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8 April 2021

• 10:4210:42, 8 April 2021 diff hist +7,623 Dry renunciation is forbidden by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and we have also learned this from our spiritual master. The essence of devotional service must be taken into consideration, and not the outward paraphernalia No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 8 April 2021 diff hist −21 The word anapeksa means that one should not be concerned with mundane people and should not depend upon them. One should depend solely on the Supreme Personality of Godhead and be free from material desires No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 8 April 2021 diff hist −21 The word maitra, “friendly,” indicates that one who is able to preach the bhakti cult all over the world should be equally friendly to everyone No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 8 April 2021 diff hist −21 One should not be jealous of members of other castes or nations. It is not that only Indians or brahmanas can become Vaisnavas. Anyone can become a Vaisnava. Therefore one should recognize that the bhakti cult must be spread all over the world No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 8 April 2021 diff hist −21 One who rejects everything without knowledge of its relationship to Krsna is not as complete in his renunciation No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 8 April 2021 diff hist −21 When one is not attached to anything but at the same time accepts everything in relation to Krsna, one is rightly situated above possessiveness No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 8 April 2021 diff hist −21 We should not introduce anything whimsically, without the sanction of the bona fide spiritual master No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 8 April 2021 diff hist −21 The word agraha means “not to accept.” We should not follow regulative principles without an effect, nor should we fail to accept the regulative principles. What is required is a special technique according to country, time and candidate No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 8 April 2021 diff hist −21 Not following the regulative principles but instead living extravagantly is also called niyamagraha. The word niyama means “regulative principles,” and agraha means “eagerness” No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 8 April 2021 diff hist +6,898 A candidate for Krsna consciousness in the Western countries should be taught about the renunciation of material existence, but one would teach candidates from a country like India in a different way No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 8 April 2021 diff hist +7,342 To broadcast the cult of Krsna consciousness, one has to learn the possibility of renunciation in terms of country, time and candidate No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 8 April 2021 diff hist −21 Unfortunately this great science of Krsna consciousness has been impeded by Mayavadi philosophers, who are opposed to the personality of Krsna No edit summary
• 09:3709:37, 8 April 2021 diff hist +4,306 Mayavadi philosophers, who have a poor fund of knowledge, simply dismiss the subject by explaining that krsna means "black." Not understanding the qualities of Krsna, these atheistic rascals do not accept Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +3,491 The Mayavadis maintain that everyone is God, but even if this philosophy is accepted, no one can maintain that everyone is equal to the Supreme Godhead in every respect. Only unintelligent men maintain that everyone is equal to God or that everyone is God No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +3,186 God is described as the Supreme Being, the chief of all living beings, because He is supplying the necessities of all others - eko bahunam yo vidadhati kaman No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +3,171 God is described as the Supreme Being, and the living entity is described as a jiva No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +3,307 The living entities have all the characteristics of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in minute quantity, but the living entity is never equal to the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +3,310 Prema-vaicittya is a word used to indicate an abundance of love that brings about grief from fear of separation, although the lover is present No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +3,159 The meetings of the lovers that take place in dreams also have these four divisions No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +4,152 Whether connected or not connected, the ecstatic emotion arising due to not being able to embrace and kiss each other as desired is called vipralambha. This vipralambha helps nourish emotions at the time of meeting No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,681 The platform of mahabhava includes rudha and adhirudha. These platforms are possible only in conjugal love. Advanced ecstasy is found in Dvaraka, whereas highly advanced ecstasy is found among the gopis No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,103 Ayoga has two divisions - longing and separation No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,165 Yoga (connection) is of three types - success, satisfaction and permanence No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,732 The divisions of yoga and viyoga are always existing in the five mellows. However, in the transcendental mellows of friendship and parental affection, there are many varieties of yoga and viyoga No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,502 In the transcendental mellows of neutrality and servitorship, there are similar divisions of yoga and viyoga, but they are not variegated No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,860 Learned scholars in the science of bhakti-yoga say that when there is an absence of association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, separation takes place No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,472 In the mellows of bhakti-yoga, there are two stages - ayoga and yoga No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,824 The special feature of the mellow of friendship exhibited by personalities like Subala is that it increases from fraternal affection to counterlove, to spontaneous attachment, to subordinate attachment, and finally to the ecstasy No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,635 In the mellow of servitorship, love of Godhead increases beyond that to affection, counterlove (anger based on love), love and attachment. Similarly, the mellow of friendship increases to affection, counterlove, love, attachment and subattachment No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 8 April 2021 diff hist +3,050 They (vyabhicari ecstatic emotions) are to be known by words, by different symptoms seen in the limbs and in other parts of the body, and by the peculiar conditions of the heart No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 8 April 2021 diff hist +3,245 There are thirty-three transitory elements, known as vyabhicari ecstatic emotions. They especially wander about the permanent sentiments as assistants No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 8 April 2021 diff hist +6,120 Bodily contortions, yawning, a trembling of the front portion of the nostrils, heavy breathing, hiccupping and falling down and rolling on the ground. These are the external manifestations of emotional love No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 8 April 2021 diff hist +6,248 All these symptoms (of subordinate ecstatic expressions of love) are divided into two divisions - sita and ksepana. Singing, yawning and so on are called sita. Dancing and bodily contortions are called ksepana No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 8 April 2021 diff hist +6,355 The many external ecstatic symptoms, or bodily transformations which indicate ecstatic emotions in the mind and which are also called udbhasvara, are the anubhavas, or subordinate ecstatic expressions of love No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 8 April 2021 diff hist +5,619 That which causes love for Krsna to appear is called vibhava. That has two divisions - alambana (in which love appears) and uddipana (by which love appears) No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,772 Love for Krsna, Kesava, as previously described, reaches the supreme state of being composed of mellows when its ingredients are fulfilled No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,188 Continuous ecstatic love for Krsna is called permanent ecstasy No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,554 These moods (bhavas) bring under control the favorable ecstasies (such as laughing) and unfavorable ecstasies (such as anger). When these moods continue to remain as kings, they are called sthayi-bhava, or permanent ecstasies No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,699 Foolish people without knowledge of devotional service praise such symptoms of attachment even when they are based on something other than a desire to serve Krsna No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,947 The real symptoms of the fructification of the seed of love (rati) are manifested because the heart is melted. When such symptoms are found among speculators and fruitive actors, they cannot be accepted as real symptoms of attachment No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 8 April 2021 diff hist +2,477 Many great saintly persons, sages, brahmanas, kings and demigods came to see him (Maharaja Pariksit) in his last days No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 8 April 2021 diff hist +4,325 Sadhana-bhakti refers to the development of devotional service through the regulative principles No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 8 April 2021 diff hist +4,202 Devotional life is divided into two stages - sadhana-bhakti and bhava-bhakti No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 8 April 2021 diff hist +4,296 The love of Godhead is actually life’s highest perfection and the reservoir of all pleasure No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 8 April 2021 diff hist +4,354 The more one is interested in hearing and chanting, the more he is purified of material contamination No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 8 April 2021 diff hist +4,595 As a result of this (devotee) association, he (a person) becomes more and more interested in discharging devotional service and hearing and chanting No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 8 April 2021 diff hist +4,672 A person becomes interested in devotional service by some good fortune. Eventually he becomes interested in pure devotional service without material contamination. At that point, a person wants to associate with devotees No edit summary
• 08:1808:18, 8 April 2021 diff hist +3,951 N The mission of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is to spread the only medicine effective in this fallen Age of Kali - the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The mission of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is to spread the only medicine effective in this fallen Age of Kali—the chanting o..."

7 April 2021

• 14:1314:13, 7 April 2021 diff hist +2,799 N It so happened that when the other sannyasis were going to Advaita Acarya’s to take lunch, there was a big rainstorm, & they could not reach His house. Thus, according to Advaita Acarya’s desires, Caitanya Mahaprabhu came alone & accepted the prasadam Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It then so happened that when the other sannyāsīs were going to Advaita Ācārya’s to take lunch, there was a big rainstor..."
• 14:0514:05, 7 April 2021 diff hist +2,663 N The Caitanya-bhagavata (Antya-khanda, Chapter Nine) gives the following description. One day Srila Advaita Acarya, having extended an invitation to Caitanya Mahaprabhu, thought that if the Lord came alone He would feed Him to His great satisfaction Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The Caitanya-bhāgavata (Antya-khaṇḍa, Chapter Nine) gives the following description. One day Śrīla Advaita Ācārya, ha..." current