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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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  • ...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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  • <div class="heading">For one who does not take personal training under the guidance of a bona fide spiri ...o understand Kṛṣṇa. The word tu is specifically used here to indicate that no other process can be used, can be recommended, or can be successful in unde ...
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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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • [[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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  • ...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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  • ...ntry, humanity, etc. If Kṛṣṇa is satisfied by one's actions, then everyone will be satisfied.</p> ...
    64 KB (10,322 words) - 01:14, 19 May 2018
  • ...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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  • ...s not advisable to chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa in a secluded place, where one may acquire only cheap adoration from the innocent public. Arjuna also thou ...sons also cannot understand the philosophy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Even if one is not greedy for material possessions but is too attached to family life, ...
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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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • <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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • <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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...<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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  • ...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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  • <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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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  • ...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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