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09:0009:00, 1 May 2021 diff hist +4,308 A description concerning Viththalesvara is given in the Bhakti-ratnakara - Fifth Wave Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
08:4608:46, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 Whoever thinks Lord Visnu and the demigods are on the same level is to be immediately considered a rogue as far as spiritual understanding is concerned Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:4608:46, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 When they (Vaisnavas) speak to sinful people about the teachings of this Krsna consciousness movement, people will be affected and take the instructions. We receive instructions in devotional service through the disciplic succession Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:4508:45, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 When the mode of goodness is mixed with the mode of passion, one worships the sun-god, Vivasvan. When the mode of goodness is mixed with the mode of ignorance, one worships Ganapati, or Ganesa Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:4208:42, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 Unless one is fit according to the estimation of the spiritual master, one cannot accept a mantra from the pancaratrika-vidhi or the vaidika-vidhi Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:4008:40, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3908:39, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 There is the mantra known as the dvadasaksara mantra, composed of twelve syllables, and there is the mantra composed of eighteen syllables. Similarly, there are the Narasimha mantra, the Rama mantra, the Gopala mantra and so on Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3908:39, 1 May 2021 diff hist −49 There is sodhana, or purification of the mantra, but there is no such consideration for the Krsna mantra Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3808:38, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 There are three modes of nature in the material world, but when one is situated spiritually, he is above the material modes, even though he lives in this material world Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3808:38, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 There are many caste gosvamis who professionally create some disciples who do not care for them or their instructions. Such spiritual masters are satisfied simply to get some material benefits from their disciples Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3708:37, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 There are innumerable incarnations and expansions who are also called Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3608:36, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 The word atma also includes all kinds of personalities known as Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This means that Krsna has unlimited expansions Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3408:34, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 The first-class devotee is the spiritual master for all kinds of people. It is said, gurur nrnam. The word nrnam means “of all human beings.” The guru is not limited to a particular group Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3408:34, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 The expansions of Krsna are thus compared to candles that have been lit from an original candle. All the secondary candles are equally powerful, but the original candle is that from which all the others have been lit Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3308:33, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 The bona fide spiritual master who accepts disciples from all over the world is also worshiped all over the world because of his qualities. Lokanam asau pujyo yatha harih: the people of the world worship him just as they worship the SPG Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3208:32, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 The Supreme Lord is the master of innumerable eternal energies, which are unlimited. Sometimes these energies are manifested, and sometimes they are not. In any case, all energies are under His control Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3208:32, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 The Sanskrit word mamsa means “meat.” It is said, mam sah khadati iti mamsah. That is, “I am now eating the flesh of an animal who will some day in the future be eating my flesh” Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3008:30, 1 May 2021 diff hist −14 Sudras and women who are chaste and sincerely interested in understanding the Absolute Truth are qualified to be initiated with the pancaratrika-mantras Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3008:30, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 Such a relationship (gosvamis who professionally create some disciples who do not care for them) is condemned by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, who calls such spiritual masters and disciples a society of cheaters and cheated Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3008:30, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 Such a person (spiritual master who accepts disciples from all over the world) is called an acarya because he knows the principles of devotional service, he behaves in that way himself, and he teaches his disciples to follow in his footsteps Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:2908:29, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura said that the position of a Vaisnava can be tested by seeing how good a touchstone he is - that is, by seeing how many Vaisnavas he has made during his life Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:2908:29, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura introduced the system of giving the sacred thread to a bona fide Vaisnava, and we are following in his footsteps Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
08:2308:23, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 One must love the spiritual master with unflinching faith, and one must be very steady and fixed Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:2208:22, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 On that platform (visuddha-sattva) one can then understand, aradhyo bhagavan vrajesa-tanayas tad-dhama vrndavanam: “The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the son of Nanda Maharaja, is to be worshiped along with His transcendental abode, Vrndavana” Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:1808:18, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the origin of all other Personalities of Godhead Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:1808:18, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 Kanistha-adhikari devotees cannot turn others into Vaisnavas, but a madhyama-adhikari Vaisnava can do so by preaching Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:1708:17, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 It is Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s wish that everyone should become a Vaisnava and guru Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:1608:16, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 In India there are many so-called gurus, and they are limited to a certain district or a province. They do not even travel about India, yet they declare themselves to be jagad-guru, the guru of the whole world. Such cheating gurus should not be accepted Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:1508:15, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 If we are intelligent enough, we shall engage in the loving service of the Lord. Then our lives will be successful, and we shall not have to suffer like the hunter life after life Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:1508:15, 1 May 2021 diff hist −14 If one is sincerely eager to chant the Hare Krsna mantra or diksa-mantra, one is qualified to be initiated according to the pancaratrika process Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:1508:15, 1 May 2021 diff hist −49 If by chance one gets a sad-guru, it doesn’t matter whether one is in the temple or the forest. If the sad-guru, the bona fide spiritual master, agrees, one can be initiated immediately, without waiting for a suitable time or place Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:1008:10, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 Even though a person is born in a brahminical family and is very expert in performing sacrifices, he cannot be accepted as a guru if he is not a strict Vaisnava Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:0608:06, 1 May 2021 diff hist −7 By killing animals, not only will we be bereft of the human form but we will have to take an animal form and somehow or other be killed by the same type of animal we have killed. This is the law of nature Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:0408:04, 1 May 2021 diff hist −70 Balitvat krsna-mantranam samskarapeksanam na hi: “The Krsna mantra is so strong that there is no question of sodhana.” (Hari-bhakti-vilasa 1.235) As far as diksa is concerned, one should consult Madhya-lila 15.108 Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections
08:0308:03, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 As long as the living entity is within this material world, in the condition of illusion, he cannot understand the activities of the inconceivable energies of the Lord Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:0208:02, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 Although His (Krsna's) expansions are also called the Supreme Personality of Godhead, They are attained only by the execution of regulative devotional service Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:0008:00, 1 May 2021 diff hist −21 A person who worships the demigods and gives up Lord Vasudeva is like a man who gives up the protection of his mother for the shelter of a witch Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:0008:00, 1 May 2021 diff hist +5,601 A common brain in the conditioned state cannot conceive of how He (the Supreme Personality of Godhead) is the master of both manifest and potential powers, and how contradictory potencies can abide in Him Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections

15:4515:45, 29 April 2021 diff hist +278,321 N File:VaniSkin Menu Vanibot #0040: Publishes menu editor's changes into Vanipedia

09:0309:03, 16 April 2021 diff hist +3 Because of the winds of the sea, sometimes the sand would form dunes. Such sand dunes are called cataka parvata. Instead of seeing these sand dunes simply as hills of sand, the Lord (Caitanya) would take them to be Govardhana Hill Vanibot #0034: AttributeFixer - update invalid page properties to valid forms current
08:4108:41, 16 April 2021 diff hist −7 Without being trained, one cannot be sukrti, auspicious Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3908:39, 16 April 2021 diff hist −14 When one is fully absorbed in the thought that one is not different from the Supreme Absolute Truth, one is said to be a worshiper of the impersonal Brahman Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3508:35, 16 April 2021 diff hist −7 To make a show of devotional service will not help one. One must be a pure devotee following the devotional process; then one can convert others to devotional service Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3508:35, 16 April 2021 diff hist −7 Those who claim to be devotees but do not engage in Krsna’s service to elevate all living creatures to Krsna consciousness are to be considered kanistha-adhikaris (people in the lowest stage of devotional service) Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3308:33, 16 April 2021 diff hist −7 These so-called philanthropists, politicians and philosophers have no knowledge because they do not know that there is life after death. Understanding that there is life after death is the beginning of spiritual knowledge Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3208:32, 16 April 2021 diff hist −42 The space occupied by Goloka Vrndavana-dhama is called mahakasa, or “the greatest sky of all” Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3108:31, 16 April 2021 diff hist −21 The planets up to Brahmaloka are part of the material world (Devi-dhama). Because the material world is under the control of Devi, Durga, it is called Devi-dhama Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:3108:31, 16 April 2021 diff hist +3,985 The acarya’s duty is to accept the essence of devotional service. There may be a little change here and there as far as yukta-vairagya (proper renunciation) is concerned Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:2908:29, 16 April 2021 diff hist −49 Srila Rupa Gosvami has refuted this argument about the hair incarnation, and his refutation is supported by Sri Baladeva Vidyabhusana’s commentaries Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current
08:2608:26, 16 April 2021 diff hist +4,154 Sanatana Gosvami was enjoined to enunciate the behavior of a Vaisnava (as Srila Sanatana Gosvami did in the Hari-bhakti-vilasa) Vanibot #0032: QuoteRegulator - regulates the markup syntax of quoted text sections current

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