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• 03:18, 17 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page In the brahma-bhutah stage one no longer identifies with matter. The first symptom of one's having become established on the brahma-bhutah platform is that one becomes jolly (prasannatma). On that platform, there is neither lamentation nor hankering (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the brahma-bhūtaḥ stage one no longer identifies with matter. The first symptom of one's having become established on th...")
• 03:09, 17 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page The transcendental position begins with the realization aham brahmasmi - "I am not this matter, but spirit." But even this position is unsettled. More is required (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The transcendental position begins with the realization aham brahmasmi - "I am not this matter, but spirit." But even this pos...")
• 03:03, 17 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page The man in the mode of goodness becomes a first class prisoner &, becoming happy in the prison house, wants to stay there. What to speak of those in the modes of passion and ignorance. The point is that we have to transcend even the quality of goodness (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The man in the mode of goodness becomes a first class prisoner &, becoming happy in the prison house, wants to stay there. Wha...")
• 14:40, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Goodness is also a kind of contamination. In goodness one becomes aware of his position and transcendental subjects, etc, but his defect is in thinking, "Now I have understood everything. Now I am all right." He wants to stay here (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Goodness is also a kind of contamination. In goodness one becomes aware of his position and transcendental subjects, etc, but...")
• 14:35, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Here everything is contaminated by the modes of material nature - goodness, passion and ignorance (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Here everything is contaminated by the modes of material nature - goodness, passion and ignorance"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|und...")
• 14:27, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page What is that sublime and pure knowledge? It is the knowledge that we are part and parcel of God and that we are to dovetail our consciousness with the Supreme Consciousness. This is the purest knowledge in the material world (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"What is that sublime and pure knowledge? It is the knowledge that we are part and parcel of God and that we are to dovetail ou...")
• 14:23, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If, by this process (chanting Hare Krsna), we can kindle the fire of knowledge, all of the reactions of our activities will be reduced to ashes, and we will be purified (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If, by this process, we can kindle the fire of knowledge, all of the reactions of our activities will be reduced to ashes, and...")
• 14:19, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page The process for this age is the process of Krsna consciousness, the chanting of Hare Krsna, which was inaugurated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The process for this age is the process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa, which was inaugurated...")
• 14:17, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page In former ages people underwent so many penances and austerities to acquire knowledge, but in this age this process is not possible because our lives are very short and we are always disturbed (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In former ages people underwent so many penances and austerities to acquire knowledge, but in this age this process is not pos...")
• 14:12, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We should cultivate our spiritual potencies by knowledge. The knowledge is already there; we simply have to accept it (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"we should cultivate our spiritual potencies by knowledge. The knowledge is already there; we simply have to accept it"}} {{not...")
• 10:49, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We spend millions and millions of dollars constructing spaceships without knowing that we have the ability to travel wherever we want free of charge (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We spend millions and millions of dollars constructing spaceships without knowing that we have the ability to travel wherever...")
• 10:44, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Actually we have no idea how powerful we are as spiritual sparks. Instead we are very much satisfied staying on this earth and sending up a few spaceships, thinking that we have become greatly advanced in material science (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Actually we have no idea how powerful we are as spiritual sparks. Instead we are very much satisfied staying on this earth and...")
• 10:34, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page In the Siddhalokas there are perfected beings or yogis who can travel wherever they want without the aid of airplanes or other mechanical contrivances. Once we are liberated from material conditioning, we can become very powerful (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the Siddhalokas there are perfected beings or yogis who can travel wherever they want without the aid of airplanes or other...")
• 10:20, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We want freedom, and we want to travel all over the world and all over the universe. Indeed, that is our right as spirit soul. The spirit soul in Bhagavad-gita is called sarva-gatah, which means that he has the ability to go wherever he likes (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We want freedom, and we want to travel all over the world and all over the universe. Indeed, that is our right as spirit soul....")
• 10:13, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Even if we accumulate a million dollars, we must leave it all behind when we leave this body. We need to come to understand that in the material world whatever we are doing is being defeated by the influence of material nature (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Even if we accumulate a million dollars, we must leave it all behind when we leave this body. We need to come to understand th...")
• 08:55, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We consider economic development to be the most important thing, forgetting how long we shall live here in this material world. Economic development or no economic development, at the end of sixty or a hundred years our life will be finished (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We consider economic development to be the most important thing, forgetting how long we shall live here in this material world...")
• 08:48, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page These are the major problems (birth, death, old age and disease) of human existence, but we ignore them and concentrate on solving very minor problems (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"These are the major problems of human existence, but we ignore them and concentrate on solving very minor problems"}} {{notes|...")
• 08:39, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page When one is awakened to knowledge, he thinks, - Oh, I am not happy. I want freedom, but there is no freedom. I don't want to die, but there is death. I don't want to grow old, but there is old age. I don't want diseases, but there are diseases (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"when one is awakened to knowledge, he thinks, "Oh, I am not happy. I want freedom, but there is no freedom. I don't want to di...")
• 08:31, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We may be in a miserable condition, but we accept it thinking that we are very happy. This is called ignorance (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We may be in a miserable condition, but we accept it thinking that we are very happy. This is called ignorance"}} {{notes|}} {...")
• 08:27, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page On the Bowery, there are so many drunkards lying in the street, and they're all thinking, "We are enjoying life." But those who are passing them by are thinking, "Oh how miserable they are." That is the way of the illusory energy (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"On the Bowery, there are so many drunkards lying in the street, and they're all thinking, "We are enjoying life." But those wh...")
• 08:20, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page A dog or hog cannot understand what kind of miserable life he is passing. He actually thinks that he is enjoying life, and this is called the covering or illusive influence of material energy (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"A dog or hog cannot understand what kind of miserable life he is passing. He actually thinks that he is enjoying life, and thi...")
• 08:16, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page By engaging in the transcendental service of Krsna, we actually get out of the cycle of birth and death. But because the fire of knowledge is not burning in our minds, we accept material existence as happiness (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"By engaging in the transcendental service of Krsna, we actually get out of the cycle of birth and death. But because the fire...")
• 08:09, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Whether we enjoy the reactions of good work or suffer the reactions of bad, we have to take on the material body and thereby undergo the material miseries (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Whether we enjoy the reactions of good work or suffer the reactions of bad, we have to take on the material body and thereby u...")
• 08:01, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs deleted page In any case birth means bondage, and one who is striving for Krsna consciousness is striving for liberation from the bondage of transmigration (content was: "#REDIRECT In any case birth means bondage, and one who is striving for KC is striving for liberation from the bondage of transmigration. What is the advantage of being born in a wealthy or aristocratic family if one does not get rid of his material miseries", and the only contributor was "Soham" (talk))
• 08:01, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs moved page In any case birth means bondage, and one who is striving for Krsna consciousness is striving for liberation from the bondage of transmigration to In any case birth means bondage, and one who is striving for KC is striving for liberation from the bondage of transmigration. What is the advantage of being born in a wealthy or aristocratic family if one does not get rid of his material miseries
• 07:58, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page In any case birth means bondage, and one who is striving for Krsna consciousness is striving for liberation from the bondage of transmigration (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"in any case birth means bondage, and one who is striving for Kṛṣṇa consciousness is striving for liberation from the bon...")
• 07:54, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page By good work we may get a good birth in an aristocratic or wealthy family, and by bad work we may take birth even in the animal kingdom or in degraded human families (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"By good work we may get a good birth in an aristocratic or wealthy family, and by bad work we may take birth even in the anima...")
• 07:50, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If we are in the modes of passion and ignorance, however, we do bad work in passion and ignorance. But for those who are going to be Krsna conscious, there is no need of good work or bad work (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If we are in the modes of passion and ignorance, however, we do bad work in passion and ignorance. But for those who are going...")
• 06:36, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page For one who wants to be liberated from this material bondage, the reactions of both good works and bad works are detrimental. In this material world we are attached to performing good works if we are situated in the modes of goodness (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"For one who wants to be liberated from this material bondage, the reactions of both good works and bad works are detrimental....")
• 06:23, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page The reactions to our work, or our karma, are the cause for our bondage. There are good works and bad works, and in this verse the word sarva-karmani indicates both (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The reactions to our work, or our karma, are the cause for our bondage. There are good works and bad works, and in this verse...")
• 06:19, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page The fire of knowledge is ignited by the spiritual master, and when it is ablaze, all the reactions to our works are turned to ashes (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The fire of knowledge is ignited by the spiritual master, and when it is ablaze, all the reactions to our works are turned to...")
• 06:00, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page It is the fire of knowledge that burns all doubts and fruitive activities to ashes. Sri Krsna gives the following information of the results of inquiring of the truth from one who has actually seen the truth - BG 4.35-37 (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is the fire of knowledge that burns all doubts and fruitive activities to ashes. Śrī Kṛṣṇa gives the following info...")
• 05:56, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page By studying Bhagavad-gita under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, we can remove these doubts and make definite progress (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"By studying Bhagavad-gita under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master, we can remove these doubts and make definite pro...")
• 05:52, 16 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If we choose, we can immediately become great souls by surrendering to Krsna, but because we have doubts whether or not Krsna is actually the Supreme we have to take time to dissipate these doubts through study of the scriptures (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If we choose, we can immediately become great souls by surrendering to Krsna, but because we have doubts whether or not Krsna...")
• 09:50, 15 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If surrender is the end of perfection, why not accept perfection immediately? Of course the answer is that people are generally doubtful. Krsna consciousness can be attained in one second, or it cannot be had even after a thousand births and deaths (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If surrender is the end of perfection, why not accept perfection immediately? Of course the answer is that people are generall...")
• 09:42, 15 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If, as Bhagavad-gita says, after many births we have to eventually surrender to Krsna, why not surrender to Him immediately? Why wait for many, many births (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If, as Bhagavad-gītā says, after many births we have to eventually surrender to Kṛṣṇa, why not surrender to Him immedi...")
• 09:38, 15 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If we accept the process of devotional service, we can understand Krsna very easily. Through it we can understand the science of Krsna perfectly and become eligible for entering into the spiritual kingdom (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If we accept the process of devotional service, we can understand Krsna very easily. Through it we can understand the science...")
• 09:31, 15 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Out of many perfected spiritualists, one man may know what Krsna actually is. As this verse indicates, the subject matter of Krsna is not so easy but is very difficult (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"out of many perfected spiritualists, one man may know what Krsna actually is. As this verse indicates, the subject matter of K...")
• 09:23, 15 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page One should first want to inquire about Brahman and then search out a master who has perfect vision of the Absolute Truth (jnaninas tattva-darsinah (BG 4.34)). Krsna is the supreme tattva, Absolute Truth (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"One should first want to inquire about Brahman and then search out a master who has perfect vision of the Absolute Truth (jnan...")
• 09:16, 15 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If I want to study Bhagavad-gita or Vedanta-sutra in order to make material improvement, it is not necessary to find a spiritual master (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If I want to study Bhagavad-gita or Vedanta-sutra in order to make material improvement, it is not necessary to find a spiritu...")
• 09:11, 15 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Our inquiries should be about the transcendental worlds which lie beyond this universe. If one is desirous to find out about these spiritual worlds, he should seek out a spiritual master; otherwise there is no point in searching (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Our inquiries should be about the transcendental worlds which lie beyond this universe. If one is desirous to find out about t...")
• 08:57, 15 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page In Srimad-Bhagavatam it is stated that one should inquire from a spiritual master about subjects that are "beyond this darkness." This material world is by nature dark, and it is artificially lighted by fire (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In Srimad-Bhagavatam it is stated that one should inquire from a spiritual master about subjects that are "beyond this darknes...")
• 06:56, 15 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page The word atha means that one who is intelligent, who has come to the point of realizing the basic frustrations of material life, is capable of making inquiry (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The word atha means that one who is intelligent, who has come to the point of realizing the basic frustrations of material lif...")
• 06:25, 15 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page The beginning injunction of the Vedanta-sutra is: athato brahma jijnasa - Now is the time to inquire about Brahman (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The beginning injunction of the Vedanta-sutra is: athato brahma jijnasa"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|undefined}} {{complete|ALL}}...")
• 14:11, 14 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We first have to become a little intelligent, for it is not possible to make spiritual progress otherwise (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We first have to become a little intelligent, for it is not possible to make spiritual progress otherwise"}} {{notes|}} {{comp...")
• 14:09, 14 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If we go to a jeweler and say, "Can you give me a diamond?" he will understand that this is a fool. He could charge us any price for anything. That kind of searching will not do at all (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If we go to a jeweler and say, "Can you give me a diamond?" he will understand that this is a fool. He could charge us any pri...")
• 13:59, 14 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If we go to a store to purchase some gold or jewelry and we know nothing about jewels or gold, we are likely to be cheated (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If we go to a store to purchase some gold or jewelry and we know nothing about jewels or gold, we are likely to be cheated"}}...")
• 13:55, 14 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Without service, our inquiries will be futile, but even before making inquiries, we should have some qualification (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Without service, our inquiries will be futile, but even before making inquiries, we should have some qualification"}} {{notes|...")
• 13:49, 14 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page One should not think, "Now I will see what kind of spiritual master he is. I will challenge him." Our inquiries (pariprasnena) should be on the subject of service - sevaya (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"One should not think, "Now I will see what kind of spiritual master he is. I will challenge him." Our inquiries (paripraśnena...")
• 13:44, 14 June 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We may have a very good spiritual master, but if we have no power to inquire, we cannot make progress. Nor should the inquiry be of the nature of a challenge (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We may have a very good spiritual master, but if we have no power to inquire, we cannot make progress. Nor should the inquiry...")