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  • [[Category:Krsna's Prasadam]] [[Category:Offering Food to Krsna]] ...
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  • ...ears of the day of Brahmā elapse before the appearance of Lord Kṛṣṇa. This is an astronomical calculation according to solar years.</p> ...fests His transcendental pastimes in Vraja so that people may be attracted into that sphere of activities and leave aside their imitation relationships wit ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...est of mankind. Such demoniac species of men are held to be always full of lust, always violent and hateful and always unclean. The many kinds of hunters i ...
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  • ...a's complexion was golden, just like the luster of the moon. Although this is figurative language, it conveys the meaning behind the appearance of Caitan ...is far superior to regulated devotional service. Such pure love of Godhead is always glorious in all respects, more so than reverential devotional servic ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...ther than kill Kaṁsa, but both were performed simultaneously. Therefore it is said here that to deliver the devotee and vanquish the demon miscreants, th ...
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  • {{terms|"turn into"|"turned into"|"turning into"|"turns into"}} [[Category:Turn Into|1]] ...
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  • ...ifferent from Him. Īśāvatārakān refers to ācāryas like Advaita Prabhu, who is an avatāra of the Lord. Tat-prakāśān indicates the direct manifestation ...rd therefore says, "I am everything," because everything is His energy and is therefore nondifferent from Him.</p> ...
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  • ...n point is that one should always stay aloof from unholy association. That is the sum and substance of a devotee's behavior"}} [[Category:is That]] ...
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  • ...love of Kṛṣṇa. It is in relishing the reciprocation of loving service that love of Kṛṣṇa exists.</p> ...to Lord Kṛṣṇa is the highest perfectional path to self-realization, and it is recommended that it be performed directly. Fruitive activity, mystic medita ...
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  • {{terms|"One is also advised not to even look at the faces of persons who are irreligious o [[Category:one Is]] ...
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  • {{terms|"one should give up everything that is unfavorable to the discharge of devotional service, and one should be deter [[Category:Surrendering to Krsna]] ...
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  • ...urrender. The first is that one should accept everything that is favorable for the discharge of devotional service, and one should be determined to accept [[Category:Surrendering to Krsna]] ...
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  • [[Category:Persons in Krsna Consciousness]] ...k quarrels. His interest is in the essence of life, which is spiritual. He is equal to everyone, and no one can find fault in him. ...
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  • ...dhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Since Śrī Gaurasundara, or Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, is identical with Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself, the Brahman effulgence consists o ...soul, or Paramātmā, is only a partial representation of Lord Caitanya, who is identical with Bhagavān Himself. Therefore the descriptions of Brahman as ...
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  • [[Category:Chanting Hare Krsna]] ...ed by whatever is sent by Kṛṣṇa for the maintenance of the body and hanker for no more, (9) observe fasting on Ekādaśī day (this occurs on the eleventh ...
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  • {{terms|"if a person who is about to die takes full shelter of the Supreme Lord and places himself full [[Category:Who Is]] ...
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  • ...rd deputes Himself in the state of Supersoul to supervise the arrangements for such material enjoyment.</p> ...ays creates fog. The material creation is but a perverse reflection of the eternal Vaikuṇṭha nature.</p> ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...is a controller. Nothing could be manifested without being controlled. It is childish not to consider the controller.</p> ...
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  • ...this indebtedness. However, if one is fully surrendered unto Kṛṣṇa, there is no obligation. One becomes free from all debts"}} [[Category:One Is]] ...
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  • ...yone who, because of his background of pious activities in previous lives, is anxious to hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam immediately realizes the presence of t ...a consciousness. Therefore Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the greatest benediction for human society.</p> ...
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  • ...="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3> ...He's Supreme, I am servant," and when I engage myself in His service, that is the purification of desires. ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...nfirm the stability of the conception of the soul. Repetition of something is necessary in order that we understand the matter thoroughly, without error. ...
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  • ...life is better than a woman's because a man usually has better facilities for understanding the spiritual science.</p> ...s Kṛṣṇa, but He has taken the mood and role of Rādhārāṇī to show us how to love Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...never comes under the control of material nature. Indeed, material nature is but one display of His inconceivable energies.</p> ...o become more and more materialistic and forget our relationship with God, is also absent there.</p> ...
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  • ...extensions, expansions and incarnations of the Lord, this pleasure potency is the foremost and chief.</p> ...ou are between the material energy and the spiritual energy, your position is marginal. Belonging to the marginal potency of Kṛṣṇa, you are simulta ...
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  • ...does not make such a vain attempt. The object of Kṛṣṇa's pleasure potency is Rādhārāṇī, and He exhibits His potency or His energy as Rādhārāṇ ...y such desires, he is not peaceful. Indeed, as long as there is any desire for material perfection at all, one cannot be at peace. Since the devotees of L ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...lops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.</p> ...
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  • {{notes|Only for when refering to Back to Godhead as in going to the spiritual world and not ...ne can return to the spiritual world, and the ultimate goal of life, which is to return home, back to Godhead. Because these things are unknown to the co ...
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  • ...never comes under the control of material nature. Indeed, material nature is but one display of His inconceivable energies.</p> .... In the Nāradīya Purāṇa it is said that by the grace of the Lord one who is very serious about developing Kṛṣṇa consciousness has his desire to u ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...ed to be the sound incarnation of Brahman. Brahmā is its initiator, and it is passed down from him in disciplic succession.</p> ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...sly in the mode of ignorance without rising to a higher mode. Their future is very dark.</p> ...
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  • ...even see his own eyelid, which is the closest thing to his eye, and if one is disturbed by a disease like jaundice, he sees everything to be yellow. Simi ...inline;">He has invested Anantadeva with all the potencies of sustenance. For the dissolution of the creation, He also exhibits Himself as the Supersoul ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...ransformed into lust, as milk in contact with sour tamarind is transformed into yogurt.</p> ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...sense enjoyment, they come under the sway of lust. This material creation is created by the Lord to give facility to the conditioned souls to fulfill th ...
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  • ...art and culture with moral and ethical principles, but the mode of sattva is a still higher stage of material quality, which actually helps one in reali ...one thoroughly understands this superior or eternal energy of the Lord, it is not possible to leave the material energy, however one may theoretically sp ...
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  • ...otion's not "nectar of devotion" not "love and devotion" not " devotion to krsna" not "pure devotion" not "unalloyed devotion"}} ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...
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  • ...rsna is the enjoyer"|"Krsna is the supreme enjoyer"|"Krsna simply enjoys"|"Krsna was enjoying"|"enjoyed by Krishna"|"enjoyment of Krishna"}} [[Category:Krsna's Enjoying|1]] ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...d one who is situated in Kṛṣṇa consciousness has certainly already entered into the kingdom of God.</p> ...
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  • ...is most urgent because Your mission is to deliver fallen souls, and no one is more fallen than I. I beg priority."</p> ...e and offers them the highest gift, love of Kṛṣṇa, and thus makes them mad for Kṛṣṇa consciousness."</p> ...
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  • ...the will of the Supreme Lord, he changed his decision and agreed to fight for the satisfaction of the Lord.</p> ...āla, quarreled with Kṛṣṇa and was killed, he attained salvation and merged into the body of Lord Kṛṣṇa. Parāśara replied that Hiraṇyakaśipu fail ...
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  • ...isplay: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"I enter into each planet, and by My energy they stay in orbit." Were the planets not hel ...so the recipient of all the adoration offered by His devotees, for whom He is the objective and the goal.</p> ...
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  • ...ght of visiting Southern India, and he started with one Kṛṣṇadāsa Brāhmaṇa for the journey.</p> ...times) for the benefit of the religious world. Rūpa Gosvāmī left Allahabad for Vṛndāvana, and Mahāprabhu came down to Benares.</p> ...
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  • ...seeing a man as a product of his times—fails here, for Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is a personality who transcends the limited scope of historical settings.</p> ...uch manifestations should never be considered products of material nature, for they are all transcendental, full of knowledge and full of bliss.</p> ...
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  • ...Vaikuṇṭhas because there is no lamentation or fear there and everything is eternal. The spiritual world has been calculated to comprise three fourths of the e ...is not very intelligent. He is not conversant with the art of ecstasy but is simply a prosaic creator. He does not know how to arrange things properly s ...
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  • ...out duality because they are on the spiritual platform. The Absolute Truth is known sometimes as Brahman, sometimes as Paramātmā and sometimes as Bhaga ...onger does he maintain such duality. Thus I am now able to comprehend Your eternal forms, knowing well the Paramātmā to be only Your plenary portion."</p> ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...ery clearly indicated in this chapter in verses eight through eleven. That is the way of pure devotional service. How one can attain the highest devotion ...
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  • ...anscendental loving service, is most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all." ([[Vanisource:BG 6.47 (1972)|BG 6.47]])</p> ...nowledge are still attempting various meditative processes not recommended for this age.</p> ...
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  • ...><p style="display: inline;">"O my Lord, everything within material nature is limited by time, space and thought. Your characteristics, however, being un ...ng entities who think either that there is no God or that if God exists He is formless and they themselves are also God. ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...ctable man like you, ill fame is worse than death. So, you should not flee for fear of your life; better to die in the battle. That will save you from the ...
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  • ...life is better than a woman's because a man usually has better facilities for understanding the spiritual science.</p> ...problems. This is called māyā. People held in the grip of māyā are thrown into oblivion after death, and as a result of their karma, in the next life they ...
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  • ...ing God. Lord Caitanya taught that this is the highest stage of perfection for human beings.</p> ...ve no resource unused. Whatever is there, whatever we have, should be used for Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...ip with Him and can act on the basis of that relationship. In this way one is gifted with the ultimate goal of life.</p> ...ip with Him and can act on the basis of that relationship. In this way one is gifted with the ultimate goal of life.</p> ...
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  • ..., and He asked Candraśekhara to call in the man who was sitting there. "He is a Vaiṣṇava, a great devotee of the Lord," Caitanya Mahāprabhu said. Ca <p>"I am touching you just for My purification," the Lord replied, "for you are a great devotee. By your devotional service you can deliver the who ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...t"><p style="display: inline;">Arjuna said: O descendant of Vṛṣṇi, by what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by force?</p> ...
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  • ...es, entourage and paraphernalia of Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself. That is the absolute nature of the Absolute Truth.</p> ...inted out that the highest goal in human life is to develop unalloyed love for Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p> ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...f the Lord. One should not neglect to understand fully how great Kṛṣṇa is, for by knowing the greatness of Kṛṣṇa one will be able to be fixed in sin ...
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  • ...e in the scriptures acceptance of more than one is always forbidden. There is no limit, however, to the number of instructing spiritual masters one may a ...His subordinates but are also predominators. Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the Supreme Lord, and Nityānanda Prabhu and Advaita Prabhu are manifestati ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...s. One of these songs is the Bṛhat-sāma, which has an exquisite melody and is sung at midnight.</p> ...
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  • ...rial world is only a reflection of that supreme illumination. That Brahman is in front and in back, in the north, south, east and west, and also overhead ...splay: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This text is from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.11.38). Those who have taken shelter of the lo ...
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  • ...ernally the subordinate servitor"|"servitor exists eternally"|"servitor is eternal"}} [[Category:Eternal Servitor|1]] ...
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  • ...e basis of the Ādi-līlā, and Svarūpa Dāmodara's diary provides the details for the Madhya- and Antya-līlās.</p> ...He descends to liberally grant the fallen souls of this degraded age pure love of God by propagating saṅkīrtana—literally, "congregational glorificat ...
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  • ...ery of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, which is a transcendental literature meant for the postgraduate study of one who has realized all the Vedic literatures su ...a Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura and other unalloyed Vaiṣṇavas, the spiritual master is always considered either one of the confidential associates of Śrīmatī R ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...o mention such godless philosophical speculations. Real Sāṅkhya philosophy is described by Lord Kapila in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, but even that Sāṅk ...
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  • ...g service alone that one can surpass the influence of māyā and relish pure love of Godhead. As long as one desires material benefit or liberation, which ar ...e Lord Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu had appeared before them as their little child. This is confirmed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.44.51):</p> ...
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  • ...fifth verse, "I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord, who is absorbed in Rādhārāṇīs thoughts."</p> ...st as an ordinary materialistic businessman thinks of nothing else when he is absorbed in his business, a pure devotee, when engaged in the service of th ...
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  • ...spiritual energy engages himself in the service of the Supreme Lord in his eternal relationship.</p> ...āda. Every conditioned living entity who considers the body to be the soul is deluded by this vivarta-vāda. One can be attacked by this vivarta-vāda ph ...
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  • {{terms|"Love for God"|"love God"|"love of God"|"love of Godhead"}} [[Category:Love of Godhead|1]] ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...of the Upaniṣads, which are part of different Vedas, as the Bhagavad-gītā is a part of the fifth Veda, namely the Mahābhārata. The Upaniṣads mark th ...
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  • ...na"|"service to Lord Krishna"|"service to Lord Krsna"|"service to Lord Sri Krsna"}} [[Category:Krsna's Service|1]] ...
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  • ...of Krsna"|"everything for the service of Krsna"|"everything for worshiping Krsna"}} [[Category:Everything for Krsna|1]] ...
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  • ...thing except in its relationship with Kṛṣṇa, and therefore his realization is the most perfect of all.</p> ...splay: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This text is from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.11.38). Those who have taken shelter of the lo ...
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  • ...appeared just to distribute the knowledge of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Thus He is also the Lord incarnated as a devotee.</p> ...tting the transcendental mellow of servitorship to the Lord. When a person is actually advanced in spiritual understanding, however, he can accept the tr ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga.</p> ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...return to Godhead, having finished his so-called enjoyment. It is a chance for the conditioned souls to attain liberation; therefore the conditioned souls ...
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  • {{terms|"that is Krishna"|"that is Krsna"|"this is Krishna"|"this is Krsna"}} {{notes|Does not include "that is Krsna consciousness"}} ...
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  • ...aster. In the surrendering process, one should (1) accept things favorable for discharging devotional service, (2) reject things unfavorable, (3) firmly b ...ace the sunshine and then the sun globe, and then, if one is able to enter into that globe, one may come face to face with the predominating deity of the s ...
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  • ...y such desires, he is not peaceful. Indeed, as long as there is any desire for material perfection at all, one cannot be at peace. Since the devotees of L ...not elevated to the transcendental loving service of the Lord. Love of God is dormant in everyone, and it can be awakened from its dormant position by th ...
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  • ...asure in matter? He is the Supersoul, the supreme spirit, and His pleasure is beyond the material conception.</p> ...asure in matter? He is the Supersoul, the supreme spirit, and His pleasure is beyond the material conception.</p> ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...r Kṛṣṇa. Anyone who thinks that God and the demigods are on the same level is called an atheist, or pāṣaṇḍī.</p> ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...o give this knowledge to the people in general, for their conditional life is very much troublesome. They should come out of it and be Kṛṣṇa consci ...
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  • ...The false prestige one acquires by attempting to dominate material nature is illusory. Illuminating knowledge can be acquired from Teachings of Lord Cai ...s not, it is regarded as illusory. But beyond this temporary manifestation is a higher nature, as indicated in the Bhagavad-gītā (8.20):</p> ...
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  • ...a sincere devotee cannot be false. All possibilities abide in Him, for He is the primeval Lord.</p> ...to the Yamunā to see the form of Govinda. The sound of Lord Kṛṣṇa's flute is so sweet that it has made the gopīs forget all about their relationships w ...
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  • ...|"Supreme Soul, God"|"Supreme Spirit, God"|"supreme enjoyer, God"|"supreme eternal, God"|"supreme god"|"supreme godhead"|"supreme omnipotent Godhead"|"supreme ...h, spiritual variegatedness is conspicuous by its absence. This experience is therefore called advaita-vāda, or realization of the oneness of the Absolu ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...sense enjoyment, they come under the sway of lust. This material creation is created by the Lord to give facility to the conditioned souls to fulfill th ...
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  • ...Godhead, but by the influence of yogamāyā he is prepared to do anything to love the Supreme Lord better.</p> ...e, when one develops pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he immediately develops his eternal servitorship to Kṛṣṇa.</p> ...
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  • ...e mercy of Kṛṣṇa one can achieve the platform of devotional service. There is no other way."</p> ...tional service to the Lord, not even if one tries for it by such processes for many, many thousands of births."</p> ...
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  • ...mself, because He is bestowing freely what no one else has ever given—pure love of Kṛṣṇa." ...qual to or greater than Him. There is nothing superior to be conceived. He is the Supreme Person.</p> ...
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  • ...to explain personally the transcendental mellows of reciprocal service and love exchanged between Himself and His servants, friends, parents and fiancees.< ...His plenary portions, as Lord Caitanya. As stated in this chapter, it was for this purpose that Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared personally in Navadvīpa in the ...
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  • {{notes|(1) Quote under "NOD 10" is from NOD 30; (2) Quote under "NOD 33" is from NOD 48}} ...cause of his association with the qualitative modes of material nature, he is captivated by its interactions of distressful, unhappy feelings.</p> ...
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  • ...s and calves, he begged the Lord's pardon for his offensive act and prayed for the Lord's mercy.</p> ...to be the sound of My flute. And She embraces a tamāla tree, mistaking it for Me.</p> ...
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  • ...rsonal attendant, Govinda, to give them all the remnants of His food. This is described in Antya-līlā, Chapter Twelve, verse 53.</p> ...
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  • ...never comes under the control of material nature. Indeed, material nature is but one display of His inconceivable energies.</p> ...fraternity), vātsalya-rasa (parental affection) and madhura-rasa (conjugal love).</p> ...
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  • ...e basis of the Ādi-līlā, and Svarūpa Dāmodara's diary provides the details for the Madhya- and Antya-līlās.</p> ...rī. During these final years, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya drifted deeper and deeper into trances of spiritual ecstasy unparalleled in all of religious and literary ...
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  • ...parent="compilation" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is"><h2>Bhagavad-gita As It Is</h2> ...;">The demigods are powerful living entities appointed by the Supreme Lord for the maintenance and supervision of all material functions like the heating, ...
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  • ...due to certain circumstances, such as disease, but such proscriptions are for the less intelligent. Without knowing the actual process by which the mind ...The false prestige one acquires by attempting to dominate material nature is illusory. Illuminating knowledge can be acquired by studying the teachings ...
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  • ...ship with Him. To know Kṛṣṇa is to know one's self, and to know one's self is to know one's relationship with Kṛṣṇa. Since this relationship can be ...of devotional service is very rare and fortunate. A pious or religious man is generally inclined to worship deities in various temples, but if by chance, ...
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  • ...rifice, is specifically meant for satisfying Viṣṇu, another name for Viṣṇu is Yajñeśvara, or Lord of sacrifices.</p> ...n, and Kṛṣṇa confirms this in the Bhagavad-gītā (7.19): "After speculating for many, many births, the philosophical speculators and empiric philosophers u ...
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