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17 June 2022

• 09:3409:34, 17 June 2022 diff hist +24,321 The living of a miserable life in the material world by dint of the soul’s choice is nicely illustrated by Milton in Paradise Lost. Similarly, by choice the soul can regain paradise & return home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
• 09:3309:33, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,253 The miserable condition of material existence is not only felt when we come out of the womb of the mother, but is also present within the womb. Miserable life begins from the moment the living entity begins to contact his material body No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 17 June 2022 diff hist +4,506 If there is such a place, from which, having gone, one does not return to the miserable material condition of life, what is the use of jumping like monkeys in the temporary material world & not seeing or understanding that place? What will be the profit? No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 17 June 2022 diff hist +2,969 If one is a little intelligent he can cultivate Krsna consciousness and be freed from the miserable conditions of material life No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 17 June 2022 diff hist +7,038 If I am eternal, why there are so many miserable condition of life? And why I am forced to die?" So this is actually the intelligent question No edit summary current
• 09:2209:22, 17 June 2022 diff hist +4,705 How one can get out of the miserable condition of material life is stated in Sankhya philosophy, and the Lord Himself is explaining this sublime system No edit summary current
• 09:1909:19, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,934 Foolish people cannot understand the situation, and this is called ignorance, illusion, or the spell of maya. Human society should very seriously understand that the body itself is the source of all miserable life No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 17 June 2022 diff hist +6,076 A saintly person can tolerate all kinds of miserable conditions of life, a learned man can discharge his duties without awaiting favorable circumstances, a heinous person like Kamsa can act in any sinful way No edit summary current
• 09:1409:14, 17 June 2022 diff hist +28 A devotee in Krsna consciousness never takes any miserable condition of life to be condemnation by the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He accepts the miserable condition to be the grace of the Lord No edit summary current
• 09:1209:12, 17 June 2022 diff hist +10,249 Asubha means inauspicious. Our stage of life, our existence in this material world, is asubha, inauspicious, always miserable No edit summary current
• 09:1009:10, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,820 Although there are many remedies by which to get out of miserable life, any such remedies in the material world are more miserable than the miseries themselves. Therefore I think that the only remedy is to engage in Your service No edit summary current
• 09:1009:10, 17 June 2022 diff hist −26 "A person who devotes his mind, body and speech to the service of the Lord, even though in the midst of a miserable life fraught with past misdeeds, is assured of liberation." Bhattacarya changed the word mukti (liberation) to bhakti - devotional service No edit summary current
• 09:0309:03, 17 June 2022 diff hist +4,675 The six agents of sense gratification are the tongue, the genitals, the belly, anger, the mind and words. Anyone who has practiced controlling these six is permitted to make disciples all over the world No edit summary current
• 09:0109:01, 17 June 2022 diff hist +29,371 To make many disciples is a risky job unless one is able to assimilate all the sins No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 17 June 2022 diff hist +6,425 When one is completely fit to chant the holy name in this way, he is eligible to make disciples all over the world, and he actually becomes jagad-guru. Then the entire world, under his influence, begins to chant the holy names No edit summary current
• 08:5808:58, 17 June 2022 diff hist +29,791 Sometimes - because he (the spiritual master) is not Krsna - sometimes there is some trouble. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu has forbidden, - Don't make many sisyas, many disciples No edit summary current
• 08:5808:58, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,608 So-called svamis and yogis generally make disciples by alluring them with material benefits No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 17 June 2022 diff hist −10 One should not become a caste guru and sell mantras for the benefit of mundane customers, nor should one make disciples for a livelihood. All these activities are offensive No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 17 June 2022 diff hist +12 One morning he (Thakura Saranga dasa) decided - Whomever I see I shall make my disciple No edit summary current
• 08:5308:53, 17 June 2022 diff hist +7,275 Just like I have got many Godbrothers, they are all acting. Similarly, all these disciples which I am making, initiating, they are being trained to become future spiritual masters No edit summary current
• 08:5208:52, 17 June 2022 diff hist +6,337 If you remain to your principles, you can make the whole world your disciple No edit summary current
• 08:5108:51, 17 June 2022 diff hist +29,983 If the spiritual master is attacked by some disease, it is due to the sinful activities of others. "Don't make many disciples." But we do it because we are preaching. Never mind - let us suffer - still we shall accept them No edit summary current
• 08:5008:50, 17 June 2022 diff hist +4,046 A sober person who can tolerate the urge to speak, the mind's demands, the actions of anger and the urges of the tongue, belly and genitals is qualified to make disciples all over the world No edit summary current
• 08:4908:49, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,660 A sannyasi is prohibited from making disciples through such material allurements - curing diseases or increasing material opulence by manufacturing gold No edit summary current
• 08:4608:46, 17 June 2022 diff hist −10 All the disciples of such a spiritual master (who is fit to chant the holy name offenselessly and is eligible to make disciples all over the world) increase in attachment for Krsna No edit summary
• 08:4408:44, 17 June 2022 diff hist +4,378 After taking sannyasa I was more engaged in writing my books without any attempt to construct temples or to make disciples like my Godbrothers. I was not very much interested in these matters because my Guru Maharaja liked very much publication of books No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,473 We may superficially see that one is suffering or enjoying because of some external causes, but the real cause is one's own fruitive activities No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 17 June 2022 diff hist +6,950 The real cause of the growing of such fruit, which is called the nectar of hearing the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is to water the creeper of devotional service by hearing and chanting No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 17 June 2022 diff hist +6 The real cause of one's difficulties in the hard struggle for life may be found in one's forgetfulness of his relationship with the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current

10 June 2022

• 12:2612:26, 10 June 2022 diff hist +1,515 The maya aspect of material nature is the immediate cause of the cosmic manifestation. But it cannot be the real cause, for the original cause is Lord Narayana No edit summary current
• 12:2412:24, 10 June 2022 diff hist +3,128 The real cause of one's difficulties in the hard struggle for life may be found in one's forgetfulness of his relationship with the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 10 June 2022 diff hist +10,901 Gaura Pahu, 1969 - Why I have invited the spiritual death? Because I am engaged in something which is useless and I have rejected the real purpose of my life No edit summary current
• 12:1312:13, 10 June 2022 diff hist +1,744 Cannot understand the real cause of all causes No edit summary current
• 12:1312:13, 10 June 2022 diff hist +24 A sannyasi is supposed to beg from door to door. He does not beg simply because he is hungry. His real purpose is to enlighten the occupant of every house by preaching Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
• 12:1212:12, 10 June 2022 diff hist +7,774 Because so-called philosophers and scientists are unable to find the real cause, they foolishly say that everything happens by chance No edit summary current
• 12:1012:10, 10 June 2022 diff hist +3,278 According to real intelligence, the real cause of the cosmic manifestation is the Supreme Lord. Janmady asya yatah: (SB 1.1.1) He is the original cause of all creation No edit summary current
• 10:2210:22, 10 June 2022 diff hist +3,817 Who can take more care than the father and the mother? So you combine together, make a batch of good character, ideal character in the whole world. There is no ideal character No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 10 June 2022 diff hist +6,467 This KC movement through music, philosophy, spiritual culture, and personal behavior culminating in ideal character of the devotees. All these heavenly contributions combined together will certainly bring about a major change in the life of Western people No edit summary current
• 10:2010:20, 10 June 2022 diff hist +5,687 These four brahmacaris, the Kumaras, are recognized scholars in the Vedas and other sastras. Their unlimited volumes of knowledge, backed by austerities and penances, are exhibited by their sublime, ideal character No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 10 June 2022 diff hist +4,120 There is no ideal character. All politicians, scientists, leaders, they are all drunkards and woman-hunters. So what they can lead? No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 10 June 2022 diff hist +4,698 That is the idea of my Guru Maharaja, a Gurukula. We are not going to make some big, big scholars. We don't require scholars. We require ideal men by character, by behavior, by Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 10 June 2022 diff hist +3,784 Lord Ramacandra accepted only one wife and manifested sublime character, thus setting an example for householders. A householder should live according to the ideal of Lord Ramacandra, who showed how to be a perfect person No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 10 June 2022 diff hist +6,317 Military march, Manipur. Slogan: "Jaya Radhe! Jaya Krsna! Jaya Babhruvahana! Jaya Arjuna!" We shall organize Bombay headquarter, Manipur Vaisnava state, send missionary all over the world, bona fide, scientific system of religion, ideal character No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 10 June 2022 diff hist +4,672 Is this due to machines, do you think, to the prevalence of machines (you cannot find out an ideal character man)? No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 10 June 2022 diff hist +1,877 Ideal character, ideal knowledge, ideal advancement No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 10 June 2022 diff hist +4,808 GBC must be vigilant by following the regulative principles and teach by ideal character No edit summary current
• 09:5909:59, 10 June 2022 diff hist +4,118 Although Lord Parasurama is fully powerful and uncontaminated, in order to exhibit ideal character He performed great sacrifices at Samanta-pancaka to atone for His so-called sinful killing of the ksatriyas No edit summary current
• 09:5209:52, 10 June 2022 diff hist +3,557 One should not be satisfied with the knowledge imparted by a big animal (materialistic leaders). Rather, one must take knowledge from a perfect person like Sukadeva Gosvami No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 10 June 2022 diff hist +6,710 One animal, big animal is being elected as the president. Therefore you are suffering. Nixon. What is Nixon? He is also another animal. And the animals have elected him president. Just see. This is going on. Where is the human being? No edit summary current
• 09:4709:47, 10 June 2022 diff hist +9,216 Godless leaders of dogs and hoglike men are bigger animals with the qualities of animals in greater proportion No edit summary current