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18 June 2022

• 10:0010:00, 18 June 2022 diff hist +43,994 Srimad-Bhagavatam begins with the surrender of the living entity unto the Absolute Person. This surrender is made with clear consciousness & awareness of the devotee's oneness with the Absolute & at the same time, of his eternal position of servitorship No edit summary current
• 09:5909:59, 18 June 2022 diff hist +7,856 Misunderstanding means within the heart. If the heart is clear, consciousness is clear, then there is no misunderstanding. So this consciousness has to be cleansed. And that is the first installment of the result of chanting Hare Krsna No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 18 June 2022 diff hist +3,860 In the beginning, from clear consciousness, or the pure state of Krsna consciousness, the first contamination sprang up. This is called false ego, or identification of the body as self No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 18 June 2022 diff hist −13 In order to be situated in clear consciousness, or Krsna consciousness, one must worship Vasudeva. Vasudeva is Krsna alone No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 18 June 2022 diff hist +4,821 If a big lake is covered all around by long kusa grass, just like columns, the waters dry up. Similarly, when the big columns of material desire increase, the clear water of consciousness is dried up No edit summary current
• 09:3109:31, 18 June 2022 diff hist −13 By such clearing of consciousness (i.e. being Krsna conscious), one becomes fully confident of his eternal position in relationship with the Supreme. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:3109:31, 18 June 2022 diff hist +2,915 As in clear, unagitated water, free from impurities, one can see everything clearly, so in pure consciousness, or Krsna consciousness, one can see things as they are No edit summary current
• 09:3009:30, 18 June 2022 diff hist +4,206 Although for the moment he (Akrura) was bewildered, he retained his clear consciousness and bowed down his head before the Lord. With folded hands and faltering voice, he began to offer prayers to the Lord No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 18 June 2022 diff hist +4,295 Wealth is distributed to the brahmanas because the brahmanas give the highest quality of service in regard to the prime necessity of humankind. The charity was substantial in the shape of gold, land, villages, horses, elephants and food grains No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 18 June 2022 diff hist +2,879 Service to humanity means jnana. By giving people knowledge, jnana, that is the highest service to humanity No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 18 June 2022 diff hist +8 Of the different processes for realization of the Absolute Truth, bhakti-yoga, devotional service, is the highest. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 18 June 2022 diff hist +4,863 In all the different occasions of samskaras, especially during the time of birth, marriage and death, wealth is distributed to the brahmanas because the brahmanas give the highest quality of service in regard to the prime necessity of humankind No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 18 June 2022 diff hist +3,569 It is my serious desire to devote the fag end of my life to translating Srimad Bhagavatam and so many other Vaisnava literatures so by assisting me in this regards you will be performing the highest service to Krsna No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 18 June 2022 diff hist +2,660 I am very pleased that you are keeping to a very strict schedule & are reading my literature daily. If you continue in this manner you will grow up to be a first class preacher of Krsna consciousness. And this is the highest service that you can perform No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 18 June 2022 diff hist +2,986 I wish to speak on the great philosophy of Bhagavata Dharma at least once in a week on Television, so if arrangement is made by you for this, then you will be doing the highest service for Krishna No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 18 June 2022 diff hist +2,792 Be convinced that you are doing the highest service for your fellow countrymen by distributing books of Krsna Consciousness No edit summary current
• 09:0709:07, 18 June 2022 diff hist +10,673 We have to study Vedas through authoritative sources. We have to follow the rules and regulations. Then, in this life, we shall be able to understand what is God, what is Krsna No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 18 June 2022 diff hist +3,201 We have to know the Supreme Personality of Godhead through authority, not by speculation. Speculation is no use No edit summary current
• 09:0409:04, 18 June 2022 diff hist +2,630 Through authority or through history No edit summary current
• 09:0309:03, 18 June 2022 diff hist +13,233 People misunderstand Krsna. Unless understood through authoritative sources, Krsna is misunderstood No edit summary current
• 09:0309:03, 18 June 2022 diff hist +10 Our knowledge of a subject cannot be perfectionalized unless we receive it through authoritative sources No edit summary current
• 09:0209:02, 18 June 2022 diff hist −13 One must understand the position of the Lord through the authorities, or mahajanas. As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 1.3.28), ete camsa-kalah pumsah krsnas tu bhagavan svayam No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 18 June 2022 diff hist +3,171 He (one who does not develop knowledge through the authorities) is not concerned about acting in terms of the directions of scripture. For him God is money, and knowledge means the satisfaction of bodily demands. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 08:5708:57, 18 June 2022 diff hist +11,237 Because of the material disease, nondevotees cannot understand the transcendental name, form, attributes and activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, although they actually see the Lord's activities, either through authority or through history No edit summary current
• 08:5708:57, 18 June 2022 diff hist +8,561 Any knowledge, unless we receive it through the authoritative sources, it is not perfect. It is not perfect No edit summary current
• 08:4108:41, 18 June 2022 diff hist +4,728 What we call stone, wood and metal are energies of the Supreme Lord, and energies are never separate from the energetic No edit summary current
• 08:4108:41, 18 June 2022 diff hist +31 The living entity is the marginal potency of the Supreme Lord, although there is factually no difference between the energy and the energetic No edit summary current
• 08:4108:41, 18 June 2022 diff hist +5,714 The factual Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna. He is the complete energetic person, and He possesses different separated and internal energies. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 08:4008:40, 18 June 2022 diff hist +26,026 The emanations are the energy of the Supreme, whereas the Supreme Himself is the energetic No edit summary current
• 08:3908:39, 18 June 2022 diff hist +2,524 The devotee is considered to be one of these (three principal) energies (of the Supreme Lord), never the energetic. The energetic is always the Supreme Lord. The energies are related to Him for the purpose of eternal service No edit summary current
• 08:3808:38, 18 June 2022 diff hist +3,566 There are three kinds of energies of the supreme energetic. There is no difference between the energy and energetic, but there is a difference of quality of energies No edit summary current
• 08:3708:37, 18 June 2022 diff hist +9,456 Since the energy and the energetic are not different and since the material and marginal energies are both energies of the supreme energetic, the Supreme Lord, ultimately the Supreme Personality of Godhead is everything No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 18 June 2022 diff hist +42 Narayana is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Nara is a part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Narayana. Thus the energy and the energetic together are the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 18 June 2022 diff hist +20,726 Mayavadi philosophy cannot trace the energy of the Supreme Lord, but all Vedic literatures give evidence of the Supreme Lord's various energetic manifestations No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 18 June 2022 diff hist +8,594 Mayavada philosophy cannot trace the energy of the Supreme Lord back to its source, but all Vedic literatures give evidence of the Supreme Lord's various energetic manifestations No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 18 June 2022 diff hist +26,389 How can there be meaning to the word "lord" if there is no one to overlord? The conclusion is that the living entities are considered to be expansions of the energy of the Supreme Lord, and the Lord, the Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is the energetic No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 18 June 2022 diff hist +5,220 He (the Supreme Lord) is the original energetic, the abode of all energies No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 18 June 2022 diff hist +19,947 Gadadhara & Srivasa, although included in Visnu-tattva, are dependent, diverse energies of the Supreme Lord. In other words, they are not different from the energetic, but they are manifest diversely for the sake of relishing transcendental relationships No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 18 June 2022 diff hist +15,249 From the very beginning of Vedanta-sutra it is accepted that the cosmic manifestation is but an energetic display of the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 18 June 2022 diff hist +27,611 Factually, the supreme absolute spirit soul is the cause of every kind of manifestation, and He is always complete, both as the energy and as the energetic No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 18 June 2022 diff hist +31 A drop of ocean water has all the properties of the ocean itself, and we, although minute particles of the Supreme Whole, have the same energetic properties as the Supreme No edit summary current

17 June 2022

• 15:3715:37, 17 June 2022 diff hist +5,267 As far as distinguishing the Lord's holy name from the names of the demigods, the revealed scriptures disclose (BG 10.41) that all extraordinarily powerful beings are but parts and parcels of the supreme energetic, Lord Krsna No edit summary current
• 15:3715:37, 17 June 2022 diff hist +4,073 Although there is no difference between the energy and the energetic, the energetic is accepted as the Supreme, and energy or nature is accepted as the subordinate. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 15:3415:34, 17 June 2022 diff hist +5,556 The word markata-vairagya, indicating false renunciation, is very important in this verse - CC Madhya 16.238 No edit summary current
• 15:3415:34, 17 June 2022 diff hist +8 The monkey lives in the forest, eats fruit & doesn't even cover itself with a cloth. In this way it resembles a saint, but the monkey always thinks of female monkeys & sometimes keeps dozens of them for sexual intercourse. This is called markata-vairagya No edit summary
• 15:3315:33, 17 June 2022 diff hist +3,431 Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, he was fasting, but he was not weak. That fasting. And he who will fast artificially and become weak, "I cannot work," that is not required. That is called markata-vairagya No edit summary current
• 15:3215:32, 17 June 2022 diff hist +31,713 Markata vairagya, renunciation like a monkey No edit summary current
• 15:3115:31, 17 June 2022 diff hist +5,931 In this way monkeys consider themselves renunciants (by living naked in the forest), but actually they are very busy enjoying sense gratification with dozens of female monkeys. Such renunciation is called markata-vairagya - the renunciation of a monkey No edit summary current
• 15:2915:29, 17 June 2022 diff hist +10,842 Going to the forest is not the main purpose of life. Because in the forest there are many animals. Does it mean they are advanced in spiritual life? That is called markata-vairagya. Markata-vairagya means "monkey renunciation No edit summary current
• 15:2615:26, 17 June 2022 diff hist +8,702 The Supreme Lord 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 the Supreme Lord is overpowered by His own material energy No edit summary current