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5 May 2022
- 15:5415:54, 5 May 2022 diff hist +3,222 A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man No edit summary current
- 15:4715:47, 5 May 2022 diff hist +4,944 An intelligent person must inquire from the spiritual master about the goal of life. A bona fide spiritual master can answer all such questions because he has seen the real truth No edit summary current
- 09:1309:13, 5 May 2022 diff hist +3,341 Pravasa is a word used to indicate the separation of lovers who were previously intimately associated. This separation is due to their being in different places No edit summary current
- 09:1109:11, 5 May 2022 diff hist +4,576 How, then, could the Pandavas tolerate His separation, for they had been intimately associated with His person, seeing Him face to face, touching Him, conversing with Him, and sleeping, sitting and dining with Him? No edit summary current
- 07:3307:33, 5 May 2022 diff hist +12 When Radharani met Krsna at Kuruksetra, She remembered His intimate association in Vrndavana, and She thought, Now I have gained the Lord of My life. In His absence I was being burned by the arrow of Cupid & thus I was withering away. Now I have My life No edit summary current
- 07:3207:32, 5 May 2022 diff hist +3,430 When asked by a householder devotee what the behavior of a devotee should be, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu immediately replied: A Vaisnava, a devotee, should simply discard intimate association with nondevotees No edit summary current
- 07:3107:31, 5 May 2022 diff hist +7,321 One can achieve seventy-eight percent of the godly qualities by the Lord's intimate association No edit summary current
- 07:3007:30, 5 May 2022 diff hist +17,240 Krtavarma was a devotee, but because of his intimate association with Kamsa, he was contaminated by sinful reactions, and he also joined the conspiracy No edit summary current
- 07:2907:29, 5 May 2022 diff hist +3,878 By intimate association with the king, the dasis would get sons. Such sons were called dasi-putras. They had no claim to a royal position, but they would get maintenance and other facilities just like princes No edit summary current
- 05:2805:28, 5 May 2022 diff hist +3,663 You must study my books very scrutinizingly, follow the four regulative principles very strictly and chant 16 rounds daily avoiding the ten offenses. Don't take this movement as something cheap No edit summary current
- 05:2705:27, 5 May 2022 diff hist +11,077 This movement is very precious missionary activities for the present society. I request the government should very scrutinizingly and wisely study this movement without being biased to some stereotyped ideas No edit summary current
- 05:2505:25, 5 May 2022 diff hist +4,651 Srimad-Bhagavatam you should study very scrutinizingly, critically No edit summary current
- 05:2405:24, 5 May 2022 diff hist +2,633 Individual study of our scriptures must be done very scrutinizingly No edit summary current
- 05:2105:21, 5 May 2022 diff hist +6,530 Atheistic Sankhya philosophers like Kapila analyze the material elements very scrutinizingly and thereby come to the conclusion that material nature is the cause of everything No edit summary current
1 May 2022
- 13:5913:59, 1 May 2022 diff hist +3,660 The word samanuvrata indicates that it is the duty of a wife to adopt the special circumstances in which the husband is situated. Of course, if the husband is as great as Kardama Muni, then a very good result accrues from following him No edit summary current
- 13:5813:58, 1 May 2022 diff hist +1,963 Wife's duty is not to disturb the husband. That is Vedic principle No edit summary current
- 13:5613:56, 1 May 2022 diff hist +4,498 Inform my daughter Sathi to abandon her relationship with her husband because he has fallen down. When the husband falls down, it is the wife's duty to relinquish the relationship No edit summary current
- 13:5513:55, 1 May 2022 diff hist +3,620 Even if the husband is not a great devotee like Kardama Muni, it is the wife's duty to adapt herself according to his mentality. That makes married life very happy No edit summary current
- 13:5413:54, 1 May 2022 diff hist +3,231 A wife's duty is to follow the husband cent percent. And Gandhari was so true to her husband that she followed him even in his perpetual blindness. Therefore in her actions she was a great ascetic No edit summary current
- 06:4406:44, 1 May 2022 diff hist +4,234 In this verse (of SB 10.2.19) the word jnana-khala is most significant. Knowledge is meant for distribution No edit summary current
- 05:4105:41, 1 May 2022 diff hist +4,903 In this verse (SB 3.2.11) the word avitrpta-drsam is most significant. Conditioned souls in the material world are all trying to satisfy their senses in various ways, but they have failed to do so because it is impossible to be satisfied by such efforts No edit summary
- 05:4005:40, 1 May 2022 diff hist +4,966 Krsna enjoyed sixteen thousand beautiful wives, and it is most significant that He lived at Dvaraka as the only husband of these thousands of beautiful women No edit summary current
- 05:2705:27, 1 May 2022 diff hist +3,253 The most significant expression in this verse (SB 4.8.79) is parthivarbhakah, son of the King No edit summary current
- 05:1205:12, 1 May 2022 diff hist +3,431 The most significant word used in this verse (SB 6.1.33) is siddha-sattamah, which means the best of the perfect No edit summary current
- 05:0805:08, 1 May 2022 diff hist +4 The word mat-parah is most significant in this connection (BG 2.61). How one can become a mat-parah is described in the life of Maharaja Ambarisa. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
30 April 2022
- 12:5012:50, 30 April 2022 diff hist +4,597 We are trying to bring as many young men as possible to the Krsna consciousness movement for their ultimate benefit, but the parents of the young men joining this movement, being very sorry, are lamenting and making counterpropaganda No edit summary current
- 12:4912:49, 30 April 2022 diff hist +5,575 Spreading the Krsna consciousness movement is the best welfare activity in the world. Because of the ultimate benefit this bestows upon people in general, the Lord very quickly recognizes such service performed by a devotee No edit summary current
- 12:4812:48, 30 April 2022 diff hist +4,936 No demigod, however, can release the imprisoned living being from the conditioned life of material existence. This can be done only by Visnu. Therefore, the ultimate benefit may be derived from Visnu, the Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 12:4812:48, 30 April 2022 diff hist +8,339 If I have to gain something supernatural which will give me the ultimate benefit of my life, then why shall I wait for old age? No edit summary current
29 April 2022
- 06:0706:07, 29 April 2022 diff hist +4,309 When one’s senses are pure, one can render loving devotional service to Krsna. A pure devotee can only remember Krsna’s transcendental qualities. Remembering them, he fully engages in the loving service of the Lord No edit summary current
- 06:0606:06, 29 April 2022 diff hist +29 Whatever else we eat cannot be offered to Him (Krsna), since He will not accept it. Thus we cannot be acting on the level of loving devotion if we offer such foods. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 05:4705:47, 29 April 2022 diff hist +4,463 To be empowered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one has to qualify himself. This means that one must engage twenty-four hours daily in the loving devotional service of the Lord No edit summary current
- 05:2605:26, 29 April 2022 diff hist +5,527 The supreme occupation (dharma) for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self No edit summary current
- 05:2505:25, 29 April 2022 diff hist +3,822 The real purpose of offering items is to exhibit one's loving devotion to the Lord; the offerings themselves are secondary No edit summary current
- 05:2505:25, 29 April 2022 diff hist −13 The real purpose is to exhibit one's loving devotion to the Lord; the offerings themselves are secondary No edit summary current
- 05:2405:24, 29 April 2022 diff hist +6,101 The personified Vedas said, "The big bellows is a bag of skin which exhales & inhales air, & a human being who simply lives within the bag of skin and bones without taking to Krsna consciousness & loving devotional service is no better than the bellows" No edit summary current
- 04:5204:52, 29 April 2022 diff hist +7,700 The impersonalists, who aspire to merge in the brahmajyoti effulgence of the Supreme Lord but have no conception of loving devotional service to Him in His personal form in the spiritual manifestation, may be compared to certain species of fish No edit summary current
- 04:4604:46, 29 April 2022 diff hist +1,716 The Absolute Truth is Sri Krsna, and loving devotion to Sri Krsna exhibited in pure love is achieved through congregational chanting of the holy name, which is the essence of all bliss No edit summary current
- 04:4604:46, 29 April 2022 diff hist +8,159 They (vayasyas) are fearless, and on a level equal with Krsna they discharge their transcendental loving devotional service No edit summary current
- 04:4504:45, 29 April 2022 diff hist +3,465 They (the conditioned souls) exist in different species of life because they are eternally averse to transcendental loving devotion to the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
- 04:4504:45, 29 April 2022 diff hist +29 There (in the Priti-sandarbha) are also discussions of bhakti mixed with philosophical speculation, the superexcellence of the love of the gopis, the difference between opulent devotional service and loving devotional service No edit summary current
- 04:4304:43, 29 April 2022 diff hist +29 Spiritual body is called siddha-deha, the body by which one can render transcendental service unto Radha and Krsna. The process is that of engaging the transcendental senses in loving devotional service No edit summary current
- 04:4204:42, 29 April 2022 diff hist +4,840 So this attainment of transcendental loving devotional service to the Lord is the goal of life, and it can be achieved very easily for one who lives in Mathura-mandala even for a few seconds No edit summary current
- 04:4104:41, 29 April 2022 diff hist +2,709 Since the performance of sacrifice culminates in the manifestation of real love for Lord Visnu, loving devotional service to Lord Visnu is the very best form of sacrifice No edit summary current
- 04:3904:39, 29 April 2022 diff hist +3,184 SB 1.2.6 states: The supreme occupation for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self No edit summary current
- 04:3704:37, 29 April 2022 diff hist +29 One should give up all the (disruptive) desires and engage exclusively in the loving devotional service of the Lord. Except for the service of the Lord, anything done is in the service of illusion, or maya No edit summary current
- 04:3404:34, 29 April 2022 diff hist +4,780 Now it is up to you to keep on working vigorously in the service of the Lord and because He is seated within your heart, He will reveal from within all necessary intelligence for you to further extend your loving devotional service to Him No edit summary current
- 04:3204:32, 29 April 2022 diff hist +6,566 Loving devotional service to the Lord begins with hearing about the Lord. There is no difference between the Lord and the subject matter heard about Him No edit summary current
- 04:1904:19, 29 April 2022 diff hist +1,967 I shall personally inaugurate the religion of the age - nama-sankirtana, the congregational chanting of the holy name. I shall make the world dance in ecstasy, realizing the four mellows of loving devotional service No edit summary current
- 03:2903:29, 29 April 2022 diff hist +29 It is, however, to be understood that the indirect process is not recommended for Arjuna because he is already at the stage of loving devotional service to the Supreme Lord. It is for others who are not at this state. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current