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Vanibot #0019: LinkReviser - Revised links and redirected them to the de facto address when redirect exists

Visnu Murti at 08:34, 18 December 2008

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== Bhagavad-gita As It Is ==

=== BG Preface and Introduction ===

'''People in general, especially in this Age of Kali have no knowledge that the material or external nature is very strong, for everyone is strongly bound by the stringent laws of material nature'''

<span class="BG-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:BG Preface|BG Preface]]:''' People in general, especially in this Age of Kali, are enamored by the external energy of Kṛṣṇa, and they wrongly think that by advancement of material comforts every man will be happy. They have no knowledge that the material or external nature is very strong, for everyone is strongly bound by the stringent laws of material nature. A living entity is happily the part and parcel of the Lord, and thus his natural function is to render immediate service to the Lord. By the spell of illusion one tries to be happy by serving his personal sense gratification in different forms which will never make him happy.

'''In life we are accustomed to thinking either of the material or of the spiritual energy. Now, how can we transfer our thoughts from the material energy to the spiritual energy?'''

<span class="BG-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:BG Introduction|BG Introduction]]:''' In life we are accustomed to thinking either of the material or of the spiritual energy. Now, how can we transfer our thoughts from the material energy to the spiritual energy? There are so many literatures which fill our thoughts with the material energy-newspapers, magazines, novels, etc. Our thinking, which is now absorbed in these literatures, must be transferred to the Vedic literatures. The great sages, therefore, have written so many Vedic literatures, such as the Purāṇas. The Purāṇas are not imaginative; they are historical records. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Madhya 20.122) there is the following verse:

: mäyä-mugdha jévera nähi svataù kåñëa-jïäna
: jīvere kṛpāya kailā kṛṣṇa veda-purāṇa

The forgetful living entities or conditioned souls have forgotten their relationship with the Supreme Lord, and they are engrossed in thinking of material activities. Just to transfer their thinking power to the spiritual sky, Kṛṣṇa-dvaipāyana Vyāsa has given a great number of Vedic literatures.

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Vanibot: Vanibot #0019: LinkReviser - Revised links and redirected them to the de facto address when redirect exists

Visnu Murti at 08:34, 18 December 2008