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02:5702:57, 19 January 2022 diff hist +6,867 The following statement is about a brahmana devotee: "This brahmana is very expert in all kinds of activities, but I do not know why he is looking up without moving his eyes" No edit summary current

14:4614:46, 18 January 2022 diff hist +4,145 Brahma-bandhu means a person who is born of a brahmana father but whose activities are not up to the standard of the brahmanas. Such a person is not a brahmana but a brahma-bandhu. Daksa proved himself to be a brahma-bandhu No edit summary current
14:3614:36, 18 January 2022 diff hist +4,201 A man who is engaged in the medical or engineering fields has a particular duty and designation. All these human activities have been divided by the Supreme Lord into four varnas, namely brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra No edit summary current
14:0914:09, 18 January 2022 diff hist +3,508 When brahmanas and saintly persons are honored, they part with their pious activities, giving them to those who honor them and render them service No edit summary current
14:0114:01, 18 January 2022 diff hist −37 The so-called brāhmaṇas, kṣatriyas and vaiśyas have forgotten their traditional activities, and in the absence of these activities they are called śūdras No edit summary current
13:1113:11, 18 January 2022 diff hist +3,595 They (Brahmanas) are always busy in their activities for spiritual advancement. Nonetheless, when there is a calamity in human society, they cannot remain impartial No edit summary current
12:1012:10, 18 January 2022 diff hist +3,691 A so-called brahmana who is born in the family of brahmanas but performs activities aimed against the Vaisnavas cannot be accepted as a brahmana, because brahmana means Vaisnava and Vaisnava means brahmana No edit summary current
11:4711:47, 18 January 2022 diff hist +6,994 All their (the brahmanas) activities are childish because they do not know the purpose of the Vedas, as it is explained in the Bhagavad-gita: to understand Krsna No edit summary current
11:2411:24, 18 January 2022 diff hist +2,703 Thus Ajamila began spending whatever money he had inherited from his father to satisfy the prostitute with various material presentations so that she would remain pleased with him. He gave up all his brahminical activities to satisfy the prostitute No edit summary current
10:5710:57, 18 January 2022 diff hist +3,319 Not only must a brahmana be qualified, but he must also engage in actual brahminical activities. Simply to be qualified is not enough; one must engage in a brahmana's duties No edit summary current
10:5310:53, 18 January 2022 diff hist +13,404 Lord Caitanya's special treatment of Ramananda Raya indicated that although Ramananda Raya was born in a nonbrahminical family, he was far, far advanced in spiritual knowledge and activity No edit summary current
10:4410:44, 18 January 2022 diff hist +13,543 Although Ramananda Raya was born in a nonbrahminical family, he was far, far advanced in spiritual knowledge and activity. Therefore he was more respectable than one who simply happens to be born in a brahminical family No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 18 January 2022 diff hist +8,445 You have heard many times the caste system of India: brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra. This is not artificial. It is natural. In any society you go, not only in India, in any other country, these four classes of men are there No edit summary current
08:1108:11, 18 January 2022 diff hist +4,982 Why India is fallen down? Because the so-called rascals, they are claiming that "I am brahmana." But what is our occupation, sir? "Oh, I am serving as a coolie." Is that brahmana's business? No edit summary current
07:5807:58, 18 January 2022 diff hist +5,111 Unfortunately, debauched so-called brahmanas in India neither offer them (the sannyasis of the Krsna consciousness movement) respect nor accept them as bona fide sannyasis No edit summary current
07:3807:38, 18 January 2022 diff hist +77 This has always been the system (the brahmanas are always honored first), and it is still prevalent in India, even though the caste brahmanas are not qualified. The system is still current due to the varnasrama institutional rules and regulations No edit summary current
07:2807:28, 18 January 2022 diff hist +3,406 The story begins, kanyakubje. Kanyakubja is still there in India. Perhaps you have heard the name of Kanpur. So that is within the Kanyakubja area. Kanyakubje dvijah: "There was a brahmana in Kanyakubja" No edit summary current
07:0007:00, 18 January 2022 diff hist +35 There is a railway station there (in Trailanga, South India) called Nidadabhalu. Sixteen miles from that station is a village called Kankadabada, or Kakunrapadhu. A learned brahmana named Laksmana Diksita used to live there, & Vallabha Bhatta was his son No edit summary current
06:5606:56, 18 January 2022 diff hist −8 There are brahmanas known as panca-gauda-brahmanas, who come from five places in northern India, and there are brahmanas known as panca-daksinatya-brahmanas, who come from five places in southern India No edit summary current
06:4206:42, 18 January 2022 diff hist +7,347 Srutadeva, a brahmana from the country called Mithila in northern India, became so overpowered with joy as soon as he saw Krsna that immediately after bowing to the Lord's lotus feet he stood up and began to dance, raising his two arms above his head No edit summary current
06:3606:36, 18 January 2022 diff hist +1,585 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu had made an acquaintance with a brahmana from Deccan (in South India), and that brahmana invited Him for meals and took Him to his place No edit summary current
05:5205:52, 18 January 2022 diff hist +6,647 In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, Tenth Canto, 86th Chapter, 27th verse, there is a statement of how Srutadeva, a brahmana from the country called Mithila in northern India, would become so overpowered with joy as soon as he saw Krsna No edit summary current
05:4005:40, 18 January 2022 diff hist −27 In northern India the places (where the panca-gauda-brahmanas come from) are Kanyakubja, Sarasvata, Gauda, Maithila and Utkala No edit summary current
05:3905:39, 18 January 2022 diff hist +2,462 In southern India the places (where the panca-daksinatya-brahmanas come from) are Andhra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Dravida and Maharashtra No edit summary current
05:3205:32, 18 January 2022 diff hist +3,502 In India in those days and even until fifty years ago, polygamy was freely allowed. Any man, especially of the higher castes - the brahmanas, the vaisyas and particularly the ksatriyas - could marry more than one wife No edit summary current
05:2305:23, 18 January 2022 diff hist +3,889 India is enriched with Vedic knowledge, and those who are born in India, they should take advantage of this facility, especially those who are in the higher topmost ranks, the brahmanas, the ksatriyas, the vaisyas. Especially the brahmanas No edit summary current
05:1905:19, 18 January 2022 diff hist +6,400 How is that you are simply claiming that "India, there is sanatana-dharma"? "In India there is brahmana"? What Krsna creates, that is for everywhere. Because Krsna is the father of everyone No edit summary current
04:5504:55, 18 January 2022 diff hist +4,107 First of all, they were importing European masters, and now they are importing dogs. Now they will have to import European brahmanas. Yes. Because in India all the brahmanas are now finished No edit summary current
04:5304:53, 18 January 2022 diff hist +5,462 Fifty years before in India, in every village there was a small school conducted by the brahmana, and the village children would be trained up there. So he was sent for training. And there was no school fee No edit summary current
04:3604:36, 18 January 2022 diff hist +8,081 Chili is tama-guna; that is the symptom of tama-guna. As soon as you chew, it becomes hot, everything. You see? So ugra. And sattva-guna is sweetness, so sweet. Therefore, ordinarily in India it is stated that a brahmana is known who can eat more sweets No edit summary current
04:2404:24, 18 January 2022 diff hist +9,330 A brahmana must be a Vaisnava and a learned scholar. Therefore in India it is customary to address a brahmana as pandita No edit summary current
04:2004:20, 18 January 2022 diff hist +9,206 A brahmana is called pandita because brahmana means one who knows Brahman. Brahma janatiti brahmanah. Therefore he is called pandita. In India the brahmana is addressed as pandita. Pandita means a brahmana is expected to know Brahman No edit summary
04:1004:10, 18 January 2022 diff hist +2,003 After thus assuring the brahmana, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu proceeded further into southern India and finally arrived at Durvasana, where He bathed in the river Krtamala No edit summary current
03:3603:36, 18 January 2022 diff hist +5,184 Brahmanas, they would simply advise about health and the future, so that is their profession and people give them eatables, cloth, so they have nothing to do for working outside No edit summary current

15:0615:06, 17 January 2022 diff hist +4,362 When the brahmana (God As a Brahmana) asked the woman (Vaidarbhi) who the man lying on the floor was, she answered that he was her spiritual master and that she was perplexed about what to do in his absence No edit summary current
14:5914:59, 17 January 2022 diff hist +1,728 The Lord continued, "I have become very much pleased by the truthfulness of you both. Now you can ask for a benediction." Thus with great pleasure the two brahmanas begged for a benediction No edit summary current
14:5814:58, 17 January 2022 diff hist +6,685 The learned brahmana Sudama did not appear to have received anything substantial from Lord Krsna while at His palace, yet he did not ask anything from the Lord No edit summary current
14:3814:38, 17 January 2022 diff hist +9,514 He (the brahmana) thought, "If I go there I shall be able to see the Lord personally. That will be a great opportunity, even if I don't ask any material benefit from Him (Krsna)" No edit summary current
13:2113:21, 17 January 2022 diff hist +1 The whole is the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His virat-rupa, or universal form. The brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras are respectively the mouth, arms, abdomen and legs of the universal form of the Lord No edit summary current
13:1413:14, 17 January 2022 diff hist +2,030 The brahmanas and Vedic knowledge come from the mouth of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the ksatriyas and bodily strength come from His arms, the vaisyas and their expert knowledge in productivity and wealth come from His thighs No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 17 January 2022 diff hist +5,656 According to our Vedic civilization, whenever, whenever there is any ceremony, the brahmanas are..., are sumptuously fed. Because brahmanas are considered to be the mouth of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
11:3611:36, 17 January 2022 diff hist +4,502 The brahmanas are situated in the supreme transcendental mode of nature-sattva-guna. Because of this, they are fixed in mind control (sama), sense control (dama), and truthfulness (satya) No edit summary current
08:2908:29, 17 January 2022 diff hist +4,758 Vrddhasrayam, a person who takes shelter of a superior person who is advanced in knowledge, can acquire all the good qualities of a brahmana and be trained in good behavior No edit summary current
08:0908:09, 17 January 2022 diff hist +4,674 This is called variety, not nirvisesa-vada, classless: "No brahmana required, no sudra required." No, everything is required. Everything is required, but they should be properly trained up No edit summary current
06:0106:01, 17 January 2022 diff hist +2,992 Men trained perfectly as brahmanas should know all Vedic literature, and the benefit derived from this literature should be distributed to the general populace No edit summary current
05:5705:57, 17 January 2022 diff hist +5,211 I can immediately take up the task of opening a center there and to open a varna-asrama college there affiliated by the university. In this college we shall train up pure brahmanas, (qualified brahmanas), Ksatriyas and Vaisyas No edit summary current
05:3205:32, 17 January 2022 diff hist +17 In former times, the higher social orders, namely the intelligent class (the brahmanas), the ruling class (the ksatriyas) and the mercantile class (the vaisyas), were properly trained No edit summary current
03:0003:00, 17 January 2022 diff hist +9,309 As soon as one is trained as a pure Vaisnava, he must be accepted as a bona fide brahmana. This is the essence of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's instructions in this verse - CC Madhya 8.128 No edit summary current
02:3602:36, 17 January 2022 diff hist +5,381 Although you are coming from the mlecchas and yavanas, by training, you are becoming more than a brahmana No edit summary current

16:2316:23, 16 January 2022 diff hist +5,123 When one is thus cheated, he sometimes takes shelter of the real followers of Vedic principles (brahmanas or those in Krsna consciousness), who teach everyone how to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead according to the Vedic rituals No edit summary current

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