the greatest erudite scholar in materialistic knowledge. ...root cause of all despondencies. This is not always detected, even though one may be the greatest erudite scholar in materialistic knowledge. It is good, ...
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  • ...rses and in the form of kissing by the Lord in the rāsa dance, as there is no mundane distinction between the two. ...rses and in the form of kissing by the Lord in the rāsa dance, as there is no mundane distinction between the two.</p> ...
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  • ...ing">Prahlāda Mahārāja has maintained the philosophical point of view that one should give up the dark well of family life and go to the forest to take sh ...erse also, he stresses the same point. In the history of human society, no one, at any time or any place, has been liberated because of too much affection ...
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  • <div class="heading">By Sāṅkhya philosophical research one comes to the conclusion that a living entity is not a part and parcel of th ...ment. Detachment from matter and attachment to Kṛṣṇa are one and the same. One who can see this sees things as they are.</p> ...
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  • ...style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">One should not, therefore, misunderstand that the sāṅkhya-yoga mentioned her ...f. The indirect process is philosophical speculation, by which, gradually, one may come to the point of Kṛṣṇa consciousness; and the other process i ...
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  • ...trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Candraśekhara continued, “There is no talk at Vārāṇasī other than discussions on the six philosophical these ...([[Vanisource:BG 18.55 (1972)|BG 18.55]]) "Only by devotional service can one understand Me." Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī has composed a nice verse in thi ...
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  • ...ding">Unless one is perfectly conversant with the law of the Supreme Lord, one cannot speak such things touching philosophical truths.</div> ...one. Unless one is perfectly conversant with the law of the Supreme Lord, one cannot speak such things touching philosophical truths. The Emperor, being ...
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  • <div class="heading">Philosophy means to seek after the right knowledge of one's own self, or the knowledge of self-realization. ...soners 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 a ...
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  • ...mind from unnecessary thoughts; that is called śama. One should not spend one's time pondering over earning money. That is a misuse of the thinking power ...
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  • ...ntry, humanity, etc. If Kṛṣṇa is satisfied by one's actions, then everyone will be satisfied.</p> ...
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  • ...n mercy, have the same qualitative influence, or, in other words, there is no mundane difference of value because these sentiments are all on the absolut ...ul, but if the son is unqualified and brings no glory to his family, he is no better than urine. Here Rāvaṇa is compared to urine because he was a cau ...
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  • ...ern civilization, sex life is the focal point for all activities. Wherever one turns his face, he sees sex life predominant. Therefore, sex life is not un ...the unbiased reader to the highest perfectional stage of transcendence. It will enable him to transcend the three modes of material activities: fruitive ac ...
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  • [[Category:Performing One's Duty|1]] ...wo kinds of sva-dharmas, specific duties. As long as one is not liberated, one has to perform the duties of his particular body in accordance with religio ...
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  • ...heading">The conclusion is that one cannot be perpetually happy as long as one exists in this material world. The only remedy is to get out of this materi ...trouble. The conclusion is that one cannot be perpetually happy as long as one exists in this material world. The only remedy is to get out of this materi ...
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  • ...elationship is not present between the devotee and the Lord, then there is no personalist philosophy.</div> ...there is no personalist philosophy. In the impersonal philosophy there is no reciprocation between the Supreme and the living entity, but in the persona ...
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  • ...ice. Service of the devotee is more valuable than the service of the Lord. One should therefore choose a bona fide servant of the Lord constantly engaged ...ord. Such devotees have no desire for material gain. They are conducted by one single desire: to go back to Godhead. This awaits them in due course on qui ...
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  • ...sun disc and the inner affairs of the sun planet cannot be separated from one another, and yet the students of the three different phases are not in the ...onalists, is a spiritual energy manifested in the spiritual sky. There are no spiritual diversities in the brahmajyoti as there are in the Vaikuṇṭhal ...
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  • ...es), but actually they are self-interested because their goal is to become one with the impersonal Brahman. Such a desire is greater than any material des ..., but for his personal self he does not attempt anything. By such behavior one becomes actually transcendentally situated.</p> ...
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  • ...happy by serving his personal sense gratification in different forms which will never make him happy. Instead of satisfying his own personal material sense ...conscious person is always dovetailed with the supreme desire, for he has no desire for personal sense gratification.</p> ...
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  • <div class="heading">There is no conflict between personalism and impersonalism. ...onal conception are simultaneously present in everything and that there is no contradiction. Therefore Lord Caitanya established His sublime doctrine: ac ...
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