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17 February 2022
- 13:3013:30, 17 February 2022 diff hist +4,636 Of the six occupational duties of the brahmanas, three are compulsory - namely, worship of the Deity, study of the Vedas and the giving of charity. In exchange, a brahmana should receive charity, and this should be his means of livelihood No edit summary current
- 13:2113:21, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,411 Lord Sri Krsna then prepared for His departure. He invited the sons of Pandu, after having been worshiped by the brahmanas, headed by Srila Vyasadeva. The Lord also reciprocated greetings No edit summary current
- 13:1313:13, 17 February 2022 diff hist +3,760 Lord Krsna is the SP of Godhead, He is worshipable by all brahmanas & demigods, who are the controllers of the universal affairs. Besides that, Krsna & His family members, the royal order of the Yadu dynasty, were the conquerors of all kings of the world No edit summary current
- 13:1213:12, 17 February 2022 diff hist +3,299 Lord Brahma said: My dear Lord, this demon has proved to be a constant pinprick to the demigods, the brahmanas, the cows and innocent persons who are spotless and always dependent upon worshiping Your lotus feet No edit summary current
- 12:4512:45, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,082 King Vena continued: For this reason, O brahmanas, you should abandon your envy of me, and, by your ritualistic activities, you should worship me and offer me all paraphernalia No edit summary current
- 12:4112:41, 17 February 2022 diff hist +35 Jagannatha Misra considered Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu his beloved little boy, although He is worshiped with all veneration by learned brahmanas and saintly persons No edit summary current
- 12:1412:14, 17 February 2022 diff hist +4,203 In these families (well-situated brahmana families or well-to-do mercantile families) the worship of Lord Krsna is regularly performed and the child gets the opportunity to imitate the process of worship called arcana No edit summary current
- 12:0912:09, 17 February 2022 diff hist +39,365 In that meeting (of brahmanas), he also heard that the Deity may be worshiped within the mind. After this incident, the brahmana, having bathed in the Godavari River, began mentally worshiping the Deity No edit summary current
- 12:0312:03, 17 February 2022 diff hist +4,861 In order for a qualified brahmana to worship the Deity, he must be a Vaisnava. Thus the Vaisnava's position is superior to that of the brahmana No edit summary current
- 11:5911:59, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,679 If the brahmanas do not worship the king but instead go to the demigods, they are as polluted as unchaste women No edit summary current
- 11:5311:53, 17 February 2022 diff hist +39,452 He (the brahmana) collected all kinds of valuable paraphernalia for worship, and he worshiped the Deity very gorgeously, beginning from bathing the Deity and ending with offering arati. Thus he felt great happiness No edit summary current
- 11:4911:49, 17 February 2022 diff hist +3,436 He (Krsna) is especially inclined to the brahmana devotees. Lord Krsna is also called brahmanya-deva, which means that He is worshiped by the brahmanas No edit summary current
- 11:4111:41, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,369 For Deity worship at least 10 brahmanas are required No edit summary current
- 11:3811:38, 17 February 2022 diff hist −8 Formerly it was the custom of brahmanas to worship Lord Visnu daily at home and cook food in new pots. This system is still going on in Jagannatha Puri No edit summary current
- 11:3111:31, 17 February 2022 diff hist +6 Even if one is a brahmana and is qualified with all the brahminical qualifications, he is considered degraded if he is averse to worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 11:2811:28, 17 February 2022 diff hist +9,727 Especially in every brahmana’s house there must be a salagrama-sila to be worshiped by the brahmana family. This system is still current. People who are brahmanas by caste, who are born in a brahmana family, must worship the salagrama-sila No edit summary current
- 11:1911:19, 17 February 2022 diff hist +6,207 Brahmana grhasthas should be satisfied with a life of adhyayana, adhyapana, yajana & yajana - being learned scholars, teaching others to be scholars, learning how to worship the SPG, Visnu, & also teaching others how to worship Him, or even the demigods No edit summary current
- 11:0511:05, 17 February 2022 diff hist +7,318 Brahmanas are supposed to acquire six kinds of auspicious qualifications: they become expert in worshiping the Lord or the demigods (yajana), and they teach others how to execute this worship (yajana) No edit summary current
- 11:0311:03, 17 February 2022 diff hist +6,637 Both the brahmana Srutadeva and the King of Mithila, under the direction of the Lord, worshiped both Krsna and His followers, the great sages and saintly brahmanas, on an equal level of spiritual importance No edit summary
- 10:5910:59, 17 February 2022 diff hist +13 Being a brahmana, he (the native prince of Satara, Maharashtra) took charge of worshiping the Deity. He was known as Srimanta Balasaheb Pantha Maharaja. The state still bears the expenditure for temple maintenance No edit summary current
- 10:5110:51, 17 February 2022 diff hist +4,539 A grhastha-brahmana partaking of the varnasrama-dharma institution can secure various types of paraphernalia to worship Lord Visnu through his honest labor No edit summary current
- 10:4210:42, 17 February 2022 diff hist +7,908 A brahmana grhastha may earn his livelihood by becoming a learned scholar and teaching people in general how to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He may also assume the duty of worship himself No edit summary
- 10:3210:32, 17 February 2022 diff hist +8,245 At least three or four brahmanas available to worship the Deity No edit summary current
- 10:2410:24, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,534 Apparently Lord Sri Krsna was a ksatriya and was not worshipable by the brahmanas. But the brahmanas present there, headed by Srila Vyasadeva, all knew Him to be the Personality of Godhead, and therefore they worshiped Him No edit summary current
- 10:1910:19, 17 February 2022 diff hist +8,562 Another question may also be raised: The Lord is known as brahmanya-deva, the worshipable Deity of the brahmanas No edit summary current
- 10:0710:07, 17 February 2022 diff hist +4,836 Akrura continued, "Some of the learned brahmanas also worship You (Krsna) by observing Vedic ritualistic ceremonies. They offer different kinds of sacrifices in the names of different gods" No edit summary current
- 10:0410:04, 17 February 2022 diff hist +39,233 After many years had passed in this way, one day within his mind he (the brahmana) cooked nice sweet rice with ghee to worship the Deity No edit summary current
- 08:1908:19, 17 February 2022 diff hist +4,516 The spiritual master is the best brahmana No edit summary current
- 08:1208:12, 17 February 2022 diff hist +3,472 The King replied: O best of the brahmanas, I am very much addicted to my wife, and I am so fallen that I have abandoned all merciful behavior, even to my son, who is only five years old No edit summary current
- 07:4607:46, 17 February 2022 diff hist +1,979 Sukracarya accepted the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead with full respect. Along with the best brahmanas, he began to compensate for the discrepancies in the sacrifices performed by Bali Maharaja No edit summary current
- 07:4207:42, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,076 Sukadeva Gosvami continued: In this way, the most powerful Sukracarya accepted the order of the SPG with full respect. Along with the best brahmanas, he began to compensate for the discrepancies in the sacrifices performed by Bali Maharaja No edit summary current
- 07:1907:19, 17 February 2022 diff hist +3,336 O best of the brahmanas, without saintly persons for whom I am the only destination, I do not desire to enjoy My transcendental bliss and My supreme opulences No edit summary current
- 07:1007:10, 17 February 2022 diff hist +2,546 O best of the brahmanas, my body is filled with dirty things, and my vision has been bitten by the serpent of pride. Due to my material conceptions, I am diseased No edit summary current
- 07:0307:03, 17 February 2022 diff hist +1,504 O best of the brahmanas, for your information, let me tell you about the captains who are especially qualified to lead my military force. BG 1.7 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 06:5206:52, 17 February 2022 diff hist −23 One who understands the Absolute Truth in three phases, namely Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan, and who understands the term Bhagavan to mean the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is considered to be the best of the brahmanas, or a Vaisnava No edit summary current
- 06:5006:50, 17 February 2022 diff hist +8,806 One learned brahmana may have passed beyond all Vedic knowledge. He is considered the best among all the brahmanas. And yet, out of thousands of such brahmanas who have surpassed Vedic knowledge, one person may be a visnu-bhakta, and he is most famous No edit summary current
- 06:3106:31, 17 February 2022 diff hist −5 From Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 11.3.34): O best of the brahmanas, please tell us of the position of Narayana, who is also known as Brahman and Paramatma No edit summary current
- 06:1906:19, 17 February 2022 diff hist −11 Even if one is born a mleccha, if he becomes a devotee he is to be considered the best of the brahmanas and a learned pandita No edit summary current
- 06:1706:17, 17 February 2022 diff hist +3,589 Brhaspati is the best of the brahmanas because he is aware of the Supreme Brahman and fully in control of his senses. Therefore it is very astonishing that you have acted impudently toward him No edit summary current
- 06:1506:15, 17 February 2022 diff hist +4,784 Brahmanas are the best of the twice-born. Brahmanas, ksatriyas and vaisyas are all twice-born, but the brahmanas are the best No edit summary current
- 06:1006:10, 17 February 2022 diff hist +3,540 Because he (Brhaspati) is aware of the Supreme Brahman and fully in control of his senses, he is the best of the brahmanas No edit summary current
- 06:0806:08, 17 February 2022 diff hist +1,343 At that time I forbade him to do this, telling him, 'O best of the brahmanas, I am not a fit husband for your daughter' No edit summary current
16 February 2022
- 13:1313:13, 16 February 2022 diff hist +3,321 Among the brahmanas, one who has studied the Vedas is the best, and among the brahmanas who have studied the Vedas, one who knows the actual purport of Veda is the best No edit summary current
- 11:5711:57, 16 February 2022 diff hist +9,916 The brahmanas are supposed to give blessings to the vaisyas (farming and merchant caste), and Krsna presented Himself as the son of Maharaj Nanda, a vaisya; so the brahmana boy was right in giving blessings to Krsna No edit summary current
- 08:4808:48, 16 February 2022 diff hist +9,310 Nanda Maharaja was very confident about the qualifications of the brahmanas and their blessings. He was fully confident that simply if the good brahmanas showered their blessings, the child Krsna would be happy No edit summary current
- 08:4208:42, 16 February 2022 diff hist +2,784 It is not that only the brahmanas are powerful enough to award curses or blessings upon the subordinates No edit summary current
- 08:2008:20, 16 February 2022 diff hist +9,255 Cooked by first-class brahmanas with expert knowledge and then distributed to the public, this prasada is also a blessing from the brahmanas or Vaisnavas No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 16 February 2022 diff hist +9,186 Because Krsna is self-sufficient, He does not require anyone's blessings, yet Nanda Maharaja thought that Krsna required the blessings of the brahmanas. What then is to be said of others? No edit summary current
- 08:1508:15, 16 February 2022 diff hist +9,396 Because Krsna is self-sufficient, He does not require anyone's blessings, yet Nanda Maharaja thought that Krsna required the blessings of the brahmanas No edit summary current
- 07:4807:48, 16 February 2022 diff hist +3,093 When we offer our obeisances to the Personality of Godhead, we say - namo brahmanya-devaya, go-brahmana-hitaya ca, jagad-dhitaya krsnaya, govindaya namo namah - Visnu Purana 1.19.65 No edit summary current