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17 June 2022

• 15:2515:25, 17 June 2022 diff hist +8,306 The Supreme Lord, who is the original fire, is never overpowered, but the infinitesimal sparks of the fire can become overpowered by the illusory effect of maya. It is a most ludicrous argument to say that God is overpowered by His own material energy No edit summary current
• 15:2515:25, 17 June 2022 diff hist +23,304 The spirit soul, although now overpowered by the sleep of material contact, can be revived by this transcendental sound vibration of Hare Krsna (mantra) is simply an address to the Supreme Lord and His energies No edit summary current
• 15:2415:24, 17 June 2022 diff hist +8,457 The energy and the energetic Personality of Godhead are not different, and although such energy is one with God, He is never overpowered by it. Although the living entities are also parts and parcels of the Lord, they are overcome by the material energy No edit summary current
• 15:2315:23, 17 June 2022 diff hist +7,990 It is a most ludicrous argument to say that the Supreme Lord is overpowered by His own material energy No edit summary current
• 15:2315:23, 17 June 2022 diff hist +7,952 Although the living entities are qualitatively one with the superior energy of the Lord, they have the tendency to be overpowered by the inferior, material energy No edit summary current
• 15:1515:15, 17 June 2022 diff hist +2,632 The arcana-marga, or the devotional path prescribed in the Pancaratra system of devotional service for worshiping the Deity in the temple, makes the devotee think constantly of the Lord; that is samadhi, or trance No edit summary current
• 15:1515:15, 17 June 2022 diff hist −11 Worshiping the Supreme Lord Visnu with devotion means following arcana-marga No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 17 June 2022 diff hist +7 According to the arcana-marga, a cloth should first be washed to remove all the starch, and then it can be used to cover the Lord No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 17 June 2022 diff hist +6,157 Then there are the philosophers headed by Gautama and Kanada. They have minutely studied the cause and effect of the material elements and have ultimately come to the conclusion that atomic combination is the original cause of creation No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 17 June 2022 diff hist −21 Simply by decorating the Deities of the Lord, Radha and Krsna, in the temple, one very minutely studies the injunctions of the Vedas No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 17 June 2022 diff hist +6,355 One who studies the subject matter of the field of activity and the knower of the field very minutely, in terms of this Bhagavad-gita, can attain to knowledge. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 17 June 2022 diff hist −22 Anyone, whether an ordinary materialistic person or a pure devotee, can understand the behavior of Caitanya’s devotees if he studies it minutely. One will thus find that the devotees of Caitanya are not at all attached to any kind of material enjoyment No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 17 June 2022 diff hist +9,446 Uddhava minutely studied the transcendental abnormal condition of the gopis in their separation from Krsna, and he thought it wise to repeat again and again all the pastimes they had enjoyed with Him No edit summary current
• 15:0815:08, 17 June 2022 diff hist +31 The supreme authority and inconceivable power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead can be minutely studied from this verse No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 17 June 2022 diff hist +4,945 One can be brought back into Krsna consciousness from the deadly unconscious state of material life by hearing of the maha-mantra: Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare No edit summary current
• 14:5514:55, 17 June 2022 diff hist +2,989 Another stage of life is called susupti, or life in an unconscious state, and still another stage occurs after death No edit summary current
• 12:1312:13, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,518 Ajamila was simply in an unconscious state when the argument was in progress between the Yamadutas and the Visnudutas. The conclusion of the argument was to be a decision regarding who would claim the soul of Ajamila No edit summary current
• 10:1010:10, 17 June 2022 diff hist +5 The Patanjali system describes the form of the Lord as klesa-karma-vipakasayair aparamrstah purusa-visesa isvarah: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is a person who does not partake of a miserable material life No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 17 June 2022 diff hist +2,832 The preachers of Krsna consciousness go from door to door to inform people how they can be relieved from the miserable conditions of material life No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 17 June 2022 diff hist +7,073 The principles of nirvana, as recommended by Lord Buddha, are also meant for ending the miserable life of material existence No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 17 June 2022 diff hist +5,879 The question is that "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
• 10:0510:05, 17 June 2022 diff hist +5,485 This material world is miserable, regardless of one's standard of life. Of this there is no doubt. Attempts to mitigate the miseries of material existence by material methods will never be successful No edit summary
• 10:0310:03, 17 June 2022 diff hist +2,386 To become a great devotee means to finish all miserable conditions of materialistic life No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 17 June 2022 diff hist +5,157 Transcendental, spiritual life means eternal, blissful life of knowledge. That is spiritual platform. And material life means temporary life of miserable condition No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,407 Unfortunately, karmis are very attached to material sense gratification, and they cannot appreciate the miserable condition of material life, neither in this life nor in the next No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,608 Unless society accepts the lotus feet of great mahatmas - devotees who have nothing to do with material possessions - mankind cannot turn its attention to Krsna, whose lotus feet vanquish all the unwanted, miserable conditions of material life No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 17 June 2022 diff hist +6,518 We have accepted the senses from Krsna. It should be used for Krsna. Instead of using it for Krsna, we are using it for our sense gratification. This is our miserable condition of life. like living in a place for which you have to pay rent, but you don't No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,713 We shall have to undergo the sufferings of material life one after another. Therefore material life is said to be duhkhalayam asasvatam; it is a reservoir of miserable conditions No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 17 June 2022 diff hist +5,984 When actually one becomes intelligent, then the enquiry is: "Why? Why I am put into this miserable condition of life? I do not want this, and it is forced upon me. I do not want to die; death is there. I do not want disease; the disease is there" No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,291 When remnants of prasadam food are offered to forefathers by descendants, the forefathers are released from ghostly or other kinds of miserable life. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:5609:56, 17 June 2022 diff hist +17,432 Your next life you do not know! Therefore, it is duhkhalayam asasvatam (BG 8.15) - miserable and temporary. That is our philosophy No edit summary current
• 09:5609:56, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,008 In the material world we are suffering life after life because of our bodily identification, and liberation is freedom from that miserable condition of life No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 17 June 2022 diff hist +5,706 Krsna said, "You (Krsna's boys and family members) should learn from the example of King Nrga that even if someone unknowingly usurps the property of a brahmana, he is put into a miserable condition of life" No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 17 June 2022 diff hist +6,215 Krsna will appear on planet earth & spread devotional service, the ultimate goal of life, so that those born in this material world may very easily be delivered from the miserable condition of materialistic life - SB 10.8.49 No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 17 June 2022 diff hist +2,776 Ksema refers to the merciful protection of the Lord. The Lord helps the devotee to achieve Krsna consciousness by yoga, and when he becomes fully Krsna conscious the Lord protects him from falling down to a miserable conditioned life. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,211 Liberation means freedom from material bondage or nescience. In the material world we are suffering life after life because of our bodily identification, and liberation is freedom from that miserable condition of life No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 17 June 2022 diff hist +23,045 Life in this material world is by nature inauspicious and miserable No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 17 June 2022 diff hist +4,997 Lord Krsna describes this form of complete perfection in the BG (8.15): The great souls who engage in My devotional service attain Me, the Supreme Lord, and do not come back to this miserable material life, for they have attained the highest perfection No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,256 Marriage between a boy of the vipra-varna and a girl of the sudra-varna is incompatible; married life would be miserable for both husband and wife. Consequently a boy should marry a girl of the same category No edit summary current
• 09:4709:47, 17 June 2022 diff hist +5 Material life is miserable life. Krsna says, God says, that this place is duhkhalayam - it is a place of miseries. And it is also asasvatam, temporary No edit summary current
• 09:4709:47, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,010 Men and women whose lives were built upon indulgence in illicit sex life are put into many kinds of miserable conditions in the hells known as Tamisra, Andha-tamisra and Raurava No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,754 My dear Lord, You are the viewer of the results of pious activities. You are inclination, disinclination and their resultant activities. You are the cause of the miserable conditions of life caused by irreligion, and therefore You are death No edit summary current
• 09:4409:44, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,599 No one can adjust the sufferings of material existence, but by spiritual culture one can elevate himself from the effects of such miserable life No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 17 June 2022 diff hist +6,952 Science means that you advance in knowledge so that your miserable condition of life can be reduced, minimized. That is science. Otherwise, what is this science? They are simply promising; "In future." "But what you are delivering just now, sir?" No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 17 June 2022 diff hist +4,137 So by nature we should be always engaged in pleasure potency. But then why you are in this miserable condition? This question must arise in human form of life. If it does not, then he has not come to the perfection of human life No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,196 Such persons (the lowest of fools) are almost on the level of the animals, who, although in the eyes of superiors are always miserable in life, are unaware of material distresses No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 17 June 2022 diff hist +6,375 That specific abode called paramam mama is the place from which, once one attains it, one does not return to this miserable, conditional life No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 17 June 2022 diff hist +5,956 Their aim (Narada and the Kumaras) is that all the conditioned souls may be educated to revive their original consciousness, or Krsna consciousness, and thus gain relief from the miserable conditions of material life No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 17 June 2022 diff hist +5 These questions must arise: Why am I suffering? Wherefrom have I come? What is my constitutional position? Where shall I go after death? Why am I put into a miserable form of life? Why are there birth, death, old age and disease No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 17 June 2022 diff hist +5,244 They (salvationists or monists) prepare for their continuation of miserable life No edit summary current