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18 February 2021

• 19:1719:17, 18 February 2021 diff hist +2,456 A sentimentalist who has no Vaisnava qualifications cannot produce transcendental writings No edit summary current
• 19:1719:17, 18 February 2021 diff hist +1,793 The author (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) here continues to follow the same principles of worship of the Panca-tattva that were described in the Seventh Chapter of the Adi-lila No edit summary current
• 19:1619:16, 18 February 2021 diff hist +2,976 On Ekadasi, everything is cooked for Visnu, including regular grains and dhal, but it is enjoined that a Vaisnava should not even take visnu-prasadam on Ekadasi No edit summary current
• 19:1619:16, 18 February 2021 diff hist +1,691 Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura says there was a commentary on grammar named Panji-tika that was later explained very lucidly by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current
• 19:1619:16, 18 February 2021 diff hist +1,794 The Caitanya-bhagavata, Adi-khanda, chapters Four, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten, are a good reference for the studious pastimes of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current
• 18:2618:26, 18 February 2021 diff hist +12,329 A materially happy person is in need of the eternal relief that mundane religiosity in terms of fruitive work can never award No edit summary current
• 18:2618:26, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 Religion can be considered in the following three divisions: (1) the path of fruitive work, (2) the path of knowledge and mystic powers, and (3) the path of worship and devotional service No edit summary current
• 18:2618:26, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 In Srimad-Bhagavatam, a distinction between real religion and pretentious religion has been clearly made No edit summary current
• 18:2618:26, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 To offer prayers to the Lord, one should first offer prayers to His devotees and associates No edit summary current
• 18:2618:26, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 Sri Krsna and His various personal expansions are nondifferent in potential power. These expansions are associated with further, secondary expansions, or servitor expansions, who are called devotees No edit summary current
• 18:2618:26, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 This - CC Adi 1.77 - is another quotation from the Laghu-bhagavatamrta - 1.15 No edit summary current
• 18:2518:25, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 During the rasa dance He (Krsna) expanded Himself in identical prakasa forms to dance beside each and every gopi simultaneously No edit summary current
• 18:2518:25, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 The prakasa forms are manifested by Lord Krsna for His pastimes, and their features are exactly like His. When Lord Krsna married sixteen thousand queens in Dvaraka, He did so in sixteen thousand prakasa expansions No edit summary current
• 18:2518:25, 18 February 2021 diff hist +2,440 The former devotees (those attracted by God's opulences) are placed in the realm of Vaikuntha to render reverential devotional service, whereas the latter devotees (those attracted by nuptial love) are placed in Vrndavana for the direct service of Krsna No edit summary current
• 18:2518:25, 18 February 2021 diff hist +2,219 Among the (personal) associates, some are attracted by the opulences of the Personality of Godhead, and others are attracted by nuptial love of Godhead No edit summary current
• 18:2518:25, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 Perfect servitors of the Lord are considered His personal associates, whereas devotees endeavoring to attain perfection are called neophytes No edit summary current
• 18:2518:25, 18 February 2021 diff hist +3,514 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always mindful of the devotees who fully engage in cultivating knowledge of Him, having taken shelter at His lotus feet No edit summary current
• 18:2518:25, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 The Lord, being full and free from problems, can wholeheartedly care for His devotees. His concern is how to elevate and protect all those who have taken shelter at His feet. The same responsibility is also entrusted to the spiritual master No edit summary current
• 18:2518:25, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 Krsna is actually situated in the heart of every living entity, but only a devotee can realize this fact No edit summary current
• 18:2518:25, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is one without a second, and therefore He is all-powerful. He has inconceivable energies, of which three are principal No edit summary current
• 18:2518:25, 18 February 2021 diff hist +3,918 Strong attachment for the transcendental service of the Lord develops as he continues listening to the messages of Godhead, and if he steadfastly proceeds in this way, he is certainly elevated to spontaneous love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary
• 18:2518:25, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 As one associates with devotees and tries to adopt the means instructed by the spiritual master in his own life, his misgivings and other obstacles are vanquished by his execution of devotional service No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +3,240 One's development of a taste for executing these instructions (of the spiritual master) is the test of one's devotional service. Initially, one must develop confidence by hearing the science of devotion from a qualified spiritual master No edit summary
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +2,929 Intelligent persons seeking transcendental realization should very scrupulously avoid their (gross materialists and unbelievers') company No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 When Urvasi left Pururava, he was deeply affected by the separation and had to learn to overcome his grief No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 It is not possible for a conditioned soul to directly meet Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 The complete treatise Krsna-karnamrta is dedicated to the transcendental pastimes of Sri Krsna and Srimati Radharani. It is a book to be read and understood by the most elevated devotees of Sri Krsna No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 In his (Bilvamangala Thakura's) adoration of Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, he states that Jayasri, the goddess of fortune, Srimati Radharani, takes shelter in the shade of His lotus feet to enjoy the transcendental rasa of nuptial love No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 Here (in CC Adi 1.56) the words anvaya-vyatirekabhyam suggest that one must learn the process of devotional service in its two aspects: one must directly execute the process of devotional service & indirectly avoid the impediments to progress No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 This verse (CC Adi 1.57) is from the Krsna-karnamrta, which was written by a great Vaisnava sannyasi named Bilvamangala Thakura, who is also known as Lilasuka No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 She (Cintamani) gave him (Bilvamangala Thakura) the inspiration to begin on the path of devotional service, and because she convinced him to give up material existence to try for perfection by loving Krsna, he has first offered his respects to her No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 In the beginning of that book (Krsna Karnamrta) he (Bilvamangala Thakura) has offered his obeisances to his different gurus, and it is to be noted that he has adored them all equally No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 He (Bilvamangala Thakura) entrusted the service of his Deity to Hari Brahmacari, a disciple of Vallabha Bhatta No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 The next verse (CC Adi 1.55) instructs that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by His inconceivable energies, is simultaneously one with and different from the living entities and the material energy. This knowledge is called acintya-bhedabheda-tattva No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 The eternal relationship of the living entities with the Supreme Lord is explained in that verse - CC Adi 1.54 No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 The living entities, although parts and parcels of Lord Krsna, are prone to be controlled by the external energy; therefore, although they are spiritual, in the material world they are encased in bodies of material energy No edit summary current
• 18:2418:24, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 In the first of these verses (CC Adi 1.53) the transcendental nature of Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is explained. The second verse (CC Adi 1.54) further explains that the Lord is detached from the workings of the material energy, maya No edit summary current
• 18:2318:23, 18 February 2021 diff hist +7,655 The reciprocation between friends is called sakhya, the affection of a parent for a child is known as vatsalya, and the affairs of conjugal love constitute madhurya No edit summary current
• 18:2318:23, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 Land, home, furniture and other inert material objects are related in santa, or the neutral and silent sense, whereas servants work in the dasya relationship No edit summary current
• 18:2318:23, 18 February 2021 diff hist +7,553 In the spiritual world there are five kinds of relationships with the Supreme Lord - santa, dasya, sakhya, vatsalya and madhurya. The perverted reflections of these rasas are found in the material world No edit summary current
• 18:2318:23, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 When one develops pure love for the Lord, he derives an ocean of transcendental happiness from the association of the Personality of Godhead. To qualify oneself to reach this stage of life is the highest perfection No edit summary current
• 18:2318:23, 18 February 2021 diff hist +3,860 To achieve this (spontaneous) love (for the Lord) should be the goal of life for every living being No edit summary current
• 18:2318:23, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 The Lord is manifested to a pure devotee from within and without. This is one of the mysteries of the devotional relationship in which a devotee and the Lord are bound by a tie of spontaneous love No edit summary current
• 18:2318:23, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 His (the surrendered soul's) eyes are engaged in seeing the beautiful couple Sri Radha and Krsna sitting on a decorated throne beneath a desire tree in the transcendental land of Vrndavana No edit summary current
• 18:2218:22, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 Because of his development of transcendental attachment for the Supreme Lord, a surrendered soul feels the presence of his beloved everywhere, and all his senses are engaged in the loving service of the Lord No edit summary current
• 18:2218:22, 18 February 2021 diff hist +4,278 The development of submissiveness is the cause of proportionate spiritual realization, by which one can ultimately meet the Supreme Lord in person, as a man meets another man face to face No edit summary current
• 18:2218:22, 18 February 2021 diff hist +4,650 The Personality of Godhead in His all-pervading feature of Paramatma enters every entity, from the biggest to the most minute. His existence can be realized by one who has the single qualification of submissiveness and thereby becomes a surrendered soul No edit summary current
• 18:2218:22, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 The entire material manifestation develops and exists because the Supreme Personality of Godhead enters it as Paramatma, or the Supersoul No edit summary current
• 18:2218:22, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 Without His (the Supreme Lord's) presence within the material world, the cosmic body could not develop, just as without the presence of the spirit within the physical body, the body could not develop No edit summary current
• 18:2218:22, 18 February 2021 diff hist +65 The inferior illusion is inert matter, and the superior illusion is the living entity. The living entities are called illusory in this context (of CC Adi 1.54) only because they are implicated in the illusory structures & activities of the material world No edit summary current