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• Material bondage is caused by putting oneself under the control of matter because of the false ego of lording it over material nature. Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.27) states, iccha-dvesa-samutthena. Two kinds of propensities arise in the living entity  + (17:02:09, 18 August 2020)
• The activities of Mayavada philosophy are very dangerous to the public, and therefore Lord Caitanya warned us never to hear from any Mayavadi about any scripture  + (17:02:42, 18 August 2020)
• One propensity is iccha, which means desire to lord it over material nature or to be as great as the Supreme Lord. Everyone desires to be the greatest personality in this material world  + (17:14:28, 18 August 2020)
• They (The Mayavadis) will spoil the entire process, and the person hearing them will never be able to come to the path of devotional service to attain the highest perfection, or will be able to do so only after a very long time  + (17:15:55, 18 August 2020)
• These two items, desire to be the Lord and envy of the Lord, are the beginning cause of material bondage  + (17:23:24, 18 August 2020)
• As long as a philosopher, salvationist or voidist has some desire to be supreme, to be everything, or to deny the existence of God, the cause remains, and there is no question of his liberation  + (17:29:01, 18 August 2020)
• It is clearly stated by Kapila Muni that bhakti activities, or activities in devotional service, are transcendental to mukti. This is called pancama-purusartha  + (17:31:08, 18 August 2020)
• Devahuti very intelligently says, "One may theoretically analyze and say that by knowledge he has become freed, but actually, as long as the cause exists, he is not free  + (17:36:05, 18 August 2020)
• People engage in the activities of religion, economic development and sense gratification, and ultimately they work with an idea that they are going to become one with the Supreme Lord (mukti). But bhakti is transcendental to all these activities  + (17:42:03, 18 August 2020)
• After performing speculative activities for many, many births, when one actually comes to his real consciousness and surrenders unto the Supreme Lord, Krsna, then the fulfillment of his research in knowledge is actually achieved  + (17:43:19, 18 August 2020)
• If someone is in contact with the police department, that does not mean that he is a criminal. As long as one does not commit criminal acts, even though there is a police department, he is not punished  + (18:03:32, 18 August 2020)
• Forgetfulness of one's relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead is a product of ignorance. By yoga practice one can eradicate this ignorance of thinking oneself independent of the Supreme Lord  + (18:07:05, 18 August 2020)
• The liberated soul is not affected, although he is in the material nature. Even the Supreme Personality of Godhead is supposed to be in association with material nature when He descends, but He is not affected  + (18:08:30, 18 August 2020)
• One's actual relationship is eternally that of love. The living entity is meant to render transcendental loving service to the Lord  + (18:09:45, 18 August 2020)
• Forgetfulness of that sweet relationship (with God) is called ignorance, and in ignorance one is impelled by the three material modes of nature to think himself the enjoyer  + (18:12:42, 18 August 2020)
• One has to act in such a way that in spite of being in the material nature he is not affected by contamination. Although the lotus flower is in association with water, it does not mix with the water. That is how one has to live  + (18:14:17, 18 August 2020)
• One can be liberated from all adverse circumstances simply by seriously engaging in devotional service. How this devotional service develops and becomes mature is explained here - in SB 3.27.21  + (18:23:58, 18 August 2020)
• As long as one acts on his own account, he is subject to all the material perceptions of so-called happiness and distress. Actually there is no happiness  + (18:28:43, 18 August 2020)
• In the beginning one has to perform his prescribed duties with a clean mind. Clean consciousness means Krsna consciousness. One has to perform his prescribed duties in Krsna consciousness  + (18:31:51, 18 August 2020)
• Just as there is no happiness in any of the activities of a madman, so in material activities the mental concoctions of happiness and distress are false. Actually everything is distress  + (18:34:01, 18 August 2020)
• There is no necessity of changing one's prescribed duties; one simply has to act in Krsna consciousness  + (18:38:30, 18 August 2020)
• When the mind is dovetailed to act according to the desire of the Lord, one has attained the transcendental stage  + (18:39:59, 18 August 2020)
• The desire to lord it over material nature is the cause of ignorance, and when that desire is completely extinguished and the desires are dovetailed with those of the Supreme Lord, one has reached the perfectional stage  + (18:44:11, 18 August 2020)
• In discharging Krsna conscious duties, one should determine whether, by his professional or occupational duties, Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is satisfied  + (18:46:12, 18 August 2020)
• Upalabdha-paratma-kasthah. Upalabdha means "realization." Realization necessarily indicates individuality. In the perfectional, liberated stage, there is actual realization  + (18:47:34, 18 August 2020)

• Nivrttya means that the living entity keeps his individuality; oneness means that he realizes happiness in the happiness of the Supreme Lord. In the Supreme Lord there is nothing but happiness  + (18:50:28, 18 August 2020)

• Anandamayo 'bhyasat: the Lord is by nature full of transcendental happiness  + (18:52:48, 18 August 2020)
• Everyone has some prescribed duties to perform, but the perfection of such duties will be reached only if the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is satisfied by such actions  + (18:54:35, 18 August 2020)
• In liberated stage, oneness with Supreme Lord means that one has no realization other than happiness. But the individual still exists, otherwise this word upalabdha, indicating individual realization of transcendental happiness, would not have been used  + (18:59:10, 18 August 2020)
• Arjuna's prescribed duty was to fight, and the perfection of his fighting was tested by the satisfaction of Krsna. Krsna wanted him to fight, and when he fought for the satisfaction of the Lord, that was the perfection of his professional devotional duty  + (19:03:22, 18 August 2020)
• When, contrary to the wish of Krsna, he (Arjuna) was not willing to fight, that was imperfect  + (19:10:50, 18 August 2020)
• If one wants to perfect his life, he should discharge his prescribed duties for the satisfaction of Krsna. One must act in Krsna consciousness, for such action will never produce any reaction (animitta-nimittena). This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita  + (19:21:57, 18 August 2020)
• Yajnarthat karmano 'nyatra: all activities should be performed simply for Yajna, or the satisfaction of Visnu. Anything done otherwise, without the satisfaction of Visnu, or Yajna, produces bondage  + (19:33:51, 18 August 2020)
• This serious devotional service can develop by hearing for long periods of time. Chanting and hearing is the beginning of the process of devotional service  + (19:44:39, 18 August 2020)
• One should associate with devotees and hear from them about the Lord's transcendental appearance, activities, disappearance, instructions, etc  + (19:52:06, 18 August 2020)
• A person whose mind is completely dovetailed with the desire of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and who engages one hundred percent in the service of the Lord, forgets his material bodily demands  + (05:01:09, 19 August 2020)
• This stage of life (when the mind is completely dovetailed with the desire of the Supreme) is explained by Rupa Gosvami in his Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu  + (05:06:16, 19 August 2020)
• This verse (SB 3.28.38) explains that the material body of a liberated soul is taken charge of by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not acting due to the living force of the living entity; it is simply acting as a reaction to past activities  + (05:16:57, 19 August 2020)
• Even after being switched off, an electric fan moves for some time. That movement is not due to the electric current, but is a continuation of the last movement  + (05:22:49, 19 August 2020)
• Although a liberated soul appears to be acting just like an ordinary man, his actions are to be accepted as the continuation of past activities  + (05:26:54, 19 August 2020)
• In a dream one may see himself expanded through many bodies, but when awake he can understand that those bodies were all false  + (05:30:33, 19 August 2020)
• Although a liberated soul has the by-products of the body - children, wife, house, etc. - he does not identify himself with those bodily expansions. He knows that they are all products of the material dream  + (05:39:29, 19 August 2020)
• If one can accept the subtle body of a dream as false and not identify oneself with that body, then certainly an awake person need not identify with the gross body  + (05:53:47, 19 August 2020)
• Because he (the liberated soul) is acquainted with his constitutional position, he never accepts the bodily concept of life  + (06:12:26, 19 August 2020)
• Ritualistic activities for economic development and sense gratification and, after frustration in sense gratification, the desire to become one with the Supreme Lord, are all completely rejected in the Bhagavatam  + (06:14:30, 19 August 2020)
• The status of real knowledge is explained in this verse (SB 3.28.29). There are many children, but we accept some children as our sons and daughters because of our affection for them, although we know very well that these children are different from us  + (06:17:09, 19 August 2020)
• Because of great affection for money, we accept some amount of wealth in the bank as ours. In the same way, we claim that the body is ours because of affection for it  + (06:20:55, 19 August 2020)
• I say that it is "my" body. I then extend that possessive concept and say, "It is my hand, my leg," and further, "It is my bank balance, my son, my daughter  + (06:23:51, 19 August 2020)
• The Bhagavatam is especially meant for the pure devotees, who always engage in Krsna consciousness, in the activities of the Lord, and always glorify these transcendental activities  + (06:25:40, 19 August 2020)
• Actually I know that the son and the money are separate from me. It is the same with the body; I am separate from my body. It is a question of understanding, and the proper understanding is called pratibuddha  + (06:27:51, 19 August 2020)
• A less intelligent person accepts the smoke as fire, although fire and smoke are completely different. The heat and light of the fire are separate, although one cannot differentiate fire from heat and light  + (06:36:09, 19 August 2020)