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21 May 2022

• 04:4104:41, 21 May 2022 diff hist +3,614 Bhagavad-gita was taught to Arjuna for topmost class of men. They'll understand. Imam rajarsayo viduh. Evam parampara praptam. So be yourself amongst the topmost intelligent class of men and try to understand Bhagavad-gita. Then you'll be happy No edit summary current
• 04:2604:26, 21 May 2022 diff hist +4,502 All the commentaries in the market, they are simply presentation of the particular commentator's personal view. That is not Bhagavad-gita. If you want to understand Bhagavad-gita, then you should understand as they are said No edit summary
• 04:2504:25, 21 May 2022 diff hist +52 After understanding Bhagavad-gita from Krsna, Arjuna confirms this in the following words: I now fully understand that You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, and that You are the refuge of everything. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 04:2404:24, 21 May 2022 diff hist +52 Actually this process of Krsna consciousness or self-realization is not very difficult. Krsna taught it to Arjuna in Bhagavad-gita, and if we understand Bhagavad-gita just as Arjuna did, we will have no problem in coming to the perfectional state No edit summary current
• 03:5603:56, 21 May 2022 diff hist +7,573 I say that there must be educational institution for training brahmana, ksatriya especially No edit summary current

20 May 2022

• 16:4016:40, 20 May 2022 diff hist +2,895 The pure devotee hates and fears sayujya-mukti, merging into the effulgence of the Lord. This merging is due to an offense committed against the transcendental loving service of the Lord, and therefore it is not at all desirable for a pure devotee No edit summary current
• 16:3116:31, 20 May 2022 diff hist +32 The path of knowledge, mystic yoga and renunciation has nothing to do with the pure soul. When one is temporarily in the material world, such processes may help a little, but they are not necessary for a pure devotee of Krsna No edit summary current
• 16:3016:30, 20 May 2022 diff hist +3,704 The Lord is very kind and He awards right understanding of His transcendental Supreme Personality to His faithful devotee. And there is no such thing as material pangs for such a pure devotee of the Lord, because the Lord protects His devotees No edit summary current
• 16:2716:27, 20 May 2022 diff hist +3,783 These statements (of Kardama Muni) are the pure devotional situation; for a devotee, the perfection of the senses is to engage in the service of the Lord No edit summary current
• 16:1416:14, 20 May 2022 diff hist +4,498 These blessings (vast kingdom, good wife, obedient brothers, happy subjects and prosperous world) automatically follow for a pure devotee, even though the devotee does not aspire for them No edit summary current
• 15:4015:40, 20 May 2022 diff hist +3,836 There is no chance of a devotee's being in error, nor is there any partiality on the part of the Lord for His pure devotees No edit summary current
• 15:3215:32, 20 May 2022 diff hist +2,103 If a devotee has no appreciation for God but he has a little appreciation for pure devotee, than what kind of devotee is this? No edit summary current
• 15:3115:31, 20 May 2022 diff hist +8,821 How can one think of the Lord as being without form? How can one become formless and at the same time have all intelligence and consciousness, direct and indirect? So there are many things for a pure devotee to learn No edit summary current
• 15:3115:31, 20 May 2022 diff hist +8,981 How can one become formless and at the same time have all intelligence and consciousness, direct and indirect? So there are many things for a pure devotee to learn, and he should learn them perfectly from a bona fide personality like Sukadeva Gosvami No edit summary current
• 15:2915:29, 20 May 2022 diff hist +3,162 For the pure devotee such a change takes place exactly like lightning, and illumination follows simultaneously. That is to say a devotee simultaneously changes his material body and develops a spiritual body by the will of the Supreme No edit summary current
• 15:2815:28, 20 May 2022 diff hist +32 For such a devotee (a pure devotee) there is no such thing as material existence, and the much advertised bliss of brahmananda is like a fig for the devotee who is in the midst of the transcendental ocean of bliss No edit summary current
• 15:2615:26, 20 May 2022 diff hist +4,671 For one who becomes a pure devotee through devotional service to great personalities like Caitanya Mahaprabhu, kaivalya, or merging into Brahman, appears no better than hell No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 20 May 2022 diff hist +32 For a pure devotee who does not practice yoga, the mind should always be engaged in Krsna consciousness so that at death he can remember the Supreme by His grace. This is explained in verse fourteen (of BG). BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 14:1814:18, 20 May 2022 diff hist +5,102 For a pure devotee of the Lord, any topics in relation with His name, fame, quality, entourage, etc., are all pleasing No edit summary current
• 14:0814:08, 20 May 2022 diff hist +2,800 For a pure devotee, the door of liberation is automatically opened. One should not think that Bali Maharaja was given so much material opulence merely because of his charity No edit summary current
• 14:0714:07, 20 May 2022 diff hist +3,227 For a pure devotee, the conception of Mukunda, Lord Sri Krsna, is both personal and impersonal No edit summary current
• 14:0314:03, 20 May 2022 diff hist +23,844 Bhattacarya replied (to Lord Caitanya) that mukti is not as valuable as bhakti and that mukti is actually a sort of punishment for the pure devotee. For this reason he changed the word mukti to bhakti No edit summary current
• 14:0214:02, 20 May 2022 diff hist +32 Everything is possible for a pure devotee because he acts under the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 20 May 2022 diff hist +32 For a pure devotee, it is the same whether he materially constructs a path or constructs one within his mind. This is because the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Janardana, is bhava-grahi, or appreciative of the sentiment No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 20 May 2022 diff hist +6,686 As far as material conveniences are concerned, they automatically come, just as the maidservants of a queen follow the queen wherever she goes. Liberation is no problem for the pure devotee, and all material conveniences are simply awaiting him No edit summary current
• 13:4713:47, 20 May 2022 diff hist +8,593 If you accept Bhagavad-gita as the book of authority, you cannot change the meaning. That is not allowed. What right? If you have got some opinion, if you have got some philosophy, you can write in your own book No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 20 May 2022 diff hist +3,779 Dharma you cannot change. Just like water. Water is liquid. You cannot make it solid. If water becomes solid, then it is not in the natural state No edit summary current
• 13:4313:43, 20 May 2022 diff hist +6,635 Dharma is generally translated by the English word "religion." But religion is misunderstood. It is taken as a faith. Faith I may believe, faith, or may not believe. But actually, dharma does not mean. Dharma means occupation, which you cannot change No edit summary current
• 13:4213:42, 20 May 2022 diff hist +3,804 Dharma, it cannot be changed. Either you are Hindu, either you are Muslim, either you are Christian, either you are Buddha, the dharma, the implication of the word dharma, that you cannot change No edit summary current
• 13:4213:42, 20 May 2022 diff hist +8,766 Can you change the lawbook according to your interpretation? Then what is the meaning of that lawbook? That is not lawbook. You cannot change No edit summary current
• 13:3813:38, 20 May 2022 diff hist +5,910 You (Americans) have placed in your Constitution, there is, you trust in God. Now you should understand what is God and how to trust. That we are teaching. This should be taken very seriously. Because you cannot change your Constitution No edit summary
• 13:3813:38, 20 May 2022 diff hist +9,770 She says you cannot change the society? We want to produce a new society? No edit summary current
• 13:3613:36, 20 May 2022 diff hist +5,509 One may become a Christian from Hindu, or from a Hindu to Christian. Generally, we find these changes. But a dharma does not mean like that. Dharma means which you cannot change. It is the constitutional part of your life No edit summary current
• 13:3513:35, 20 May 2022 diff hist +30 Nobody can change them (sruti-smrti-pramana). But these particular rules and regulations in sruti-smrti are for particular times, particular circumstances. So we have to take these rules and regulations. You cannot change them No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 20 May 2022 diff hist +8,498 We cannot change the original rules and regulation, but there is variety. We are not impersonalist. Every person has got to serve the Lord in a particular way, and that is allowed. The central point is Krsna No edit summary current
• 12:3912:39, 20 May 2022 diff hist +1,496 The life and characteristics of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are exactly like an ocean of nectar, one drop of which can please the mind and ear No edit summary current
• 12:3812:38, 20 May 2022 diff hist +1,444 The natural opulence of Vrndavana is just like an ocean. The opulence of Dvaraka and Vaikuntha is not even to be compared to a drop No edit summary current
• 12:3812:38, 20 May 2022 diff hist +1,618 The ocean of nectarean pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is like the ocean of milk. According to his thirst, Vrndavana dasa Thakura filled his pitcher and drank from that ocean No edit summary current
• 12:3712:37, 20 May 2022 diff hist +1,575 The pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are like nectar, and they are deep like the ocean. People in general cannot understand them, but a sober devotee can No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 20 May 2022 diff hist +2,002 Unalloyed love of Krsna is like an ocean of happiness. If someone gets one drop of it, the whole world can drown in that drop. It is not befitting to express such love of Godhead, yet a madman must speak. But even though he speaks, no one believes him No edit summary current
• 12:3312:33, 20 May 2022 diff hist +3,288 Vedic literature is like the milk ocean of knowledge No edit summary current
• 12:3212:32, 20 May 2022 diff hist +9 Vidyapati, a great and learned poet of Mithila, has said that the pleasure derived from friendship, society and family life in the material world is like a drop of water, but our hearts desire pleasure like an ocean No edit summary
• 08:2408:24, 20 May 2022 diff hist +1,679 What I have heard from Ramananda Raya is like a nectarean ocean of discourses about Krsna. Even the demigods, beginning with Lord Brahma, cannot understand all these topics No edit summary current
• 08:1908:19, 20 May 2022 diff hist +1,855 The family of Maharaja Nanda is just like an ocean of milk, wherein Lord Krsna has arisen like the full moon to illuminate the entire universe No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 20 May 2022 diff hist +3,883 The cows exactly resemble the surabhi cows in the transcendental abode. Therefore Your opulence is just like an ocean that no one can measure No edit summary current
• 08:1708:17, 20 May 2022 diff hist +2,100 The activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are just like an ocean of nectar. Even a drop of this ocean can inundate all the three worlds No edit summary current
• 08:1708:17, 20 May 2022 diff hist +28 They (universes) are each covered by sevenfold material coverings of water, fire, air, sky, ego, noumenon & material nature, just like a huge football, pumped and covered, floating on the water of the Causal Ocean, wherein the Lord is lying as Maha-Visnu No edit summary current
• 08:1508:15, 20 May 2022 diff hist +6,484 Sri Krsna, who appeared like an ordinary human being, saw the immense strength of Jarasandha, which appeared like an ocean about to cover a beach at any moment. He also perceived that the inhabitants of Mathura were overwhelmed with fear No edit summary current
• 08:1108:11, 20 May 2022 diff hist +3,387 Outer space is like an ocean of air. Just as there are islands in the watery ocean, these planets in the ocean of space are called dvipas, or islands in outer space No edit summary current
• 08:1008:10, 20 May 2022 diff hist +5,263 Originally in Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, the ocean is divided like the watery ocean into east, west, north and south, while the sub-sections within these different divisions are called waves No edit summary current