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24 May 2022

• 09:2509:25, 24 May 2022 diff hist −13 As personally enunciated by the Lord Himself in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15), vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: through the study of Vedanta, one may become fully aware of his relationship with the Supreme Lord and act accordingly No edit summary
• 07:3107:31, 24 May 2022 diff hist +1,409 Jagannatha Misra replied, "Even if my son is not a common man but Narayana, still it is the duty of a father to instruct his son" No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 24 May 2022 diff hist +5,251 I think his father has got a special duty to protect this child in his K.C.; The mother has also similar responsibility, so either your wife or yourself must take care of the good child No edit summary current
• 07:2707:27, 24 May 2022 diff hist +3,453 It is the duty of the father to get his daughter married before she attains puberty. Otherwise she will be very much mortified by not having a husband. Anyone who satisfies her desire for sex at that age becomes a great object of satisfaction No edit summary
• 07:2307:23, 24 May 2022 diff hist +4,438 It is the duty of a father to understand the astrological position of his children and do what is needed for their happiness No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 24 May 2022 diff hist +3,838 It is essential for all human beings, and it is the duty of the father, spiritual master, and ultimately the state to take up the responsibility of leading the citizens towards this end (God realization) No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 24 May 2022 diff hist +5,989 He (Priyavrata's Father) tried to convince Priyavrata that this was his duty as indicated in the revealed scriptures No edit summary current
• 07:1507:15, 24 May 2022 diff hist +5,749 Doctor says, "I am doing my duty." The engineer says, "I am doing my duty." The father says, "I am doing my duty." The mother says, "I am doing my duty." That's all right. But Bhagavata says, "Thank you very much, that you are doing your duty" No edit summary current
• 07:0807:08, 24 May 2022 diff hist +2,314 A father and mother's responsibility for children continues until they marry them to suitable spouses; when the father is able to perform that duty, he is relieved of his responsibility No edit summary current
• 06:4006:40, 24 May 2022 diff hist +2,940 As your beloved spiritual master and father, it is my duty to give you all protection; but if you allow Maya to act upon you without any resistance, then it is your own choice No edit summary current
• 06:4006:40, 24 May 2022 diff hist +2,232 A father's duty is to bring up the son until he is grown, and when the son is grown up, it is his duty to render service unto the father No edit summary current
• 06:3906:39, 24 May 2022 diff hist +4,634 A father's duty is that as soon as the girl is grown up, she must be married. She must be given in charge of a suitable boy. That is Vedic system No edit summary current
• 06:0506:05, 24 May 2022 diff hist +4,895 When the modes of passion and ignorance increase in human society, giving rise to unnecessary economic development, the result is that people become involved with wine, women and gambling No edit summary

23 May 2022

• 07:3107:31, 23 May 2022 diff hist +2,661 What is this meditation of wine, women and fish? He does not like us because we reject all other bogus philosophy. For that many people criticize me, but why should we accept nonsense. We accept Bhagavad-gita, as Krishna spoke it No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 23 May 2022 diff hist +3,867 We have actually seen, especially in the Western countries, that men who have reached more than eighty years of age still go to nightclubs and pay heavy fees to drink wine and associate with women No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 23 May 2022 diff hist +6,100 We can sit down here and chant Hare Krsna. We don't require that temple. But these rascals are accumulating money for wine and women. Take their money, some way or other, and builds a temple. And invite them, "Come and see." Give them prasadam No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 23 May 2022 diff hist +3,843 Those who are not devotees of Krsna have a taste for women, wine and so forth, and therefore they have been described as hrta jnana, bereft of sense No edit summary current
• 07:2707:27, 23 May 2022 diff hist +11,783 The spiritual quality of serving the Lord out of transcendental affinity will be pervertedly reflected as love for wine, women, and wealth in different forms No edit summary current
• 07:2707:27, 23 May 2022 diff hist +6,012 The same thing here. Just like prostitute, they are going to the club. The father is going also; the son is going. And the prostitute is the same. Everywhere, this material happiness, wine, women... No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 23 May 2022 diff hist +3,812 They do not want anything more than sense gratificatory proposals for enjoying life in heaven, where wine and women are available and material opulence is very common. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 07:2507:25, 23 May 2022 diff hist +5,765 Program for economic development, working hard day and night like hogs and dogs. This is going on. This is going on under the name of civilization. And to satisfy me after hard labor, there is wine and women and flesh. That's all No edit summary current
• 07:2207:22, 23 May 2022 diff hist +5,247 It is especially enjoined that a sudra should never bank money. As soon as the sudras accumulate wealth, it will be misused for sinful activities in wine, women and gambling No edit summary current
• 07:2107:21, 23 May 2022 diff hist +3,196 In Western civilization, these three things (wine, women and gambling) are very prominent because of an unnecessary increase of wealth No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 23 May 2022 diff hist +6,945 If you have got money, that you should be properly utilized, not for sense gratification - wine, women, and hotel, and cinema. No. Then by your artha you are going to hell. Artha, everything No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 23 May 2022 diff hist +7,007 For those who are in the lowest stage of ignorance and who indulge in wine, women and flesh, drinking by performing sautramani-yajna, association of women by marriage and flesh-eating by sacrifices are sometimes recommended No edit summary current
• 07:1607:16, 23 May 2022 diff hist +2,395 A Krsna conscious person is no longer interested in material activities and no longer takes pleasure in material arrangements like wine, women and similar infatuations. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:3606:36, 23 May 2022 diff hist +6,023 This impersonal feature, or Brahman manifestation, of the Supreme Lord is meant for persons who are essentially very advanced but still not able to understand the personal features or variegatedness of the spiritual world No edit summary current
• 06:3606:36, 23 May 2022 diff hist +25,128 The last five items - mentioned after the first thirty-nine - are very important and essential. If one can simply discharge these five items, he can be elevated to the highest perfectional stage, even if he does not execute them perfectly No edit summary current
• 06:3506:35, 23 May 2022 diff hist +3,543 Regarding the farm, farm opening is not very essential, but if you can do it conveniently, then do it. The varnasrama system is for convenience sake in the material world. It has nothing to do with spiritual life No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 23 May 2022 diff hist +7,637 For the beginners in devotional service to the Lord, temple worship is very essential. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 23 May 2022 diff hist +4,241 Before the initiation, he (the boy) became more and more advanced in discipline, which is very essential for one who wishes to make progress in the line No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 23 May 2022 diff hist +4,458 As I am repeatedly placing before you with all humbleness that this movement is very, very much essential, not only at the present moment, but also all the time No edit summary current
• 06:1406:14, 23 May 2022 diff hist +4,640 The state in the days of Maharaja Yudhisthira or Maharaja Pariksit was a welfare state in the real sense of the term because no one was unhappy in that state, be he man or animal. Maharaja Pariksit was an ideal king for a welfare state of the world No edit summary current
• 06:1306:13, 23 May 2022 diff hist +5,524 The name of God is Krsna, because He is so attractive that the pure devotee can give up everything within this material world on His behalf. Maharaja Bharata was an ideal king, instructor and emperor of the world No edit summary current
• 06:1206:12, 23 May 2022 diff hist +7,459 They (the sages of Dandakaranya) knew that although Ramacandra was an ideal king and could not accept more than one wife, Lord Krsna, being the full-fledged Personality of Godhead, could fulfill the desires of all of them in Vrndavana No edit summary current
• 06:1106:11, 23 May 2022 diff hist +4,668 Rsabhadeva was an ideal king, and He took His education in the gurukula, although He was already educated because the Supreme Lord is omniscient No edit summary current
• 06:0906:09, 23 May 2022 diff hist +3,466 Pariksit Maharaja was an ideal king and householder because he was a devotee of the Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 05:5805:58, 23 May 2022 diff hist +24 Lord Ramacandra is the ideal king for maintaining and protecting the highest culture of humanity, known as brahmanya-dharma No edit summary current
• 05:5205:52, 23 May 2022 diff hist +8,403 In the feature of Lord Caitanya, the Lord is an ideal renouncer, just as Sri Rama was an ideal king. Lord Caitanya accepted the order of sannyasa and exemplified exceedingly wonderful principles in His own life No edit summary current
• 05:5205:52, 23 May 2022 diff hist +6,002 In India the people hanker after Rama-rajya because the Personality of Godhead was the ideal king and all other kings or emperors in India controlled the destiny of the world for the prosperity of every living being who took birth on the earth No edit summary current
• 05:5105:51, 23 May 2022 diff hist +5,398 If we do not have an ideal president or ideal king on the head and the prajas also, the citizens, they do not follow the varnasrama, then there cannot be any peace No edit summary current
• 05:4805:48, 23 May 2022 diff hist −13 Dhruva Maharaja was present in the Satya-yuga, as will be clear from the next verses. He was the ideal king in Satya-yuga No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 23 May 2022 diff hist +7,048 Dhruva Maharaja, as an ideal king, practically emptied his treasury by giving charity No edit summary current
• 05:4405:44, 23 May 2022 diff hist −13 A typical king is the ideal of the people in general, and if the king is pious, religious, chivalrous and munificent, the citizens generally follow him. Such a king is not a lazy sensuous person living at the cost of the subjects No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 23 May 2022 diff hist +3,122 An ideal king thoroughly trained by culture and devotional service with the martial spirit makes a perfect king. Such a personal monarchy is far better than the so-called democracy of no training and responsibility No edit summary current
• 05:3305:33, 23 May 2022 diff hist +1,509 An ideal king thoroughly trained by culture No edit summary current
• 05:3305:33, 23 May 2022 diff hist +3,334 An ideal king may be possessed of all these good qualities, and the child Pariksit is foretold to have all these qualities in perfection No edit summary current
• 05:0605:06, 23 May 2022 diff hist +3,135 Your example is very nice, using your artistic abilities to serve Krishna, and they may all follow in your footsteps No edit summary current
• 05:0505:05, 23 May 2022 diff hist +4,688 The example of a cloud is very nicely given. All of a sudden there may appear a big cloud in the sky. This cloud is perceived in two ways No edit summary current
• 05:0105:01, 23 May 2022 diff hist +5,987 I like the American nation. Simply little reformation required. Now just, for example, this "In God we trust." This is very nice example. Now, they do not know what is God, how to trust. That is, that has to be done. That has to be learned No edit summary current